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X, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors manservant. I suppose that could be understood to deal with this issue although it is a stretch.
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I don't recall this commandment from my Bible, could you give a source?
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Bottom line is that God created man and woman for a reason, you think?
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God didn't create JUST men and women. Now that we know that there are 9 different chromosome patterns found in human beings (not just the XX and XY that we learned about in school) and now that science has discovered how many overlaps there are between men and women they can no longer assign gender, instead they are looking at 8 markers and then assigning a "probabilility" of gender.
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God also gave instructions that laying with a man as a man lays with a woman is an abomination, this applies to animals and women on women as well.
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Actually, those prohibitions were not put in there by God, they were taken from earlier religious and secular works like the Code of Hammurabi.
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New Testement, Old Testement, all inspired by God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit; One God. Do you believe that Jesus (God) accepts homosexuality as a wonderful creation and act that he want His creation to do?
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There isn't really any evidence to suggest that any supernatural power was involved in the compiling of the Bible. All of the stories and ideas in it are easily found in much earlier works and myths. As far as sex goes, since more than 1500 species of animals also include homosexual members it would seem reasonable that it is a naturally occuring variation in higher animals. There is no "sin" involved in it now anymore than there was "sin" involved in interracial marriage when that was a big no-no with Christians during the first 70 years of the last century. Before that Chistians claimed that oral sex was a sin, masturbation was a sin, birth control was a sin, it's just whatever happens to be the popular "sin" at the time. Personally, I suspect Jesus would be a lot happier with men loving each other than killing each other.
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Look in Genesis, I recall that God mentions to mankind, be fruitful and multiply. Now we both know that lesbians and homosexuals cannot do this, so I content that being queer, homosexual, whatever you want to call it is wrong.
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In the days when humans were quite rare perhaps it made sense to focus on reproduction, but we have more than 6,000,000,000 people now so it's not really an issue. Part of the problem with living your life according to things that people wrote thousands of years ago is that you can't change with the times.
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As far as if sins have degrees, I do not know for certain; however it does seem to make sense, does it not. Say, theft compared to murder.
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Check out the Law of Moses, no law is more important than another, breaking any of them is the same as breaking all of them. That's why we need to go back to stoning women who are not virgins on their marriage beds.
Whenever I read things like you have written, I want to suggest that you start reading about the history of your religion. Find out where the stories came from instead of simply accepting that the stuff you've been taught is the truth.