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THE METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH ( GAY CHURCH)  MCC justifies its existence on interpreting Bible scripture that appear to say that God made homosexuals. In particular, wouldjesusdiscriminate.com  simply states that - Born Eunuchs are homosexuals, hence Jesus affirms - You can be born gay. But is this a correct interpretation of Matthew 19 ? Below is the statement from "Would Jesus Discriminate"  Here Jesus refers to "eunuchs who have been so from birth." This terminology ("born eunuchs") was used in the ancient world to refer to homosexual men. Jesus indicates that being a "born eunuch" is a gift from God. SO LET'S EXAMINE IN CONTEXT THIS STATEMENT OF JESUS Matthew 19:12 The linking γάρ (‘for’) confirms the role of v. 12 as explanatory of v. 11. But the explanation is anything but immediately transparent. We are introduced to three kinds of eunuchs, each introduced in a separate clause and classified in term...

In her sermon on the last Sunday of  Black History Month , the Rev. Maria Swearingen preached about her belief that black lives, “queer lives” and immigrant lives matter.  There is no doubt that God loves people. But he calls all people to repent and turn from their sin and sin no more. Sin is then defined by scripture and not the cultural elite.  And since it also was  Transfiguration Sunday , she pointed to the story in the  Gospel of Matthew  where  God  declared Jesus “beloved.” That is a term, she said, that can be used for everyone.  Swearingen stood in the pulpit for the first time as the lesbian co-pastor of Calvary  Baptist Church , her wife and fellow co-pastor, the Rev. Sally Sarratt, smiling over her left shoulder as they began their new joint roles. “Here we find words that Sally and I will say to you so much you might start calling us a couple of broken-record co-pastors:  ‘You are God’s child, the beloved, and...

The Tabernacle, Camp, & c. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Revisionist interpreters devote considerable attention to passages in the Law that even more clearly address homosexual practice. Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 relate, “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.… If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.” Boswell , Edwards, Countryman, Nissinen, and others admit that, in Boswell’s words, “homosexual acts per se are mentioned.”75 Yet, they conclude that this passage is irrelevant for anyone except Old Testament Jews. Even Jesus and Paul considered the Levitical laws to be irrelevant under the new dispensation, such authors maintain. The laws concern ceremonial uncleanness rather than inherent evil; they concern ritual uncleanness, ethnic contamination, ancient societal taboos, or idolatry. The point...