Which one is truly more life giving though? One is offering temporary life here on earth, the other is offering eternal life to sinner. Secondly, Folau doesn’t suggest that homosexuals can’t escape hell. The picture says ‘repent! Only Jesus saves.’ You’re purposefully misinterpreting his post because you can’t handle the fact that he’s correct in what he’s saying. Thirdly, you can’t call yourself a Christian if you don’t think that what the Bible calls sin is sin and if you don’t think we need to repent or be saved. Folau is doing the Lords work.

Sorry I meant the reference to the first use of the word homosexuality.

This link was illuminating.

Some real good points there Frank. Thanks

In this article like many other it is stated that homosexuality is not a choice. How can this be? Every human act is a choice. This is evident by the fact that a person can choose to starve to death. Eating is more fundamental than sexuality. Just as humans can choose to eat or not to eat or what they will eat or not eat, the same applied to sexuality.
Consider the following
1. Animal behavior is result of the activity by Nervous system which includes the brain.
2. The Nervous system activity can arise from it having been pre-programmed by genetics or as a result of learning.
3. The more advance the animal is in the evolutionary hierarchy the greater the reliance on learning as opposed to genetics.
4. This is as learning gives the greater flexibility to meet challenges of changing environments.
5. If a sheep is brought up as a part of a pack of dogs, it will behave like a dog in those aspects that depend on learning.
6. However, it would still eat grass as in that, it is genetic.
7. When it comes to humans their reliance on genetic pre-programming is a minimum.
8. This is why we have actors and drama. Such is possible because one person can choose to act as another.
9. For centuries men have acted as women and vice versa. Just as the sheep that thinks itself to be a dog a man can if they wish think themselves to be of a sex different to their biological sex.
10. However, from having the ability to do so it does not necessarily follow it is also prudent to do so and more importantly we must recognize it is a choice to make and not a destiny to discover.

Why, P Chatty, do you feel the need to be so antagonistic?? It’s personal for you, isn’t it? I can’t reply to every comment and when I don’t it’s not because I’ve been rendered speechless. Lewis’ comment is not a ‘clarification’. I’ve seen Folau’s social media feeds. I still think sharing those kinds of memes is tantamount to blurting out verses, which is opposite of what I consider evangelism to be about.

Spot on Lewis with your clarifying comment. Thank you for your correction & context. It does appear to have left Mike speechless by his lack of reply.

Unfair to compare?? Two Christian men have spoken out and both are paying the price. What’s unfair about that comparison? The other things you say are a bit difficult for me to follow. The Age of Enlightenment was in the 1700s. And how reality TV shows bears on our desire to speak truth with clarity and care was kinda lost on me.

The fact that Israel was not merely “blurting out verses” but using scripture as part of an ongoing discussion with other social media individuals as part of his interaction with those who follow his site. The fact that protagonists have cherry-picked out specific portions that have chosen, with which to be offended, is bad enough, but that news-media, ARU and Alan Joyce have chosen to build their case of objection solely on two words i.e. ‘homosexual’ and ‘hell’ is a travesty.
The man , Israel, has expressed no direct target of other sports colleagues, competitors nor any other group of persons with whom he rubs shoulders or comes in contact (and the history of professional football sports codes in Australia has reported on numberless episodes of offences by players that are drunks, fornicators,adulterers and carousers indicates that they would be many), causing neither offence nor confrontation, bespeaks a man greatly respected in all aspects of his life in sport and in general.
Israel is being targeted by a certain sector in society as a means to protect their platform by attempting to shut down alternate points of view.