Sorry corrected, Manson. But Bradley, is that any better?! Seriously you’d rather go by the moral teachings of Marilyn Manson than a merciful God? I am certainly not claiming to know better than The Creator. The Bible is VERY clear about homosexuality, it is a sin. I am a horrible sinner, we all are. Despite this, God Loves is so much He have His only a Son to suffer terribly so that we might spend eternity with Him. We are so extremely, inexpressibly fortune to have a Father that is merciful but we cannot expect God to be supportive of our sin.

Once again, I don't look to Marilyn Manson for moral guidance. As you have said, the BIBLE is clear about it, not God. Is God all powerful and all knowing to you?

Yes He is and the Bible is His Word.

Okay. So God is all-powerful and all-knowing. In your mind, he created the universe and has the power to alter it at will. Bear in mind that you also consider God omniscient (all-knowing). That means that God knows the entirety of happenings in the universe, from beginning to end. This means that you believe in a God that knew he created sin and sinners, knew that he has the power to change it and knows that he will not change it. Thus, allowing people to suffer, knowing he can alter reality while choosing not to. Do you think that that is good?

Yes I absolutely believe all of that. God Created everything. God Allowed sin and Gave us free will. God Gave us His Commandments. God Spoke to us through the Prophets. God Gave us Salvation through the Sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ Taught us His Fathers Word. We have the rules (law), the example (teachings) and the exact model of purity (Christ). That we chose to sin and that we suffer is a privilege we don’t even deserve, we deserve NOTHING from God. If He Chose that we had no free will to sin, our very existence would still be a privilege we don’t deserve.

You don't have free will because an omnipotent and omniscient has, in your view, created a deterministic existence that dictates (through Gospel and his unwillingness to alter) every facet of being - even the degeneracy that you decry.

Let me be clear, He Created everything and nothing is beyond His Capability or Control. But He Gave us the moral compass along with the freedom to stray from it. He Sent a Great Flood to wipe the slate clean and we still sin. He Wiped Out Sodom as punishment for sin, yet we sill sin. Wanting your child to be good and them actually being good are, sadly, two separate wills. If He hadn’t Wanted the possibility of sin entering the world, it wouldn’t have,

Yet when the virtuous Lot fled from Sodom with his daughters. His daughters proceeded to get him drunk and then raped him when he passed out. Noah disowned his eldest son because his son spotted him laying naked and unconscious in a vineyard. Abraham dropped his barren first wife and was willing to kill his son. He only stopped because God told him to. Is that a moral compass? Also, how come God was always to people thousands of years ago and not now?

Yes, like I said, we continued to sin. Abraham didn’t ‘drop’ Sarah for Hagar, Sarah told him to have a child with Hagar believing she could never conceive. Abraham was willing to kill Issac because God Instructed him to. God Spared Issac because of Abraham’s willingness to obey His word. That is the perfect example of moral compass. God still Speaks to people, believe me. Perhaps not in the same manner as He Revealed Himself to the Prophets but you have to remember, that was before He Sent His Only Son as a Sacrifice got us. He didn’t need to do that for us, but He Did. So now we have had an actual physical example of Him in human form who taught us His Word and died so that we might be saved from eternal damnation.

Yes, like I said, we continued to sin. Abraham didn’t ‘drop’ Sarah for Hagar, Sarah told him to have a child with Hagar believing she could never conceive. Abraham was willing to kill Issac because God Instructed him to. God Spared Issac because of Abraham’s willingness to obey His word. That is the perfect example of moral compass. God still Speaks to people, believe me. Perhaps not in the same manner as He Revealed Himself to the Prophets but you have to remember, that was before He Sent His Only Son as a Sacrifice got us. He didn’t need to do that for us, but He Did. So now we have had an actual physical example of Him in human form who taught us His Word and died so that we might be saved from eternal damnation.

If Abraham was willing to kill Isaac (he's the founder of Judaism, by the way) and God told him not to, this doesn't indicate free will.

How so? Abraham was willing to do as he was told, he wasn’t forced. A willingness to do as ones told is not the same as not having the will to chose not to.

How so? Abraham was willing to do as he was told, he wasn’t forced. A willingness to do as ones told is not the same as not having the will to chose not to.

You would kill your child if you believe God told you to?

Oh gosh, am I as good as Abraham? I would like to think I would find the strength to do what God told me. In reality, (aside from having no children), I can say with great confidence that I fall very short of Abraham - which is why I am in complete admiration for his strength in this regard. I would struggle to put it in the mildest of contexts. As I’m certain Abraham did too. He did not know God would Spare Issac, he was indeed a very great man, far more worthy than I am, yet I am still saved. Such is God’s Mercy.

Your last response is very frightening.

That is because you don’t recognise the unconditional and undeserved Love of The Almighty and the ultimate sacrifice He paid for lowly sinful me so that I might be saved. I owe Him everything I have and certainly don’t deserve.

A slave, glad of your chains, envious of a man willing to kill his son because a voice told him to.

A loyal servant, grateful for an undeserved existence let alone salvation. Not envious but in admiration of a great Prophet so dedicated to God that he was willing to sacrifice so much. Keep in mind that, the sacrifice God Spared Abraham of, was the same Sacrifice God Made by offering His Only Begotten Son... For me, and you.

You're so willing to lump everyone on Earth's misdeeds on one man's soul. That's not having the strength to deal with your shortcomings.