Girl on Girl? Hot, and Hot is Where You're Going

So over at the SNU MySpace Forum they have a topic going on do homosexuals belong in the Kingdom of God.

This was my reply. (To let you know Gin and I both think loving people is all we are called to do. Unless they are oppressing people by law, religious or other wise, and then I am flippin' tables and twisten' caps fool.)

I see a few problems with this post.

First, people seem to be using Kingdom and Heaven interchangeably. Kingdom is present. Whether people choose to believe and participate or not. That is what the gospel is. The proclamation of the Kingdom of God. The word gospel is a direct stab at Rome. When Rome had a military conquest they sent out the Gospel of Ceaser, or announcment of victory. Thus the Gospel(s) of Christ, or announcment of the establishment of his Kingdom. Heaven is future. A place Christ said, "I go to prepare." So There for, all humans exist in the Kingdom, but do they choose to participate? By that I mean follow The Way. (Freshmen read a book if you are lost.)

Second, although we might be called to judge each others fruit we are not call to judge eternal destination. Bewarned that is the type that comes back to haunt you.

Last, Christ seem to dish out plenty of love and compassion, except on those that bound people by religious law.

I hesitate to point out, because of the sheer ludicriousness of those holding nails still, that you can put gay guy into the samaritian story, lesbian chick into the women at the well, and the homo on the cross that Christ said, "See ya in a few." Can you put you? (Admendment to original. I am not judging the right or wrongness of homosexuality here. I am stating that we view them in the same hands off, overt your eyes and cross the street way that they people were viewed in the original stories. We are call to not have that response. Period.)