The bible also says it not your place to call out sinners or judge them.
I am not pro-abortion, I have voted to be pro-life in several hype polls, however I do not like the idea of the government getting involved any more than they are.
Gay marriage? I couldn't care one way or another. Not my place to judge them nor is it the government's place to tell them whether or not they can have a CIVIL marriage. Key word, civil. The government does not endorse any specific religion. To the government, gay marriage should not be looked at as a "sin." Simply the legal joining of two citizens. I would be opposed to homosexuals trying to force a church to marry them.
Pre-Marital Sex? Again, not my business what other people do. Its between them and God. I am against schools teaching abstinence exclusively as it has been proven to be ineffective and if people are going to do it anyway, they may as well be safe as opposed to having tax payers pick up the burden of providing for their child and/or medical care.
Evolution? Believe it or not, the Bible does not have to be taken as a literal thing. For example, God created the concept of Day and Night on the first day, but did not create light, the sun, the moon, or stars until Day 4. Sounds like a pretty big contradiction to me. Afterall, how can one exisit without another. Especially since the concept of day and night are measured by the Earth's rotation around the sun. Again, it doesn't have to be literal...7 days can be metaphorical for 150 billion years, genius.
Lets talk about your beliefs. Jesus was an avid pacifist. He taught against violence. Yet you have condoned your father's child abuse towards yourself and other children. The most defensless of all creatures. How sad.
I won't bother blurbing each one of those. But it further underscores your lack of discipleship (
biblical teaching) that is lacking in Catholicism. You should care about all of those things. Why? Because God cares about them. It is the
duty of government to protect the innocent. It is wrong to have sex out of marriage. It's also strange how you don't take Genesis literally. Did you know that Jesus took Genesis "
literally"???
Jesus was a
pacificist?? What passage do you get that from? He called out the Pharisees and cleared the temple twice!!!
Jesus Clears the Temple
13 It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
14 In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money.
15
Jesus made a whip from some ropes and chased them all out of the Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers coins over the floor, and turned over their tables.
16 Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them, Get these things out of here. Stop turning my Fathers house into a marketplace!
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Read
Mark 11:12-25, the same story is also recorded in Matthew 21:12-22, where Jesus
cleanses the temple a second time after cursing a fig tree. The physical fig tree wasn't prepared to minister to the Lord at His coming, and neither was the spiritual fig tree, Israel. Jesus cursed the unproductive, physical fig tree, the spiritual fig tree called down a curse upon themselves (Mat. 27:25). The physical properties of the earth are ours to command if we have the faith, but relationships need forgiveness.
Jesus Criticizes the Religious Leaders
1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,
2 The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses.
3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but dont follow their example. For they dont practice what they teach.
4 They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.
5 Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels.
6 And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues.
7 They love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called Rabbi.
8 Dont let anyone call you Rabbi, for you have only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters.
9 And dont address anyone here on earth as Father, for only God in heaven is your spiritual Father.
10 And dont let anyone call you Teacher, for you have only one teacher, the Messiah.
11 The greatest among you must be a servant.
12 But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
13 What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees.
14
Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in peoples faces. You wont go in yourselves, and you dont let others enter either.
15 What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees.
Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
16
Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means nothing to swear by Gods Temple, but that it is binding to swear by the gold in the Temple.
17
Blind fools! Which is more importantthe gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred?
18 And you say that to swear by the altar is not binding, but to swear by the gifts on the altar is binding.
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How blind! For which is more importantthe gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
20 When you swear by the altar, you are swearing by it and by everything on it.
21 And when you swear by the Temple, you are swearing by it and by God, who lives in it.
22 And when you swear by heaven, you are swearing by the throne of God and by God, who sits on the throne.
23
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees.
Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the lawjustice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.
24
Blind guides! You strain your water so you wont accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!
25 What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees.
Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthyfull of greed and self-indulgence!
26 You
blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish,
and then the outside will become clean, too.
27 What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees.
Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombsbeautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead peoples bones and all sorts of impurity.
28 Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees.
Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed.
30 Then you say, If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would never have joined them in killing the prophets.
31 But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
32 Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started.
33
Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell? 34 Therefore, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. But you will kill some by crucifixion, and you will flog others with whips in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city.
35 As a result, you will be held responsible for the murder of all godly people of all timefrom the murder of righteous Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed in the Temple between the sanctuary and the altar.
36 I tell you the truth, this judgment will fall on this very generation.
Jesus clearly showed righteous anger when warranted.