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Tbear

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5. "The Bible was not as black and white as I once thought"

Tue Nov 5, 2024, 09:02 AM

Nov 5

Does all the anti-gay stuff come from Paul’s letters? He wrote a lot and we only have a handful in the Bible. Are we sure he wasn’t warning Christians about worshipping the “gods” at the big temples ?
Anyway isn’t about 1 in 10 people LGBTQ?
So if God is perfect and he hates gays, why has he consistently created 10% of the people that way?
God is only 90% in people creation but he’s perfect in every other way?
Doesn’t fly with me that God created something he hates and wants to abolish. I will go with humans mis-reading the Bible.
I think we should all accept by now that being gay is not a choice. You can’t pray away the gay.
This article gets right to the damage caused by this faulty thinking.

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