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NASB | James 2:1 My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 2:1 My fellow believers, do not practice your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of partiality [toward people--show no favoritism, no prejudice, no snobbery]. |
Subject: Homosexual are picked on in the church? |
Bible Note: Almost, there but I would need to point out, that you associate homosexual with murders and rapist, and that proves my point on the Christian attitudes toward homosexuality. Ou of all the sins to have picked, your opinion shines through when you picked violent crimes. I would like to say you can be a practicing homosexual and be a Christian. You can in fact be a "Gay Christian" just because you don't act on it doesn't mean the feelings or thoughts go away. These are addictions and people who do not have them think it's a simple thing, just like women, stop doing drugs, or stop drinking. You can be a fornicating Chrstian and I think our society is more socially acceptable of this practice than they are of homosexuals, as evident of all the people in the church. I'm not arguing that it's right, I am arguing that we need to devote as much time on all of the sins as we do homosexuality. This includes war, fammine, pre-marital sex, pregnancies out of wedlock, gamblers, porn addictions, drug addicts, drunkards. Only God knows what are in their hearts, I believe we apply and mis-apply scripture to suit our preferences. If Jesus was alive today, he will tell all sinners to come into the house of the Lord. We are so busy telling people they are wrong, that we can't even bring them to Christ to get fixed. If we turned away all the people who committed one of the sins listed above, we will have a pretty empty church. We as Christians need to bring people closer to God, so that they may know him. Once they know him, they will be inflicted with his conviction, and then may be they will no in their hearts what's wrong and what's not. |