Comments on: Why Vermont's Marriage Equality Matters

The Nation: Vermont Isn't The First State To Legalize Gay Marriage, But It's The First To Do It Through Its Legislature

[honestabe8]

"aakalan---Thanks for your opinion, but what makes your opinion any more true than my knowledge of the true and living GOD?"

I think it is that you refer to other's views as opinions, but yours is "knowledge". Would you have the humility to admit that you could be as wrong as anyone else?

[honestabe8]

Wow, 1000% confident. That is way better than 100%

[tturner55]

aakalan---Thanks for your opinion, but what makes your opinion any more true than my knowledge of the true and living GOD? If you to will only walk out of the darkness you can see the light of truth. As you say I am confident of this very thing that he who begins a good work in me will continue it until the day of Christ the LORD. Call it what you will but no one gets to change the truth of salvation through the LORD JESUS CHRIST. I am 1000% confident that what I believe it true. Peace be to you and have a good life.

[aakalan]

tturner55:

The arrogance of your faith is apalling. I'm sure there's a special circle in hell for pompous jerks who claim to have a special communication link to God - an even lower circle for those whose certainty in the unknowable is used to hurt other people.

Shame on you. There is nothing Christian in your rants. Just hate and judgment.

[honestabe8]

tturner: the being that you refer as GOD appears to be a petty, vindictive tyrant. why anyone would choose worship what could be described as a bully is beyond me. but, enjoy the holiday anyway

[tturner55]

mensarino, I understand what you are thinking, but GOD says that all have sinned and fall short of HIS Glory and that includes you and me and all the others you are referring to. That is why HE had to send HIS son to die for those sins since there are none of us who are righteous and deserve to be in heaven with him when we die. HE gave us all a free will to choose and even though we choose to believe in HIM does not mean that we are no longer sinners and say things that we shouldn't, it just means that we know where we are going when we die. It is certainly your choice if you choose to reject HIS free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. It is between you and GOD and not you and me or the others you are referring to. I am glad that you are expressing your feelings and enjoy conversing with you. If you ever run into hard times, just call out to HIM and he will be there to help and show you the way through it, as HE has done for me many many times.

[platteman]

As long as they have to get divorced like hetersexual people do, fine. I want them to have to fight like H*** over furnature, dishes, pets, house, cars, and when there is someone making more than the other, alimoney. What is good for regular married folks, it good for gay folks.

[mensarino]

tturner----I'm sure that your god wouldn't fall for me believing in him just as an insurance policy against eternal damnation.After all, isn't he supposed to be omniscient?
Seeing the comments here of some of the "believers",I think I'd rather not be with them in eternity.......now THAT would be hell!!!

[tturner55]

If the religion of the socialist secular humanism is the answer to the turmoil around the world then why are there so many problems. Secular humanism is a choice, just like believing in GOD is a choice. We are all spiritual with the need to believe in something. GOD says the wages of sin is death, so we are all inherent sinners who deserve nothing but death. If GOD's word is right and you are wrong, then I get to enjoy the fruits of heaven for eternity and your eternity would be agonizing. Much better to be safe now than sorry later and to have a faith that will sustain you through troubled times. Lord knows I have had my share through the years, but my faith has sustained me and delivered me from them. To know GOD is to have purpose for life and to understand it. It is not for me to condemn anyone only to pass on GOD's word to a wicked and dying nation and world. GOD loves everyone of his creation, HE hates the sin but loves the sinner. Have a happy and blessed Easter as we thank GOD for our very existence.

[honestabe8]

it seems the idea that man is inherently sinful and in need of redemption is among the biggest hoaxes ever pulled on mankind