Answering Tough Questions: The LGBTQA Community and God
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A Caution to Christians
A Caution to Christians
Stop Picking Your Favorite Sins To Attack
“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?
but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
Christians Struggle With This Sin!
Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Can I Be Actively Involved In These Activities?
Can I Be Actively Involved In These Activities?
What Does the Bible Say?
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,
For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
But God Made Me This Way
“If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—
What About Other Groups “God made this way?”
Murderers?
Serial Killers?
Robbers?
Child Molester?
But What About Love?
No One is saying what they are feeling is true or not.
No one is denying their attraction to someone.
They mean this in a selfish way. It is all focused on them and that is not considered love in the Bible.
God and Love
God and Love
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
“By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
“If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
Can I Support These Activities?
Can I Support These Activities?
and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
Can I Struggle With This And Be Faithful?
Can I Struggle With This And Be Faithful?
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.