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Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

… a multi-voiced, in-depth conversation about what the Bible ACTUALLY says regarding homosexuality and gay marriage

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Dialogue #58 … not Paul’s God<br />

Simon: I'm really happy that this thread is still going, if not only because it means that I get to<br />

keep seeing Oliver‘s and Rashad‘s great smiles reappear on my newsfeed. Look at them – being<br />

all gay and happy and shit …<br />

Scaughdt: Right on, Simon! This is by far the most entertaining (and possibly the most important)<br />

thread with which I have ever been involved, and I still have great faith (double entendre intended)<br />

that Great Good will come out of it … As such, I shout out Great Gratitude as well to Bart for<br />

getting it started, and to Lucy & to Dan for keeping it going!!!<br />

Daniel: Scaughdt, are you now saying that apostle Paul proves your point?!?!? You concede<br />

nothing and you argue everything … I am not squirming and you have not triumphantly backed<br />

me into a corner … I live a life through the Spirit of God … Jesus wants all of us to have a more<br />

intimate relationship with His Father … Read Romans 8 with an emphases on verse 27 … There<br />

is no deceiving of the Holy Spirit by any of us.<br />

Scaughdt: My dear Dan – as far as I am concerned there is only one ―point‖ to prove, and that<br />

is the unconditionally Loving & humbly selfless Way of Jesus Christ. I have no problem with<br />

Paul‘s letters when they harmonize with that Way (which, as I have already noted, they inadvertently<br />

do from time to time) … I only take issue with Paul (unlike in the following image) in the vast<br />

majority of times when they do not.<br />

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