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Contents:
- IS BEG GAY A S?
- IS IT A S TO BE GAY?
- POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
- IS BEG GAY A S? CHRISTIAN GAY HISTORY AND CONSEQUENC
IS BEG GAY A S?
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 * sin and gay *
Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God. At this moment history, ntrary to the other ss listed here, homosexualy is celebrated by our larger society wh pneerg excement.
As Christians, we believe wh ept scery that the embrace of homosexual practice, along wh other ss, keeps people out of the kgdom of God. This means is an oversimplifitn to say that Christians — or nservative evangelils — are simply agast homosexualy.
IS IT A S TO BE GAY?
We are agast any s that rtras people om everlastg joy God, and homosexual practice jt gets all the prs bee, at this cultural moment, ’s the ma s that is so hly endorsed our ntext by the powers that be.
Some would like to see this whole issue of homosexualy divid to two mps: those who celebrate and those who hate .
POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
Distancg ourselv om both the left and the right, we don’t celebrate homosexual practice; we acknowledge God’s clear revealed word that is s. The belief of many that their sexualy f them mak a biblil claratn of the sfulns of homosexualy an attack on the dividual, stead of the act and attu.
The topic is also difficult to broach bee of the enemy's effective mpaign to nvce otherwise Bible-believg people that homosexualy is a particularly heo, unfiveable s and those who partake are pecially hated by God.
Defenrs of the homosexual liftyle choose to accept J' lovg nature and reject Pl, accg him of latent legalism.
IS BEG GAY A S? CHRISTIAN GAY HISTORY AND CONSEQUENC
At the heart of the claim that the Bible is clear "that homosexualy is forbidn by God" is poor biblil scholarship and a cultural bias read to the Bible. Although s unlikely that the biblil thors had any notn of sexual orientatn (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even ed until the late 19th century) for many people of fah, the Bible is looked to for timels guidance on what means to honor God wh our liv; and this most certaly clus our sexualy.