The Bible makes no false claims about homosexuality.
Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth.
There is no valid evidence that being the target of hate and discrimination directly causes mental health problems. Otherwise, all of the apostles would have been fruitcakes.
There is no such thing as "cognitive behaviorism."
Although I can hardly blame you for trying to make a legitimate mode of psychotherapy sound like a philosophy or a religion when it so effectively disputes your claims.
If you'd like to have a discussion about the scientific aspects of Ellis's (the second most influential psychotherapist in history) and Beck's REBT and CBT, I'd really like that.
Perhaps, but only until their frontal lobe develops enough for them to correctly self-reflect. Then they can correct their thoughts and feelings and become mentally healthy. It's no picnic, but the alternative is a life of despair.
Besides, wouldn't it be better to just tell a child that the things that are being urged upon them as indicators that they are exempt from natural sexual functionality are not necessarily conclusive and to encourage them to embrace the preponderance of material, biological evidence?
Should we encourage them to deny their divinely assigned purpose to avoid hurting their feelings?
Excess in shielding children from hardships has been shown to weaken their sense of resiliency and ability to navigate life's challenges.
And reducing hypothetical situations to the lowest and most grotesque denominators as you've done here and constantly insist upon doing doesn't help to solve problems, but only exacerbates them.
The presence of evil doesn't justify compounding it by reactionary ideology.
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The glorious truth of the LORD will always be found within the pages of scripture .
example . You were right when you said otherwise the apostels would have been fruit cakes .
This world comes against me every day barney . Sadly most in churches do as well .
YET THIS LAMB IS ONE HAPPY LAMB. Like i said in another post
this is twenty twenty three . Even a lot of churches have abandoned the whole truth of scripture .
The churches and world align as one against folks like me . Now its just word only for now . Its very mild persecution
for now . But its more persecution than even what a lot of gays and others faced even thirty years ago .
IN part . for example in schools or etc . As far as what some groups did to gays , WELL that was dead wrong
nor i have experienced that deeper persecution as of yet . I mean a few took to far to the extreme
and actually beat down gays or even killed some . That i have not yet experienced .
BUT i have experienced the social outcast that they try so hard and claim . OH YES . This gringo is ex communicated
from some places . BUT YOU DONT SEE ME ALL DEPRESSED about it and hollering for society
to ACCEPT ME for what i am . I know society wont accept me for what i am . AND i wear it as a badge of upmost honor too .
SOCIETY didnt accept JESUS now DID IT . and it wont accept his lambs either .
I GOT MY JOY and need naught but the LORD . As far as children , again you were right on that .
WE SHOULD RAISE THEM UP . RAISE THEM UP in THE WAY they should go . Chitlins or children ,
Can be decieved as much as any adult can . Children NEED TRUTH . not acceptance to their own paths .
WHAT CHILD do you KNOW that knows what is best for them . HECK what adult knows that .
GOD KNOWS . HE KNOWS . HE KNOWS BARNEY and lambs KNOW what is given us to know .
And that is this . TIME TO TRUST IN GOD , which does mean we actually trust in HIS WORDS TOO .
TIME we trust in HIM . TIME we open them bibles like lil babes and learn it well .
In case you have not noticed i dont bother one bit to reason out things to others by mans means .
JUST speak truth , whoever recieves it AMEN and be advised MANY WILL REJECT IT AS WELL .
This gringo is going out as i came in , came in , or i should say was LED IN ,
POINTING TO THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS , WHO KNOWS all things and thus HIS WORDS
i shall cling too . THERE is a way which will always seem right unto men , but the end will be death .
THEN THERE IS GODS WAY . THE ONLY WAY . THERE IS GODS WORDS , HIS WORDS are TRUTH .
JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY and if we are OF HIM we point to WHAT GOD INSPIRED . Now go ahead barney
Leap up out of that chair and praise the KING . Worry not who is around , JUST leap up and holler with all your heart
GOD is my GOD , JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY , THE SPIRIT is my guide and the bible is my book .
PS , dont worry what folks might think about ya . I Once told a friend of mine
years ago , while dancing in my front yard and praising the LORD , OH dont worry what the neighbors might think
THEY already think i am nuts , HECK I MAY as well have the JOY of the LORD . bask in the beauty of that for a while .