LOVE makes a family...
alright... so today I saw a post from a "friend" (you know who you are) explaining how he is against gay marriage, and how he is NOT gay (sounds like internalized homophobia to me). Okay, dude... you're not gay. fine by me. I wouldn't want you in my family anyway. You say that the future of the family is at stake? You know what I say to that
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"But it also says that wearing cloth woven from two different fabrics is a sin"
I my self am Gay! I am a Biblical Theology Professor. I don't agree with same sex marriage though. I’m going to go with your friend. And give the person some support. I know I'm sinning being gay but hey everyone sins in some way. Here is my support.
If God had intended the human race to be fulfilled through both heterosexual and homosexual marriage, He would have designed our bodies to allow reproduction through both means and made both means of sexual intercourse healthy and natural. Homosexual anal intercourse carries a high risk of disease, this is recognized in Scripture where gay men are said to receive in their bodies the due penalty for their error (Romans 1:27).
What Jesus taught
"And He answered and said to them, 'Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'"
-Matthew 19:4 (NKJV)
"But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'" -Mark 10:6 (NKJV)
When Jesus was asked questions about marriage he went straight back to the defining passages in Genesis that say that marriage is between male and female and is meant to be life long. He saw the creation accounts in Genesis as authoritative in His day. And what is authoritative for Jesus is authoritative for Christians also. While Jesus did not specifically teach on homosexuality, His establishment of the Genesis passages as the fundamental passages on marriage (even more fundamental than the Law) leaves no doubt as to the outcome.
What else does the Bible say?
"For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due."
-Romans 1:26-27 (NKJV)
"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NKJV)
"Knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine," 1 Timothy 1:9-10 (NKJV)
These three references indicate that homosexual passions and acts are unnatural, shameful, contrary to sound doctrine and deny entrance to the Kingdom of God. This being so they cannot be the basis of a Christian marriage sanctioned by God's Church. The Church exists to save people, not to bless the means of their damnation. No marriage can be sanctioned by the Church if the very basis of the marriage involves acts that put the couple outside of eternal salvation. No matter what our society may legislate, the law of God is clear - that a marriage is not a godly marriage if it is a same sex union.
I pray that I can Be Broken of being gay But hey I love the filling of being gay its like because an emotion is deep or powerful does not justify acting upon it. Like drugs, like adultery, like the abuse of alcohol or the love of money, or the power rush of human ego trips, there are emotions which are powerful and addictive and ultimately terribly destructive. Same sex marriages must satisfy criteria other than emotion. A marriage is more than a sexual pleasure center. A marriage is a social unit that is interwoven with dozens of other lives.
So your friend is right but I'm not ready to accept it just Yet!!!
Next time you plan on telling your friend to "don't bother yourself with something you don't understand." Well they probably don’t understand us that’s why I'm going to support them.
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As for Jesus teachings that God made them only male and female, where do hermaphrodites come from? They are born naturally so God didn't make them?
As for 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, it's interesting that only the NKJV says "homosexuals" when all other translations say "effeminate" SO much for the bible being the exact word of God... which bible? Quite a difference.
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when i think of the bible and religion, primarily christianity, two words come to mind.cognitive dissonance.
how much of the bible do u trust and why? is your perspective on your existance the same as the ancient authors of this compilation of continual alterations and bylaws.
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