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		<title>By: Jaket Motor</title>
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		<description>I enjoy reading through your article post, I wanted to write a little comment to support you and wish you a good continuationAll the best for all your blogging efforts.</description>
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		<title>By: Kris</title>
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		<description>Good post. I probably won&#039;t win a debate with this point I&#039;m trying to make, but I&#039;ll throw it out there:

I agree with your summation certainly. Jesus, though, was a subversive. He was unlike any other teacher of his time. He did not claim to be a messiah, merely speaking from the Jewish tradition from which he came. He claimed to be God, which he was tried and found guilty for. The Jewish tradition did not expect a messiah figure to be God, so this was against the Jewish religion. What else did Jesus do that was against Jewish religion / tradition? Well, I think you know there are many things, such as healing on the Sabbath and forgiving the sins of men. So your argument that Jesus was all about the fulfillment and continuation of Jewish law/tradition/religion is reasonable, but only to a certain extent. I think in more ways than not, Jesus did not create a new &#039;religion&#039; but a new faith in God. He broadened scope of the people of God to include the gentiles, not just the Jews. Along the same lines of being a subversive, and broadening who is holy and chosen of God, I think you can err on the side of love and inclusion here on the topic of homosexuality in terms of orientation and relationships. I would grant that Paul speaks unkindly of the practice, but research what the practice was back then. Now there are more acceptable paths a homosexual can take to live out their orientation in a more biblical way by being in a committed relationship. This is getting into the nitty-gritty, so I&#039;ll stop here and just leave this as food for thought.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good post. I probably won&#8217;t win a debate with this point I&#8217;m trying to make, but I&#8217;ll throw it out there:</p>
<p>I agree with your summation certainly. Jesus, though, was a subversive. He was unlike any other teacher of his time. He did not claim to be a messiah, merely speaking from the Jewish tradition from which he came. He claimed to be God, which he was tried and found guilty for. The Jewish tradition did not expect a messiah figure to be God, so this was against the Jewish religion. What else did Jesus do that was against Jewish religion / tradition? Well, I think you know there are many things, such as healing on the Sabbath and forgiving the sins of men. So your argument that Jesus was all about the fulfillment and continuation of Jewish law/tradition/religion is reasonable, but only to a certain extent. I think in more ways than not, Jesus did not create a new &#8216;religion&#8217; but a new faith in God. He broadened scope of the people of God to include the gentiles, not just the Jews. Along the same lines of being a subversive, and broadening who is holy and chosen of God, I think you can err on the side of love and inclusion here on the topic of homosexuality in terms of orientation and relationships. I would grant that Paul speaks unkindly of the practice, but research what the practice was back then. Now there are more acceptable paths a homosexual can take to live out their orientation in a more biblical way by being in a committed relationship. This is getting into the nitty-gritty, so I&#8217;ll stop here and just leave this as food for thought.</p>
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