Friday, August 3, 2012
How does Christianity fit Homosexuality?
Recently there has been a lot of discussion about businesses who support gay marriage and businesses that don't.
A lot of people say that Christians are hateful because of their view points.
I see the Homosexual community insisting that everyone else HAS to be tolerant of them and if you do not accept them or their views, if you do not pander to them, then you have to be a bigoted hateful jerk.
But I would disagree. What does the Bible say? God is the same forever and ever. He loves his people but he hates sin and Any sex that exists out of the realms of marriage, one man and one woman, is sinful.
David suffered for sexual sin and he was "a man after god's own heart". Samson suffered for his sexual escapades. And Sodom and Gomorrah also paid the price for their sinfulness in sex.
Here is an interesting point... ALL of those examples are in the old testament. So does that mean that it all changed when Jesus came around? No. Sin still is punished and these acts are still sinful. BUT Jesus pays the price for our sin nature. he paid the price for me and you and everyone else who accepts him as Lord and Savior.
But Christians ought to be trying to tell others about Christ and the gospel. The interesting dilemma is that many people will scream out that what I just said here is hate speech.
I ask you what about this is hateful?
Think about it. I just said that "Jesus paid the price for our sins if we accept him as Lord and savior". How is that hateful? "you do not have to hurt because the hurt that was due has been done already."
I said that sin leads to pain. Is that hateful? I think not it seems to me to be just basic truth. Akin to saying if you whack yourself in the forehead with a 2x4 it will hurt.
The reason why they want to say it is hate speech is simple. It is because I am basically saying, if you want to feel better about yourself if you want to have hope, if you want to feel the love of God, YOU HAVE TO CHANGE. And these people do not like that idea.
"what makes you better than me?" they yell
"how dare you judge me!" they scream.
But that is just it. I am not better and I am not the judge, Jesus/God is.
If you want to ask what validity my faith has, well that is a separate subject and I will be happy to talk with you about that later.
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