I have a friend, literally a neighbor, who is extremely mislead. He believes that homosexuality is ok with God. He is a very theological/orthodox person. He is also Catholic or Roman Catholic if that should make any difference. I am a simple believer, not a theologian. Nonetheless I tried to raise true arguments to get him to see that homosexuality is wrong in the eyes of God. I told him that God is not a God who changes; I pointed out that many times in the Bible it states that homosexuality is detesable to God; I also pointed out that if a man and a man or a woman and woman we're supposed to be together, what is the point of difference in genders, since a man and a man or a woman and a woman cannot reproduce. I pointed out it is wrong simple because it goes against the word of God. All these things I have pointed out to him and he still does not realize it.
He pays much too much attention to science. For instance, he noted that many animals perform homosexual acts, which is true. I pointed out we are not animals, we are God's creation, made like him. Likewise, he doesn't believe the earth was created in 7 days. (Which, all such facts are in the end unrelative to loving and trusting God since God would show you the answers anyways!).
Can anyone help me find some scriptures or an "argument" which may stand to his and hopefully change his mind? And of course, I have been praying for him.
Thank you!
Main thing I would suggest is looking to God - not thinking about what you will say beforehand, as Jesus recommended - and not so much for prepared answers. God does teach us in our hearts through Scripture, and often those revelations are just so to help such people. [That is teach someone to fish rather then to just hand off a fish.]
On science: everybody is turning to what they call "science" these days instead of God. It reminds me of the time when the Greeks took over the rule of Israel and attempted to force all of Israel to assimilate to their culture. The Greeks were renowned for their earthly wisdom. But, as Paul well points out, 'to the Greeks the cross is foolishness... God's foolishness is greater then man's wisdom'. [And that Greek desecration of the Temple was spoken of in Daniel as a spiritual foreshadowing of the anti-christ.]
Your argument that we are not animals was a very sound animal.
And that is a good point to contemplate on.
We are not called to be animals, but Children of God -- how vast is the difference? And why does man so willingly deprave even his lowly stature to compare himself to mere beasts of the field?
As for those who think they know: they are sitting in judgment of those who do not claim to such knowledge as they do. For them, they are judged as they judge for their judgements are not accurate, but slanderous: and being slanderous they reveal the secrets of their own heart, for they project onto others the very darkness they do not see in their own hearts.
For instance, evolutionists tend to see creationists as naive and unintelligent, not paying attention to evidence. Yet in all of their boasting they are believing men who think themselves "experts" over God. And man and all of his wisdom are but as insects compared to the wisdom of God. Was man there at creation that He might prove how it was one way or the other? No. But Christians have the Spirit of God in their hearts which 'searches out even the deep things of God', so the Spirit confirms the story in creation as being true.
What, however, is their confirmation? Or, what manner of evidence might they have which could tell them how the world came about if they were not there? Should one trust such information?
What they end up doing is trusting the words from 'experts' and their conclusions and singing along with that. Yet, our experts are true experts and we give a testimony they do not believe. Is it not naive of them to trust man's words regardless of how conclusive they might think their evidence is?
The Heavens and the earth were created for our benefit. They do not matter, we matter. These things are but as a wrapping around our consciousness, the backdrop of the story written for us. These who trust in the world and what they see with their fleshly eyes and what they hear with their fleshly ears show they can not comprehend this at all. Instead, they take very literally and permanent what never was.
(No wonder then they love to rail against us for 'taking the Word of God literally', though they show they have no understanding of how we think or what we see in our hearts when they say such things.)
They take the world literally, we take God literally. They can not understand the things of God for they are not of God. Now, whether or not this person is saved or not does not matter, for they are walking in the ways of the world and considering that the final verdict.
But God has so designed things that the wise might be caught in their conceit, and in the end, proven up to be what they are: hypocrites, convicted of the very charges their slander put on the innocent.
