Wednesday, October 18, 2006
sermonette 1
Please forgive me, I promised myself that I wouldn't do this. There nothing I hate more then people who use thier blogs write sermons, they should be shot! But tonight my church had evening groups, and my groups topic was 'Towards a world without Aids'. So of course part of the conversation was about homosexuality (although i must point out that AIDS is not a 'gay disease'). Of course this lead to the topic of is it a sin, and so on... anyways this post isn't about homosexuality, well not totally. I've written about scripture that talks about homosexuality before,and my personal view, but one thing people often refer to is the creation story where God creates man and then woman. Well I was thinking about that story alot so here is my mini sermonette/musings:
Most Christians today (but certainly not all), no longer feel the need to see the creation story as literal. The earth is older then 45,000 years (or whatever the number is). They are secure in thier faith to view it has a beautiful symbolic, and traditional story. I thought of that and then thought of God creating man and then woman, essientially husband and wife. But theres more to this then marriage (for which there is no record). When God created His first society, the first human social group, it wasn't based on class, caste, wealth, or anything else. The first society was a family. Not to say that we should all form famlies, but rather to say that we all started off as one family, and one family we should remain.
It is often said that you can pick your friends but you can't pick your family. Well how often do we has a family of humans, or as a family of christians, pick who is in and who is out? who has affluence and who has poverty. Who is dirty and who is clean. We started off as one family, and one family we should remain. A family where all are welcome and we help one another out, even if we don't share the same views, etc.
Anyways, maybe i'm way off, or you think i'm socialist scum. Thats ok, I have booze to take care of my problems. Love you guys.
Most Christians today (but certainly not all), no longer feel the need to see the creation story as literal. The earth is older then 45,000 years (or whatever the number is). They are secure in thier faith to view it has a beautiful symbolic, and traditional story. I thought of that and then thought of God creating man and then woman, essientially husband and wife. But theres more to this then marriage (for which there is no record). When God created His first society, the first human social group, it wasn't based on class, caste, wealth, or anything else. The first society was a family. Not to say that we should all form famlies, but rather to say that we all started off as one family, and one family we should remain.
It is often said that you can pick your friends but you can't pick your family. Well how often do we has a family of humans, or as a family of christians, pick who is in and who is out? who has affluence and who has poverty. Who is dirty and who is clean. We started off as one family, and one family we should remain. A family where all are welcome and we help one another out, even if we don't share the same views, etc.
Anyways, maybe i'm way off, or you think i'm socialist scum. Thats ok, I have booze to take care of my problems. Love you guys.
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