Gay and Lesbian Studies

Study New Testament for Lesbians, Gays, Bi, and Transgender: With Extensive Notes on Greek Word Meaning and Context (Paperback)
by Dr A. Nyland (Author)

What Does God Think About Gays and Lesbians?

He loves them! He does not condemn them! He strictly came for them! If He were alive today he would have dinner with them! You may say, “no way”. Then you don’t know Jesus like you thought. You would be right along with the Pharisee’s judging His every act.

Let’s take issue with each one of my statements.

#1. He loves them.
“For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life”.
Pretty self-explanatory isn’t it? You can come up with all the reasons you want why we need to do hateful things toward these precious people, but you don’t have the heart of God. Yes these are precious ones because Christ came for them as much as He came for you.

#2 He does not condemn them.
“I came not to condemn the world but that the world might be saved”. Again you can’t explain that away no matter how hard you try.
One day Jesus was teaching and they brought to Him a woman caught in the act of adultery. I mean she was half naked and only minutes ago was having sex with a man.
I mean they were doing things that would make you and I blush. Now the law said that she was to be stoned, and that wasn’t up for debate. So there she is standing waiting for her sentence from God Himself cause that was who Jesus was. And He began writing in the sand. As He sat there writing, individual men were dropping their rocks and walking away. After all had gone, there she was standing before Jesus all alone. Here it is now, Jesus has an opportunity to blast her with the Bible and warn her of judgment and a lecture on illicit sex. So what does He say? “Woman, where are your accusers?” “I have none”, she replied. He said “neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more”. Oh, there it is, “sin no more”. What else was He going to say? Hey, that man might still be there hurry get back to him, he might leave without paying. No, He came to save sinners from their sinful ways, but the key is He did not condemn her. In fact, I will take this one step further, what if this woman had been in bed with another woman. Would Jesus have acted the same? Think before you answer. Yes, he would have. Sin is sin and Jesus came to forgive sinners in which we are all chiefs of sinners.

Most theologians agree that what Jesus was writing in the sand was the sins of those standing there. So when He said, “you without sin cast the fist stone”, they had to walk away for they had all sinned. You, my friend, have no excuse whatsoever to condemn one soul, not one. How can any one of us stand to accuse others when we ourselves are no better than they? Thank God there is not one among us without sin. The Bible says if you say you are without sin, you are a liar. Because if there was one of us who was perfect, he would beat the living hell out of us with his righteousness. Thank God none of us has the right to condemn.

#3 He strictly came for them.
I’m just going to quote one scripture for this one. “I came for those who are need of a physician, not those who are healthy”. In fact, I’m not saying that these individual people are sick, but all of us were in need of a physician yes including them. He came for all of us.

#4 He would have dinner with them too.
He let a prostitute women hang around, while He was having dinner with a religious man she was there at His feet. They got mad at Him because He was a friend of sinners. He went to have dinner with Zacheus a tax collector who was looked down upon as a prostitute was. Jesus would have no problem dining with any type of person no matter their lifestyle.

In closing, let’s quit condemning any type of lifestyle and start preaching to them the love and grace of God. This is the day of reconciliation we should be reconciling people to God by telling them about God’s love and His forgiveness for their sin. Now don’t get me started on half-wits who hang out at the abortion clinics spewing hate toward those who are in the wrong. Instead love them and let that love lead them to repentance. The days of John the Baptist are over. Jesus came and John had to go for both messages were different. John’s was of the law and Jesus full of grace and mercy. So if you are a John the Baptist go back into the woods and decrease so that those who have the nature of Christ can increase. The world needs to see the love of Jesus in their midst not the thundering condemnation of John. I would have left him in prison too if I was Jesus. Really, he would have found Jesus offensive. Yes John “the blind see the lame walk and the good news is being preached, but blessed is he who does not take offense in the Son of man”.

Love your enemies. Do good to those you don’t like. Then you will get God’s attention.

Let me close with a few words from Jesus. John 12, verse 46, says, “I have come into the world as a light, so that none who believes in me, should stay in darkness. As for the person who hears my words but who does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word that I spoke will condemn him at the last day”. So therefore rather than judge, which is not our job to do, love covers a multitude of sins.

For this reason; I would like to explain one simple thing: The Bible says about the Gay and Lesbians: Romans 1:18-32
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness, 1:19 because what can be known about God is plain to them; because God has made it plain to them. 1:20 For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse. 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened. 1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling a mortal human being and birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 1:25. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 1:29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 1:31 senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless. 1:32. Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.