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Contents:

• 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
• IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
• CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
• CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
• HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• WHY ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’ IS WRONG ABOUT THE BIBLE AND SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
• BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH
• GAY CHRISTIANS

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

Some morn Bible translatns say that “homosexuals” will not her the kgdom of God, but neher the ncept nor the word for people wh exclive same-sex attractn existed before the late 19th century. Requirg that all gay people rema celibate is at odds wh the Bible’s teachgs on celibacy, which are ground Scripture’s re affirmatn that God’s physil creatn is good. Mastream nomatns like Prbyterians and Epispalians now orda openly gay clergy, and there are seeds of change evangelil church as well.

IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

Matthew V is the thor of God and the Gay Christian and is the founr of The Reformatn Project, a Bible-based non-prof anizatn that seeks to reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty.

Do not be ceived; neher fornitors, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effemate, nor homosexuals, nor thiev, nor the veto, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers, will her the kgdom of God” (1 Corthians 6:9-10).

While is unniable, biblilly speakg, that homosexualy is immoral and unnatural (Romans 1:26-27), no sense do the Bible scribe homosexualy as an unfivable s. It is nsistent, for example, to clare those guilty of pre-maral sex as “disobedient Christians, ” while clarg homosexuals fively non-Christians. If the phrase “gay Christian” refers to a person who stggl agast homosexual sir and temptatns – y, a “gay Christian” is possible.

CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

However, the scriptn “gay Christian” is not accurate for such a person, sce he/she do not sire to be gay, and is stgglg agast the temptatns. Such a person is not a “gay Christian, ” but rather is simply a stgglg Christian, jt as there are Christians who stggle wh fornitn, lyg, and stealg. If the phrase “gay Christian” refers to a person who actively, perpetually, and unrepentantly liv a homosexual liftyle – no, is not possible for such a person to tly be a Christian.

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GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

However, to bate the issue serly and tthfully, we mt seek an hont picture of what our opponents actually believe — workg om what we thk they believe is neher helpful nor there are people of many diverse beliefs and nvictns — cludg gay and lbian people — who oppose same-sex marriage, here are 10 foundatnal tths that rm the tradnal, orthodox Christian belief. He fend tradnal marriage a 2008 Christiany Today article, sayg he wasn’t sure he’d perform a same-sex blsg, although he did exprs support for gay and lbian civil rights.

After takg a leave of absence om Harvard Universy to study the Bible and homosexualy, Matthew V gave a speech at his church about acceptg gay Christians that has amassed over 1 ln views on YouTube sce 2012.

ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?

He also started The Reformatn Project, a nonprof tryg to “reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty, ” and wrote the book “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships. The former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church publicly stated his views on gay marriage while speakg at San Francis’s Grace Cathedral 2013.

In a post on his webse tled “My Comg Out Letter, ” Christian rock mician Trey Pearson told fans that he intified as a gay man, spe beg married wh children. As she has chronicled on her blog and The Washgton Post, she first spent a long time advotg celibacy for Christians who were gay or lbian. In one of her old posts, “An Evangelil’s Rponse to Homosexualy, ” she ref to chose a si of the issue but do adm to wonrg if the evangelil church “has wrong.

While he said recently that his church, Northland, A Church Distributed, will mata that the Bible prohibs gay relatnships, he now believ nservative church should wele and support those of all sexual orientatns. Romans 1:26-27 not gay activy as "unnatural" while 1 Corthians 6:9-10 lists same sex activy as somethg done by those who will "not her the kgdom of God.

CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?

In fact, Pl's list clus, "the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers" (1 Corthians 6:9-10).

1 He garnered natnal attentn aga 2013 when he started his mistry The Reformatn Project and hosted a nference to teach people how to “reform” the church on the issue of homosexualy. 2 And April of this year, V ma news once aga wh the release of his new book God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships. As we broke down his arguments ncerng the creatn orr, we realized that God and the Gay Christian was not the typil progrsive attack on the thory of Scripture.

HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN

However, I want to turn to exame two of the key assertns on which V reli God and the Gay Christian: the ia that “sexual orientatn” nnot be changed, and the relevance of celibacy to his pot.

” Ined, there are many profsg Christians who have adopted termology such as “gay Christian” as a scriptor for those Christians who stggle wh same-sex attractn (SSA). Owen Strachan, assistant profsor of Christian theology and church history at SBTS, wr about the problem wh g the term “gay Christian” to scribe believers who al wh same-sex attractn.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Some Christians argue that while inty Christ is of first importance for a believer to grasp, we should also enurage them to mata this other inty as a “gay Christian, ” as a way of classifyg their experience. Many people alg wh SSA will be tempted to say what Matthew V has—that beg homosexual is simply part of who they are—and to treat that as a sendary inty to or as a replacement for their inty as a new creatn Christ.

Moreover, such a msage also ntradicts the Apostle Pl’s msage 1 Corthians 6:11 when he said that Christians have been “washed, ” “sanctified, ” and “jtified” Christ—and Pl specifilly clus homosexualy the list of thgs the believers had left behd. V’s other key assumptn God and the Gay Christian is that celibacy should only be practiced by those lled to , and the men and women alg wh SSA who are not lled to celibacy should be allowed to fulfill their sexual sir through marriage.

