I am a lover of the show on OWN called Our America with Lisa Ling. I try my hardest to stay on top of her various topics, but have failed terribly. I do however watch OWN a lot so I am able to catch up every now and then. I think it was last night that I saw an episode about being gay and Christian. It was a very hard episode for me to watch and it wasn't because I feel gay people are damned to HELL. It was hard because throughout the entire show only six verses were referred too.
The Bible has a ton of verses and although all of them are not directed toward homosexuality they all speak about sin. Sin is what the Bible tries to give us from and only seeing six verses as the only thing the Bible has to say about homosexuality is totally wrong. Sin is sin no matter the degree. I totally believe stories like Sodom and Gomorrah are an example of how God wants us to live. The parable talks about homosexuality and pre-martial sex and giving that as the reason why God wanted to punish the people of Sodom.
I do agree with the different groups forming to help those that are homosexual feel loved by God. It is sad that they were exiled from their churches the place where God goes to meet the sick, the weak, and the ones in need no matter the need. What breaks my heart is if the sick, the hurt and the weak can not go to church (the place God created for such people) where can they go. The show brought tears to my eyes to hear their stories of feeling less than worthy of God's love.
One thing I could not accept is these same groups telling the different members it is ok to live your life as a homosexual. God loves all but to say that God will not punish us for our sins I can not agree with that. It is not ok in the site of God to live in sin; would these same leaders tell me it is okay to have pre-martial sex?
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