Monday, May 12, 2014

What is Fairness?

1 corinthians 6:5-10

so i saw this video pop up in my facebook news feed and since it was a ted talk i wanted to know what it was about. besides that, the headline i saw on it was like "woman convinced everyone she was a man for 8 years."  plus ted talks are usually worth the time! (like this other one on beatboxing brilliance: http://youtu.be/GNZBSZD16cY)




anyways, so i watched it and it seriously got me thinking about how i ought to react to homosexuality in society.  i dont actually have any close friends that are gay so the whole showing love to them and being honest about what the bible says about it isnt really something i find myself able to directly apply to daily living at the moment.  besides that, the video got me sort of confused about how people often feel the "need" to be ... experimental with their sexuality by sleeping with those of both genders...sometimes at the same time...flip flopping..etc. it just makes absolutely no sense to me from the perspective of someone who honors absolute morality: 1. homosexuality is wrong 2. indulging sex before marriage is wrong 3. bisexuality AND sex before marriage?-- *bang*mind blown*IDK WHAT TO SAY ABOUT IT IN SOCRATIC DISCUSSIONS AT SCHOOL--let alone how to lovingly "debate about it" with people at school.  one of the biggest things ive heard, that i have zero clue on how to address, is why should homosexuals be condemned to a life "forever alone" and without a partner if heterosexuals can marry and have sexual relations?

but back to corinthians--i googled passages relating to homosexuality in the bible as a reference and saw verses 9-10.  specifically, i noticed it addresses more than just sexual immorality, thieves, the greedy, drunk, swindlers, and slanderers are all thrown in the same lot.  the sin of the others is equal to the of sexually immoral people in its severity and god would condemn it just the same.  i guess as i think about that and how people claim its "unfair" to homosexuals--"condemnation to being forever alone, that is"--its not.  BECAUSE HETEROSEXUALS ARE EQUALLY SINFUL AND NEED TO GIVE UP TENDENCIES THAT ARE JUST AS BAD, TOO.  "we" swindle and slander one another through gossiping (note: mean girls) and literal cheating (often observed in academic settings on tests/quizzes/even homework), get wasted and ****faced, covet the possessions of others, etc.  "we're" just as bad.  thats what i got out of 1 corinthians 6:9-10, anyhow.  in light of that, it doesnt seem like homosexuals/LGBTQ are the only ones that christianity somehow "antagonizes" as society might put it.  they're not the only one "unfairly" compelled by absolute morality to cease in their sin.  basically everyone's struggles are on the same level.  (besides that, i would say being without a "partner" isnt the worst thing.  its certainly possible to enjoy being single and thrive... though most people wouldnt want to.  i mean, the apostle paul  did it, didn't he?  who are some other famous, celebrated, happy, and single people?)

specifically, i gossiped about someone i used to be close friends with today XP  i even thought about what i was going to say before saying it, and its not like i said anything untrue, but those were things in the past it would have been wiser to say nothing at all rather than to say something that could influence someone elses opinion of that formerly close friend.  besides...the person i was talking to already had a certain opinion of the formerly close friend and i didnt really need to say anything that reinforced that already-existing opinion.  i wont see the person i was tlking to again today, but tomorrow i can try to "fix" it :3 by telling that person about the good things that person has done before too?  obviously its better if i didnt say anything in the first place, but now that the mistake is made....
in the future though, i will remember this verse! i dont want to be in the same groups as those who commit sexual immoralities and i definitely dont wanna be like regina george!

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