thankyou for reply michael

"We don't tolerate, condone or celebrate one thing God calls an abomination in order to focus our efforts on attacking other evils."

"Christians are to be kind to homosexuals, not violent or anything like that. We should treat people with kindness and respect regardless of their sexual orientation"

these two statements of yours are ever so slightly contradictory.
How can we not tolerate and be kind?

Regarding Aquinas, i have read that later, others reported that Aquinas heard a voice from a cross that told him he had written well. He did not say that all his theology was as straw - it was all going to be burned up he said,

"I cannot go on . . . All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me."

It is the lesson he learned from the transforming vision he experienced at a Mass late in life, after which he said that all that he had written seemed as so much straw. The lesson is not that all analytical theology is worthless. In fact, after his vision, Aquinas wrote a rather analytical letter to the abbott of a monastery where a dispute had arisen over the reconciliation of human freedom with God's knowledge of the future. Even straw has its worth. The lesson, instead, is that theology is only a tool in the service of an infinitely greater spiritual truth that beggars our rational intellect.

"The New Testament does not teach that we are all God's children."

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. Beloved, now are we the sons of God.
--1 John 3:1, 2

Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
--Galatians 3:26

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. Beloved, now are we the sons of God.
--1 John 3:1, 2

So a homosexual with faith should be a child of God shouldn't he?

I have to say, that i don't believe in Satan at all. I just believe in people that have a choice, to do good or evil. People that use "demons" as an excuse and scapegoat for their actions are weak. I am of course referring to perfectly sane people.

well, the debate has been fun michael but i can see that it will never get any where
you clearly believe with all your heart and appear to think that it is a fair enough substitute for reason and rational thought

but i don't blame you

If i could believe in God as much as you do, i would, i wouldn't hesitate for a second, just to feel the security. whether i was right or wrong in believing would be irrelevant to me. Seems quite selfish, yes? Its no different to how many others beleive.

i find your belief unsettling,
no terrifying
as it is people with such belief as yours that would kill because they thought it was what God wished

one last question michael before i love you and leave you,

could you kill a man if you were visited by an angel that told you to on the behalf of God?