There is something I don't understand: Many or most Christians pick on or outright hate gay people. I realize that homosexuality is a sin however the verses they usually recite also include adultery, fornication, idolatry, drunkenness, and liars. So why single out gays?
Also: Predestination, many anti-gays believe in predestination so if people are predestined to be gay why pick on them more than them more than the others? Does the Lords prayer not say "Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us..."
Who among us was born without original sin? thththat's all folks
I wouldn't say most Christians because it would be impossible to quantify such a claim. I will say that there are Christians I've encountered that have a great hatred for homosexuals. Which says more about those who profess they are Christian than anything else.
I have no issue with homosexuals. Yes, their sexual activity is an abomination to God. It is un-natural. And the health statistics that report the cancers they suffer due to their sexual behaviors demonstrate they pay a very high price for their ab-normal behaviors.
That being said, the sin redemption paradigm that eternal omniscient Father created before the world began plays out as planned.
There are many a redeemed former homosexual Christian who have found their way to Christ and a healthy life. They answered the call to repentance and rebirth in Christ. Because they like every other Christian hearkened unto their name being called by that inner spirit that knew their name before they were born.
I work with the public. I don't discriminate in providing services to homosexuals because their lifestyle or sexual preference is condemned by my faith.
My faith is in the precious Christ that told me the greatest command he could share with me is that I love my gay neighbor as myself. And I do. As I love my straight neighbor as myself. My transsexual neighbor as myself.
This doesn't mean I approve their sins or their exploiting their unfortunate and pitiable identity disorder. It means that I have compassion that my faith tells me unless they repent they will be doomed for eternity for the life they think everyone should be tolerant of.
A group that for decades asked to be tolerated now has man's law on their side. And in return, or is it revenge, many in their number form groups that if not tolerated even in one's personal opinion, religious or no, want to kill you.
The baker that made news recently in the supreme court ruling knows of what I speak. As does every Christian who served weddings and refused to provide for homosexual couples seeking their services. Death threats! Tolerate us or we'll kill you? And we're the bigots?
It is the way of a radically altered mind. Christ heals all. Pray for the gay community. Don't bash them. Some in their number will do that quite happily if they find out you're Christian, you love them, but you don't agree sin is tolerable in anyone.
We owe it to the eternal truth to be bigger than our haters.