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MOVIES . . . TOUCH: Writer-director Paul Schrader's sly and nicely understated adaptation of novelist Elmore Leonard's 'Touch' is the story of Juvenal, a Christ figure who has adapted to the modern era. Played by Skeet Ulrich, he has done time in the wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure the incurable by the laying on of hands. Otherwise, though, he's a cool dude. He likes girls, shows no particular interest in spreading any sort of gospel and turns a politely bemused face toward the hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts...
...Indeed, the Old Testament penalty for homosexual sex is very harsh. Leviticus 20:13 declares, "If a man lies with a male as with a woman both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them." However, the teachings of Christ in the New Testament tell Christians to deal with the sins of others with forgiveness. Therefore someone who claims that Christians should execute homosexuals--as the Book of Leviticus recommends--would be wrong. That homosexuals are to be treated with kindness, however, does not mean that homosexual acts...
...next passage refers to the Gospel. "The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I [Paul] am the foremost of sinners; but I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life." Though one's sins can be washed away with belief in Christ, we are not given license to sin by this fact...
...truth, of course, is that all of us are born sinners, all of us are morally deprived when we stand next to the perfection of Christ. And yet all of us are called to His perfection. We all have obstacles in our lives to overcome, obstacles that cause us to sin. Those with homosexual desires face a very powerful obstacle indeed, but no less than any other sinners, they are called to overcome it. This camp of thought says that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by the Lord in Genesis 19 is caused by the towns' inhabitants being inhospitable...
This camp also says that the ancient Israelites' codes for sexual conduct should not govern our conduct in modern America; many throw out the Old Testament entirely and claim that only the New Testament is relevant to the Christian, ignoring the teaching of Christ that His Father is indeed the God referred to in the Old Testament. Infrequently are the teachings of the New Testament on homosexual acts even mentioned on either side of the issue. Hopefully, those reading this will realize that such teaching exists. Other than the passages from I Timothy above, the New Testament also calls homosexual...