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Originally Posted by awareness
Brother Trapped, this post has me flooring in the floor. ... Let's stick with Jesus, and the two great commandments ... and not the law from long before Jesus.
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Thanks for your fantastic post. Your laughing about my post also gave me a good laugh I sorely needed myself. I was taking the topic so seriously I didn't stop to think about what comical scenarios were being described (I mean poor guy, Lazarus is a beggar covered in sores licked by dogs [as the verses say] and he dies and ends up in someone's underwear instead......hardly the sweet release of death.....)
I agree with your post too. Jesus absolutely made it logical to love gay people. And God so loved the world, which last time I checked, includes everyone. Although I don't know specific concrete reasons why any given person has same-sex attractions, I have heard enough stories of people who say they desperately prayed not to feel that way, and that they have suffered for years where they would do anything to be rid of those attractions that I believe them when they say it's not a choice. That's why I'm on this thread, because I recognize the agony inside a person struggling with something they didn't seem to ask for, and on a basic level I wanted to understand it better in hopes my understanding could some day help someone dealing with it themselves. Or at least I might be the first Christian they encounter in their life who sits and listens and sees them because I had previously taken the time to discuss and comprehend the serious thing they are crushed by, rather than maybe all the other Christians before them who added to their pain.