Because you can't learn with a closed mind. Being closed-minded causes you to have difficulty with logic and reasoning. It inevetably causes you to be arrogant and makes you seem as though you believe you're always correct. It causes you to ignore the ideas of others, even when they're correct. It causes you to blindly follow whatever you believe in without questioning it, which inhibits being able to learn.
None of this is good.
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What's your point? Singling out a certain sin... why? Something as simple as lying can cause far more trouble and damage than homosexuality. Why not talk about that? Sin is sin. It's forgiveable (except for blasphemies of the Holy Spirit. Other blasphemies are forgiven. (Matthew 12:31))
Who here has never sinned?
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Case closed.
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You were not created with a mind so that you may blindly follow God. Learning comes from questioning. If you don't question, you don't learn.
Maybe you're not aware, but everyone doesn't accept God by listening to the same recycled stuff. You have to learn about your fellow man (which doesn't hurt anything) and adapt your teaching methods. I'd rather not try to tell someone about God by talking
at them.
The 'job' of a Christian is to tell others about who God is, NOT to force Christian morals down their throats. A sin is something that displeases
God, so it only makes sense to let
God deal with a person's shortcomings when/if they decide to follow Him.
It's a simple thing that most Christians just don't seem to realize.
First, it's impossible for a human to be 100% certain of
anything. Faith is all we have. Read Hebrews 11. (Also, Romans 14:23 gives a good definition of sin.)
Second, I'm sorry that learning about the beliefs of your fellow man is a waste of time to you. Tell me: How can you minister to someone you don't understand? I've seen a woman just start telling some guy she didn't even know about God, and just kept on like a freakin' telemarketer. It was unpleasant to watch. Christians that do this need to stop acting like a programmed machine when they tell someone about God. It just never works.
Just because you learn about someone elses beliefs doesn't mean you have to accept them as your own.
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