Baptist View On Same Gender Marriage

John, I'd have to disagree with you in part. Of course he should love his daughter. I also don't think gay people wake up one day and decide "Hey, I want to be gay". Homosexuality may very well be the result of factors outside of a person's control such as upbringing, environmental factors, and even genetics. I just don't know. However, that still does not override God's clear statements in His inerrant word that homosexual actions are sinful. For example, a homosexual person may avail himself of God's prevenient grace and come to faith in Christ and still be "gay" in the sense of having same-sex attraction, but choosing not to act on those disordered urges. I think we need to be careful to make a distinction between temptation and actual sin.

 

One question brother. Do you eat shrimp, lobster, or Catfish ?

 

No, I don't.

 

Why not ? you are missing out, my friend !



believe it or not....God made them taste DELICIOUS ! Why would he do that...if he did not want US to eat them ?

 

Forbidden fruit ?

 

I just don't like seafood very much. Never have.

 

What an outright justification of sinful behavior.

Your Bible must be a great deal thinner than mine.

God don't make mistakes. You, however, err hugely with your theology.

 

We are fallen...broken. There are issues I struggle with that you might not, and vice-versa.

I do not pretend to understand the same sex attraction. I cannot. But to act upon this "attraction" in any way...or to decide to "live as" a person in rebellion to God...sorry, but that flies in the face of God's word.

MJ, you either believe God's word (which is quite clear) on this issue, or you call God "mistaken," or worse. Is that really your objective?

 

This view is correct folks. Imagine a movement in our country that sought to legitimize adultery. And then try to make the Bible say that adultery is ok as long as the act is done between two people who really love each other, and that God made me in such a manner that I am meant to be an adulterer.

God forbid!

A normal person may be tempted to adultery, and struggle with that most of his or her life. A former homosexual who becomes a Christian may struggle with attraction to the same sex. But both should reject immoral temptations and keep themselves from sexual immorality.

 

Exactly. We all have our weaknesses. Some men have a weakness with the wandering eye. Others done, but have another weakness. Satan is going to hit you where you are weak. Rather than writing off sodomy by saying they just can't help it (which is a lie from the pit of hell), we ought to be teaching people the truth, that is that sodomy is an abominable sin in the eyes of God and they need to resist that temptation in the same manner that I try to resist the temptations I'm faced with.

 

Has anyone looked into the various studies about the origin of homosexuality, and the possibility there is a genetical cause?

Homosexuality has been around since early in Genesis. Is it not strange how it continued on through human history and every now and then pops up as a critical behaviour of mankind?

Cheers,

Jim

 

I wonder about these things also. I know that just a hand full of years ago if someone in high school was gay they stood a good chance of being beaten on a regular basis. I don't know why any student would choose this for themselves if this lifestyle was strictly a choice on their part.

 

You could make the same argument for murder. Also strange that Satan has also been around through human history.

 

It isn't strange at all. There is a devil out there that hates God and knows what God hates. This devil is declared by the bible to be leading the fallen world system. It is not suprise, then, to find society at large engaging in sins like this and not only condoning it, but celebrating it as well.

 

Brother Paul,

Normally, I let people think what tey wish about me and things I say. In this case, however, I don't wish to leave any doubt. I do not support homosexuality as being anything but condemned in scripture. I have no doubts about this.

I am posturing the question because I don't think a lot of people have put enough thought into the people involved and have perhaps missed the boat in dealing with these people.

In all of scripture, there are other factors that entered into the condemnation of human kind. Lot's wife was not instantly condemned because of homosexuality, but simply because she turned and looked back........direct disobedience to God. The people in that city did not all engage in homosexual acts. Many of them were looking for virgin women. Even Lot offered his daughters, didn't he?

Perhaps the true lesson is that sin is sin is sin, and this is what we should be addressing.

Hope this clarifies my viewpoint.

Cheers,

Jim

 

I can not find where Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of homosexuals. I can find where they were destroyed because there was not even 10 righteous men to be found between the cities.

 

Homosexuality is a sin, there is no going around that, and God ordained marriage for a man and a woman, which I believe to be one of the reasons He calls the practice of homosexuality confusion.

Many ay that homosexuality is no more or less sinful than, say, drunkenness, or incest, or lying, and while this may be true the fact is that there are sins which God seems to hate more (and since He is the Creator and the Lawmaker He has the right to peeves) and adultery, homosexuality, murder, and idolatry seems to be in the top list.

 

Why do you suppose God went down to Sodom in the first place? Hint: it wasn't to count how many righteous people lived there.