Adherence to that admonition is absent in your attitude towards the LGBT community.Īlso, in the year 2012, we have to be listening for yet another word from God being spoken to us from the Holy Spirit, God’s latest gift to us. He did however admonish us to love one another. Jesus never said anything about homosexuality. We cannot use the Bible as a weapon to propagate our own political or social views.Īnd while we accept the Bible as God’s written word for us, we also accept Jesus as God’s incarnate Word for us.
Paul’s references to homosexuality have to do with the sale of young men for the purposes of prostitution in the temple, and have nothing to do with same sex relationships as we know them today.
For instance, we cannot accept much of what is instructed in the Levitical Code of the Old Testament.īiblical scholars have determined that St. For us to read it literally makes a mockery of Christianity, as the Bible certainly says things that modern day Christians no longer adhere to. The Bible needs to be read in the context in which it was written. In the last century, individuals used the Bible to try to prevent inter-racial marriage, and I am sorry that some still try to do that today. So, it is clear that marriage has evolved from Genesis to Revelation.
Others such as Abraham, Caleb and Solomon had concubines as well as wives. Many men of the Bible, including Jacob, Esau, Gideon, David and Solomon were polygamists. I am sure that you would agree that no one makes an issue of this anymore, as many interfaith marriages exist, perhaps even some in your own company or family.Īccording to the Bible a wife must not only be subordinate (Ephesians 5:22) but when she and her husband are married, she must prove her virginity or be taken out and stoned (Deuteronomy 22:20-21).Īccording to the Bible, if a woman’s husband dies without having a son, she must marry her husband’s brother and have intercourse with him until she bears a son (Mark 12: 18-27). There are some dangers in referring to your view of marriage as being the “Biblical” view.Īccording to the Bible, marriage can only exist between people of the same faith. My sexuality is a gift from God and I believe that he intends for me to rejoice in that by knowing the love of another in a life-time, monogamous relationship. It is no different than eye-color, or being right-handed or left-handed. To believe otherwise would be for me to understand that God is vengeful and has played a very cruel trick on me.
I know that this is His plan for me as well. I also believe that it is God’s plan for all of us to know love and be loved. God has remained faithful through all of it and continues to let me know each and every day how He loves me. Many nights have ended with tear-stained pillows as I have pleaded with God to release me from the pain I have experienced through this. I have tried time and time again to deny my own acceptance of my sexual orientation. I know what repentance is and I know what forgiveness is. My relationship with God has never been stronger and I am more thankful than ever for the redemption that I have through Jesus Christ and His work of redemption on my behalf on the cross. I was taught to love the Lord and to serve Him. I was raised in a Christian home, my father was a pastor.