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Back to homosexuality....
Well, I've given my stance on the Bible a billion times. I'll give it again:
My God is logical. In fact he is more logical then any human. So when I ask, "what difference does it make," I generally expect an answer. The Bible is only logical if you point out these lines:
"Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."
Mark 2:22
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"In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
Hebrew 8:13
God acts through man. Jesus was not happy with those who followed the letter of the Bible before he changed it. He did not politely say "I know that was then, but this is now". He called them hypocrites.
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Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered
A translation (i don't put words in mouth, just clean up the old english): You idiot, lawyers! You have the key to knowledge. You're smart. I know, because God gave you that key. And yet you don't use your head! You don't use the key. You just stick to stopping others from using the key (key = brains in this analogy).
Not objectionable. (i think...)
He expected that humans would have tended to the wine and not just cling to the wineskin.
He expects that from us. And how is this possible? How can humans be allowed to change anything?
Because God lives inside us.
God gave us the Bible in the (maybe vain) hope that we would use our brains when reading it. That we would be able to change wineskins by ourselves.
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our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2 Corinthians 3:5-6:
not the letter but the Spirit.
This all adds up to certain parts of the Bible are a part of the covenant that is the "old wine skin". I personally think the law against homosexuality is one of them. But, as I don't claim to see the one absolute truth about the Bible, I'm open to other opinions.