“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. “Soooo….here is my question, Jesus is supposed to be in Heaven. According to this, the second commandment, there should be no likeness of him made. I do know the Bible contradicts itself and gives a pass for the “Likeness of Jesus, Mary, and the Apostles “So how are we supposed to know what is right? If the death of Jesus in the New Testament was to wash away the sins of the past and the Old Testament if you ask for forgiveness, then why are Christians still pointing fingers and calling out sinners? Can you tell just by looking at a Gay person whether or not they have asked for forgiveness, been saved, baptized? According to the Holy Bible that is constantly referenced, we are ALL SINNERS and need to ask forgiveness. There is no scale of one sin being worse than another. Yet, I have been told for more than 20 years that being gay is worse than murder or rape. The Bible also states that “Judge not, lest ye be judged”, that means God is the only judge. Every time I am told I am a sinner and am going to hell, I say right back to that “God said HE is the only judge”. How about “thou shalt not steal”? The 8th Commandment. Do you truly believe that Holy Water sold on TV is real? Do you think the “Mega Churches” are using the money they make for the greater good? Look how fast these churches are growing. Why do they need to be broadcast on television? Why does Mr. Floyd need bodyguards? Does he not believe that,”the lord will walk beside him to protect him and carry him when he is weak?” Shouldn’t he provide bodyguards for all his parishioners? When I was growing up I was told you go to Hell if you do not go into a church every Sunday? When you become unable to get to a church, I am pretty sure God will forgive you, but Christians do not. I have been judged, persecuted, violated, subjected to vandalism, and spat on because I am gay. The only question I have is this, if the world started with Adam and Eve and “God commanded them to populate the earth”, how do you think that happened? Incest, that’s how. How else could it have happened, if they had children, who did their children procreate with? According to Mans Current Laws, incest is illegal. According to the Bible, it is not. Here is my final thought, why are so many Christians persecuting the Gay community over a book written thousands of years ago, and yet these same Christians turned their backs on me when my father forced me to have sex with him. YES, I did tell a few people, and they turned their backs on me. I went to church every Sunday, I prayed over my meals, I went to Wednesday night youth group. Yet, when I went to the Pastor of our Church and told him what my father was doing to me, he said he could not intervene, that God had a plan for me and he could not interfere. HOW SICK IS THAT! AND EVERYONE WONDERS WHY I CANNOT STAND TO SEE A BIBLE, A CHURCH, A PASTOR OR HAVE THESE THINGS SPOKEN TO ME. I PRAYED ON MY KNEES EVERY NIGHT SINCE I WAS 5 YEARS OLD, ASKING GOD TO STOP MY FATHER FROM HURTING ME. THE ABUSE ONLY BECAME WORSE OVER TIME. EVERYDAY I HAD TO ENDURE AGONY, PAIN, CONFUSION, THE UNKNOWN. I WAS A CHILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tHE ABUSE BECAME SO HORRIFYING THAT I WANTED TO KILL MYSELF AND MY FATHER. BUT THAT WAS 26 YEARS AGO. DON’T YOU DARE ASK ME TO FORGIVE MY DEMONIC FATHER!! THIS MAN SHOULD BE IN JAIL. STRUNG UP BY HIS HANDS AND LEFT TO ROT. AS FOR ME, I WILL NEVER EVER LET A MAN TOUCH ME AGAIN. ONE FINAL THOUGHT, DO NOT OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND START SPEAKING VERSES OUT OF THE BIBLE UNLESS YOU KNOW IT TO BE THE ENTIRE PARAGRAPH AND NOT JUST ONE SENTENCE THAT CAN BE CORRUPTED AND CHANGED TO FIT YOUR NEEDS. THAT’S NOT THE WAY IT WORKS BECAUSE “THOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR” Commandment #9. SO MANY FORGET THIS ONE. DO NOT JUDGE ME AND DO NOT SPEAK ABOUT ME WITHOUT KNOWING ME OR WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH.1. You Reap What You Sow ( GALATIANS 6: 7-9 (KJV) 7: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.) & You Cannot Judge A Book By Its Cover. (The English idiom “don’t judge a book by its cover” is a metaphorical phrase which means “you shouldn’t prejudge the worth or value of something, by its outward appearance alone”.2. In George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860), Mr. Tulliver uses the phrase in discussing Daniel Defoe’s The History of the Devil, saying how it was beautifully bound.) These are Encyclopedia Britannica references. THINK ABOUT THESE REFERENCES NEXT TIME YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH. READ AND SHARE THESE WORDS. STOP POINTING FINGERS AT EACH OTHER. LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AND LOVE WHICHEVER GOD YOU WISH. BECAUSE AS THE BIBLE SAYS, “1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.”©2016 Kat J Phillips