Homosexuality and Christianity

Homosexuality and Christianity.  There seems to be a lot of fireworks on this subject now days.  The first thing I would like to point out is that God did not make the gay or homosexual person the way they are.  In the beginning God created man perfect and in the image of God.  When man turned from God, then everything that’s happened to man since is mans doing not God’s.  So if you are in that situation, please don’t blame God.

Secondly I would like to point out, that God loves the homosexual just as much as any other person walking this globe.  Christ freely laid down his life so all could be saved.  God is no respecter of persons, he sees us all the same.  Acts 10:34  Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality.  The apostle Paul also states in Romans 2:11 For there is no partiality with God.

In God’s eyes we are all sinners until believe in Jesus Christ to save us from our sin.  When you make that commitment, it doesn’t matter if your gay or homosexual or an adulterer, or a fornicator, or lascivious or liar or thief or coveter or any other sin that all people commit.  The truth is, we are all sinners and there are none righteous, no not one. Isaiah 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, everyone, to his own way: And the Lord has laid on Him (Jesus Christ) the iniquity of us all.  We all start out in the same mess, and there is only one that can help us, and that is Christ.  Romans 3:9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all.  For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin. When we come to him, we must know in our own heart that we are sinful, and also know that he is faithful and just to forgive us.  We confess our sins to him, and repent of our sins to him. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He (Christ) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.   Christ then applies the blood he shed at Calvary’s Cross to our sins washing us clean before God.  Psalm 32: 1 – 2  1) Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.  2) Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile (deceit).

Anyone that comes to Christ, must believe that he is who the scriptures say that he is, and if they believe then God considers them one of his own and all their sins are forgiven.  What then?  At this point you are completely clean and if you died right that second, you could walk boldly into God’s throne room and be guiltless of any wrong.  Hebrews 4: 14 – 16  14) Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.  15) For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16) Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace,  that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.  You would be white as snow before God.  But usually we don’t die right that second, so now what?  The next step is to step away from the old ways, and begin life as a new creation.  It’s like quitting smoking.  The first few hours are easy, then the cravings begin.  And as I said before, it doesn’t matter if your homosexual, or fornicator (a person having sex outside of their marriage partner) or any other problem, you must begin a life free of the old ways. 

So if you are in the homosexual lifestyle and think that God doesn’t love you because of what you do, please reconsider.  Christ himself said, it is not the healthy that need a doctor.  Christ died for the ungodly.  At the time of Christ death, we were all ungodly, we just didn’t realize it.  His blood was shed for all humankind.  All you need to do is believe.  Please read my letter on becoming a Christian.  It’s easier than you think, it free, and its eternal.  And don’t make the mistake so many people do, and feel they can’t come to God yet because of their Sin.  They want to wait until “someday” when they can get the sin out of their lives, then come to God.  You have to come just as you are.  You cannot cleans yourself on your own, only Jesus Christ can do that.

So what about Gay marriage?

What does God say about Gay marriage?  Should the Church approve of Gay Marriage?

Should Christians accept Gay Marriage?  What does the bible say about Gay Marriage?

Hopefully the scripture itself will answer these questions for us.

The purpose of this article is not to condone or condemn, but to give a scriptural perspective only.  Society will end up doing what society will do, and nothing will ever change that.  Morality based on any-ones definition, cannot be regulated by law, but only by ones heart as an individual.

If the gay community wants to join together, they will do that with or without any laws, but scripturally speaking, it is impossible for them to marry.  You can call it anything you want, but marriage.  Remember I am speaking from a biblical perspective.

The Christian conception of marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman that goes all the way back to Adam & Eve.  When the two join together they become one before God, and when they both give themselves over to God, then they also become one with God.  This is the way we were created to be, man plus woman plus God all becoming one with each other.

Man was created in the image of God.  Genesis 1: 27   So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. 

Genesis 2: 21 – 24    And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from  man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.

In the above scripture we are told why marriage can only be between a man and a woman.  When God created Adam, he created him in his image, and Adam was originally created both male and female in one body.  God had created them as “one flesh” like the angels.  God later removed the female portion of Adam out of his flesh and created Woman also in his image, so the male would have a mate to populate the earth.  Adam knew that this Woman God presented to him had been taken from him, and he knew that the only way now the male could be complete, would be to union himself back with the female, and the two would become “one flesh” a complete being again. 

Once Eve was taken out of Adam, he was no longer a whole, but a half, and Eve was the other half.  When those two halves come together in marriage, they become a whole again. This is made very clear in the scripture itself.  Read Genesis 5: 1 – 2 very carefully.  This is the book of the generations of Adam.  In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.   This verse very plainly states that God created Man both male and female and called their name Adam.

Joining two Adams together or two Eves together does not make a whole.  They only become a whole when the half that was whole is reunited with the half that was removed.   Consider taking an orange and removing the juice from the inside.  You have two parts of the orange.  But if you wanted a complete orange, you couldn’t take the juice from two and mix them together and say “now I have a whole orange.”  Nor could you take the two empty orange shells and put them together without the juice.  

I hope this explains the biblical perspective of marriage, and why it must be between a male and female only.  Society can set laws governing the legal definitions of anything, but if your desire is to be united with Gods approval, then you must follow the biblical definition.