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Exactly, the laws ARE biblical, and I'm thankful for that. Look at the perversions of men like the wacko in N. Korea and Hitler. Do you not know what they do/did?
Laws came about long before the bible. So really, laws are about productivity....
The Bible that was abridged by King James is relatively new in the scheme of human time, yes, but the commandments that were given to Moses was the first law (and is in the Bible), and is influential to mostly all human laws.
We are over populated, partly due to the preachings of the bible. Our species is fine.
Goodness, this is such an ignorant statement. Most of our Earth is uninhabited. There is plenty of room for even more people. Just because we crowd cities so bad and end up in high rises, doesn't mean we are overpopulated.
There are currently about 6 Billion people on this planet. Lets put them, four to house on a quarter acre of land. This is the typical size of a traditional suburban lot. Now, physically how big is the suburb of houses we’ve built?
So, 6,000,000,000 people; four to a house is 1.5 Billion houses.
1.5 Billion Houses on a quarter acre each is 375 Million Acres.
How big is 375 Million Acres? The state of Texas is 171904640 acres.
375 Million Acres is just over twice the size of the State of Texas
It also equates to 3.6 Californias. Alaska at 420 Million Acres could hold them all and still have 45 million acres left over.
The laws ARE NOT biblical, but are typically based on teachings of the bible. Keep in mind that laws are not the same everywhere. Not sure what Hitler and N Korea have to do with this...
You're right, not ALL laws are biblical, but most are in nature, especially when comparing them to the commandments. Society has developed a lot of those laws for our mutual protection in the same way the God gave us the law to protect us from...us. I threw Hitler and Kim Jong-il in there because they force(d) their law on people and look at the results. God doesn't force law upon people as we are free to chose, but will eventually reap consequences for our choices.
This is where you are wrong. I didn't state that homosexuals needed to get married in a Church or in the eyes of God. Getting married in the eyes of the government and getting married in the eyes of God are two different things. I also didn't state that marriage is simply biblical. I stated that it has origins in the bible. Things morph over time.
Marriage isn't always Biblical, I know this as there are other cultures in the world that practice marriage and haven't even heard of the Bible. But if you look up the origins of marriage, even marriage not consented by a Church or God, they all have something in common; that it is between a man and a woman. the only recorded instance where it was practiced and accepted for 2 men to do so was in second and third century Roman empire and Greece orthodox churches. So, I ask you; Why is kechua marriage not only not accepted by certain Churches, but also not accepted by other people that don't even believe in te Bible's teachings?
And the hypocrites are the ones that take pieces of the bible to follow and not all of it in my opinion. A person can't state that the bible is the word that should be followed and then not follow all of it. That is the definition of hypocritical.
I agree 100%. There is not point in reading and saying you believe the Bible and yet leave certain things out of it or ignore certain parts of it. I read/interpret and (try to) follow the Bible line upon line, precept upon precept.
I'll state it again, reproduction and homosexual marriages are two different things. We could have homosexual marriages all over the place and still reproduce. Men and women could simply get together for the sake of reproduction. That's entirely possible and not unfathomable at all. So, I don't believe our survival is at risk at all. We are only at risk if we are too stupid to realize we need the opposite sex for reproduction. Is anyone here that stupid?
We aren't machines though, Term. I personally couldn't imagine a world with many same sex marriages and ubers of reproduction clinics on every corner like retail shops where you stop in and hump someone who's sole purpose is to get impregnated. Besides, using your scenario, why would a homosexual (someone who has no desire to have sexual relations with the opposite sex and is often times simply grossed out by the opposite sex) want to get together just for the sake of reproduction?