ever hear of Sodom, Gomorrah . . . the bible is pretty up front about homosexuality being a sin...that said so is gossip and you don't see many old ladies giving up their "vice", and gluttony is a big one but how many southern preachers do you see with waists the size of whales?
I think God intended for it to be one man and one women. period. Not one man and one beast, not one man and one man, not one man and three women. You'll note that in the bible there ARE men who had more then one wife but when God is talking about marriage He uses the singular for each (honor your wife, not honor your wives, which would translate differently)
Sin is everywhere, rampant. I do it, you do it...it's human nature, and one day we'll all be accountable, and just "being good enough" imo isn't going to cut it. I don't know what every word in the Bible says. I don't know all of the history surrounding the corruption of the church and of man needing to domaneer over the women so they made up new rules. I know what is in my heart.
When I say you will not mock my God to me...by you assuming that I am wrong and you are right, that's not mockery, that is ignorance (not the way it is connoted today, the real meaning of the word) but by outright denying Him, by slandering His name by making it seem as if He is impotent, and cannot be real because of XYZ, and won't listen to the explination of why that is wrong, or just discount the bible and me as old fashioned...I feel mocked.
You'd say I'm narrow minded. Since when does it make you so broad minded to doubt everything anyone might have to say about God and His plan for the world? Not even just Christianity but Islam, Judeaism, (both which would acknowledge the old testament) and other religions that still trust in an absolute moral bound message. What makes you so right and millions of people so wrong? Of course zealots are wrong, and not what God intended. I don't think killing in God"s name is ever right. I don't think hatred is ever right since Jesus came in LOVE saying "let the little children come to me" and went to those most hated in society to help them. It is PEOPLE who ruin other people NOT God.
I WAS NOT going to even come back and bother discussing this stuff, because most of you will ignore me anyway, or think that I am being holier then thou when I am just trying to get my point across and you can't hear my voice so you don't really know how I'm intoning things. . . Hear me, I TRY TO LOVE EVERYONE ...may not like some people as much as others but I am called to love, not hate. I don't hate gay people, so don't go there. My uncle is gay and his partner has been with him for longer then I have been alive. Do I like that, no, but he's my uncle so I love him. He's a child of God so I love him. This craziness about marriage and gays...I think it's stupid for this reason, and you have all mentioned it before: God never defines how to get married. So I'd say if two men want to get married, heck, let them have that piece of paper. God will sort it out if it's wrong in the end. People will do what they want to do. That is human nature in its very rawest form.