Sorry MB and you're right....but I just saw this and....promise, last post them I'm out. On the Canadian bight side, the NYR lost to the Leafs last night
Pretty sure no Canadian here considers that to be a positive.
Impressive (re: the in bold). What's next, you're on a first name basis with God? : )
God, if he exists, has no interest in what I have to say to him. My point was that as my previous post said, my Dad is a priest. It was never rammed down my throat which is probably why I feel fairly benign towards the faith, but scripture was a regular enough part of both home and school life that I can fairly comfortably argue against some of Christanity's less appropriately adjusted modern claimants and use their own tools against them.
the Old Testament's references to marriage are boy/girl 'hetero' and that's what Provorov's hanging his hat on
Well, yeah, but that's one of the easiest ones of all to poke holes in. Because while Bible scholars will try and twist themselves around this, the fact is that the Holy Trinity and specifically Jesus Christ as Saviour is entirely a function of the New Testament, and if you're going to call yourself a
Christian and devote yourself to
Christ then it is perverse to ignore his teachings which by definition only appear in the New Testament, and instead use contradictory writings of man from the OT to justify behaviour that Jesus Christ explicitly told you not to do.
So if that's what Provorov's going with, I refer to my previous point that he can freak off. He clearly doesn't understand the first thing about the teachings of Jesus, who was very much a righteous dude who would very much have wanted his devotees to stand up for the persecuted. Tim Tebow knew, even if he forgot add the next verse:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Provorov apparently doesn't believe John because he thinks that condemnation is OK, or at least that it's not his job to do anything about it. Dude needs to go do a bit more Bible study, this excrement is pretty much Sunday school 101.