Re: Critique
Submitted by Splash! on January 12 2001 23:23:43
In reply to Critique submitted by David on January 12 2001 17:15:37
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I enjoy reading your posts. You have some interesting views and bring up some points that require a lot of thinking on my part. In some areas, I believe you are right, but in other areas, I'm not quite sure, and in yet other areas, I disagree -- the biggest difference being our definition of lust and what it means to the Christian boylover. To me, lust is something that came out of my entertaining sexual thoughts about a boy. The fact that I may have initially been attracted and made contact with a boy because of lust, and then was able to influence this boy's life for the better shows me that God has made good what was originally meant for evil. I still see lust as bad even though the eventual outcome of it was good. In my view, it was God's intervention that turned the "bad" into "good". Your view seems to say that the lust part of boylove is not such a bad thing since it leads us into relationships with boys where we love them, nurture them, mentor them, be a friend to them, and help them. I've seen this view mentioned on this board before and will be interested in seeing various responses to it. This was mine. ~Splash* Oh, by the way, to answer your first question, I am not Roman Catholic. And even though I dislike definitions since they confine us, I wouldn't mind it if someone referred to me as a Spirit-filled-pentecostal-pseudo-fundamentalist; in other words, I'm a born again Christian who has received the baptism of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2), operates in some of the gifts of the Spirit (1 Cor 12), and believes that the Bible is the foundation of Truth (John 17:17, 2 Tim 2:15) while also believing that not every verse is to be taken literally (since there is also a lot of poetry and symbolism in the Bible). To answer your second question, when I used the phrase "a Christian brother" I was referring to another Christian who I believe is my "brother in the Lord" since those of us who are saved can say that we have all been "born" into God's family, making us brothers and sisters with each other. |
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