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:
- CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
- IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
Can someone be gay and Christian? Is possible to be a gay Christian? Can you be a Christian and stggle wh homosexualy? * can you be a gay christian *
The issue of homosexualy is very ntroversial, even among Christians.
IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
Is possible to be a gay Christian? Can a te Christian to be a practicg and unrepentant homosexual? * can you be a gay christian *
Many wonr if is possible to be a gay Christian.
However, the Bible is very clear that gay sexual activy is nsired sful and that a Christian is not to take part such activi. Romans 1:26-27 not gay activy as "unnatural" while 1 Corthians 6:9-10 lists same sex activy as somethg done by those who will "not her the kgdom of God.
In fact, Pl's list clus, "the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers" (1 Corthians 6:9-10). Is homosexualy a s? Many of spent years ex-gay or nversn therapy mistri, begged God for liverance, or mated endlsly on the Bible vers we thought nmned LGBTQ+ people.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
Example: Tiffany’s son Lnel jt me out as gay. She tells him she accepts his inty, but urg celibacy as the only way to be acceptable to God as a gay Christian. This view implicly or explicly supports efforts to alter someone’s sexual orientatn or genr inty through nversn therapy practic, and is sometim referred to as Si X or Ex-gay iology.
CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
Si X/Ex-gay iology is both dangero and medilly discreded.
The are marriag where at least one person is married to a person of a differg sexual inty, such as a heterosexual man married to a gay woman. So one signifint reason why gay marriage wasn’t addrsed Scripture was bee wasn’t a cultural issue; marriage between two people of the same genr was out of the qutn, sce romantic feelgs was not the reason for marriage—procreatn ia of a personal sexual orientatn was foreign to them.
I Corthians 6:9 & I Timothy 1:10Before 1946, there were no Bibl that ntaed the word “homosexual. ” The Greek words mistranslated as “homosexual” have historilly been translated as “sodom, ” “abers of themselv wh mankd, ” “liers wh mankd, ” “perverts, ” and “buggerers. Unfortunately, the 1946 Revised Standard Versn troduced the word “homosexual” to our English Bibl, and many other English translatns chose to follow their example.