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Christians Need to Respect Gay Marriage
By Bryan | June 17, 2008
With the recent passing victory in California regarding gay marriage rights, Christians really need to take a step back and look at the issue before taking action and crying out against gay marriage.
For starters, I do not support gay marriage and I do believe that marriage is meant to be a scared bond between a man and a woman. With that being said, I also will be the first one to not say a word bad about the issue as well. It simply does not make sense and this is the reason why. And it is also the reason that we need to be more tolerant of society and cultures as a whole.
I simply said I BELIEVE that marriage should be between a man and woman. How does that make it right? It doesn’t, and as part of my beliefs, I am not one to judge if it is right or wrong. How would you feel when you died and met God and He told you that love is love, and as long as people are happy and living a good life, He is happy? It would make all the protests and hate that are spewing out of people’s mouths worthless really.
As true Christians, we need to love our neighbor AND our enemy as we love ourselves and love our Lord God with all our hearts. This was Jesus’ one commandment that He told us to live by. So when something does not go our way or against our thinking, why are we turning to hate immediately?
I may hear a lot of negative comments about this, but if you are a true Christian follower and really believe in your religion, reach out to those who would like to get married so that they can feel the true love and happiness of marriage. That is what I am saying. I am not saying it is right or wrong, because I truly don’t know that answer. All I know is that I can not judge another human, so I will respect them and show them love. God bless you always.
Topics: Opinion |
June 18th, 2008 at 12:23 am
The Bible is clear about this issue. Marriage is between a man an a woman, not between two men or two women. The Bible definition of love does not include this type of relationship.
The position Christians hold is based on what God had reveled to human kind. Our duty is to obey God first and not man (in this case the California courts). As the Bible says: “Conform not to this world, but transform yourself be the renewing of your mind.”
Jesus loves you.
June 18th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Sure, I know what the Bible says about marriage. The only problem I have with the Bible at times it our interpretation of the Bible. Powerful and corrupt kings, queens and popes have contorted the Bible in ways we will never honestly know. All I am trying to say is that we need to respect their decision, but not believe in it. We all have beliefs, and the world would be a much more peaceful place if we could all learn to be tolerant of each others lifestyle choices, religion, culture and so many other factors. Thank you for you comment and God bless you.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
The bible is VERY clear. There’s no mistake about interpretation here. It says in Leviticus You shall NOT lay with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination. It is very clear AGAIN, in Romans 1:27 where it says: For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. It cannot be any clearer. According to GOD, homosexuality is SIN. God hates sin. God loves the homosexual, but he doesn’t like what they are doing. I am a Chrisitan and I don’t HAVE to support anything homosexual, because I follow God and God says it’s wrong and I agree with God. I am not here to “get along with the world”. I am here to serve God and follow God.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Bryan, I have never seen in the bible, anything that says Christians should support and tolerate sin. I see exactly the opposite. Flee from sin. Avoid the appearance of evil, etc. It says not to even associate or eat with people involved in sexual sin. According to God, homosexuality is sexual sin. God also says, those who practice such will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
All I am trying to say is that we need not to judege and I know what the Bible says. What I say is that we need to have an open mind about the how it was written down and passed along over thousands of years. Jesus ate and associated with prostitutes and tax collectors among other sinners. He didn’t flee from it. Prostitution is something I would call a sexual sin, so following Jesus’ lead, we need to reach out to them and talk with them. Maybe if we are a little more open and supportive, they would learn to accept Jesus. But by being negative and not even associating with them, we are not being true ministers of the Word when Jesus Christ Himself associated with those living in sin.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I stand corrected. The scripture which says not to even eat with them, refers to people who say that are believers, but do those things. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be nice to homosexuals. I’m not saying we shouldn’t reach out to them. I’m saying we can’t as Christians, accept as good, accept as “okay” what they are doing. That would be compromising our faith. We aren’t suppose to support what God calls sin. We would be hypcrites to tolerate and accept sinful behavior. We can love the person, but not like what they are doing. We don’t have to say it’s okay what they are doing.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Excuse me if I come across as saying that I feel it is okay because I don’t think that or believe that way whatsoever. I am opposed to gay marriage and will always be. I think I even used the word support, which I may have used that word wrong. I meant to use it as a term of reaching out and loving them, not supporting the marriage itself. You are right in that it would compromise our faith. Thank you and I hope I can clear up my position a little bit there on what I exactly meant.