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It’s when two opposing ideas appear in complement one another when used in conjunction.
It’s called an “oxymoron.”
For instance, here are some oxymorons:
Act naturally
Act naturally
Alone together
Amazingly awful
Bittersweet
Clearly confused
Dark light
Deafening silence
Definite maybe
Ok, maybe these examples prove that two opposing ideas CAN be successfully joined at times.
At other times, however, contradictory ideas are actually contradictions, and, try as you might, you just cannot make them fit together.
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There are some oxymorons in the Christian world.
For instance, can you be a pro-choice believer?
Could you be, as I heard it espoused in my Aesthetics class at Middle Tenn State University, a “Christian Existentialist?”
I am sure that some on the political left wonder if “Christian” and “Republican” belong in the same sentence, while others on the political right question whether you can be a “Christian” and a “Democrat.”
And we will have to admit that combinations that some consider to be oxymoronic, others consider to be successful unions.
Nowhere is the question of compatibility so debated as in this one.
Can you be a Christian Homosexual?
Is that an oxymoron or a successful combination of terms?
Can a Christian be gay?
Some answer a resounding “yes.”
He is running for the Democratic nomination to be the president of the United States.
His name is Pete Butigeig.
He loves to talk of himself being a follower of Christ while being gay, then he makes this statement which has become quite common in his stump speech.
Speaking of his belief that he is gay, he says, “If you have a problem with who I am your quarrel is with my Creator.”
Now I know when you hear that, you’re mind is running to various places in the Scripture—places like which says: (NKJV)
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions.
For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
Your question might be something like this: How can a person who claims to be a Christian accept something that the Bible so clearly condemns?
Well before I answer that question, I need to be very honest right up front.
I firmly believe that the Bible speaks clearly on this subject and that those who would justify this lifestyle are mistaken and in grave danger.
So understand: I am not writing this to condemn those who disagree with me, but to warn them.
I am also writing it for you as a Christian who is increasingly hearing your view on this subject challenged, not just by the media on the TV but by your neighbor across the street.
In fact, in this city right now there are some churches who are being pulled apart by this issue.
So, knowing the confusion that is out there, I began to do some research and study.
In that process I ran across a video by Voddie Baucham which addressed many of the arguments that I have run into so, using His message as an outline I developed this message.
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And I really want you to listen this morning.
I want to straightforwardly address some of the confusion that is afoot in the church today.
I want to answer that question this morning.
I want to look at some of the arguments Christians who accept homosexuality make to justify their acceptance of the gay lifestyle and seek to Scripturally answer them.
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Those who justify this lifestyle say that they do so because of
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The Acceptance by Others
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Simply put, some believe that we should change the historic biblical position the church has taken on homosexuality because Christians of many other churches are embracing LGBTQ members.
Denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Chruch in America and the Presbyterian Church (USA) are being followed by others who claim to be evangelical and support what they call “LGBT equality.”
They are said to be bravely leading the way in showing what it looks like to be faithful Christians who affirm our LGBT “brothers” and “sisters.”
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While, in my view, none of the arguments made for changing the ban on homosexuality are convincing, this one really isn’t even an argument.
It’s like a child offering up the “everybody’s doing it” argument to his mom when he wants to do something foolish or dangerous.
It’s more like trying to use public opinion to manipulate an outcome.
Just because everyone’s doing it doesn’t mean it’s biblical.
In fact, if everyone is, indeed doing it, that’s pretty good evidence that it is NOT biblical!
We do not make our judgments based on what everyone is doing but on the word of God.
During World War 2 the Lutheran church in Germany largely caved to Hitler because it was the socially acceptable thing to do.
Before the Civil War, the Baptist church in the south condoned slavery because it was what everyone was doing.
Just because people accept something does not make it right.
This really isn’t an argument at all.
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And it certainly isn’t the only one that is used.
Others are saying that we must accept the practice of homosexuality because of:
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The Pain of Rejection.
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This argument asserts that the church’s ban on homosexuality creates such pain in those practicing this lifestyle that it cannot be of God.
The church’s rejection of same-sex relationships has caused tremendous, needless suffering to LGBT people and this pain is simply wrong.
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But simply speaking the truth is not rejection or hate.
It, in fact, can be the most loving action you can take.
If I am walking down the street tomorrow and I see you about to be plowed under by a city bus, I might tackle you and throw you to the pavement and break your arm in the process.
I am certain that would be painful, but the truth would be that I just saved your life and your arm will heal.
No! Speaking the truth is not hate.
Now, it can be done hatefully and that is wrong, but simply speaking the truth is not hate, even though it seems to be called that all the time.
In fact, Jesus often spoke painful truths to people.
In He said:
And in He said:
Jesus said that the righteousness God expected from us was
That’s a pretty hard truth.
He said, “If you don’t believe in me, you will die in your sins.”
I’m sure that upset some people and caused a lot of pain to the religious leaders.
And Jesus wasn’t the only one who said hard things.
The Apostle Paul did too.
He said in :
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