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...more inherently sinful than other beings. According to Jesus’ teachings, represented in the Bible and professed by all Christians, all humans are sinful and all have equal access to redemption. The Bible tells us that Jesus sought out and loved the thieves, prostitutes and sinners shunned by the “righteous” of his day. His longest conversation with an individual in the Bible is with a sexual sinner many times over, the Samaritan woman in John 4, and he saves the life of an adulteress by telling an angry crowd, “Let anyone...
...matter the degree of genetic influence, behavior is not determined by genetics, and humans always have a choice. From both the Old and the New Testament, Christians believe that there is a right and a wrong choice when it comes to homosexual behavior. Given this perspective, love the sinner but hate the sin makes perfect sense...
...case of Protestant churches in America, the problem is not that they are unable to articulate where they draw the line of tolerance, it may be that they have yet to draw the line at all. “Love the sinner, hate the sin” simply does not make sense when dealing with inherent traits. Nor can churches expect gay and lesbian congregants to continue to accept the second-class membership of being excluded from leadership positions...
...couldn't address a priest except as Father, leaving all my usual orneriness aside, when I saw the collar. Although the gulf grew between my life and the institutional church I still attended, it never occurred to me that I was no longer a Catholic. I was a sinner--that much I knew. But the church, I was taught, was for sinners, not saints. And for all its many faults, I still trusted the church, revered it. Even when it inflicted real pain, when it callously treated women as second-class Catholics, when it wounded good people in bad marriages...
Person of the Week I'M BACK The Chinese government once said he was a "whore" and a "sinner for a thousand generations." But when former Hong Kong Guv and current E.U. Commissioner of External Affairs Chris Patten visited Beijing last week, both sides forgave, forgot and talked about bridging East and West...