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(peacher mode)
The Gospel is not a ‘buffet’ that you can compile your plate from. There is no salvation in customizing Christ to suit your needs and wants. The trend is to determine how you’d like to live your life and then to conform Christ to that lifestyle. It is done by appealing to Christ’s infinite love and mercy. But you can’t just go around rehearsing that “God is Love” and then be done with it.
At the base of this movement is the feeling that Christ was so loving and accepting of everyone, that He would never stand for any kind of exclusion or discrimination. This could not be farther from the truth. Yes… it is true that Christ loves everyone and yes it is true that we should practice the doctrine of inclusion, but Christ was far from accepting behaviors that were not in accordance with the commandments. Everyone and everything is not “ok” or “accepted” by Christ.
(end preacher mode)
Dude's comment concerning Christ pre-dating everything was too stupid to address and would have led to a rabbit hole concerning the Trinity as well as free-will. While it would have been fun, I didn't have the motivation to go there. As I have said on numerous occasions, apologetics has no new arguments and re-hashing the same shit over and over again can get monotonous.