The problem is that he and most gays try and justify their lifestyle and it not me that’s condemning him but he himself. I genuinely love the guy, but our relationship is just a shallow one as I can sense we are not on the same page as I will never agree on his lifestyle. I can tell the man is not at peace. If he was then I would be asking different questions.The answer to why is fairly obvious: you have different approaches to Scripture. Homosexuality is not the only thing affected by this. I don't agree that he is deceived, but I know enough about traditional Protestantism to understand where you're coming from. How would you treat a friend who is Catholic, or following some other branch of Christianity that differs from yours in major ways? I don't think we can make that decision for you. I personally accept anyone with faith in Christ as their savior as a fellow Christian, even if I have serious disagreements with their theology. But I understand that other Christians don't agree.
Where the bible mentions homosexual behavior at all, it clearly condemns it. I freely grant all that. The issue is precisely whether that Biblical judgment is correct. The Bible sanctioned slavery as well, and nowhere attacks it as unjust. Are we prepared to argue that slavery today is biblically justified? One hundred and fifty years ago when the debate over slavery was raging, the bible seemed to be clearly on the slave holders' side. Abolitionists were hard pressed to justify their opposition to slavery on biblical grounds. Yet today, if you were to ask Christians in the South whether the Bible sanctions slavery, virtually everyone would agree that it does not. How do we account for such a monumental shift?
What happened is that the churches were finally driven to penetrate beyond the legal tenor of Scripture to an even deeper tenor, articulated by Israel out of the experience of the Exodus and the prophets and brought to sublime embodiment in Jesus' identification with harlots, tax collectors, the diseased and maimed and outcast and poor. It is that God suffers with the suffering and groans toward the reconciliation of all things. Therefore, Jesus went out of his way to declare forgiven, and to reintegrate into society in all details, those who were identified as "sinners" by virtue of the accidents of birth, or biology, or economic desperation. In the light of that supernal compassion, whatever our position on gays, the gospel's imperative to love, care for, and be identified with their sufferings is unmistakably clear.
In the same way, women are pressing us to acknowledge the sexism and patriarchalism that pervades Scripture and has alienated so many women from the church. The way out, however, is not to deny the sexism in Scripture, but to develop an interpretive theory that judges even Scripture in the light of the revelation in Jesus. What Jesus gives us is a critique of domination in all its forms, a critique that can be can be turned on the Bible itself. The Bible thus contains the principles of its own correction. We are freed from bibliolatry, the worship of the Bible. It is restored to its proper place as witness to the Word of God. And that word is a Person, not a book.
"With the interpretive grid provided by a critique of domination, we are able to filter out the sexism, patriarchalism, violence, and homophobia that are very much a part of the Bible, thus liberating it to reveal to us in fresh ways the inbreaking, in our time of God's domination-free order.
The answer to why is fairly obvious: you have different approaches to Scripture. Homosexuality is not the only thing affected by this. I don't agree that he is deceived, but I know enough about traditional Protestantism to understand where you're coming from. How would you treat a friend who is Catholic, or following some other branch of Christianity that differs from yours in major ways? I don't think we can make that decision for you. I personally accept anyone with faith in Christ as their savior as a fellow Christian, even if I have serious disagreements with their theology. But I understand that other Christians don't agree.
i know i can search it on google but i want to hear from you, different voices.
my 2 sisters don't condemn homosexuality, are they lukewarm?
Just be careful, you may already be on the road to condemnation of someone for doing something else, and not even realize it.
One of the most dangerous positions for a Christian is to settle in a place where they know they are "right", thus making another person or group "wrong."
Did you ask them why? That might be helpful to find out what mindset they are operating out of.
Good point. I think we need to teach the younger adults in our churches that as a church we must uphold the righteousness of God AND love our neighbor. Unfortunately most of the churches either focus on one or the other when we need to be doing both.If they are young it could be they bought into the brainwashing of the public schools.
Some young people have gay friends that they love.
- 1 Corinthians 5:12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?
- Deuteronomy 10:12 “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
You are treading on dangerously shaky "religiously judgmental" ground here, in that it is very easy to fall into Satan's trap of condemning the people caught in this. Jesus never did that. He loved even the most lowly sinner.
"For when we were yet sinners...….." Romans 5:8
(To only answer your isolated question, "Yes", the Bible does condemn the act of homosexuality.… in several places. Use your concordance or your computer's search feature.)
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