So I just watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcj6kSkO1A
It's a video on homosexuality, and how families deal with it. So from a conservative's point of few, I though it was excellent, just because, we never get taught this side of things in church!
I'll just start with one negative comment and then share what I have learned out of it.
Negative Comment
I thought some of their comments saying the Bible did not condemn homosexuality anymore were not correct. It seemed to me like all the authors of the Bible NT and OT assumed homosexuality was not what God has in mind when he created Adam and Eve. Saying it no longer applies, is just arbitrary. What else do you chose to take out of the Bible, heaven and Hell? Murder? and so on... text.
They made some comments saying that everybody was God's child, which I do not think is Biblical - John 1:12, 1 John 3:10. But tends to be universalist. I wish I could say the same, but the problem with that is that it is an attack on God. If your sin is no longer a problem, well that attacks his righteousness. He hates all sins! If you decide God loves your sin, well guess what? He loves pedophilia too... That would be an insult to anyone I believe... It is forgivable, that's why Jesus died, but do not say God loves you the way you are, as in he's happy with you living as you do...
Saying God loves people Just the way they are can be misleading. If God loves us the way we are as sinners and does not want us to change, why then did he bother sending Jesus to die according to the Christian faith? If you just take Jesus from the Bible, but leave everything out. Then you are creating your own fictional Jesus, and that's fine. But when people are talking about you, you want them to talk about you as the real person tha
It seemed like a lot of the arguments were more based on emotion than on what the scripture teaches! When we base our doctrine on anything else that what the Bible says, then what?! Chaos!
Some things Christians need to work on
Jesus said that he wants his followers to be known as people who love each other (John 13:35), sometimes unfortunately it seems like we are known to be gay bashers, which is really unfortunate I think.
First the primary goal of Christians is not to be anti-gay activist, but to love them, and be sharing the gospel with them. The saving truth that is true for all men, that we have fallen short of the glory of a God who is perfect, and despite what we have done, he gave us his Son, to pay for our sins that we might be cleared. They are sinners like all of us, they don't get a special box! We want them to know Jesus as a priority! Then let the Spirit of God deal with their sin!
As Christians we should be known as those who love gays, not who hate them! I think that blaming all the anti-gay talk on the Christians is kinda harsh! Because I know many atheists who are wayyy Anti gay, and I would say most Christians I know who though believe homosexual relations are not what God had in mind when he created man and woman, but who love men and women with homosexual lifestyles. If gay people have a hard time with non-believers who should be known for our love for them, build relationships with them, that they can experience the God that we worship!
I think parents should be taught to love their child no matter what, because even though homosexual relations miss the mark of God's ideal, we are all sinners, and so are parents, and grandparents, so being a good witness to our kids is to love them no matter what they do. So that they can at least get some support, if not from anyone else.
Christians have a bad reputation, I believe some with their sign saying "God hates fags", others maybe even killing gays. Some parents have caused severe psychological damage to their children in that way.
Anyways, I'll probably have another post on what the Bible teaches, what we can get out of science, but here I really wanted to talk about What we must be known for is our love, not for being homophobic and judgmental, these are sins too!!
In Christ, the savior,
Julian
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