Engaged in an email argument with a Mormon on Prop 8. Her position is that
"We all have the right to choose, but lets not say something is NORMAL when in reality God has stated very clearly it is an abomination before him."
Wow, I just love it when people tell me EXACTLY what God has stated.....
To which my response is:
You presume to know what God has stated.
Is this the God that supported Plural Marriage for Mormons (since repudiated....sort of) ?
Or is it the God that was used to justify stoning of adulterers?
Is this the God that was used to justify slavery?
Is this the God that was used to justify bans on interracial marriage?
Is this the God that was used to justify the Holocaust against the Jews?
Is this the God that has torn apart Northern Ireland, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan for 2000 years?
Is this the God in whose name so much evil, violence and hatred has been done over the centuries?
That God?
It is extremely arrogant for you, a mere mortal human to speak for God.
If God is truly all-knowing and all powerful, you can't presume to speak for him/her or claim that you know what he/she has stated.
The so-called "word of God" - the Bible and more particularly the "book of Mormon" - are but interpretations of God's word by imperfect humans.
Those words have been twisted over the millennia to suit the political aims and goals of Man.
Numerous gnostic gospels (The Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Philip to mention just a few) and the books of the Essenes were eliminated from
from the "official" versions in the early era after Christ's death because they did not align with the political ambitions of the Roman Church.
Unless you have read all the books of the bible - both included and otherwise and have interpreted them from either the original Greek or Aramaic, you can't be sure at all what "God" has said.
Perhaps He has only said what Man wants him to say for political expediency.
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