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The assumption is made because he goes from "bash the babies heads against the rocks, slaughter your enemies in my name, and keep the virgin women as plunder!" to "love your enemies, don't be a dick."
Many do. It seems like they go out of their way. I think Christians think more about gay sex than gay people do. They certainly preach about it more. Lol.
some conservative Christians are too gay focused especially on gay men. Not fun 
Which was descriptive, not prescriptive.
Which was for a specific people (the Israelites), for a specific period in time (around 100 years, iirc), for a specific reason (judgement).
War was a brutal fact of life in the ancient world. What the Bible is getting at with those passages is that women who lost either their parents, if unmarried, or their husband in war, then women would be looked after. They couldn't marry her or have sex with her, and certainly couldn't rape her, until a period of mourning had passed. Even then, he could let her go wherever she wanted if he changed his mind. However, the whole time she was to be treated as a full-fledged wife and would be fully integrated into Hebrew society. This was no trivial matter.
I don't think they do. In another video, Beckett Cook talks about prior to being saved, that sex was the primary topic of discussion for he and his gay friends. They constantly talked about it. The issue is that in the current culture, all things LGBTQ+ are literally being forced on everyone. We've gone from a "pride" day to a whole month to different things throughout the year.
As they should.
It's not the kind of thing a loving God would command someone to do to babies.
Its war god type stuff. A perfect god should be above such things, not actively participating in it.
Oh, yeah. I'm sure they were looked after. Probably several times a day by several different men. The Greeks used to foo the same thing and they had their own war god.
But he has changed. He wasn't about turning the other cheek in the Old Testament.
Christians talk about it all the time, too, and not just from the pulpit. The forcing of pride and LGBT stuff on people is a problem, I agree. I don't think it's right to force one's ideas about sexuality onto another.
They might want to think twice. This pastor was as anti-gay as it gets. Turns out he's kinda gay himself. Tale as old as time. Lol.
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Hey, I admit to not being well versed in scripture. But even I know the OT God was not all about love and turning the other cheek. It's a perfectly reasonable assumption to make, in my opinion.
I agree. But I think they also enjoy sneering at the gays. It makes them feel good. Just don't look too close at their internet search history. Lol.
That's why I said it was descriptive, not prescriptive.
Really? You don' think God should punish sin? You want a God of love but not a God who is just, but they're two sides of the same coin.
Now you're moving the goal posts. If it's about what God commanded, rape was forbidden; sex outside of marriage was and is forbidden. If people disobeyed God, that's on them, not God.
For a time, between the Israelites themselves, it was an eye for eye. But in the OT, he was establishing the Israelites and setting his people apart from the rest of the surrounding cultures. The laws he gave them were largely radically different and more humane than those of other cultures, but as they were still learning to live as the people of God, the laws were baby steps. When we get to the NT, things are taken further.
I don't know of a single Christian who talks about it. The only time is from the pulpit.
The Then you're not loving your neighbour. Unrepentant sexual sin, and particularly homosexuality, leads to death. To not say anything
Yeah, that was quite the story at the time. If a pastor neglects to speak out about the sin of homosexuality, as with any sin, he is not teaching the entire counsel of God, and that is sin in itself.They might want to think twice. This pastor was as anti-gay as it gets. Turns out he's kinda gay himself. Tale as old as time. Lol.
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Well, I don't think it's like that, but he's clearly not all about butchering people anymore in the NT.
I agree. Adultery effects gay people as well if their partner cheats on them.
Boy. I bet this guy was the life of the party. Lol.
Fair enough.
Not if it means otherwise good people have to suffer. Why should a person that happens to be gay be punished the same way as a rapist or a serial killer is punished? How is that just?
Yeah. Well, you know, North Korea is still standing. Why hasn't God destroyed it yet? What's her waiting for? Why is Kim Jong Un always happy? Lol.
I know. But you know that sort of thing probably happened. Female prisoners of war tend to not be treated with much respect even today.
I mean, couldn't be have just commanded them not to do those things? Hey, I know it's a lot to ask, but maybe on the next raid, lets try to not bash the skulls of infants on the sharp rocks, okay? Baby steps.
Hmm... that very well could be.
Well, a lot of them are wound pretty tight, you know? In evangelical circles, sex itself is seen as kind of taboo. Only the pastor can talk about it. Because then we're not talking about it, he's talking about it, that's HIS problem. Lol.
Well, they're probably aware of the Christian position on homosexuality. Especially if they live in the United States.
Aye, it was. What was more interesting to me though was his wife's reaction. Or rather, lack of reaction. You see, most wives, especially if they're evangelical Christian, would react rather poorly to the news that their husband is having sexual relations with other men.