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How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
It's difficult because it's a sin people condone a lot. Just state your belief and the Bible verses you feel are relevant and let the chips fall where they may. Remember God is bigger than us. It's easy to be intimidated when our eyes are off God.How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
There's really no way to straddle the line. I have friends and family in the LGBT community and they've made it crystal clear that you're either with them or against them. When Christians say something like "I love YOU but your lifestyle is sinful", it doesn't scan for them. They see their sexual preference as a defining element of their identity. To reverse things, it would be like someone saying the same thing to a Christian about his Christian faith. How can you say you love me if you don't accept this element of my life?How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
I'd say, "I respect your opinion, but I don't agree with you. I understand that you don't understand."How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
How do you keep those friends and family then, unless you imply that you're for their lifestyle?There's really no way to straddle the line. I have friends and family in the LGBT community and they've made it crystal clear that you're either with them or against them. When Christians say something like "I love YOU but your lifestyle is sinful", it doesn't scan for them. They see their sexual preference as a defining element of their identity. To reverse things, it would be like someone saying the same thing to a Christian about his Christian faith. How can you say you love me if you don't accept this element of my life?
Well, the LGBT crowd see things the exact same way. If Christians don't love whichever letter the LGBT person falls into then obviously Christians don't love them as people. That's how they see it.
So on their terms, we're either (1) for them or else (2) we're against them. There isn't a third category. And most of them are doing everything they can to eliminate the second category.
Kick the dust of your sandals and move on.How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
How indeed?How do you keep those friends and family then, unless you imply that you're for their lifestyle?
Throughout the ages, Christians have repeatedly "cherry-picked" certain portions of Scripture that support their agenda, while conveniently ignoring and/or reinterpreting those passages that don't conform to their preconceived, self-serving ideas!How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
How should a Christian react when people try to intimidate them for their views on homosexuality? How to respond without hurting feelings but stating the truth?
When Jesus called Zaccheus down from the tree he had climbed, He never chided him about him being a sinful tax-collector. Salvation came to Zaccheus' house, without Jesus calling him out.
Luke 19; worth reading.
Also worth reading:
Leviticus 18:22: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination."
The militant homosexual movement is so bad that if a Christian organization like Family Research Council posts facts and statistics about the homosexual lifestyle, they will be defamed and put an a hate list by the radical leftist organization, the SPLC. Which did indeed happen. I'm afraid there isn't much that can be done to avoid leftist censorship and persecution of Christian morality until society returns to God.