First Time For Everything

[waffles]

I cannot imagine caring about who another person is attracted to, especially to the point of asking them to leave while doing a joint fundraising drive with the salvation army of all things. I remember a lot from church as a kid about Jesus' good works and stance towards helping the lepers and the poor, but not a whole lot about him not allowing people to help the poor because they had a different sexual orientation. Everybody needs something to be offended about I guess.

[davsel]

I cannot imagine caring about who another person is attracted to, especially to the point of asking them to leave while doing a joint fundraising drive with the salvation army of all things. I remember a lot from church as a kid about Jesus' good works and stance towards helping the lepers and the poor, but not a whole lot about him not allowing people to help the poor because they had a different sexual orientation. Everybody needs something to be offended about I guess.

https://www.firstdallas.org/icampus/...homosexuality/

When confronted with verses in the New Testament against homosexuality, homosexual advocates will quickly go to another myth of homosexuality. And that is, Jesus never condemned homosexuality. That argument is flawed in three important ways.

First, that argument assumes that Jesus? words are more authoritative than the rest of the Bible. To say Jesus never condemned it is to say that Jesus? words carry more weight than the words of the apostle Paul or the apostle Peter or any other scripture. But we don?t believe that as Christians. Second Timothy 3:16 says, ?All Scripture is inspired by God.? Those are all God?s words.

Second, the argument fails to realize that by affirming the truthfulness of the Old Testament, Jesus automatically condemned homosexuality. In Matthew 5:17, Jesus said, ?Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.? Let me illustrate it this way. Let?s say somebody came up to you and said, ?I believe President Obama is pro-slavery.? You say, ?Why would you say such a thing?? And your friend says, ?Well, I did some research. Of all of the speeches the president has given, in not one speech did he speak out against slavery. Therefore, he is pro-slavery.? Would that be a logical deduction? Of course not. At his inauguration, the president swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. And the Constitution prohibits slavery. Thus by swearing to uphold the Constitution, he was saying, ?I am going to uphold all the laws, including laws against slavery.? It?s the same way with Jesus. When Jesus upheld the Old Testament, He was automatically condemning homosexuality.

Third, by upholding God?s plan for sexuality, Jesus did condemn homosexuality. In Matthew 19 the Pharisees tried to trick Jesus by questioning Him on the issue of divorce and remarriage. Jesus answered by going back to God?s original plan for human sexuality, which is this: sex is reserved for a marriage relationship between a man and a woman. Yes, it?s true that Jesus never mentioned the word ?homosexuality.? He never said, ?You shall not commit homosexuality.? But guess what? Jesus never said, ?You shall not commit incest.? Jesus never said, ?You shall not commit bestiality or pedophilia or necrophilia.? Was he pro-necrophilia and pedophilia? Of course not. By upholding God?s pattern for sexuality?a man and a woman in a marriage relationship?Jesus automatically condemned any deviation from that pattern.