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Actually saying being gay is a sin contradicts alot of passages in the Bible. The Bible very clearly says the "entire" law revolve around loving your neighbor as yourself. Being gay doesn't go against that. God is love and being gay is capable of love just as being straight is. Even if its sex, the "entire" includes sexual immorality.
A relationship that is responsible, unselfish, consenting, caring, that is love, whether gay or straight.
Galatians 5:14
14The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Matthew 7:12
So in everything, do to others as you'd have them do to you, for this sums up the law and the prophets.
Romans 13:8
8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Mathew 22:
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Galatians 5:22
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
John 13:34
34"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
1 Peter 3:8
Live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.
How good and plesant it is when brothers live together in harmony!
Psalm 133:1
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8
May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
James 2:8
8If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself,"
1 John 4:7
7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
About brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
1 John 4:16
...God is love. Whoever lives in love, lives in God and God in them.
1 John 4:11-12
Since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
God is love and anything that is love comes from God and therefore not a sin because the Law was built to keep love. Which can happen in a homosexual relationship. God says things are a sin because they go against it.
People would not need to be married if it man and woman coming together were divine. The only thing that makes marraige divine is coming together in total Love and devoting yourselfs to each other. Being united by Love itself, which is God. It is sexual immorality to become one with anyone other than God. That is why people must get married to be righteously joined. Infact its considered divine to be cellabate. If it was divine then bieng cellabate would be considered a sin because thats being anti-family or straight couples that choose not to breed would be considered doing a sin.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say its a divine union nor does it say that it MUST ONLY be between a man and a women. It DESCRIBES marriages between a man and a woman but it doesn't make it a law. Infact Paul said it is better not to marry but if it will keep you from commiting sexual immorality then one must do so. This is why g/l/b/t people need marry so when they fall in love they won't commit sexual immorality.
There are girls born with penises and boys born with vaginas. If marriage depended on man and women then what do we have to say for them?
The Bible also doesn't "ordain" intersexual marriage or inter racial marriage but that doesn't mean that its wrong.
The family structure is not a salvation issue. God only made it for an earthly thing just like he made the plants and the animals.It doesn't get you into heaven, doing good deeds unto others and believing Jesus died on the cross for our sins does. Bieng gay/lesbian/bi/transgendered won't stop you from doing good deeds. The reason God made alot of people straight is to procreate but thats in Gods hands not ours if he makes some of us g/l/b/t then thats his decision. Love however is Divine and that can come in infinite forms
Of course he didn't create two men or two women AT FIRST. Genesis describes the begining, he wanted mankind to multiply and inherit the Earth.
But over time, the necessity to grow the population lessens, and God can allow people more freedom, so he throws gays/lesbians/bis/transgenders into the gene pool to create some variety and help open people's eyes to the diversity of his creation (he also throws in more races, hair colours, eye colours and other characteristics).
When God made a rainbow for Noah after the great flood. Did he make a white arch? No he made a wonderful variety other different colors to show the beauty and diversity of his creation. To show his love for his people.
If you have any other questions about any other bible passages, how being gay is not a sin or anything else check out my website at:
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It has just about everything on homosexuality and Christianity.
Kisses,
God Bless,
Christie