Comment Re:What's a "progressive Christian"? (Score 1) 1535
Are you suggesting that you should love homosexuals even while you put them to death? 'cause that's a subtlety that may not be so reassuring to the homosexuals at the receiving end of your loving.
No, we Christians believe that homosexuality is a sexual sin, just like premarital sex, adultery, etc. We don't hate sinners, we love everyone the same, with the same unconditional love with which God loves us. The bible also commands us to do so. To do otherwise is to never have known God.
Putting people to death in the Old Testament was the way they kept their culture holy, since they had no real way to atone for sin (Hebrews chapter 10 in the New Testament explains this very clearly). When Jesus died on the cross to atone for our sins, those Old Testament laws were done away with.
No, we Christians believe that homosexuality is a sexual sin, just like premarital sex, adultery, etc. We don't hate sinners, we love everyone the same, with the same unconditional love with which God loves us. The bible also commands us to do so. To do otherwise is to never have known God.
Putting people to death in the Old Testament was the way they kept their culture holy, since they had no real way to atone for sin (Hebrews chapter 10 in the New Testament explains this very clearly). When Jesus died on the cross to atone for our sins, those Old Testament laws were done away with.
