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"Are you born gay or do you 'acquire' it?"

I heard two people talking about this the other night, and was wondering what you guys thought. Is being gay in your DNA, or is it 'acquired' through your life?

So yeh, enlighten me...

Some people go to school.

Get. Over. Him.

Light wrote:
> Forest Fan wrote:
> Light wrote:
> Well, I hope you got done what you needed to. Now that you're back,
> let's see you answer the questions. Or concoct yet another excuse
> for
> not doing so.
>
> Questions...
>
> Hehheheheh. Last week, I said this about you;
>
> Forest Fan wrote:
>
>
> I want to get every issue sorted out before we move on to the next
> one - otherwise we'll have to continually go back to previous ones.
>
> Light Wrote:
> No; you want to concentrate on one issue out of the many I've
> cornered you on, stick with that until the original post has been
> bumped off the front page, then ignore all the other questions.
> Then,
> if someone asks you to answer the other questions, you'll post
> "What questions?". If someone refers to the original post,
> you'll say "Which post?" You know; like you've done since
> the moment you started posting here.
>
>
> Heh. I wrote that a week ago, and you keep playing into my hands by
> behaving in exactly the way I predict you will. What I call you
> aren't insults Forest; they're statements of fact.
>
> Answer the questions my hypocritical, cowardly, lonely little friend.


~pop~

Hey wow...Gump spends a whole day avoiding even acknowledging the existence of this thread. Hands up anyone who's surprised.

Anyone?



Anyone at all?

Archangel wrote:
> Eating of "blood" (Scripture put in more modern terms):
>
> Romans 14:13-15,
> "Do not judge one another: but judge this instead, that a man
> not put an occasion to stumble in his brother's path. I am persuaded
> by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to
> anyone that regards it unclean, to that person it is unclean. If your
> brother finds what you eat unclean, then you are walking unlovingly.
> Don't cause one to walk away from the faith, for whom Christ
> died."
>
> 1 Corinthians 8:8,
> "But meat doesn't commend us to God; for neither if we eat are
> we the better; neither if we eat not are we the worse."
>
> 1 Corinthians 8:12-13,
> But when you sin against your brother, and you wound their weak
> conscience, you are sinning against Christ. So if meat is an offense
> to my brother, I won't eat flesh in this world, just so I don't
> weaken my brother."
>
> I am not siding with anyone. Just stating New Testament scripture
> from that "outdated" book, the Bible.

Umm...that refers to meat in general, not blood.

>
> God's "hate",
> Proverbs 6:16-19,
> These six things the Lord hates; seven are an abomination to Him. A
> proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a
> heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet running swift to
> mischief, a false witness who speaks lies, and he that sows division
> among the brothers."
>
> Malachi 1:2b-3a,
> Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: yet I loved Jacob. and I
> hated Esau..."
>
> Psalm 5:5,
> "The foolish shall not stand in Your sight: You hate all workers
> of iniquity."
>
> Hebrews 1:9,
> You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity..."


Okay, so where is the mention of the hate in Christs heart that Forest mentions?
>
> It may have been a poor choice of words on FF's part on the topic of
> hate. That's all. People make mistakes. In my view, God does love
> all. It's not conditional on us loving Him first, because we didn't.
> The Bible strongly declares in Old and New Testament that there is no
> one who seeks after God. Jesus Himself said, "I am come to seek
> and to save that which was lost." He also said, "I haven't
> come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Even
> Christians sin. We're bombarded all day with this world and the filth
> (for lack of a better term) in it. We just wlak to a different drum.
> "We love Him, because HE first loved us." (1 John 4:19)
> God hates sin, not the sinner.

So are you saying that God loves even those who do not love him?

Incidentally, thanks for trying to answer queries. A christian with both a sense of humour and a sense of obligation is a rare thing. That said, it isn't theologically possible to be both Christian and Jew. The former believes Christ is the son of god, the latter do not. Using the example of Christ himself is fairly narrow; unless Forest is the 2nd coming, I fail to see how he can be both.

Forest Fan wrote:
> Light wrote:
> Well, I hope you got done what you needed to. Now that you're back,
> let's see you answer the questions. Or concoct yet another excuse
> for
> not doing so.
>
> Questions...

Hehheheheh. Last week, I said this about you;

> Forest Fan wrote:
>
>
> I want to get every issue sorted out before we move on to the next
> one - otherwise we'll have to continually go back to previous ones.

> Light Wrote:
> No; you want to concentrate on one issue out of the many I've
> cornered you on, stick with that until the original post has been
> bumped off the front page, then ignore all the other questions.
> Then,
> if someone asks you to answer the other questions, you'll post
> "What questions?". If someone refers to the original post,
> you'll say "Which post?" You know; like you've done since
> the moment you started posting here.


Heh. I wrote that a week ago, and you keep playing into my hands by behaving in exactly the way I predict you will. What I call you aren't insults Forest; they're statements of fact.

Answer the questions my hypocritical, cowardly, lonely little friend.

Not possible.
When you first meet someone you will have formed an opinion of them before they even open their mouth.

English_Bloke wrote:
> But you have just said there that they are not as bad as first
> thought, so you still judged them in the first instance.

As I was agreeing with your post of "it's human nature." Unfortunately, I occasionally do that. I guess it's because when we have it done to us, it's hard not to do it to someone else. (God forgive me.)

We really should have a blank space in our brains (should be easy on my part; not a lot there) when we meet someone and let the information on them trickle in.

But you have just said there that they are not as bad as first thought, so you still judged them in the first instance.

English_Bloke wrote:
> It is human nature

Again, true. I like to try to get to know a person a little, though. That's how we should do it. Usually once you get to know them, they're not as bad as what we 'thought' when we first met them. You don't make friends by jumping to conclusions.

It is human nature

English_Bloke wrote:
> Archangel wrote:
> Romans 14:13-15,
> "Do not judge one another:
>
> Hmmm, well, we all fail there, don't we? We all judge every single
> person we meet.

True friend, sadly true.