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...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 are in any way condoned by the New Testament. The apostle Paul testifies...
...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...
When Gomes moves on to such universal issues as suffering, joy and science, some topics are slighted: the section on evil seems loath to admit the traditional concept of Satan, even in order to challenge it. More typical, however, is a cheerily trenchant meditation on wealth ("not a sin, but it is a problem.") Fundamentalists will have little use for this book, but its target audience just may be charmed back into the pews...
...easy being Easy. The tale concerns a pivotal episode that Mosley has alluded to in the previously published novels: the murder by Easy's homicidal sidekick, Mouse, of his stepfather. Witnessing the killing--and accepting a payoff to keep quiet about it--is the original sin that dogs the rest of Easy's life as he joins the great black migration to Los Angeles, fights in World War II and struggles to find a place of dignity for himself in a society that maintains, at best, only grudging respect for African Americans...
...easy being hero Easy Rawlins. The tale concerns a pivotal episode that Mosley has alluded to in the previously published novels: the murder by Easy's homicidal sidekick, Mouse, of his stepfather. Witnessing the killing -- and accepting a payoff to keep quiet about it -- is the original sin that dogs the rest of Easy?s life as he joins the great black migration to Los Angeles, fights in World War II and struggles to find a place of dignity for himself in a society that maintains, at best, only grudging respect for African Americans." As in Mosley's other novels...