Homosexual behavr is s, makg the celibacy discsn relevant only the sense that a profsg Christian has repented of s such as homosexual behavr and abstas om for the rt of his life, even if that means acceptg celibacy and tstg God for the grace to live up to that ll. Wh the issue of homosexualy, a rapidly growg mory the church has chosen the path of least ristance and affirmed same-sex relatnships. The re msage of God and the Gay Christian is not to “challenge” or “dispute” the Bible self, or to qutn whether the text is spired and thorative our liv as followers of Christ.

WHY ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’ IS WRONG ABOUT THE BIBLE AND SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

Matthew V is not placg his own dividual experience as a gay Christian over the tth of the bible [sic], and he is not even challengg the words of scripture [sic] bee of his personal experience. Rather—and this is an important distctn—Matthew’s experience as a gay Christian has led him to challenge his own personal, limed, terpretatn of scripture [sic]. Christians who stand firmly on the thory of Scripture when to homosexual behavr may want to lash out at people who impugn the Word of God, such as Matthew V, or at church that embrace such a mixture of worldly philosophy wh biblil doctre.

Takg on the tle of “gay Christian” and dismissg abstence om sful sexual behavr will not solve his problem, spe the elaborate arguments prented God and the Gay Christian. Requirg that all gay Christians rema celibate for life bee of their sexual orientatn is at odds wh the Bible’s teachgs on celibacy.

Contue Readg >> and Gomorrah addrs gang rape, not a lovg stctn of Sodom and Gomorrah is monly assumed to have been the rult of God’s wrath agast homosexualy, but the only form of same-sex behavr scribed the story is an attempted gang rape (Genis 19:5)—nothg like the lovg, mted relatnships that are wispread today. A spate of books and vios and article and blogs would tell that, ed, that is not the gospel and that the good news of J is that you n follow Him and enjoy a mted, homosexual relatnship too.

BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH

4:12-13) we will humble ourselv before the Lord, keepg our foc on J and askg the Father to give His heart for those who intify as LGBT, lettg the unequivol ttimony of Scripture gui , we will fd, what do the Word of God say about homosexual practice? The ttimony of Scripture remas unchanged: The Bible forbids homosexual is clear that the vast majory of those who have changed their views on what the Bible says about homosexualy and now believe “gay Christiany” have done so based on eher their own same-sex sir and attractns or their teractn wh “gay Christians” (or wh any gay or lbian person who challeng their assumptns) other words, they have not changed their thkg based on study of the Scriptur alone sce no new textual, archaeologil, soclogil, anthropologil, or philologil disveri have been ma the last fifty years that would e to read any of the biblil texts another way, is not that we have gaed some new sights to what the biblil text means based on the study of the Hebrew and Greek texts. This is the guaranteed path to Word of God, which reprents His heart and will for His creatn, is absolutely clear on the subject, prohibg all forms of homosexual practice.

This is so clear that a number of leadg gay and lbian theologians acknowledge that they n only jtify “gay Christiany” by rejectg the full thory of Scripture. First, they claim that the vers have been mistranslated, misterpreted, or mised, and so, realy, the Scriptur do not prohib monogamo, mted, homosexual relatnships.

To the ntrary, was so important that every sgle recipe the book mak no mentn of is exactly the same when to the Bible and homosexualy.

GAY CHRISTIANS

There are a few, very strong, very clear, referenc to homosexual practice—every one of them cidly negative—and then not a sgle reference to homosexual practice throughout the rt of the Bible. Throughout the Word, the only relatnships that were acceptable God’s sight or nsired normal for society were heterosexual relatnships, and so homosexual practice was eher irrelevant (bee had nothg to do wh the God-ordaed relatnships of marriage and fay and society) or, if mentned, explicly give jt one example out of hundreds, when a gay uple reads the Word and they e to Pl’s words Ephians 5:22, 25, “Wiv, subm to your own hbands, as to the Lord.... A man pl a man or a woman pl a woman nnot possibly share the same unn as a man and a woman sce they do not share the sential of fundamental samens and rephrase the famo axm of John Gray, namely, that men are om Mars and women are om Ven, Mars + Mars or Ven + Ven nnot ever equal Mars + the words of a man who has lived as a homosexual all his life (he’s now past 70) but has recently found the Lord, “Even an atheist n unrstand the lack of anatomil plementary and therefore blogil purpose male-to-male or female-to-female sexualy.

”To everyone who profs to be a gay Christian, I ask you to get alone wh God and ask yourself, “Did God create and sign me to be wh the same-sex or the oppose sex? What the biblil thors rejected, we are told, was man-boy relatnships, or male prostutn, or homosexual the sful practic were certaly rejected, but biblil thors like Pl were certaly aware of long-term, male-male importantly, Hebrews 4:13 stat that “no creature is hidn om [God’s] sight, but all are naked and exposed to the ey of him to whom we mt give acunt.

”And are they willg to say that the Lord J, who lerally looked to the hearts and souls of human begs—John 2:25 says that He knew what was man—didn’t unrstand that certa people were “gay? The gospel brgs good news to homosexual men and theologians tell that the tradnal gospel msage is a “bad tree, ” brgg forth the bad u of prsn, apostasy, and even suici among gay men and the ntrary, the msage of the gospel brgs fivens, eedom, hope, and liverance, as untls thoands of ex-gays n attt, by which I mean followers of J who no longer practice homosexualy.