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I am wanting to become a Christian, but I was wondering if God ever said it was sinful to have a same-sex relationship. There are several passages in the Old and New Testaments that forbid same-sex sexual activities: Leviticus 18:22, Romans 1:26-27, and 1 Corinthians 6:9, among other texts. The concept stressed is that, by…

[Jesus said to the scribes of the Pharisees], “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners” (Mark 2:17). Jesus doesn’t really think the scribes are righteous; he thinks they’re sinners, like everyone else. The context of this quote…

John 4:27-42 27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29 “Come and…

[27] And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? [28] The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, [29] Come, see a man, which told me…
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