I fail to see how being faithful and true to one's spouse/partner is "flouting God's law"
God did not create men to marry men. Marriage is HIS institution - not man's. Male and Female He created them, FOR marriage. Jesus Himself quotes that scripture and asserts it's validity.
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? - Matthew 19:4-5All you deliberately fail to do is recognize God in favor of your own golden calf that you prefer to worship so you can engage in and justify behavior that earns eternal death. Perhaps you will then tell us that we "shall not surely die, but become as God knowing good and evil".
Remember, statements in the Bible addressing homosexuality don't represent "God's word"
Your comments certainly do not represent the God of scripture or the testimony of Jesus at all. Your comments on this subject belong to the god of this world. You reject HIS Word in favor of your own image of how you expect God to be. As I've told you - you worship a god of your own imagination and are hostile to the One Revealed in scripture.
...rather the opinion of individuals speaking within the cultural context of their time. in ancient times, the survival of the tribe was paramount - everyone was expected to reproduce.
And the justification from child molesters/child marriage proponents, Beastiality and other perversions all make the same justification and denouncement of scripture as invalid that you do. In fact, child marriage among Hindus in India provided the same justification that you do, from their myriad fake deities that they claim give men in their 50's the right to marry and have sex with girls under 7.
Moral anarchy exists in much of the rest of the world. The fruits of that behavior are manifest and the consequences are lifelong misery, suffering and death. I find it fascinating how many want the same thing here because they have a pet sexual issue they want the freedom to engage in without a seared conscience or knowledge that people look on their behavior with disgust.
Well, one should be obedient to one's spouse, I'd think, or at least be honest, respectful and faithful.
Why? Because YOU say so? On what Authority do you assert one has to be faithful? You have wholesale invalidated scripture altogether - so I want to know by what Authority do you make that claim? Why does anyone have to be obedient to anyone or anything? Why can't we just do as we damn well please? Have sex with whomever we want, whenever we want? Kill whomever we want whenever we want? Take whatever we want, from whomever we want? Biblical morality is a prison by your own words - so since that morality is out the window in your world and the God of scripture cruel, we should be able to do whatever we want without any conflict of conscience or restraint in behavior. We do not recognize this god of your fantasy - so you have no authority to expect anyone to be obedient or faithful to anyone but themselves. We should be able to do whatever we please and whatever feels good and whatever satisfies any desire we have if we are simply clever and strong enough to simply take it. Poop on your fake god.
It's interesting that your twisted and deviant logic on this subject hands those who practice evil and behaviors anathema to God and our foundations the same arguments you make. They can take those same justifications and declare that they have the right to do those things outside of the fears of a God of Judgment and Vengeance that you would rather pretend is not an attribute or characteristic of God.
That's what I'd like to think, which is why I interpret the Bible differently than you do. Under your (presumed) interpretation, God condemns the homosexual without regard to whether he/she is monogamous, faithful and respectful to his/her partner. His/her sin lies with who he/she is. That's arbitrary cruelty - the homosexual, created by God, is, according to your interpretation, condemned to never be able to find true happiness and must instead practice self-denial or face damnation. I don't believe God is arbitrarily cruel.
What you think or believe is irrelevant AFAIC. You believe in a fairy tale god that only exists within the confines of your imagination - and has no more power or reality than a wood stick that a Hindu would claim is their house god.
What you believe is irrelevant.
What is Written is what will be provided in testimony in that Day of Judgment, and no one is going to have any excuse to plead ignorance.
