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[Hkizzle]

Mm, I think my original post was not accurate enough, sorry.

Sebatianos, you bring up good points and I get what you mean. Of course it is okay to look at many parts of the bible from a metaphorical stance. But for many areas of the bible you simply have to take it literally.

For you not to take it literally, but how you like it, or how society likes it, is changing the context of the bible itself. The bible is not meant to be fashion, it is meant to be the same for all eternity.

This includes miracles performed by Christ. I have never read anywhere that Christ feeding 5,000 people is meant to be a metaphor. Ask any theologian and they will tell you the miracles of Christ are meant to be taken literally.

Remember, this is God we are talking about, he is meant to have powers we do not understand! To explain what God can do scientifically, is to explain an infinite being with our finite minds. If miracles were logical, they would not require faith.

Certainly I think God is more powerful than David Hasselhoff

Flood covered the entire earth. World is 6,000 years old (add up the characters), etc.

Anyway, here's the bit about homosexuality:

Leviticus, Chapter 20, Verse 13 reads:

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus is a book with many laws God laid down for man. This is meant to be a rule. Non-negotiatable and not a metaphor.

According to the bible as well, the World will become more "corrupt" before the end of days. For some believers, a church allowing a gay priest is a sign evil is being accepted in this World as the norm.

Again, I have nothing against gay people, I am just refering to theological argument, that as society has become more liberal for some reason we start bending the rules and read things differently.