I think your main issue here is that you think God should be this all loving, all forgiving, pushover who lets anything slide and will let the most perverted immoral souls into heaven. God forgives, but you must have genuine remorse, and a firm absolution to improve. If a child has neither of these, it's time a strict form of capital punishment.
This is more of the same. You act like God should've just forgiven the people who disrespected him by deceiving other believers to make themselves look righteous. Their deaths were not administered by Paul, but by God, and justly so. Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. God's no pushover.
Misinterpretation at it's finest. NO WHERE in this passage does it advocate the killing of homosexuals. It speaks of people who were given over to sexual depravity of all kinds, including fornication. It's not just because it was man on man, that they were "punished" (no where does it say killed), rather it is because they were sexually impure with multiple partners and had no regard for God's plan for 1 man to be with 1 woman. (You gotta admit, the spread of STD's would be virtually halted if everyone followed this plan). But, since they had no regard for God's plan, they were punished
BibleGateway.com - Passage*Lookup: Romans 1:18-22;
I'm not trying to be high and mighty, I sin like everyone else, but I know when I do wrong, so God is able to forgive me. Everyone knows deep down what they should and shouldn't do. It's when people are so perverted and self righteously hypocritical that they take things that are obviously against God's will, and they try to justify it and say that it's ok. This blatant disrespect is what angers God to destroy lives and administer eternal damnation.
Sorry for all the religious BS, maybe we should take this discussion elsewhere Silver.