Bible Discussion Thread

In the Holy Bible, we learn that Jesus tells us to love each other as He has loved us. My question is should we love gay people?

Love the sinner (the person) hate the sin.

Dear Stu,

We are to be loving and respectful of all people, but we are not to affirm their sinful lifestyles.

When we come across someone who insists that we accept them as a homosexual or any other orientation that is outside of heterosexual relations within marriage, then we must respectfully say that we cannot condone nor accept their lifestyle as being morally right before God. It is hard to say this to someone in our family (I have needed to do this) or a friend or co-worker. There are repercussions for going against what they are striving so hard to receive (acceptance and approval of their sin), but we must serve God and not men, and be willing to receive the mistreatment that follows for the sake of Christ.

We are to love everyone. We are not to love sin. God hates sin and it is a disgusting evil.

The deception I see is people attaching their identity to their sinful desires then when they find someone that doesn't approve of their sin they then claim they are rejecting the person and not the sin. This is a common deceptive tactic pushed by a certain anti-Christian political group that loves injecting their "identity" into everything as part of their dogma. Then if you question it you are to be shamed for daring question someone's "identity." It's really clever that you can be lied to, told you must agree with the lie, then shamed if you so much as question the lie, or else you get publicly attacked, shamed, and canceled. Satan is hard at work.

Hello again STU :) , homosexuality is a sin . We are all sinners , our sin might not be homosexuality but we are still sinners . Also , we don't always know the sexuality of everyone that we come into contact with, in the same way that we don't know each others sins . Only God knows everyone perfectly and that the includes all of our sins . Ultimately God is our judge , only He is righteous and can judge righteously . I have enough to do to try to keep myself in check without worrying about what sins others might be commuting , either openly or in secret . I believe that God loves everyone , He sheds forth His love to all of His creation every day , He is kind to everyone and that makes me believe that I should be also .

And Jesus was often seen to associate with sinners and that is why He came to save us from our sins.