What's YHWH's position on homosexuality?
Staying away from Levitical law, the New Testament hints strongly that all sex outside of a heterosexual marriage is sinful. This includes homosexual intercourse (Matthew 19:1-12, 1 Corinthinans 6:9-10).
No. We're getting really good at this.
Galatians 3:28
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
Genesis 1 27: So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
There seems to be conflicting info as to whethere or not homosexual sex is OK or not or any different from hetero sex.
The verses you quoted don't seem to deal with homosexual sex. Can you explain to me how you made this connection?
Why did God need to sacrifice anything in order to forgive us for our sins?
He didn't have to, but because God wants to be in fellowship with us he poured out his wrath on Jesus in order for the divine standard of justice he established to be met. This is the essence of propitiation. Jesus Christ payed the penalty that was owed by mankind to God so that we could be his children again.
Yes, but I would assume that you are a madman. Abraham's relationship was with God, not some crazy guy bursting into his tent at night. The fact that his wife had borne him a son so late in their lives was indicative of God's intervention in his life, and the fulfillment of the promise that Abraham's descendants would be as numerable as the stars. When the Lord tested Abraham's devotion, he knew that God was the reason that Isaac was alive in the first place, and that despite what he thought was going to happen, that God would not go back on his promise.
No justification. The fact that he was prepared to murder another human being on the say-so of God with no justification other than 'because I said so' is horrific.
This is something you and I are going to have to disagree on, at least we've reached a conclusion on the issue, even if it is just a realization of our different views. Perhaps it is horrific that Abraham was willing to kill his son Isaac, but let's not forget that God never intended for Isaac to be killed, and even ordered Abraham to desist at the eleventh hour.
On another note, what is the basis for your belief that had Abraham refused to kill Isaac, that God would have abandoned him and put him in hell? It would not have been the first time he had sinned, and the OT is up to its neck in prophets, judges, and kings who sinned against God but were forgiven later on.
Ok, maybe not Hell but people who directly disobeyed God frequently ended up in less than pleasant states like (I think) Lot's wife who is turned to salt for simply looking at everything she knows being burned to the ground.
You are correct here, but I think with Abraham's example, given that he had sinned before and that God's promise had not yet been fulfilled through him, Abraham would not have died. I'd just as soon not speculate about the past though, and deal with the story as it is presented. Perhaps if Abraham had actually killed Isaac (since he had not sinned), I would doubt God's goodness.
So god hates people of color and gays? Im confused.
No. We're getting really good at this.
Galatians 3:28
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
Romans 5:6-8
"You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
So god decides what sin is... and then tries to hold that sin over us... and wants us to be grateful he sent his son (or himself, and since he is alive, apparently, no one really died??? CONFUSING) to die for the sins... which he decided were sins?
Confusing. Explain it better.
I honestly don't know how to explain it more simply. Christianity is based on a few basic assumptions and the conclusions we can draw from them.
1. God is good and powerful.
2. Man was created to be a companion to God (Garden of Eden).
3. Man separated himself from God through his disobedience (eating the fruit).
4. Man could no longer be in fellowship with God because of the sin that existed in him.
5. The divine justice that God established demanded propitiation for that sin, if man was to be reconciled with him.
6. God decided to take on the form of a man (Jesus) and endure persecution and eventually death by crucifixion so that the sins of the world could be forgiven according to the standards upon which God created the universe (in other words, God was bound by his own established law).
7. By believing in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, he speaks for us before the father and we are spared the wrath of his divine judgment. This is the essence of the gospel.