Originally posted by sithsaber408
You are totally right dude.Your church was trippin.
They are supposed to accept/love all people, since we are all God's.
He (Jesus) died for everybody, not just straight people.(see my post in the NALMBA thread.)
I still find it hard to believe that people are born gay, becuase of a gay gene or something,.... but what happened to you was inexcusable.
As a person of faith, let me be the first to apologize for those n00b's. 🙂
We are supposed to love. But we are not supposed to accept everything that's thrown our way. That's where I'm going to have to concur with you Sith. "Love" isn't just about having people like you..or about coming to an "agreement" with people who you know are saying things that are obviously misguided and deluded. It's about telling people what's right..even though you know they won't like you, or what you have to say.
I'd rather have a person curse at me a hundred times, to keep me going down the right path, than to have someone tell me all the things I wanted to hear, and have me go down the wrong one. As Jesus showed us..love is about suffering, pain, and anguish..just as much so..if not more so than that "touchy - feely" stuff that you see in the movies.
In the end people will ultimately choose what they want to do for themselves..but when that final day comes..and we all stand in judgement before God, at least I'll know what my intentions were..and in the end the "intentions" of my heart are all that will matter, not anything that I may think that I've accomplished in man's eyes.
Fin