Belief in god and the right to homosexuality?

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well, i would say that you have defined your path here, and it is slightly different from your pastor's, or anyone else's, based upon your understanding of Scripture. While it seems to have led you to "All Catholics are lost," we have seen that even a poll of OPs does not suggest that this view is universal, and i will supply here that your take on the Golden Rule is equally reflective of your perspective, which you are certainly entitled to, but i think a more holistic view of Scripture supports "DO" as spoken by Christ in that passage.

i will say that i hardly expected "be excellent to each other" to hold up as well as it has, but i note how hard agape love is to practice in myself, and also how poorly the challenge to "Be nice" fared, so i will just restate the obvious here, that the Cross has Spiritual as well as legal implications, the chief one perhaps being "Greater LOVE has no man."

It could be stated that Paul was compelled to prove the legality of the Cross to a new dispensation, even one of Grace, but it must be admitted that this would necessarily create a new crop of lawyers, whether you are actually one or not. My personal perspective is that, like agape love, Grace is something that we do not immediately assimilate, and even believers still seek the 'rule of law,' "churches" have "bylaws" actually written down--in good conscience, of course--and other, unwritten "laws" that one is expected to adhere to, which do not apply to the Church imo.

Finally, although it has already been stated ad nauseum here, and is plainly outlined in Scripture in many, many places, like 100 places, Good fruit comes from good trees, which might be interpreted "Good works come from righteousness; righteousness does not come from good works," although pt 2 there is better understood with other supporting Scripture, but the point is that Faith without works is dead, and i might add that this deadness will be reflected in other ways among those faithful who do not have works, in the various ways that have been revealed in our discussions.