Does god love gay people
Learning to Say ‘God is Love’ When You’re Gay
“God is love.”
This is one of those things everybody’s heard. Sometimes you feel appreciate it’s the most profound thing in the world; sometimes you feel favor it’s a stale marshmallow, sweet at first but then dissolving on your tongue into bland nothingness. But as I’ve gotten to know LGBT people who were raised in Christian families, I’ve started to see how this incredibly common sentiment can damage people’s hearts and lives — because they were taught that the God of love couldn’t declare them.
If you’re an LGBT person who was raised Christian, there’s a adorable good chance that you’ve never heard a leader in your church welcome LGBT people, trusting that people appreciate you were in the pews and encouraging their faith. You’ve had to try to comprehend both your sexuality and your faith in the midst of misinformation and deadly silence.
I’m coming to all this as a sapphic convert to Catholicism. I didn’t develop up in the Church; I was introduced to God and to faith by people who genuinely did not act as though my sexual orientation separated me from God. I act my best to accept Catholic training, including in the area of sexuality. I’ve
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Caleb Kaltenbach (M.A. ’07) is an alumnus of Biola’s Talbot School of Theology, lead pastor of a large church in Simi Valley, Calif., and a married father of two. He’s also an emerging voice in the discussion of how Christians should occupy the LGBT community. That’s because Kaltenbach has an insider perspective, having been raised by a dad and mom who divorced and independently came out of the closet as a lgbtq+ man and a lesbian. Raised in the midst of LGBT parties and pride parades, Kaltenbach became a Christian and a pastor as a young individual. Today, he manages the tension of holding to the traditional biblical teaching on sexuality while loving his gay parents.
Kaltenbach’s one-of-a-kind story is detailed in his new book Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction and landed him on the front page of the New York Times in June. Biola Magazine reached out to him to talk about his book and his perspective on how Christians can enhanced navigate the complexities of this issue with truth and grace.
In your book you say that it’s time for Christians to own the iss Answer ALEXANDRIA, Tenn. (BP) — “Why doesn’t God love gays?” a teenager asked during our youth ministry time the other night. It was sort of out of the blue since the discussion was on the come back of Jesus, but clearly it was on the heart of at least one, if not many, of the teens there that night. I thank this teen’s boldness to ask! It’s a question this generation has had to wrestle with that previous generations did not. In evidence, the speed with which the topic of homosexuality has come to lead the social and political conversation is staggering, aided by what pastor Voddie Baucham described as “a coordinated, well-funded, well-connected propaganda strategy” in a 2012 article at The Gospel Coalition. The movement has become enjoy a snowflake that turns into an avalanche, demolishing any opposition in the public arena, and it’s still growing. Without a doubt, many young people are confused. They’re hearing in pop identity and maybe even in their schools that homosexuality is a perfectly legitimate lifestyle that not only should be tolerated but acknowledged and explored. Then, however, they notice from faith communit
If God is love, why does He condemn homosexuality?
A common argument for the acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex marriage is that, if God is cherish, He would not condemn the love of others. The main problem with this is the caring of “love” we’re talking about.
First John 4:8 says, “Whoever does not adoration does not know God, because God is love.” The “love” referenced here is the Greek agape. This type of like is the conscious perform of sacrificing one’s hold desires, comfort, and even well-being for the sake of another. It is love that sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins (John 3:16; Romans 5:8). The greatest fulfillment of this love is to sacrifice one’s life for another (John 15:13).
The ask, then, becomes what constitutes the well-being of another? The world and maybe even our own sensitivities might say that allowing others to live in a homosexual relationship is to see to their well-being. The Bible says otherwise. Romans 1:26 says homosexuality is disgraceful and dishonoring. First Corinthians 6:9 says it will maintain a person from the kingdom of God. First Corinthians 6:18 says that sexual immorality, including homosexuality, is a sin against one’s ow