I thought it had limits according to the Bible itself: Luke 12:10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.
True, so I suppose the difference boils down to whether or not some sins are outside Christ's atonement, but that the individual can atone for him/herself.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
Hally McIlrath wrote:Is there any reference specifically to homosexuality as being worthy of blood atonement, outside of Gaz's blood-fevered imagination?
I'm not aware of one, and I doubt anybody will produce one.
Gaz just really wants to kill a fag is all...
Makes me kinda wish I could time travel back to the early seventies and meet up with Gaz in Missouri. For a 'friendly chat'...
RenegadeOfPhunk wrote:Gaz just really wants to kill a fag is all...
Religion really does just seem like a mirror, one that reflects the beauties or horrors lurking within that person. Someone can look at the Bible and only find love there, others, like Gaz, see justification for the perpetration of horrific crimes.
I think BY taught that murder, adultery, stealing, marrying a black person, and apostatizing were the sins worthy of blood atonement. So if a gay person was married and had sex with someone of the same sex, that appears to be as close as one can get.
This world is really a troubling place sometimes.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
Hally McIlrath wrote:Religion really does just seem like a mirror, one that reflects the beauties or horrors lurking within that person. Someone can look at the Bible and only find love there, others, like Gaz, see justification for the perpetration of horrific crimes.
I find lots of stuff in the Bible. Take the Song of Solomon for example . . . ;)
That's General Leo. He could be my friend if he weren't my enemy. eritis sicut dii I support NCMO
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beastie wrote:I think BY taught that murder, adultery, stealing, marrying a black person, and apostatizing were the sins worthy of blood atonement. So if a gay person was married and had sex with someone of the same sex, that appears to be as close as one can get.
It seems like Gaz is trying, attempting, vainly squeeeeezing homosexuality into the realm of murder, so that it can fall under the vision of a Millennium filled with kittens and butterflies and little lambs and throat slashing. But I don't know how one can arbitrarily say one thing is really another. Does that fall under the "it means this because I say it means this" personal revelatory category, or what?
