lets try this again...

Okay... so I know, it's been four days, with no real reason for not posting. Just haven't had anything inspiring to write. Besides which, I've barely been around. I've been cleaning a lot- I know, giving up spare time to clean. So lame.
Uh... I don't know. Really, really nothing to write about... OH!
I did make a minor biblical discovery tonight at church. Well, discovery for me.

1st Corinthians 6:7-15

7 Therefore, it is already a total defeat for you that you have lawsuits against one another. Why not rather put up with injustice? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you act unjustly and cheat—and this to brothers! 9 Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be deceived: no sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, 10 thieves, greedy people, drunkards, revilers, or swindlers will inherit God's kingdom. 11 Some of you were like this; but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Easy enough, right? I highlighted that line, because in this verse, Paul acknowledges that maybe, just maybe, these Corinthians don't know that what they're doing is wrong. Right? He's going "Oh man, don't they know what they're doing?"
Okay. Now:
Ephesians 4&5:20-32:1-5

20 But that is not how you learned about the Messiah, 21 assuming you heard Him and were taught by Him, because the truth is in Jesus: 22 you took off your former way of life, the old man that is corrupted by deceitful desires; 23 you are being renewed in the spirit of your minds; 24 you put on the new man, the one created according to God's [likeness] in righteousness and purity of the truth.25 Since you put away lying, Speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, because we are members of one another. 26 Be angry and do not sin. Don't let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and don't give the Devil an opportunity. 28 The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share (AR) with anyone in need. 29 No rotten talk should come from your mouth, but only what is good for the building up of someone in need, in order to give grace to those who hear. 30 And don't grieve God's Holy Spirit, who sealed you for the day of redemption. 31 All bitterness, anger and wrath, insult and slander must be removed from you, along with all wickedness. 32 And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ. (5)Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children. 2 And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. 3 But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints. 4 And coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks. 5 For know and recognize this: no sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

Okay. Ephesians, although written later, is also written by Paul. Now. Go back. Look at the lilac-highlighted parts. How similar are they? Very similar. But look more closely. Greed. Impurity. Sexual immorality. Cursing. Impurity. Anything about homosexuality? Not really. Hmph. I wonder why that is. Here's my little theory on that. During his life, Paul did an awful lot. He used to be a hater himself, back in the day, telling anyone who would listen that Christians sucked and arresting them for not following Jewish law. He was pretty much a small minded asshole. That didn't change a whole lot. He was still an asshole. He was just a Jesus-loving asshole. His first book (Thessalonians) sounds a lot like the pretenders that Jesus was talking about- very self-loving and proud. He actually talks about this whole deal there too: that you abstain from sexual immorality, 4 so that each of you knows how to possess his own vessel(1st Thes. 4:3b-4.)
So as he goes on, he gets frustrated again, pretty much bitching at the new Christians until Ephesians goes down. When wrote this, he was in prison. I'm not positive, but I get the feeling he was feeling a lot kinder to the people who made mistakes while he was living among murderers and whatnot, which is why I see no mention of homosexuality- which, back in the day, was a pretty impure thing to do, even if you're going on medical definition alone. Ick. Can you imagine how much disease there must have been back then, if men were having sex without a good way to clean up? Yeah. Sorry. Bad path to go down, but it is really late. Anyway- from this little epiphany, I'm even more convinced that homosexuality is akin to eating pork- one of God's provisions to prevent people from getting sick back before medicine. I eat pork. And ham. And bacon. Not so much shellfish(because I find them nasty, not because they're immoral). I just don't believe that God can hate someone he made. That'd be pretty hypocritical of him, actually, since he asks us to love everyone, and forgive 77x7 ills done against him. Even if I have lesbian sex 539 times, I honestly don't think God can hate me for it. After all- God made me. God doesn't make mistakes. Otherwise... Oh goodness. I'd hate to be the one to tell people at the gates of Heaven that they were God's mistakes and couldn't come in...
But hey, Peter, you gotta do what you gotta do. Good luck with kicking those really strong biker lesbians out... I wouldn't want to fight them, particularly not in a floaty little robe.
Going to bed now, before I get more sacreligious.
~disasters.bitch~