Religious Views of Homosexuality (LGBTQ)

Tell you what, growing up in an African American home, and going to a Pentecostal church as a Christian, I never really knew what Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer were. Living in a live city full of children, happy people, the thought of someone being gay or whatever never crossed my mind why? Once again I did not know it was a thing. I was taught as a child through my parents, family members and church leaders that in life, God created Adam and Eve or humans in his image and that the proper way to produce and have children is through the combination of a man and a woman but in 2019, anything is possible now due to the changing of the world.

According to the bible on Leviticus 18 and 20, it states, “You shall not lie with a man as a woman, it an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).

“If a man lies with a male as a woman, both of them have committed an abomination, and they both shall surely be put to death, and their blood upon them” (Leviticus 20:13). As a Christian, I personally have nothing against homosexual people because as the bible says, “love one another and treat your neighbor as yourself, as you will want them to treat you.” Being religious people, we have nothing against gay people, we just follow what the bible says because we believe in God as he is the protector and savior of us all. In some countries, homosexual people get killed because they are against it. Countries like Russia, Nigeria, are one of the most dangerous places in the world to be gay.

Research Question: How does sexuality commonly develop, and what can appear to derange this process? Annotations #. (2018, July 25).BreakPoint: Why Some Christians Embrace LGBT Theology. Retrieved from http://www.breakpoint.org/2018/07/breakpoint-why-some-christians-embrace-lgbt- theology/ Many spiritual thinkers expect that homosexuality is unnatural and is a sign of humanity’s fall and that people had been created heterosexual and that homosexuality is a section of society’s degeneration.

The Bible is explained to the fine of man’s capacity and states same-sex relationship is a sin. It additionally states sex outside of marriage is a sin and mendacity, stealing, killing. I do not argue what is in the bible, the LGBTQ are attempting very difficult to alternate society view to be given their relationships as ordinary and therefore should no longer be considered a sin. Well, killing, mendacity, stealing, have been around since the cease of time. Should we not name these matters to sin also? However, some church buildings deal with sinners differently. Some churches ask gays to leave and turning their noses at gays whilst they ball continue to sin every day. I believe even though some churches embrace people of the LGBTQ community, some others hate it. They believe that even though the bible says a man should not lie with a man as a woman, that should be followed because it is what God wants for us. Homosexuality develops on its own. People feel attracted to their own sex because it is what they want and there is nothing to change that. New York Times Debating Bible Verses on Homosexuality. (2015, June 08). Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/05/us/samesex-scriptures.html

In the article, Caleb Kaltenbach, who is the lead pastor of Discovery Church in Simi Valley Cali states that heterosexual or straight people change themselves because their natural orientation given to them originally was not normal to them. They do not feel natural with their originality. But, according to Matthew Vines, author of “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships” states that even though Paul uses men with long hair in relation to same-sex relationships, it is different in today’s world. I believe that same-sex marriage should not be criticized because in the bible it says we should love one another. Even though I am a religious person, I don’t find anything wrong with being gay because I cannot change what is going on in this world such as racism, homosexuality and more.

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