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My "follow up" question, is this, where do we set the limit on the number of scriptural references in which the framing of a doctrine is acceptable?
Snake handlers use one or two verses to condone their pratice of handling snakes.
Are there other doctrines that we strongly believe which we base on only one or two verses
I can think of one prevalent doctrine [unmentionable under pain of ?] that does not have a single verse to support it.
You have been provided immunity of any pain....
Just so I get this straight, you're saying that people who practice homosexuality can't be saved? Is that right?What was an abomination, in 2000b.c. , is one in 2014 a.d.
I think it is assuming an unrepentant homosexual.Just so I get this straight, you're saying that people who practice homosexuality can't be saved? Is that right?
That covers a lot of territory. Does that mean someone who has been saved but returns to homosexual behavior -- like an alcoholic falling off the wagon -- forfeits his/her salvation? For that matter, how about the alcoholic wagon-faller. How is his/her sin less than the homosexual? All sin is an abomination, not just certain varieties.I think it is assuming an unrepentant homosexual.
Just so I get this straight, you're saying that people who practice homosexuality can't be saved? Is that right?
No, God's saying: Rom 1:26-30
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
and...
Rom 1:32
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
And a long time before that, this:
Lev 20:13
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination:they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And in case you're not a lawyer, reprobate is defined here:
Jer 6:30
30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
That covers a lot of territory. Does that mean someone who has been saved but returns to homosexual behavior -- like an alcoholic falling off the wagon -- forfeits his/her salvation? For that matter, how about the alcoholic wagon-faller. How is his/her sin less than the homosexual? All sin is an abomination, not just certain varieties.
No, God's saying: Rom 1:26-30
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
and...
Rom 1:32
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
And a long time before that, this:
Lev 20:13
13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination:they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And in case you're not a lawyer, reprobate is defined here:
Jer 6:30
30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.