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  1. I'm sorry it took me such a long time to reply, I wasn't able to come online for a while. I briefly looked it up for you now, but surprisingly, I see there is not much about it in the English-speaking part of the Internet. More can be found in some other languages, so if you speak any other language, you can try to look it up in those and see. Where I come from it was a loud enough case (already very long ago) to become common knowledge by now, so I was convinced until now that everyone heard of it everywhere. Now it seems to be a buried case, unfortunately, but that's what often happens with uncomfortable information... This seems to be the only well-written English article I came across, although only about a tiny part of this quite a huge subject: https://newafricanmagazine.com/18285/ They mention a documentary there, "Cold Case Hammarskjöld". Honestly, I don't recall ever seeing it, so I can't say much about it, but if you're interested then maybe you can find it somewhere and see what it's about - at least quotes from it look interesting. Anyways, I think discussing this any further would require a seperate topic on the forum, so we don't go any more offtopic in this one. Hence why I'd like to not continue this subject here. You may start a new topic for this subject if it grabs enough of your interest. For now that's it from my side. God bless you.
  2. @Takoda From what I've researched, statistically over 60% of AIDS cases is homosexual and bisexual people, mostly men, many also being drug addicts, getting it by sharing needles. Among the rest are heterosexual people after contact with bisexual ones, and heterosexual drug addicts. Then at the end some cases of hospital patients and children through various reasons. Here I don't count all those people from Africa who are injected with it on purpose by evil men with their evil reasons, maybe just to affect statistics. Not taking this problem seriously does not help homosexual people, it's putting their lives at risk. And for what? "Tolerance"? "Political correctness"? Some statistics may have been compromised, but many was not. AIDS is not something to be taken lightly. It surely does not treat its victims lightly.
  3. "If you love me, keep my commands." "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word." So I deduce: if I don't stay in His word (by either falling for homosexual temptations or not repenting from any other sin), I don't love Him, no matter if I claim otherwise. Then if I don't love Him, by this I rejected Him, and I am not welcome in His kingdom. "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." I replied to your post because I felt like my response was there to add to yours, since they seemed to fit. I should have, perhaps, answered directly to the person you directed your words towards. I'm sorry if I caused you any confusion.
  4. If it takes people to hell, that's quite hurtful... But isn't premarital sex basically the only type that causes STD's? You don't hear about it happening to faithful married couples... Homosexual people statistically are less eager to stick to one partner... And homosexuality seems to be at the top of it, since AIDS is mostly a disease of homosexual people... Isn't it over 60% of all AIDS cases? One might think it is God's punishment. (It probably is... "Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.") And how well-known it is that homosexuality does hurt people physically, since they make "love" in unnatural ways... Hemorrhoids and such... And it does hurt them mentally, like you mentioned already, but there is also more to that... Especially if they adopt children... Those children don't have it easy in life, no matter how much people try to deny it... Not forgetting that most pedophiles are homosexual as well... Then when this type adopts, the children fall victim... "Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them." Here it is, God's recipe to a happy marriage. With no way of being applied to homosexual relations... How much suffering must these people bring on themselves and each other... Living outside of God-made natural order... So based on all this... One could easily say that homosexuality does hurt people... It's just that they give their consent...
  5. @Takoda... So I see John S.S and scientists of his preference are making all the rules and deciding where God is right and where He should step away, how Christian of them. Brain this, brain that, what a mighty brain... Did anyone figure out how brain was made yet? No one? "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless." Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them." In the meantime, "discrimination" is a very tricky political term that anyone can use to their advantage since it was designed to fire up arguments, so it's satanic in origin. The Creator set standards of how His creation functions, and whatever methods creation comes up with to rationalize their dissatisfaction with it is irrelevant. By not functioning His way it pays the price whether it chooses to acknowledge it or not. Because, as always, new levels of wickedness are seen as progress in the wicked world. And I suppose it is progress in a way, since it is progressing us to the end times. "The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever", whether people stay in His word or not. They are free to progress away to their death if they choose so. Indeed.
  6. I'm sorry if it's gonna be repetitive what I'm about to say, I just strongly felt like saying it before I even read all the other replies... Homosexuality is a TEMPTATION that some face more, some less, some not at all. But like any other temptation, you CAN RESIST it. "Resist the devil and it shall flee". Many people don't believe it, but it is true that some people with God's help did resist this temptation and are not homosexual anymore. We are basically programmed to laugh when we hear about it before we even give it a thought and look it up, but it is true nontheless, and you can go talk to those people, as they openly give their testimonies and can be found, if you just look. They also offer support to those who are still struggling. Nothing is impossible to God. I have to mention also, one of the fruits of the Spirit is self-control. So with this, no temptation is tempting enough. And about love. Today's view on what it is has little to do with the truth. Or the Truth. Love is NOT a feeling. It is a choice. As God is choosing to love us, the unworthy, we choose to love our neighbors, parents, husbands or wives, children and our enemies, even if they do nothing to deserve it. While feelings, so unstable and untrustworthy, well, "it deceived you before and it will deceive you again". I was thinking sometimes, and fearing, what if God followed His feelings like people do? He would just wipe us all off the face of the Earth, since our sin abhors Him beyond our imagination... "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do." Many just love the sin too much to even try and resist it, hence why they choose to believe the lies like "I was born this way" and all the rest of that. This, I believe, is due to lack of fear of God, which is "the beginning of wisdom". And they give in to the lust, the pleasure of the body, the sin, the worldly understanding of "love", the wrong terminology of it all. Even worse if at the same time they claim to love God, maybe even believe it, but "due to lack of knowledge" are trying to "serve two masters". The world makes people believe all kinds of lies, this is why it is so important to know the Bible. If I started putting every Bible quote here that can explain this issue that we're on right now, I'd end up quoting the whole Bible, because one part explains/confirms the other and it goes on and on until all of them together give you the ultimate answer... How many times are we reminded to not be of the world while being in it? "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." And why is it all so much about following His will? Is He a dictator that wants us to do whatever He says no matter if it hurts us? Of course not. It is so, because, since He is the one who made us and knows us best, He also knows what is best for us, while we usually have no clue. So if it ever seems to "hurt" to follow His will, it is so because it hurts our pride ("source of all sin") or we're just too small to understand it, or both... And that's how you find that you don't trust God over your own little mind that He created, which is equivalent to putting yourself above Him... Which is the strongly promoted by the world "self-love", self-worship, being "your own god"... "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God — having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth." If you struggle with homosexual temptations and believe to truly love God, you have to study the Bible like your life depends on it - because it does. If you find any excuses to not take the Bible seriously, you do not love God. Simple as that. "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’" Now when it's off my chest, I'm gonna go on and read other replies... Edit: I see there's many wise replies already, thank God.
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