Love
Still haven't gotten the works together to fill in the gap of time between posts, I'm still trying though. I just wanted to get this story out there while it was sifting through my mind.
The supposedly common rational for most Christians is that God looks down on bi-sexual, lesbian, what-ever-term-you-wanna-use-for-it relationships. And my answer is "Why do you think that?" I can think of no place in the Bible where it is actually said that that is looked down on, though I can't claim to even know all that much about the Bible as a written down document.
The reason I think this way, my own experience and story.
I visited CO once a year or so using the 'cover story' of attending the con (NDK), though it was mostly for a chance to gather with friends which were normally scattered around the US. At home I attended the local church and the youth group for my age catagory. There were several couples within the group either planning marriage, or somewhere near that stage, I can't really remember exactly where they were along that line, but the impression was that there is and was plenty of love within the group, and I couldn't see it.
Then I took my trip down to CO and met Jeri and Deb in person, and, after an unusually long time in my view, ended up seeing both of them as friends, and after that, the love that was between them. That was when I saw what romantic love was for the first time.
After I returned home, I could see the couples in a different light almost. I could see the affection between them, and could celebrate with them about the impending marriages.
If God truely disliked the 'female-female' aspect of the relationship, why would He keep me from seeing the love between others until after seeing such? It just doesn't make sense to me in the 'propoganda-like' vision the world has of Christianity. And so I have taken it upon myself to search through the bible and find more difinative 'proof' against (or for, if it truely exists) this view.
The one place I can think of off-hand for such an interpretation is God's command to Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, which they can't technically do, but considering the world's need for secondary home environments for orphans, even that falls apart. Female-female relationships can certainly provide a home for an orphan, and so spreading the Word still falls well within their reach if we only let it.
Anywhere you readers think I should start my looking?
The supposedly common rational for most Christians is that God looks down on bi-sexual, lesbian, what-ever-term-you-wanna-use-for-it relationships. And my answer is "Why do you think that?" I can think of no place in the Bible where it is actually said that that is looked down on, though I can't claim to even know all that much about the Bible as a written down document.
The reason I think this way, my own experience and story.
I visited CO once a year or so using the 'cover story' of attending the con (NDK), though it was mostly for a chance to gather with friends which were normally scattered around the US. At home I attended the local church and the youth group for my age catagory. There were several couples within the group either planning marriage, or somewhere near that stage, I can't really remember exactly where they were along that line, but the impression was that there is and was plenty of love within the group, and I couldn't see it.
Then I took my trip down to CO and met Jeri and Deb in person, and, after an unusually long time in my view, ended up seeing both of them as friends, and after that, the love that was between them. That was when I saw what romantic love was for the first time.
After I returned home, I could see the couples in a different light almost. I could see the affection between them, and could celebrate with them about the impending marriages.
If God truely disliked the 'female-female' aspect of the relationship, why would He keep me from seeing the love between others until after seeing such? It just doesn't make sense to me in the 'propoganda-like' vision the world has of Christianity. And so I have taken it upon myself to search through the bible and find more difinative 'proof' against (or for, if it truely exists) this view.
The one place I can think of off-hand for such an interpretation is God's command to Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, which they can't technically do, but considering the world's need for secondary home environments for orphans, even that falls apart. Female-female relationships can certainly provide a home for an orphan, and so spreading the Word still falls well within their reach if we only let it.
Anywhere you readers think I should start my looking?