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Matthew: Westboro Baptist has an interesting way of spreading the Gospel. They choose to do it through hate and not through love. The Westboro church website is godhatesfags.com which they think is completely okay, but it's not in my opinion. That is showing hate from God but God doesn't really hate them. God doesn't hate anyone, he hates the sin controlling a person's life. To me the reason this is so bad is that it will stir people away from Christianity because we are against people or we are against LGBT. We don't support it and we might not like it but we're not going to hate them or call them out or be mean because it's not our place to. I think Westboro needs help on how to share their message. Instead of saying, "God hates your prayers" you could say, "God doesn't like it when you pray but don't mean it." When you say things nicely people want to know more about who God is and what God wants from them... and all of us. Jonathan: It shouldn't matter about a person's sexuality. They are human beings and we shouldn't act differently toward them because of who they are.
A lot of people now in the church and in the media think that we should treat them differently because of how they act. That isn't how we are supposed to treat them. Mark 12:31 says, "Love they neighbor as thy self" so we should treat them as we want them to treat us. Matthew 7:5 says we shouldn't worry about the speck in our brother's eye before you deal with the log in your own eye. That means we need to treat them with respect and not judge them about their sins when we need to deal with our own first. Yes, it is true homosexuality is a sin, but God loves everyone the way they are so we should be like God and love them for who they are not how they act. God hates the sin but loves the sinner. It's not about people's sin that we should be focusing on. It should be the love that God shows them.
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