Originally posted by kirksey957
OK, I'll give this a try and maybe bbarr will give me some critique. I arrive at my position from a number of angles. I can take in my own personal experience knowing many gays who have befriended me and seem to be honest and decent people. That has influenced me. I can take in the biblical perspective which is very much misunderstood and misinterpre ...[text shortened]... perceptions tend to change when reality bumps up against your ideals, whatever they may be.
"Your perceptions tend to change when reality bumps up against your ideals, whatever they may be."
This is true, but when your perceptions are founded on truth no matter what happens you won't be shaken off your foundation.
"However, I am fully aware that for some people the matter of their biblical understanding,.. may alter their perception of the issue."
The Bible is the bedrock for understanding life and living. I find it disheartening that you should rely on your own perceptions for defining reality. It is a contradiction to Biblical instruction.
Ps 119:105 NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
2Tim. 3:16,17-4:1-4
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.