The followg blog is wrten by Greg Col. Greg is part of The Center's llaborative team and is the thor of the book Sgle, Gay, Christian. “Is God anti-gay?” Many people expect the answer to this qutn to be a simple bary, eher y or no. If you’re a nservative ( the totalizg sense of the word), the answer is absolutely y: God mt be anti-gay, bee
Contents:
- THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
- QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?
- WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
* does god accept gay people *
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.
QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?
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. The acceptance of homosexualy as an equally valid liftyle is rapidly growg Wtern culture.
Bee homosexual activy, premaral sex and adultery are all outsi of marriage, all are vlatns of God's stctns. The Bible nmns homosexual practic several plac such as Genis 19:1-25, Levic 18:22 and Levic 20:13, and Judg 19:1-25. The scriptur refer to homosexual acts as somethg that should not be done and as evil the ey of God.
WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
In the New Ttament, Romans 1:24-27, 1 Corthians 6:9-11 and 1 Timothy 1:9-10 refer to homosexualy the same way. The passage Romans clus a specific prohibn of both male and female homosexual volvement. The Bible nowhere mak posive or approvg statements about homosexualy.
The vast majory of amic and biblil scholars agree that the Bible prohibs homosexual activi. Nearly all of today's translatns of the Bible are also agreement that God prohibs homosexual practice.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
Conttg God's stctns, some homosexuals argue that God ma them the way they are and that He therefore mt approve of homosexualy. Moreover, studi of intil tws where one tw is homosexual and the other isn't prove that homosexualy isn't erned by geic makp. The factors show that homosexuals are ma, not born.
Third, regardls of any ndns that may predispose a person to homosexualy, we are all expected to make moral cisns regardls of our circumstanc.