Things Learned from LGBTQ+ Discussions

[SerenityLives]

Originally Posted by Trapped

SL: pleeeeease stop plagiarizing and putting it in the middle of things as if it's your own. It's disingenuous. If you use what other's have written CITE IT. You are right that this is a discussion forum. Why are you mostly copy/pasting rather than discussing?

I'm leaning heavily towards not continuing participating on this thread otherwise, or simply writing what I want to add without engaging in a back-and-forth. When I post I do so only partially for the ones I am corresponding with. The other part is for anonymous lurkers and readers following the discussion but not participating.....and I'm more than happy that what I've written is clear and reasonable to everyone reading. I'm saying this because I'm interested in discussing with YOU....not with a bunch of other people from around the internet.

I understand time is short. If you have to continue lifting what others write rather than seriously engaging with the Biblical texts at hand yourself, just cite the source.

Regarding dabaq again, in Ruth 2:8 Boaz uses the same word when he tells Naomi to stay close to the women who already work for him. Again....it's simply not reasonable to think that Boaz is telling her to go have a romantic relationship with all the women who work for him. As usual, context is king and there is simply no context in any portion of Ruth for there to be homoromantic relationships. Ruth stayed with Naomi because Naomi was her mother in law who had just lost her husband AND her two sons. Hopefully most of us wouldn't say "smell ya later" to a family member in a state of bereavement while we go care only for ourselves. You are reading this book of the Bible WITH homosexual glasses on trying to overlay something on it that just isn't there. This is no better than what Witness Lee did.

You said God gave you a wife and you've "never been at peace ever since." I'm sure that's an unfortunate freudian slip.......given your position I have to assume you meant you've "BEEN at peace ever since"......

God is not unrighteous if He doesn't provide a mate for me. The entirety of humankind suffers for things not of their own fault and it doesn't make God a less benevolent God. All of this ties heavily into the gospel question I asked earlier so I won't belabor the point right now.

There ya go, all fixed- with citation and freudian slip. It can be said you are reading it with heterosexual lenses because how can you not see it?! Any woman trying to survive at the time would have done it the “selfish” way; not stick to a woman, unless she loves her and cares for her and says those words, that she wants to stay with her to the end. Family loyalty itself doesnt cut it, there HAS to be more. Any gay woman would see it but you’re not a gay woman. Boaz of course would not want her to have sex with other women- he said that only to ensure she was safe, safety in numbers am i right? But Ruth clung to Naomi for other reasons. I am seriously engaging on this thread, or I can quickly just drop everything and go because there’s no point in me trying. Do you see any other gay sister spending time on here? No, because it takes a lot out of them to do so, and to be vulnerable when this issue is so deeply personal to them.
And I am not sorry for having to copy and paste articles, since you guys clearly dont read the links I send you unless it’s in the body of the text. I’ve spent so much time trying to compose my thoughts in my other responses, maybe only for three posts did I have to copy and paste so you guys can see other views, not just mine. Plus Ohio is always like “you’re making it up” so to defend myself, I have to show you guys I’m not making it up by showing you outside sources. In short I dont know what you guys want from me or for this thread. So yeah come to a consensus, or else I dont know how else to post. Or it seems like no matter what I do, I’m wrong.
You guys put links too from time to time from other perspectives, but I read them.
Comparing me to Witness Lee? Thats just a new low. We all survived from witness lee’s church of abuse and so lets be mindful of our commonality instead of comparing each other to the brother who abused us all.