Sure it is. This has been nothing more than an exercise in moving the goal posts. It's been pointed out by more than just myself that anti-gay bigotry tends to be justified by a specific passage in Leviticus. When it gets pointed out that there are other passages, you go "ackchyually" there are these other passages in the NT that can get used, too, just glossing over the fact that the only reason we're even having this conversation is because of how, more often then not, Leviticus gets used. And after being pressed on that, it's shifted to "ackchyually new covenant."
Because you ignoramus that is the most clear condemnation but there are others in the Bible as well. God like to repeat himself so that the message can get through people's thick skulls. Christians cite the old testament because it is relevant. If the new testament replaces everything in the old then Christian Bibles would just contain the new testament or be seperate books instead of combing them. The new testament has primacy to the old, but unless there is a part that has been fullfilled the old still applies. For example Jesus says not one jot or tiddle of the law is done away with, he is here to fullfill the law not abolish it. The new testament says that Christian gentiles don't have to keep to all of the law of moses, merely abstain from sexual immorality, idol worship, and a few other things. Now eating shrimp is not a sexual action, wearing mixed fabric is not a sexual action, sticking your dick in an asshole is a sexual action.
Why is that wrong, but death for murder or rape not wrong? Who are you to decide morality?
Yes, you are. I and others have already pointed out one of the most common examples of it. Slavery would be another example of it. But the fact is, religion actually has changed quite a bit over the centuries. I guarantee you that your grandparents held to things that you don't. I guarantee you that Christians in 1500 held to things that you don't.
Actually for the most part I try to agree with my ancestors where practical. Also slavery is not immoral, the way the Ancient Isralites practiced it is not the way early America did, which was immoral. In Ancient Israel slaves came from either a legal punishment, or debt, or war captives. It was not a race based slave trade, also I'm pretty sure that the children of slaves weren't slaves, but I'm not positive.
Are you comparing consenting gay men having sex to serial rape, even just in terms of severity? That's kind of what I'm getting at.
Yes. You can get mad all you want, but sodomy is a grave offense against God's law. That is a fact, that liberals try to corrupt god's law to support their own selfish interests is not my concern.
And now we've come back from claiming that no one is bound to follow it to making excuses for it.
What part of ceremonial law is not needed for Christians to follow do you not understand? Christians are only bound by the moral law, and even if the law of Moses still applied that would not necessarily mean that Gentiles have to follow it. You do understand that you can't follow all 613 commandments right? Like if you are a man you can't follow the ones about a woman being ritually impure during that time of month, and if you are a woman you can't circumize yourself to comply with the order given by God to the Isralites. You make your arguments but you don't seem to know basic history or theology. Because even in Ancient Israel before the Roman occupation not everyone in the holy land was a Jew. Now foreign persons could live and work there, but they still had to worship the one true God, they could not commit idology, adultery, etc. But they were not required to be circumzied for example. So you'd have to look to see which specefic laws that non jews were required to obey and which ones they were not required too.
Ahh a protestant, someone who listened to a heretic like Martin Luthor whose words are worse than shit from a horses ass. That might explain why you don't know anything about Church history, or even the religious history of Israel. Here is a hint, sola scriptura is false. You need the tradition of the early Church.
