My Response to Homosexuality

Pharisees to Christians is as a lot of Christians to homosexuals. I do believe that homosexuality is a sin but it just like any other sin. It doesn’t mean homosexuals can’t be Christian or be apart of a Christian church. We all deal with our sins, sometimes it takes years to work out a habit, addiction, or want that happens to be a sin.

What is a sin? Something that is against God’s rules. Which God? The only living one, who came to earth and rose from the dead. The Christian God essentially.

In the Bible Jesus scolded the Pharisees on the same basis that Jews would be later scolded about their treatment to Gentiles. ¹
If the Pharisees served the same God as the Christians then it is possible to not be a perfect Christian and still have a right to serve the living God as Christians. And the non-Christian homosexual has a right to be a Christian just like a Gentile does. You see soon after Jesus’ death the Jews didn’t want Christianity to spread to the Gentiles. They wanted to be special and separate from everybody.

What is a Gentile? A non-Jew.

As for a Christian homosexual, one who is already a Christian and decides to be gay, they are the only ones I would give a hard time. They are my family and I want to make sure they know what they are doing. They are a Christian and they will get the Bible-thumping from me. If they say they were never a Christian that’s different. But if after the Bible-thumping and the long serious talks they still say they are going to be gay, then fine. No I won’t shun them, especially if they came and told me. They trusted me to take their decision as a friend. And if there is one thing I’ve learned in my life is that you never, never withdraw love. Love is the one thing that keeps us all going. Whether or not it is the sometimes invisible love from God or love from another, we can’t survive without it.

There is more to a person than their sex life. That point can help you love a person as God loves them. Unconditionally, even in our different sins. I am not as emotionally attached to homosexuality, but the origins of life debate I am. Sometimes I can’t see how to love those who are debating against me. But I can see it better when I realize their evolution belief isn’t the only defining part of a person.

I have found that a lot of life lessons can be learned from the gay rights movement. Including what I just mentioned, issues that we have with other people are usually just one part of their life. But I’ve also learned more about compassion and not judging others. I read the Bible through every year, that may sound very religious but wait a second, because of the homosexuality ‘issue’ I have been looking more closely at Jesus’ acts of compassion. That was his whole mission here on earth. Compassion.

In fact! When Jesus did beat someone over the head with the ‘Bible’ it was Jews that went to the temple. And possibly people who knew better than what they what they were doing and could do better. Who didn’t have any bondages keeping them from worshiping God as they should! I’ve always thought of God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit as trainers. They are pushing us to do the best we can. And Jesus never thumped the Bible at someone who was not bound to Judaism.

Did you know that Jesus hung out mostly with sinners? The Bible says he ate with them. So he wasn’t at a pulpit preaching a sermon. He was just chillin.’ ²

Back to unconditional love we should never love people with the condition, “I’ll love you if you change.” or “I’ll love you because I know love will eventually change your mind and heart.” But we should love someone just because they are human beings. Just because the exist. That’s contagious and no matter what the reason, doesn’t the world need more unconditional love?

I do believe in gay rights. God gives us rights as sinners. He doesn’t cut us out of mercy, from his fellowship, from blessings even as Christians. Or even the blessing of someone giving us an easier time with our sin. Maybe even a bunch of people who aren’t as harsh even if they think you are wrong? Granted, while in sin, we may not have the full out-pouring of the Holy Spirit. Possibly because we are blocking him with that sin from certain areas of out life. We could also be in disobedience.

Which brings me to my next point. God deals with us individually. He doesn’t have a set formula for us except that we believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and we confess our sins. ³ Each of us has the ability to think for ourselves. This being said we all have our own individual right to have God lead us a he pleases. Not as God may have shown somebody else. We also have the right to make our own mistakes and successes by our own standard. Whether or not someone challenges us to raise those standards is a different matter. But still, boundaries with other people and the control they have over personal parts of our lives should be in place.
With parents, sometimes they agree with homosexuality and other parents don’t agree. And it is also possible that the child may not agree with homosexuality while the parent does.
No, I do not believe in beating a son or daughter over the head with a Bible if they are gay. How much is that parent trusting God with their child? How much do they recognize his reality themselves? Or are they unsure about God’s power so they have to take things into their own hands? If there is little faith it sounds like a parent is punishing a child for their own fear that God won’t do what they want him too. But that God has a plan of his own. News flash. God does have a plan of his own.
As a child matures a parent’s role gets increasingly smaller and smaller. To the point where it does more harm to force an issue than to accept a possibly ‘bad’ life decision and loving unconditionally.
No, I’m not saying parents should just say, “Oh it’s right for him (or her).” The same goes for friends. Voice your opinions but don’t withdraw your friendship. You’ve built trust with this person, don’t shatter it.
All this being said, even parents need to have boundaries with their children. We as kids can do the same manipulating, controlling, and beating over the head with our own ‘Bibles’ as parents can. To that I send out a quick but a sharp, “Watch it!” We as kids don’t know near as much as our parents. What we know does’t even skin the surface of knowledge. We need to get back to how 13 years, 15 years, or 18 years does not compete with 30 years, 40 years, or 50 years.

Being born Gay

Some people choose to do things the wrong way. We call them rebellious. But they can be rebellious for different reasons. Disrespect for authority is just the preliminary results. There is always more to the story than just disrespect.
Other times being gay is a trend.
But I do believe that it is possible to be born gay. I believe that we live in a fallen world. That is, after Adam’s sin everything started going downhill. Our bodies started becoming less and less perfect as degrading as time went by. Even to this day.
I don’t believe in a ‘gay’ gene. But rather something that was already there was corrupted and this change could alter a preference.
I do believe that God could choose to have someone born gay. Just as someone is born with heart disease or another biological problem. God can and does use it. Through these types of trials and persecution we learn about pride and prejudice. We learn about how much we want control and how much we don’t have control.
Hopefully we can learn acceptance, forgiveness, and humbleness.

We all have our different sins and God still loves us. Society does not determine whether something is a sin or whether it is not. Notice, society’s opinion changes over time. Just because society may agree with you for a second they could turn on you in a second. So don’t let society be your guide to how you should, live, think and breathe. Make your own decisions.