Phil was asked what "sin" was, his response:“We’re Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television,” he tells me. “You put in your article that the Robertson family really believes strongly that if the human race loved each other and they loved God, we would just be better off. We ought to just be repentant, turn to God, and let’s get on with it, and everything will turn around.”
So, Phil preached love before he identified what "sin" was -- and Biblical identification, not his own."Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men,” he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: “Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right.”
He also stated, right after the "sin" identification:
This is how the article is written...so, don't know exactly the timetable of statements, exactly. But, if this is actually how it was said, then Phil speaks of love before he speaks of sin. Now, he did make the "vagina...man's anus..." comment before it all -- but there was no identification with it, just a question in how that can be chosen. But, nowhere does Phil claim that homosexuality will lead to bestiality.“We never, ever judge someone on who’s going to heaven, hell. That’s the Almighty’s job. We just love ’em, give ’em the good news about Jesus—whether they’re homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. We let God sort ’em out later, you see what I’m saying?”
Phil's comments were simply Biblically based, that he believes a sin is a sin, no matter the sin. They will all be punished. But above all, we are supposed to love and he's here to preach the love that we are supposed to have for one another. The same love that the Creator had.
