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Verifiable Facts of the Bible

 

 

▪   A theocratic government of the land of Israel:  This involved an extensive code of laws for God’s people in the ancient world—complete with the “death penalty” and the word “abomination” attached to laws, which are obsolete in the Christian faith today.  This change was quite a departure for believers from the old covenant, and shocking to those who were under the Law.

 

▪   All references to male-male sexual behavior were regarding rebellion, violence, temple prostitution, and idolatry—thus, the forbidding in the Law any association of God’s people with these pagan practices of the nations before them.  This is not the same issue that we are speaking about today.  

 

▪   God established a “new covenant” with His people, where His law would be written on the hearts and minds, and known intuitively by them.  The code of the Mosaic Law, containing hundreds of laws, is not found written on the heart that I am aware of.  The New Testament explicitly states that believers in Jesus Christ are not under this body of laws, and that “love” is the entirety of the law. 

 

▪   The absence of any condemnation of marriage arrangements that are not defined as “one man and one woman,” and nothing other than the presence of parameters given by God for these marriages, as they were not to go outside of their tribe, though the tradition-based church prefers to represent the Bible otherwise.

 

▪   Paul’s description of idolaters and those who denied God, of whom he was speaking when he gave a reference to the concept of same-sex relations, and which was from his awareness and experience.  He was addressing spiritual rebellion against God, and he spoke of people who were in rebellion against God.  This context simply does not inherently describe the gay individual who loves God, or their relationships.

 

▪   Though not verified in Scripture, this is a biological reality for some people, that they were created and born with a homosexual orientation from birth.  Though some individuals prefer to deny its reality, there is abundant evidence to this effect.  It is, therefore, not an issue of rebellion by nature. 

 

▪   The notable reality that Scriptural laws and statements are difficult upon heterosexuals as well—though the specific words of Jesus regarding divorce, and remarriage after divorce outside of specified parameters being called “adultery,” are not accepted in the same rigid manner which they impose upon the gay believer to understand the Scriptures.  This is a double standard, and it is hypocrisy.

 

▪   Jesus taught “reason” in the use of laws, as opposed to a rigid and non-discerning use of law, which condemns “the innocent.”  He taught the principle of the spirit vs. the letter of the law.  He taught that we are to be very careful in how we judge people, and that we are not to judge according to appearance.

 

▪   The absence of any reference to gender-based laws or condemnations in the Ten Commandments, the teachings of Jesus, or the Book of Revelation, leaving only a highly context-based reference to the issue…and the principles of the new covenant, which includes reason, discernment, and liberty.

 

▪   It is explicitly stated that love, in its truest form, is the entirety of the law of God.

 

God, in His wisdom and in His Word, established the predominance of heterosexuality in societies.  He also established liberty in His Word, and a cause to view this issue with discernment and reason, and prolifically at that.  This is the Bible that God has given to humanity.  God loves all of His children equally.