When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians.
Contents:
- WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- WHERE SHOULD WE, AS CHRISTIANS, STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE?
- SHOULD CHRISTIANS SUPPORT “GAYS” AND “GAY MARRIAGE”?
- DO GOD SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE? EVEN LGBT CHRISTIANS, GATHERG PORTLAND SOON, DISAGREE
- THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
What do the Bible say about gay marriage / same sex marriage? Why are Christians so opposed to the ia of gay marriage? * does god support gay marriage *
While the Bible do addrs homosexualy, do not explicly mentn gay marriage/same-sex marriage. It is clear, however, that the Bible nmns homosexualy as an immoral and unnatural s. ” First Corthians 6:9 stat that homosexuals are “wrongdoers” who will not her the kgdom of God.
Sce homosexualy is nmned the Bible, follows that homosexuals marryg is not God’s will and would be, fact, sful.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
The gay agenda is steadily gag ground Wtern natns, wh same-sex marriage fdg acceptance. But what do the Bible say—and why? And what's at the root of same-sex attractn? * does god support gay marriage *
Why are those who are opposed to gay marriage/same-sex marriage labeled as hateful people or tolerant bigots, no matter how rpectfully the opposn is prented?
Why is the gay rights movement so aggrsively phg for gay marriage/same-sex marriage when most people, relig and non-relig, are supportive of gay upl havg the same legal rights as married upl through some form of civil unn? The answer, acrdg to the Bible, is that everyone herently knows that homosexualy is immoral and unnatural. One way to supprs the tth is to normalize homosexualy and margalize those who oppose .
And a good way to normalize homosexualy is to place gay marriage/same-sex marriage on an equal plane wh tradnal, oppose-genr marriage. To sanctn gay marriage/same-sex marriage is to approve of the homosexual liftyle, which the Bible clearly and nsistently labels as sful.
WHERE SHOULD WE, AS CHRISTIANS, STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE?
* does god support gay marriage *
Further, there are strong, logil arguments agast gay marriage/same-sex marriage om ntexts apart om the Bible.
Gay marriage/same-sex marriage is a perversn of the stutn of marriage and an offense to the God who created marriage. We pot to the fivens of ss that is available to all, cludg homosexuals, through J Christ.
There are few biblil vers that addrs homosexualy at all, and most of those are not directed at homosexualy per se. Opponents of same-sex marriage routely ce seven vers the Christian Bible as nmng homosexualy and llg a s.
SHOULD CHRISTIANS SUPPORT “GAYS” AND “GAY MARRIAGE”?
But when taken ntext, the lsons speak not agast homosexualy self, but rather agast rape, child moltatn, btialy, and other practic that hurt others and promise a person’s relatnship wh God. Although opponents of same-sex marriage claim that lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr unns vlate biblil prcipl, no vers the Bible explicly addrs gay marriage or mted same-sex relatnships. At the heart of the claim that the Bible is clear "that homosexualy is forbidn by God" is poor biblil scholarship and a cultural bias read to the Bible.
Although s unlikely that the biblil thors had any notn of sexual orientatn (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even ed until the late 19th century) for many people of fah, the Bible is looked to for timels guidance on what means to honor God wh our liv; and this most certaly clus our sexualy. ” In askg, “What do the Bible say about homosexualy” (or more appropriately stated, “what do the Bible say about attractn to someone of the same sex, ”) our task is to explore what the relevant biblil passag on the topic meant their origal ntext and what they mean for today. God and The Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships (Convergent Books, 2014)Jam V.
DO GOD SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE? EVEN LGBT CHRISTIANS, GATHERG PORTLAND SOON, DISAGREE
A mon argument for the acceptance of homosexualy and same-sex marriage is that, if God is love, He would not nmn the love of others.
The world and maybe even our own sensivi might say that allowg others to live a homosexual relatnship is to see to their well-beg. First Corthians 6:18 says that sexual immoraly, cludg homosexualy, is a s agast one’s own body.
THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
If homosexualy rults a dishonorg, harmful separatn om God’s blsg, then the lovg thg to do is to stay away om . Even if they agree wh the Bible that homosexualy is a s and rolve not to seek fulfillment of their sexual sir, they mt still fd love other relatnships—the self-sacrificg love of agape and the iendly pannship of phileo. The need for love is no different for sgle heterosexuals than is for those wh homosexual attractn.
Supreme Court's June cisn strikg down state laws banng homosexual acts between nsentg adults was the latt victory the cultural war between those advotg full acceptance of homosexualy public life and those opposed on var grounds.