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    II Thessalonians 1: 5 - 12 5 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may beconsidered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—6 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will suffer the punishment ofeternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to youwas believed. 11 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, 12 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 7:13-14 13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.     John 14:6 6 Jesus said to him, â€œI am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

the author is also black, and he disagrees whole heartedly with what you just said.......

No, your first sentence in your previous post threw me off for a second...I thought you were referring to the article.,..... :)

Didn't read this article, did you???

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We are to make a judgement as to what is sin and to avoid it.......

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  Finally I agree with you on something....morals have been the exact same since man has been around......there is nothing different about morality today than there was in the Old Testament days....   Ecclesiastes 1: 9 - 11 9 What has been is what will be,     and what has been done is what will be done,     and there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there a thing of which it is said,     â€œSee, this is new”? It has been already     in the ages before us. 11 There is no remembrance of former things,[d]     nor will there be any remembrance of later things[e] yet to be     among those who come after.

  How about the growing Antarctic ice shelf???? 

  In what way?? 

He doesn't know....it uses numbers...... :lol:

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ERGO: it's a CHOICE, then........ And the stupidity in this topic went down significantly when you decided to avoid it earlier........ :P

You're not posting on this topic anymore because you know that your belief that homosexuality is natural is contradicted by your belief in evolution....... so you vanish from the discussion.... :P

Actually, that is the attitude taken by most "scientists" these days.........

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makes you think enlightened got a new account....didn't answer the question at all......homosexuality and evolution are mutually exclusive by definition if evolution is true.......

I said it led to the tyranny.....the Senate was set up to represent the interests of the states....the House was set up to represent the interests of the people.....things are out of balance and as more people begin to wake up and see that, I believe that it will be an easy sell......

"enlightened"......IF homosexuality is natural or genetic, then you obviously don't believe in evolution since all those billions of years of evolutionary carnage would have gotten rid of the homosexual trait in the great survival of the fittest battle......so which one is false? Evolution, or the belief that homosexuality is a natural occurrence and not a conscious choice made by an individual.....

You are correct, the people of THAT time allowed tyranny to take hold by ratifying this amendment among others...... IF I can get the People of TODAY to see how their ancestors screwed up and allowed tyranny to take hold in 1913, maybe the people of TODAY will make it their choice to repeal it in order to regain liberty..........

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I have to give enlightened a little credit....by not answering about evolution he has shown that he fully understands he can't win the "it's natural not a choice" discussion.......:)

Are you a believer in the theory of evolution??? 

God does not hate any one...he hates SIN....SIN is a choice we make......we are not under the Old Testament anymore as that was a covenant between God and the Jews until Christ came to fulfill it......I would refer you to the book of Hebrews, but I highly doubt you'd follow up on that reference.......