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Originally posted by preciousjeni
I am compelled to say where is God in this?
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See preciousjeni,
You have hit another crux of the problem... You know more than I do, who these "scribes" were when they "translated" the Bible from one language to another... And you know how "leaders" took that information out of context and used it to their advangtage...
And everyone knows that folks can use the Bible to justify about anything... As well as many other religious and spiritual texts.
So from my viewpoint, God is not in this at all. We humans want to put Him there. If anything, if God was at the driver's seat in our lives--if we call ourselves Christians--then God makes it work... Who cares what others say?
But once we say, "okay, let's step out of our 'cultural identity' and see beyond", we are in someways, going beyond that which God or our Creator has made us to be... And if we actively pursue and choose that life, God actually is no longer involved... And that is where it makes it tough...
We can get into marriages and it's meanings from this point. Because like I said to Phasad1913, it is history that we are fighting... Including Biblical texts written... Dare I say Qu'ranic influences, too...
Why is it like this? Historical...
But you know I have come to the conclusion, folks are gonna do what they ultimately want to do anyway, and if God want to stop it, He will, but why?