OK..... let's get to it...
You quoted Dodge:-
Mar 10:6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
10:7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,[fn]
Mar 10:8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
'Shall'..... not 'Will'..... That's a much more definite action, right there. In the second Person Singular it is clearly a command, but even so, in the third person it is a fairly strong instruction.
But Jesus and Paul did not...... and so quoting this passage to prove that SSM is a hellfire and damnation perversion, a satanic abomination.... and all the rest of such drivvle, is just that..... drivvle.
Dodge clearly wants to quote the OT Laws, and Mark 6 was a way of sneaking that in, really, don't you think? There are 24 laws about sexual relations and 22 laws about marriage in the 613. One of them actually forbids our marriage on the grounds of infertility, but NOBODY on this thread has called our union perverted and abominable...... either because they're ignorant of the old laws, or scared of moderation, or because THEY ARE CHRISTIANS AND HAVE A NEW COVENANT!
Tell me, if a single-man's uncle died, would it be acceptable for him to marry his father's brother's widow? Well, would it? Certainly any Western Country would allow that marriage, and I suspect that mostly any Christian Church would allow it, because the single man is simply marrying a widow with a totally different bloodline. But the OT forbade it. I wonder if you know why......
Only 3 of the 24 laws about sexual relations mention homosexuality, and extreme Christians who have been subjected to whole-life prejudiced indoctrination will ignore scores of the old laws whilst railing and screaming about others. It is hypocrisy but easy to defend because most of the bigots are ignorant about the OT laws, and why they were written.
They weren't written to save the people from Hell.... That word was only written about twice in Moses' books. They were written to make the Israelites the strongest and most successful tribe in all the lands. Physical strength and success. Not for Christians to rant on about Hellfire and damnation for Gays!
Those thre laws about homosexuality...... Why would Leviticus 18:14 outlaw homosexuality with a man and his uncle? Why would Leviticus 18:7 forbid homosexuality with a man and his Dad? Specifically...... why? What was the need for those laws if Leviticus 18:22 forbade homosexuality? Well, I'll try to explain, and if dodge and dosey are reading this maybe they'll learn something from it...... just maybe.....
Every man was expected to marry, and his wife bear many children; it was the only way for the Israelites to grow fast and strong. And so there was absolutely no place for homosexuality, because to protect from illness and weakness Israelites must only have one sexual partner, to produce lots of kids. Most of those old laws were done away with, or I would never have been allowed to marry my wife!
Today we don't need couples to have lots of kids, so the more responsible folks support contraception (!) and support those who don't want kids...... and Gay SSM couples don't make kids. Some Christians are stuck in a Time warp of ignorance, and some are just plain hypocritical, but we in the Western World are not going back into the darkness, and even the Pope, no doubt sitting on the seat of Saint Peter, is speaking up for Gays.... and his words are the words of God, I have been told by another member.
