<p><strong>Pl Otreicher:</strong> I preached on Good Friday that J's timacy wh John suggted he was gay as I felt eply had to be addrsed</p>
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WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * were there gay men in the bible *
Pope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy. Persons wh homosexual tennci are children of God.
Crimalisg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice. This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics. As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
* were there gay men in the bible *
Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah. Their terpretatn of the story is that is about homosexualy.
Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex. Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn.
Bible vers about Gay * were there gay men in the bible *
Some claim that Kg David and Jonathan were gay. In other words they believe the David and Jonathan iendship was homosexual. They believe that the David and Jonathan kiss 1 Samuel 20:40-41 dit that they were homosexual lovers.
But was Jonathan gay? Was Kg David gay?