Answering Some Challenging (and Common) Questions From Homosexual Communities
One of the biggest challenges the LGBT Community or in short the Homosexual Community has their habit of throwing questions. Rather than run away from the challenge, I would give short, simple answers for them. This is an open letter to homosexuals who seek to justify your behavior as wholesome and non-sinful. I would like to do some apologetics, R.C. Sproul Sr. from Ligonier Ministries style.
Why do Christians oppose homosexuality but eat bacon and shrimp?
My Answer:
The whole practice of Leviticus forbidding bacon and shrimp was purely ceremonial law. When Peter in Acts 10:13 saw the supposedly "unclean" animals, God had repealed the ceremonial law but NOT the moral law. Homosexuality continues to be condemned even in the New Testament. There is a difference between the ceremonial law and the moral law.
The ceremonial law was set because the Messiah, Jesus Christ had not yet come. The moral law has not changed a bit. Although the Bible in the New Testament does not condone Christians to murder homosexuals, it does not mean that the New Testament now endorses it. The New Testament allows Christians to eat bacon and shrimp but not practice sodomy.
You think that 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and Romans 1:27-29 are just loose translations? Let's discuss Greek. Most people say, "Well the Greek is debatable." but do they have a Greek dictionary? I would like to point out some Greek.
The Greek for "natural use" is "phukisan" to which stands for produced by nature, inborn or governed by instincts. Again, a lot of you homosexuals always use the "argument from debatable Greek". Again, the Greek "phukisan" is clear that it's the natural use. Man was always destined to have a natural sexual use with woman, not the same sex gender. Even biology teaches that the sperm can only fertilize an egg.
The second is 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 uses the term "arsenokoites" which "koites" meaning bed and "arsen" meaning male which means "abusers of themselves with mankind" for the English translation. Another is "malakon" used to describe the effeminate. "Malakon" is the "passive sexual partner". In short, the "argument from debatable Greek" is nothing more than for you homosexuals to justify homosexual behavior.
Jesus did not say being a homosexual was bad so why do you say it's bad?
My Answer:
Again, it's simply taking things out of context. That's what irritates me when it comes to people who misuse the Bible. Atheists have their nasty habit of ignoring context and so do homosexuals which I will tackle one by one.
So you say that Jesus did not oppose homosexuality because He didn't say, "You shall not be gay." It is the fallacy of the argument from silence. Again, do you ever bother to take a look at FULL CONTEXT? Remember condemnation can either be done directly or indirectly. You people are giving the fallacy of false dilemma which you restrict alternatives.
Matthew 19:4-6 as what some of you homosexuals say only talks about divorce. But do you READ THE CONTEXT? I doubt it. On the other hand let's see what it says. It says that in the beginning it was MALE AND FEMALE. Again, where was Ada and Steve when Adam and Eve were created? Again, Jesus said it was male and female. Debatable Greek again? Why don't you do more research instead of take things out of context. Again, the whole passage describes marriage is a union between MALE AND FEMALE. If I'm to throw your false dilemma argument, you can't show me anywhere here that Jesus said, "Male and female, male and male, female and female." It's not only about divorce but how marriage was.
Remember Jesus also came to fulfill the moral Law of the Old Testament. He did not abolish the Old Testament but fulfilled it. That is, while the Jewish Temple, eating of "unclean" meat and so on were abolished but the Ten Commandments remained.
But I don't see anywhere in the Ten Comments, "Thou shalt not be gay?"
That is a good question. When you look at it at first, it feels like God's Ten Commandments does not condemn homosexuality. However homosexuality is nothing more than a lie to one's self that you are the opposite sex. When homosexuals lie to themselves that they are the opposite sex, it's already tantamount to bearing false witness. Besides, this is even laughable considering some homosexuals are God-hating atheists.
I could bring up the issue of homosexuals as liars. I could bring up the issue of the late Jeffrey Laude. As much as I do not condone to his murder, his was a great act of deception. He pretended to be a she and the murderer must have gotten pretty pissed off. When homosexuals try to pass themselves as the opposite sex, that alone proves it's bearing false witness.
But aren't people born as homosexuals?
My Answer:
God created man and woman but homosexuality is a result of that corruption. It's a symptom of man's fallen nature like robbery, lying, murder, lust and adultery. Any sin is a result of man's fallen nature. Now you can say that God made homosexuals. Yes God made humanity but He did NOT want them to go against their original designs. He designed marriage as Jesus said, between MAN and WOMAN. What part of it can't you get?
Also the argument that heterosexual couples are siring homosexual children? Well, the problem again is their claim to be "born gay". But I could argue from lesbian activist Camille Paglia. She had said that homosexuality is not even the norm, the idea of being born gay is foolish. I have quoted her because you people tend to cling to homosexual activists.
I would also like to ask, how do they debate children can be homosexuals if homosexuals cannot even reproduce with each other? They can answer with bisexuals who have children. But the problem is, for example a gay and a lesbian both sired a child or that a lesbian got raped resulting to her having a child... then a straight Christian couple who cannot have a child adopted the child. The child would grow up to be a straight person even if he was born from one or two homosexual parents.
What About Ezekiel 16:49? It didn't mention Sodom was guilty of homosexuality!
Again, you are taking things OUT OF CONTEXT. It's annoying how you homosexuals first say, "It's just Old Testament." then we go to the Old Testament. The answer to the issue is you fail to read the whole verse in context. Again, it's really annoying how you are always purposely missing the point to justify your error.
Ezekiel 16:50 says, "And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good." Leviticus 18:22 says, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, it is an abomination." Funny that you should say, "Well Jesus took it all away..." then you return to the Old Testament in order to justify your sexual immorality.
We love each other and that's all that matters, why do you object?
My Answer:
Love in the Bible does not justify error. If you love a person, you would not sugar coat the truth but tell it as it is. People today try to justify any wrong relationship out of love. What is hypocritical about many homosexuals is that they condemn incest, pedophilia and polygamy but condone to homosexual marriage. This is nothing more than the heresy of altruism or... you can say it, the heresy that you pick God's moral law out of context.
So you say "love is all that matters". Now let's think would "love" supposedly justify an incestuous or adulterous relationship? For example, would love justify a married man to leave his wife and elope with another man's wife? Maybe you would say "Absolutely not." Then why do you again, use "love is all that matters" in a relationship then condemn heterosexual couples that cheat on each other who will use your same lame excuse to justify your homosexuality. Any feeling of love does not justify sexual immorality.
You say that homosexuality brings decline family life, what about heterosexual couples who cheat on each other?
My Answer:
Again, you said love is all that matters right? Now let me explain... homosexuality is no different than adultery. It's condemned in God's moral Law. Adultery and homosexuality is just as immoral as pedophilia, bestiality and incest. Heterosexual couples who cheat on each other are no different from homosexual couples in terms of being sexually immoral.
May I also address the issue that if you think no homosexual can cheat on his/her partner think again. I know a lesbian who was a playgirl, in a sense she always changed girlfriends. One may even see homosexual partners who are cheating on each other. But the problem is you homosexuals tend to sugar coat the truth. Both homosexuals and adulterers bring a decline to family life.
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