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:
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?
- “WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”
- “HELP! I’M A GAY CHRISTIAN”
- IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
- DEAR GOD, ARE YOU THERE? A GAY MAN’S PRAYER
- “GOD MA ME GAY FOR A REASON”: YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN’S RILIENCY ROLVG INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA OM RELIG SOURC
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
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 * god i am gay *
Even if they agree wh the Bible that homosexualy is a s and rolve not to seek fulfillment of their sexual sir, they mt still fd love other relatnships—the self-sacrificg love of agape and the iendly pannship of phileo.
DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?
* god i am gay *
1 Timothy 1:9-11 “We also know that the law is ma not for the righteo but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sful, the unholy and irrelig, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murrers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicg homosexualy, for slave trars and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is ntrary to the sound doctre that nforms to the gospel ncerng the glory of the blsed God, which he entsted to me.
Pl was speakg to the Church of Corth and he said, “do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, 10 nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God. Our Christian hearts, ns the (ually impassned) argument, pel to grant full moral and legal equaly to gay and lbian people; our Christian fah, the (ually impassned) rebuttal, pels to cleave, above all, to the word of God.
“WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”
Here are 50 Important Bible Vers About Homosexualy! What do the Bible say about homosexualy? Is homosexualy a s? Is beg gay a s? Let's fd out! * god i am gay *
They assert that the Bible f all homosexual acts as sful, stcts them to exclu om full participatn the church all non-repentant sners (cludg gay people), and morally lls upon them to publicly (or at least rolutely) nounce homosexual acts. Whout an explic directive om God to exclu and nmn homosexuals, the Christian muny’s treatment of gay persons is clear vlatn of what J and the New Ttament wrers potedly intified as one-half of God’s most important mandment: to love one’s neighbor as one’s self. Heterosexual Christians are beg unbiblil by g the clobber passag as jtifitn for applyg absolute standards of moraly to homosexual “ss” that they themselv are not tempted to m, while at the same time acceptg for themselv a standard of relative moraly for those ss listed the clobber passag that they do routely m.
If heterosexual Christians are obligated to look to the Bible to terme the sfulns of homosexual acts, how much greater is their obligatn to look to the Bible to terme the sfulns of their behavr toward gay persons, pecially light of the gay muny’s ll to them for jtice? Such Christians draw no moral distctn between the homosexual gang rape the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, the i to which Pl refers his letter to the Romans, the wild sexual abandon Pl addrs 1 Corthians, and nsensual homosexual sex between lovg and mted homosexual partners. Heterosexual Christians are beg unfair and hypocril by g the clobber passag as jtifitn for applyg absolute standards of moraly (and an absolute penalty) to homosexual “ss” that they themselv are never tempted to m, while at the same time acceptg for themselv a standard of relative moraly (and applyg no real penalty) for those ss listed the clobber passag that they do routely m.
“HELP! I’M A GAY CHRISTIAN”
Do gay people go to heaven? Do beg gay have anythg to do wh termg one’s eternal sty? * god i am gay *
As there is no monstrable harm arisg om sex wh a mted homosexual relatnship, and there is signifint monstrable harm arisg om the discrimatn agast and nmnatn of gay persons, what possible biblil basis n there be for not regnizg the vast moral differenc between sex acts done wh the ntext of a lovg mted relatnship, and sex acts of any other sort? We also know that the law is ma not for the righteo but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sful, the unholy and irrelig, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murrers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicg homosexualy, for slave trars and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is ntrary to the sound doctre. The Bible’s clobber passag were wrten about same-sex acts between heterosexual persons, and do not addrs the subject of homosexual acts between a mted gay uple, bee the ncept of a person beg homosexual did not exist at the time the Bible was wrten.
IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
It is cril to our readg of the New Ttament’s three clobber passag to unrstand that while Pl would have known about sex acts that took place between persons of the same genr, he would have had no ncept whatsoever of homosexual persons.
DEAR GOD, ARE YOU THERE? A GAY MAN’S PRAYER
Sexual relatns between persons of the same sex certaly did occur (they are wily attted ancient sourc), but they were not systematilly distguished or nceptualized as such, much ls were they thought to reprent a sgle, homogeneo phenomenon ntradistctn to sexual relatns between persons of different sex. Taken all together, the evince—the social ntext which the Bible was wrten, the lack of the very ncept of gay people Pl’s time, the abily of gay people to marry, the equy between how the clobber passag are applied between a majory and a mory populatn, the jtice of excln om God’s church on earth and om human love as the punishment for a state of beg over which one has no choice—nclively shows that choosg to nmn and exclu gay people based on the Bible is the morally rrect choice.
She is a equent speaker for MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers) and Stonecroft Mistri (Christian Women's Connectns), and serv on the board of Livg Hope Mistri, a Christ-centered outreach to those alg wh unwanted homosexualy. I thk that the reason gay people are so much pa isn’t bee the world hat gays and is homophobic, which is the polilly rrect explanatn you get the days, but ’s bee somethg went wrong and ’s paful not to be able to relate rrectly and healthily to people of the oppose sex. “The nscienc of today’s Christians are beg rpted by the opprsive cultural i and the extreme social prsure surroundg the issue of homosexualy, but we know that the law of the Lord is wrten on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-33) and though we may succeed mutg our nscience, the Word of God is eternal, ” Cook said.
“GOD MA ME GAY FOR A REASON”: YOUNG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN’S RILIENCY ROLVG INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA OM RELIG SOURC
Keywords: relign, spirualy, gay, young men who have sex wh men, ternalized homophobiaThere has been a growg body of rearch foced on the relatnship between religsy and adolcent health and well-beg (Nonnemaker, McNeely, & Blum, 2003; Werner & Smh, 1992).