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It's not that hard to understand liberals, to understand why they embrace the things they do. It's faulty logic, predicated on some appalling assumptions about God and ourselves, but it is nonetheless a form of logic. It is …
Because they decide "God is Love" >> "God hates sin"
Because they decide "God is Love" >> "God is concerned with your salvation"
Because they decide "God is Love" >> "God left you some pretty firm moral guidelines to obey"
Because they decide "God is Love" >> "God expects you not to sodomise another man"
Because they decide "God is Love" >> "Whatever God has to say on any given matter"
Because they decide "God is Love" >> Bible
Because they decide my and my friends' personalised interpretation of scripture >> "Whatever the Bible has to say on any given matter"
Because they decide God couldn't POSSIBLY be being mean to gays when the Bible is abundantly clear that God loves us enough to die for us
Because they decide revelation comes in stages, so the Bible is a little outdated for these modern times and God just hasn't updated us recently
Because they decide being loving >> "Whatever God has to say on any given matter"
Because they decide salvation is all about loving God and being kind and nice
Because they decide "God is Love" and all you need for salvation is to reciprocate
Because they decide "my definition of what love is" >> anything God says through the Bible on the matter
Because they decide "my definition of what mercy is" >> anything God says through the Bible on the matter
Because they decide "my definition of what righteousness is" >> anything God says through the Bible on the matter
Because they decide "my definitions of what is moral" >> anything God says through the Bible on the matter
Because they decide the Bible is a good reference, but not all of it is relevant to the 21st century.
Because they decide the Bible is a good book of some moral parables, but we "know better" with our more advanced science or philosophy on some of the tougher issues
Because they decide the Bible is a good book of some moral parables, but God was talking to people two or four thousand years ago, not to people of the 21st century
Because they decide the Bible is a good book of moral guidance, but God was really just teaching us HOW to be moral people, not laying down a specific law – that's why Jesus abolished the moral law, see. Remember the whole temple curtain thing?
Because they decide they know better.
Because they decide.
We might tower over liberals with our refusal to endorse teh gay but for some people it is only because they are naturally or culturally repulsed by the very idea, so gays being rejected by God seems normal to them. However, these same folk are in danger of the very same sorts of faulty-founded logic that says things about God that are not true. God does not "hate" fags, for example, though, the unrepentant He will cast into the fires. And nor is rejecting gays the foundation or even much of a moral foundation of our religion. It IS a pretty good shibboleth these days, but it's one moral issue of thousands, and we tend to forget or just neglect the rest of those. God will not thank us for this.
The only defence either group has against meme theology is the Bible, and, if they're firmly Biblical, the teachings of various teachers throughout the ages. Liberals look on the Bible as being "that nice book" but they've cut from it its less "palatable" portions that do not align with these liberals' preconceived notions about what, say, love or mercy mean. They use their own moral compass to judge God's. It's not going to go well for them, I am afraid to say.