.Quote from Hoofhearted:
peil,
With all due respect for your enthusiasm to educate, I will also point out that in the passages you have referred us to, Christ is addressing the issue of divorce between a man and a woman, rather than marriage.
3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, âIs it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?â
You see here? ^^^They are asking him about apples, and not oranges, as you have suggested. They ask a very specific question about a man divorcing his wife, and not about whether or not gay marriage is ok.
Just read it again and you will see what I'm talking about^^^.
4 âHavenât you read,â he replied, âthat AT THE BEGINNING the Creator âmade them male and female,â 5 and said, âFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one fleshâ? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.â
Here, Christ is simply giving a reference to scripture the Pharisees are already familiar with. He gives them familiar scripture because he truly wants them to understand his teaching on this particular subject, but like most conservatives they do not want to open their minds and hearts.
He also provides the passage because it is an adequate explanation of God's wishes for his people [IN THE BEGINNING].
Notice the CAPITOL letters I used to end that sentence?
Good, because those three words have a huge impact on the message that Christ spells out to these poor ignorant bastards, who just can't seem to get what he's telling them.
7 âWhy then,â they asked, âdid Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?â
THINK, YOU DUMB BASTARDS!!
HINT: God says IN THE BEGINNING that when a man and woman unite, they shall not be separated. IOWON'T GET DIVORCED.
HINT 2: Moses (right after consulting with God comes down from the mountain and says "We're not condoning whatever actions were taken to cause divorce, but here is a permission slip for it if you were genuinely done wrong by your partner.
HINT 3: Did you happen notice a contradiction there? IN THE BEGINNING God says no divorce, but later tells Moses it's ok. Why is this??
Hint 3: God is a loving and forgiving shepherd and provides provisions for his people as he understands fully their weaknesses.
IOW, God loves you no matter how stupid you are.
8 Jesus replied, âMoses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way FROM THE BEGINNING.
Again Christ is reiterating, that we all start out with hopes and aspirations, but that sometimes we just have to accept the evil that lies within and learn to deal with it.
9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.â
DON'T GET FROGGY WITH THAT DIVORCE BUTTON- MAKE SURE IT'S FOR THE RIGHT REASONS, AND ONLY THE RIGHT REASONS OR YOU'LL DUMBASS WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT!
So you can hopefully see now, Peil, that Christ did not address the subject of gay marriage in the way that you had hoped, which was to benefit your desires.
I would also like to suggest you keep Paul's message about hearing what you want to hear:
2 Timothy 4: 3-4
3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
You have got it all wrong my ignorant friend. Christ never said anything of the like. Take another look at what he actually says.
âDo not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.
