Question by lexiegirl619: If the Bible is “Absolute” shouldn’t we have a stoning everyday?

http://www.soulforce.org/article/homosexuality-bible-gay-christian

To me there is a strong difference in doctrine and what I studied in college. We keep stating the Bible is absolute but there are facts that can clearly show the translators placed their own political agenda into the scripture.

Before responding please read the link provided and provide reasonable commentary – “comments like I will burn in hell just means you will to- because you cast judgment and that’s G-d’s job”

There is NO word for homosexuality in the 3 langauges the Bible was written in.

The Bible was written by men inspired by God- translated by men in there best attempts of understanding.

Is it not the commandment of Jesus to Love G-D and Love thy neighbor as thyself.

IS society using the Bible once again to support hate?
So why is there always an arguement that utilizes the Bible to condemn homosexuality.

The quaran in no way is absolute- it contradicts the Bible regularly and instructs people to take up the sword and kill those who do not believe- its message acts as though the research and theories were not already there to be written about -pick that up in a different debate- because that defiles that G-d is responsible to judge people-not people.
if we accept that stonings were done out of judgement- and Paul’s writings instruct us NOT to Judge people- then why does the defense or arguement remain in tact to permit judgement and people killing homosexuals “in the name of G-d’s will”
On September 22, 2000, a 55-year-old man named Ronald E. Gay, angry for being teased about his last name, entered the Back Street Café in Roanoke, Virginia, a gathering place for lesbians and gays just a few miles from Lynchburg. Confident that God’s Word supported his tragic plan of action, Mr. Gay shouted, “I am a Christian soldier, working for my Lord.” Claiming that “Jesus does not want these people in his heaven,” he shot seven innocent gay and lesbian people. One man, Danny Overstreet, died instantly. Others still suffer from their physical and psychological wounds.
In July 1999, Matthew Williams and his brother, Tyler, murdered a gay couple, Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder, in their home near Sacramento, California. Speaking to his mother from the Shasta County jail, Matthew explained his actions in this way: “I had to obey God’s law rather than man’s law,” he said. “I didn’t want to do this. I felt I was supposed to. I have followed a higher law… I just plan to defend myself from the Scriptures.”

After Matthew Shepard was killed in 1998, a pastor in North Carolina published an open letter regarding the trial of Aaron McKinney that read: “Gays are under the death penalty. His blood is guilty before God (Lev. 20:13). If a person kills a gay, the gay’s blood is upon the gay and not upon the hands of the person doing the killing. The acts of gays are so abominable to God. His Word is there and we can’t change it.”

Best answer:

Answer by Mel
Will you please quote the scripture that says we are to stone our neighbors? Just because it happened in Biblical days, that doesn’t make it God’s will. People sinned back then too, you know.

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