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Contents:
- HOW N BE FAIR TO SAY I N'T BE SAVED BY GOD IF I'M GAY?
- CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
- CAN A PERSON BE GAY AND STILL BE A CHRISTIAN?
- DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY MEN WHO N'T MAKE DONATNS IS ARBRARY, ARCHAIC — AND ADLY
- GAY MEN CAN NOW DONATE LIFE-SAVG BONE MARROW. WILL BLOOD FOLLOW?
- LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
- PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
HOW N BE FAIR TO SAY I N'T BE SAVED BY GOD IF I'M GAY?
Many "Christians" are now suggtg that those who embrace the homosexual liftyle n live harmony wh biblil Christiany. And more and more Evangelils wh gay children are challengg the church to rethk s posn. But n we re-thk tth? * can a gay person be saved *
Bee salvatn is by fah alone Christ alone and we are not saved by our works good or bad, y, a homosexual person n go to heaven. If they have, then to ntue wh a homosexual liftyle is livg rebelln and a believer will eventually experience misery and dive disciple. So then, one would no longer be intified by one's prev inty or slavery to any particular past s—whether as a dnkard, adulterer, homosexual, thief, vetor, idolator, fornitor, extortner, etc.
The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicg homosexuals, thiev, the greedy, dnkards, the verbally abive, and swdlers will not her the kgdom of God. For other rourc on this issue see this article on Homosexualy: The Biblil Christian View, and other articl on Homosexualy.
He also helpfully clarifi that havg ever mted a homosexual act or a heterosexual s do not forever exclu one om the kgdom of God.
CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
FDA, HHS blood and an donatn bans on sexually active gay men are a travty. * can a gay person be saved *
I was simply lookg to be actively volved and bee a member of the church… Bee I was gay, that was sufficient for [them] to turn around and say no. But all of a sudn, ‘Oh, but now you say you’re gay, you n’t do that any more’. Recent rearch strongly suggts that LGBT people who ntue to intify as Christian experience heightened “homonegativy” – negative and shame-filled feelgs about their sexualy – pared to non-relig, or even formerly Christian, LGBT people.
Some pastors believe that the Church’s stance on homosexualy is outdated. Can I still attend Thursday night's Gay Girlz at Heaven and then head to church on Sunday, f and ready to sg my prayers for my Lord J? Argument after argument, I still fd myself beg persecuted by both the gay and Christian muny.
The ma reasons are for the clear vers the Bible referrg to homosexualy as s. Are the 12 mentns of homosexualy the holy book due to cultural and historil mistranslatns and misterpretatns?
CAN A PERSON BE GAY AND STILL BE A CHRISTIAN?
The Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the Uned Stat, wh over 16 ln members, has discrimated agast gay and lbian people for more than a quarter-century. * can a gay person be saved *
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. 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? (For those wantg a more -pth treatment, please see my newt book, Can You Be Gay and Christian?
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.
DISCRIMATN AGAST GAY MEN WHO N'T MAKE DONATNS IS ARBRARY, ARCHAIC — AND ADLY
* can a gay person be saved *
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.
Isn’t this evince of homophobic attus the Church rather than a reful reprentatn of God’s heart as exprsed His Word? 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.
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....
GAY MEN CAN NOW DONATE LIFE-SAVG BONE MARROW. WILL BLOOD FOLLOW?
Gay and bisexual men face a time-based ban on givg blood. But fairer practic uld help save over a ln people a year whout the risk of spreadg HIV. * can a gay person be saved *
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.
LETTG GAY MEN DONATE BLOOD COULD HELP SOLVE A MAJOR HEALTH CRISIS
Are gay theologians willg to say that the Lord Himself did not unrstand morn-day, still-evolvg ncepts like “sexual orientatn? ”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.
PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
”Pastor Allberry is equently asked, “But isn’t harr for someone who is gay? ” (Sam Allberry, Is God Anti-Gay? I will al wh the tle qutn, but I believe, based on nversatns and munitns I have had wh others that the real qutn is “will a homosexual, once saved, ntue that s?