God loves homosexual
Learning to Say ‘God is Love’ When You’re Gay
“God is love.”
This is one of those things everybody’s heard. Sometimes you sense like it’s the most profound thing in the world; sometimes you touch like it’s a stale marshmallow, sweet at first but then dissolving on your tongue into bland nothingness. But as I’ve gotten to know LGBT people who were raised in Christian families, I’ve started to see how this incredibly common sentiment can damage people’s hearts and lives — because they were taught that the God of passion couldn’t acknowledge them.
If you’re an LGBT person who was raised Christian, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve never heard a leader in your church welcome LGBT people, trusting that people favor you were in the pews and encouraging their faith. You’ve had to try to understand both your sexuality and your faith in the midst of misinformation and deadly silence.
I’m coming to all this as a lesbian convert to Catholicism. I didn’t grow up in the Church; I was introduced to God and to faith by people who genuinely did not act as though my sexual orientation separ
ALEXANDRIA, Tenn. (BP) &#; &#;Why doesn&#;t God love gays?&#; a teenager asked during our youth ministry day the other night.
It was sort of out of the blue since the discussion was on the return of Jesus, but clearly it was on the heart of at least one, if not many, of the teens there that night. I appreciate this teen&#;s boldness to ask!
It&#;s a ask this generation has had to wrestle with that previous generations did not. In fact, the speed with which the topic of homosexuality has verb to dominate the social and political conversation is staggering, aided by what pastor Voddie Baucham described as &#;a coordinated, well-funded, well-connected propaganda strategy&#; in a article at The Gospel Coalition.
The movement has become like a snowflake that turns into an avalanche, demolishing any opposition in the public arena, and it&#;s still growing.
Without a doubt, many immature people are confused. They&#;re hearing in pop culture and maybe even in their schools that homosexuality is a perfectly legitimate lifestyle that not only should be tolerated but celebrated and
If God is love, why does He condemn homosexuality?
Answer
A common argument for the acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex marriage is that, if God is cherish, He would not condemn the love of others. The main problem with this is the nice of “love” we’re talking about.
First John says, “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” The “love” referenced here is the Greek agape. This type of love is the conscious act of sacrificing one’s own desires, comfort, and even well-being for the sake of another. It is treasure that sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins (John ; Romans ). The greatest fulfillment of this love is to sacrifice one’s life for another (John ).
The question, then, becomes what constitutes the well-being of another? The world and maybe even our own sensitivities might say that allowing others to live in a homosexual relationship is to see to their well-being. The Bible says otherwise. Romans says homosexuality is disgraceful and dishonoring. First Corinthians says it will keep a person from the kingdom of God. First Corinthians says that
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24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged organic relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.29They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are complete of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, dis