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I can certainly imagine people who'd perceive a faith based on causing human misery by opposing homosexuality, as being "less solid" than one based on disregarding as flawed the Biblical passages
I understand the desire to ignore passages in the bible, but for me that just causes the whole thing to lose its ability to teach us anything. Once I start deciding what I want to keep and what I want to put aside, then I'm just defining faith acording to what I think is right. I realize with the current trend to "believe in yourself" this seems pretty reasonable, but I know myself well enought to know that I do some pretty crummy things and am probably not the best person to know what is and is not true in the world. Rather I look to the bible which appears to me (despite assertions to the opposite) to be the best external source of truth about faith there is. There are lots of reasons I believe the bible is true, but the most compelling for me is that it is so consistent with what I've experienced as a Christian and the numerous prophetic predictions that it asserts and have verifiably happened (see Daniel).
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-Jeff
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.