What will happen to gays on judgement day
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 give back of Jesus, but clearly it was on the heart of at least one, if not many, of the teens there that night. I admire this teen’s boldness to ask!
It’s a question this generation has had to wrestle with that previous generations did not. In truth, the speed with which the topic of homosexuality has come to take charge 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 renowned and explored. Then, however, they perceive from faith communiti
This article is part of the What Did Jesus Teach? series.
Silence Equals Support?
In a 2012 article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?1
The article was occasioned by a story about a gay teenager in Ohio who was suing his high school after university officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.”
Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the statement on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes,
While it’s sensible to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would have disapproved of male lover sex, there is no record of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, grant alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself offer an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.
Oremus seems to suggest that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not contain been very concerned about it.
There are at least two reasons that we should be skeptical of this view.
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Homosexuality, LGBTQ+ issues, and same-sex marriages are divisive issues in today’s culture, especially within American Christianity. This leads many people to wonder, “What does the Bible say about homosexuality?”
Denison Forum has compiled the tracking resource to aid you know more about God’s synonyms on this issue.
Guide to “What does the Bible state about homosexuality?”
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Homosexuality remains one of the most divisive issues in American culture. Whether it’s the pejoratively named “Don’t Say Gay” bill from a few years ago in Florida or similar stories in the years since, it is complicated to discuss this issue rationally and in a way that leads to fruitful discussion. And the degree to which the conversation has shifted from adults to children is one of the main reasons why. It seems that the acceptance of homosexuality is so widespread that schools are training it in sex-ed at younger and younger ages. Some Americans are actively raising and guiding their children toward queer relationships as young as toddlers. But, that leaves the question, how should Christians respond to thi
Was Homosexuality the Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah?
The antique man then responds just as Lot did, saying in verses 23 and 24, “No, my friends, don’t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don’t undertake this outrageous thing. Glance, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can utilize them and do to them whatever you want. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.”
Unfortunately, with no angels present this time to stop the attack, the men in Gibeah are able to carry out their plans. Verse 25 horrifyingly tells us that “the human took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they allow her go.” But she didn’t survive the unfeeling sexual violence. As the next verses explain, in the morning, the Levite found her lying deceased in the doorway.
This is among the most horrific stories in the Aged Testament, and it’s unfeasible to read it without feeling sick to your stomach. But as gruesome and disturbing as it is, it provides us with a clear picture of what the men of Sodom had in mind when they said they wanted to “have sex” with Lot’s guests. The men of Gibeah make the ex
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24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged instinctive relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.29They were filled with all style of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are complete of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.32Though they know God’s righteous
Homosexuality, LGBTQ+ issues, and same-sex marriages are divisive issues in today’s culture, especially within American Christianity. This leads many people to wonder, “What does the Bible say about homosexuality?”
Denison Forum has compiled the tracking resource to aid you know more about God’s synonyms on this issue.
Guide to “What does the Bible state about homosexuality?”
Lee este artículo en español.
Homosexuality remains one of the most divisive issues in American culture. Whether it’s the pejoratively named “Don’t Say Gay” bill from a few years ago in Florida or similar stories in the years since, it is complicated to discuss this issue rationally and in a way that leads to fruitful discussion. And the degree to which the conversation has shifted from adults to children is one of the main reasons why. It seems that the acceptance of homosexuality is so widespread that schools are training it in sex-ed at younger and younger ages. Some Americans are actively raising and guiding their children toward queer relationships as young as toddlers. But, that leaves the question, how should Christians respond to thi
Was Homosexuality the Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah?
The antique man then responds just as Lot did, saying in verses 23 and 24, “No, my friends, don’t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don’t undertake this outrageous thing. Glance, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can utilize them and do to them whatever you want. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.”
Unfortunately, with no angels present this time to stop the attack, the men in Gibeah are able to carry out their plans. Verse 25 horrifyingly tells us that “the human took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they allow her go.” But she didn’t survive the unfeeling sexual violence. As the next verses explain, in the morning, the Levite found her lying deceased in the doorway.
This is among the most horrific stories in the Aged Testament, and it’s unfeasible to read it without feeling sick to your stomach. But as gruesome and disturbing as it is, it provides us with a clear picture of what the men of Sodom had in mind when they said they wanted to “have sex” with Lot’s guests. The men of Gibeah make the ex
This article is part of the Tough Passages series.
Listen to the Passage
Read the Passage
24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged instinctive relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.29They were filled with all style of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are complete of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.32Though they know God’s righteous