I'm fine with going by what the Bible says, but there are some things that need to there to be inferred. Someone on here talked about Jesus' parables. He didn't just come out and say everything straightforward, but left it to us to find what he was saying. If God had meant for everything in the Bible to be taken at face value, and no thought put into what he said, He'd have given us a billion commandments, not just ten, to outline what needs to be done in every situation ever imaginable. But he didn't. Jesus told the Pharises(sp?) and the Sadducees(sp?) to stop nit-picking the law and live by the Spirit of it. If we are told what to do whenever we have a problem, where can the Spirit come in and guide us? And from there, where can faith be grown? Which brings me back to one of my former points: repentence is a humbling process, which involves prayer - the acknowledgment of the wrong doing. We draw closer to God by recognizing we did something wrong, and Him forgiving us, builds our faith that He truely is a loving and caring God. I know, you're going to argue that prayer isn't involved in repentence because the Bible didn't say so. What I want from you is the number of homosexuals you've killed. God said that homosexuals were to be killed, so I want a body count and the average number of stones it takes to kill 'em.
I'm still not seeing why prayer is such a taboo. Anyone care to explain?
Also, just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm unable to argue with you.
