Snickers commercial controversy

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Seeing as I am inept and can't multiquote, Ill just put in quotation marks bits of your post Wlfwind

"this will be my last post in this thread since everyone seems to be running in circles"

Amen, except replace last, with almost last

"Each sin is the same in the eyes of God. That does not mean that on earth we should treat them all as the same. A lie to god is the same as murder, but you people are acting like sin is individual. We are sinners. When you pray to God at the end of the night do you go down the list and singularly ask for forgiveness for each time you sinned? If you repent and ask God into your heart, then you are forgiven. Quit acting like he sits there with a calculater and goes "Oh, he did that, that's worse then that, so that comes to equal blah blah." Because if you murder someone and at the end of the day you feel awful about it and in your heart repent, and to the Lord, you repent, then (if truly following the word of God and not being some judgemental loser) you are a better person and should be allowed into Heaven.

None of us can speak for God, the religion itself may be entirely bull. All we can do is interpret the bible to the best of our abilities."

Amen again... completely agree with you

"Everyone needs to keep in mind. The Bible was written by man! It may be the word of God, but it's the hand of man. I can GUARANTEE that it was manipulated by the church many times to fit the ways it wanted its people to live."

Here's where I have to disagree with you, although I can see how from a non-Christian point of view it can appear that way, I believe the bible is the word of God, thus things that weren't exactly as God wanted them, weren't included in the bible, (ie. the Gnostic Gospels etc.)

"If you believe that God created all life, then you agree that he created Gays, in which case, it's not a sin"

This is going to come out wrongly... but it makes sense in my mind. This would imply that all babies are physically and mentally perfect, which we know isn't true as babies are born with all sorts of disease and problems. Now I'm making it sound like being gay is a disease, it's not what I mean, but do you kinda see what I'm getting at?

You know throughout this whole thread I don't think I've ever discussed whether I believe homosexuality is a sin or not. Well I believe it is due to the verse in Leviticus. However I also believe homosexuals can be Christians, in fact, there is a lesbian couple at my church and they are really great people. Maybe them being gay is not right but in the end I know it's not my place to judge and it is certainly not my place to stop them coming to church and worshipping God. At the end of the day all I can is pray for them, let them know my views and still show them all the christian love I have for them. I also know that they will be up in heaven, for even if they are sinning, they are also forgiven, for all their sins, even the things they might not know are sins.

"Quote that I read a while back, not sure who said it, "Why is it that born again Christians often make you wish they were never born at all?""

This is so sad, but so true and it's an image christians desperately need to shed. I hope I never come across that way