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Karadeniz

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1. Interesting list. About the gay sex comment, it's important that the "Ethiopian eunuch" is so
Wed Jan 26, 2022, 11:11 AM
Jan 2022

specifically cited. Apparently, neither race nor sexual "normality" was important to the disciples who approached him. The word eunuch was also used to describe a gay man.

The comment about heaven is way wrong. The writer's problem is that he doesn't understand the parables, Christianity's greatest failing. Theologians insist that the parables can be understood as playful extensions of Jesus's public statements. Not at all, which is why special eyes and ears are needed to understand them, not the eyes and ears we use to follow the external storyline.





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