the whole book

at life group the other week they were talking about how, as a christian, you must respect everything in the bible. it's not a buffet, you know, so you can't pick and choose. since the bible is the word of god, and since you believe in god and trust him to be all-knowing, you must also believe in every part of the bible. (we're not talking about literal interpretations of the bible, mind you, just the tenets and such).

someone vaguely alluded to gay marriage, though no one expanded on it. but it was the first thing i thought of too when they were talking about accepting the bible as a whole. then a couple days later i ran into the following clip from the west wing.

amazing! i wish i knew about it earlier and had memorized it so i could've asked life group about it!

but seriously. the bible stuff just so confuses me. the koran is believed to the actual word of god (well, pretty much anyway, muhammad transcribed what god said, so for all intents and purposes, god wrote it). so it makes sense that you should believe every word but even christians will tell you that the bible was not written by god, it was written by man, and lots of them, spanning many years. who's to say that some of these writers didn't insert their own agenda into the bible? or, for those unwilling to believe in such outright deceit, possibly parts of the bible were incorrectly translated or transcribed over those hundreds of years before people invented copiers, but before anyone invented photoshop.

a long time ago (i think this was before high school) i asked my friend's mom, who is very religious, if god made gays. i mean, god makes everyone, right? but he hates gays. so why would he make them? i don't remember what she said, but i do remember her response having nothing to do with "people aren't born gay. they decide to be gay." which brings me to this video...