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.
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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.
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.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
<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> * were there gay men in the bible *
Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn. 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?
When 2 Samuel 1:25-27 says, “Your love to me was more wonrful than the love of women, ” is claimed that this prov Jonathan and David were gay. Homosexual Love the Bible.
Bible vers about Gay * were there gay men in the bible *
Throughout Scripture heterosexual and homosexual physil acts are referred to as “to know. Fally, aheb is never ed “to exprs homosexual sire or activy.
There is no sign or ht of a homosexual relatnship the vers.
Were David and Jonathan Homosexual Lovers? ” Homosexual advot claim that “love of women” reveals that David and Jonathan were makg love like men do wh women.