Jesus did not affirm a gay lifestyle
It is one thing to not believe the Bible, and another to misreport what the Bible says; the Bible does not say that Jesus was fine with or indifferent on homosexuality. Jesus also doesn't talk about cars.
Those who fought to make homosexual marriage legal rebutted the objection of conservative Christians by invoking the separation between church and state allegedly imposed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. But that is irrelevant to what the church believes and what the state believes and neither can interfere or the state cant start its own church. Irrelevant!
Now that such rights have been secured, that separation is being blurred as many LGBTQ people seek to find affirmation inside the church as well as outside. But it is not there. They will find affirmation in liberal non Bible believing churches led by false prophets and false teachers according to 2 Peter.
An example of a modern false prophet, such as Pastor John Pavlowvitz of North Raleigh Community Church in North Carolina, offer that affirmation freely, not only refusing to call the practice of homosexuality sinful, but rebuking any who do. Pavlowvitz wrote the following on his blog, Stuff That Needs to Be Said:
It’s the height of arrogance to assume that the manner in which someone loves is up for another’s debate. I’ll never tell an LGBTQ person that their gender identity or sexual orientation are not God’s best for them, because I simply do not believe that to be at all true.
No clear reading of scripture shows that Jesus promoted a homosexual lifestyle. Would He have shown compassion to homosexuals? There are abundant examples of Jesus treating with compassion people who felt like outcasts from society, people lonely and disenfranchised. He offered forgiveness to anyone willing to turn from sin. But He did not approve of sin. He called all sinner to repent of their sin and that would include any form of sexual activity outside of heterosexual marriage.
Pastors should welcome all people and call all people to repentance.
Many will object to this conclusion:
“Jesus was silent on the whole subject of homosexuality, so how do you know what He felt about same-sex marriage or attraction?”
Many will object to this conclusion:
“Jesus was silent on the whole subject of homosexuality, so how do you know what He felt about same-sex marriage or attraction?”
Yet Jesus affirms heterosexual marriage and speaks of the danger of divorce. He spoke of Adam and Eve, he also affirm the moral restrictions from the Old Testament and built on them, and the Apostle Paul outlines clearly in Romans 1 the prohibitions against both lesbianism and male homosexuality.
1 Corinthians 6:8-12 does give hope to those who repent of homosexual sin...Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
