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:
- GAY CHRISTIAN BOOKS
- WHY ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’ IS WRONG ABOUT THE BIBLE AND SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
- GOD & THE GAY CHRISTIAN
- GAY & CHRISTIAN?
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN: THE BIBLIL CASE SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
- GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD: THE STORY OF WHO I WAS, AND WHO GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN PAPERBACK – SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
GAY CHRISTIAN BOOKS
Books shelved as lgbt-christian: God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships by Matthew V, Torn: Rcug the G... * gay christian book *
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WHY ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’ IS WRONG ABOUT THE BIBLE AND SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
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The send sectn provis 24 poems of embodied spirualy, sexualy, and love, followed by a rual that has been ed gay men’s gathergs around the world.
GOD & THE GAY CHRISTIAN
Gay Lbian Bisexual Christian 101 - Accurate biblil and historil fendg LGB Christians om the anti-gay crowd. * gay christian book *
A gay Catholic tells how he beme an LGBTQ-rights activist after beg dismissed as a Boy Sut troop lear for beg gay this memoir. An evangelil LGBTQ activist tells how she moved om ex-gay self-nial the name of fah to marryg a woman at the Washgton Natnal Cathedral and helpg shut down Exod Internatnal, the largt ex-gay anizatn.
It tells the te story of Chomiak’s teenage and young-adult years: fdg love, wrtlg wh fay nflicts, and tryg to bee ex-gay before reachg wholens and a happy LGBTQ-Christian endg. Sat Sebastian and Sat Michael the Archangel, both known as protectors of gay men, stand together wh mcular bare chts this DaVci-style prt on parchment. The gay love triangle between the young shepherd David, ialistic Prce Jonathan and domeerg Kg Sl sprgs to life “Songs From Beloved Kg: A Queer Bible Mil.
GAY & CHRISTIAN?
225 books based on 78 vot: God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships by Matthew V, Transformg: The Bible ... * gay christian book *
Feelg the tensn between his unrstandg of the Bible and the realy of his same-sex orientatn, V voted years of tensive rearch to what the Bible says about homosexualy. Unique s affirmatn of both an orthodox fah and sexual diversy, God and the Gay Christian has sparked heated bate, scere soul searchg, and wispread cultural change on the issue of what means to be a fahful gay Christian. This book mak signifint ntributns, not only to ongog scholarly nversatns but also to the average person who wants to probe more eply how to thk about God and the gay Christian.
A reful scty of the six biblil passag that somehow addrs same-sex behavr leads V to make a pellg argument agast mandatory celibacy for gay Christians. Matthew V’s well-read and well-argued book serv to be read by all those who have suffered silence, but also by members and misters of Christian muni stgglg wh the regnn and appreciatn of their gay members. Coupled wh his poignant scriptns of the damage done by tradnal exclnary terpretatns, his book is an sential rource for all who seek to fd their beargs the current bate over the Bible’s teachgs for gay people.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
As a young Christian man, Matthew V harbored the same basic hop of most young people: to some-day share his life wh someone, to build a fay of his own, to give and receive love. But when he realized he was gay, those hop were lled to qutn. The Bible, he’d been tght, nmned gay relatnships. Feelg the tensn between his unrstandg of the Bible and the realy of his same-sex orientatn, V voted years of tensive rearch to what the Bible says about homosexualy. Wh re and precisn, V asked qutns such as: • Do biblil teachgs on the marriage venant preclu same-sex marriage or not?• How should we apply the teachgs of J to the gay bate?• Can celibacy be a llg when is mandated, not chosen?• What did Pl have md when he warned agast same-sex relatns? Unique s affirmatn of both an orthodox fah and sexual diversy, God and the Gay Christian has sparked heated bate, scere soul searchg, and wispread cultural change on the issue of what means to be a fahful gay Christian. God & the Gay Christian (9781601425188) by Matthew V * gay christian book *
In March 2012, Matthew V posted a vio on YouTube suggtg that "beg gay is not a s, " and that the Bible "do not nmn, lovg, mted same-sex relatnships. So V sought to arm himself wh biblil scholarship on the affirmatn of same-sex relatnships and strove to nvce his fay and church that they were wrong—that homosexualy is not a s.
V's new book, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships, expounds further on the arguments ma his vio. His aim is not to prent new rmatn, but to synthize gay-affirmg arguments and make them accsible for a broar and younger dience.
GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN: THE BIBLIL CASE SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
Pro-gay theology is a relatively new phenomenon the bate of sexual ethics. Its advot have propagated the notn that an dividual n participate homosexualy while beg a disciple of Christ at the same time. The Bible revisnists have sought to legimize homoeroticism by claimg that the scriptur * gay christian book *
" V stat that universal nmnatn of same-sex relatnships has been damagg and stctive for those who intify as gay Christians, producg bad u (prsn and suici, for stance). Unlike others who advote rpectful dialogue on this divisive issue, V charg that those who do not affirm same-sex relatnships are sng by distortg the image of God and are sentially rponsible for the suicis of many gay Christians.
One of the ma weakns of God and the Gay Christian is that V's methodology of biblil terpretatn clash wh the high view of the Bible he claims to hold. Michael Carn, a ge gay Catholic who dabbl astrology, has wrten on the "homo-erotics of atonement" and ntributed to the Queer Bible Commentary, which draws upon "femist, queer, nstctnist, utopian theori, the social scienc and historil-cril disurs.
" Dale Mart, an openly gay man, believ neher that J' rurrectn is a historil fact, nor that the historil J believed he was dive. V exhorts gay-affirmg Christians to help her a morn reformatn by "speakg the tth, " which for him starts wh personal life stori.
GAY GIRL, GOOD GOD: THE STORY OF WHO I WAS, AND WHO GOD HAS ALWAYS BEEN PAPERBACK – SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
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I pletely agree wh V that many gays, lbians, and other same-sex attracted people have stggled to rencile their fah and sexualy whout much help om the church.