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Love Thy Neighbor – part 2

25 May, 2012 8:54 am , 2 Comments ,

I get very emotional when it comes to religion.  The post prior to this, “Love Thy Neighbor“, about the pastor who wanted to corral all gays and lesbians inside an electric fence until they died off, broke my heart. I just couldn’t believe the hatred in his message. It’s was shocking.  And I could not stop thinking about it.

I would consider myself very spiritual.  But not religious.  Religion, to me, is labeling yourself Baptist, Methodist, Catholic and so on.  I have a personal relationship to God, not to man and the many interpretations they have of the bible.  That being said, and even though my soul was telling me I already know the answer to my question, I prayed to God to give me a sign letting me know if I was way off base in my belief on this issue. 

I have a Daily Bible app on my phone.  Every morning, while getting the kids ready for school, I read the verse of the day.  The morning after my Love Thy Neighbor post, the morning after I prayed for an answer, the bible verse of the days was 1 Corinthians 13. “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

The same passage in my last post.  Out of all the verses in the Bible, that came the morning after I prayed for an answer.  Wow.

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Love thy Neighbor

23 May, 2012 5:48 pm , 1 Comment ,

This post is completely off the subject of DIY.  But it’s a subject I feel very  passionate about.

Today my Mom asked if I heard the story of a pastor in North Carolina (my home state!) who spoke out against homosexuality.  She said it has been all over the local and national news.  I must have had my head in the sand, (actually I have been taking care of my sick family), to not have heard this.

A Baptist Pastor was speaking out about how to get rid of the gay population…  

“I figured a way out – a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers - but I couldn’t get it past the Congress,” he said. “Build a great big, large fence–50 or 100 miles long–put all the lesbians in there. Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out. Feed them. And you know in a few years, they’ll die out. You know why? They can’t reproduce.”

Oh my God! (literally)

I haven’t stopped thinking about this all day.  For as long as I can remember, before I even knew what homosexuality was, I understood that God loves all of us and we are not to judge each other.  No one taught me that, it’s just there.  I can’t really explain why this particular subject sparks such emotion in me either.  But it does.  Maybe it’s because I believe people are born homosexual.  It would be the same as someone being born with blue eyes, or with a missing limb or as a mathematical genius.  It’s just the way God made them.  God doesn’t make mistakes, right?  We do.  And our mistake is judging other people.  We have a lot of jobs in this world, but that is not one of them.

Even if homosexuality was a sin, a sin is a sin and we all sin.  If you believe that Jesus is the Son of God and he died for our sins, then you are saved.  Regardless of your sin. 

Love is the most important lesson in the bible.  The bible doesn’t say love thy neighbor as long as they aren’t gay.  Just love they neighbor as yourself.

I’m not writing this for a debate.  We are free to believe whatever.  This was such a shock to my heart today that I felt the need to write about it.

John 13:3

34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another

1 Corinthians 13 (The Greatest Gift)

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

Mark 12:28-31   (NIV)

The Greatest Commandment

28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”

29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[b] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[c]There is no commandment greater than these.”

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