Tolerance and intolerance in the christian community

No one is morally perfect and furthermore only God decides what someone does or doesn't deserve in the afterlife therefore therefore this is a moot argument.

Okay. If this is what you believe, we need to go back and revise some of your beliefs. You previously stated "I deserve hell because I'm a sinner". So do you want to take that back? If we cannot know who does or does not deserve Hell, then why did you say you did? To resolve this contradiction you can, by your own rules a) claim to be God, thus giving you the knowledge of who does and does not deserve Hell or b) retract your statement that gay people are, "on their way to eternal destruction" and the follow-up statement of self-deprecation that was given as a justification; "I deserve Hell because I am a sinner".

If it is a moot argument, then so is your point that gays are on the path to eternal destruction. So is your point that you deserve Hell. That or you can claim to be God, which then would salvage your points, but also resurrect mine.

Rest assured that I'm not trying to defend any position.

Well you certainly have positions. And I think they are outlandish enough to warrant a defense. Whether or not you try to give one is another issue.

Sorry but there is no debate because what I'm doing is simply standing on the biblical principles that teach me that same gender lust is a sin and that I'm to love sinners.

I think the principle is not coherent. I've laid out my reasons why the idea that you can both "love the sinner" and believe "they are on their way to eternal destruction" is untenable. I have not doubted your sincerity in this belief; I am sure you think you "love the sin" and "hate the sinner", however, I am trying to show you how this is nothing more than empty rhetoric that results in self-contradictions.

If you're determined to have a debate on these issues then I suggest you discuss your arguments with the only being that is qualified... GOD. After all He created the universe and all the rules that govern it and us.

I am not out to debate. I just want you to show me how the idea that one can "hate the sin, but love the sinner" is at all an intelligible position. I, for one, think it is not. And if the only way this idea is sensible is in reference to God...well..all I can say is I remain quite skeptical.

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