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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10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
* am i gay for god *
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.
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.
IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
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.