Bible study LGBT
This article contains opinions based on the bible, please bare in mind that these are only opinions I have formed, it is up to you whether you agree with them or not.
Transgenders
Acts 8:27
And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority...
Why this is accepting of transgenders:
Most eunuchs are castrated by removing their testicles.
Matthew 19:12
For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.
Why this is accepting of transgenders:
It is evident that Jesus was aware that gender variance existed, and he does not condemn it.
Matt 5:22
Anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court.
Why this is accepting of transgenders:
This is most likely a transliteration of the Aramaic word “rakkah”, which is the feminine form of the adjective that means “to be tender, weak, or soft”, so this would be comparable to calling a man a “sissy” (or worse).
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Why this is accepting of transgenders:
This verse explains that gender doesn't mean anything, we are all the same to jesus.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
Why this is accepting of transgenders:
This explains that we are all equal no matter our bodies. No matter our bodies, we are accepted by Christ.
In conclusion
God accepts anyone, their bodies do not define who they are as a person. ⏩'
Homosexuals
The Bible generally accommodates a heterosexual viewpoint since 95% of the human race is heterosexual. That does not invalidate gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people. It simply recognizes that most people on earth are heterosexual.
Luke 17:34
I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left.
Reference: Bible Gateway
Why this is accepting of homosexuals
This passage, jesus clearly astablishes that gay people exist, he was stating that in general, on the night of the lord's return, some people will be taken to heaven, and some people will be left on earth.
If you read the rest of the chapter those that love the Lord will be caught up to be with Him.
Ruth 1:14
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth cleave unto her.
Why this is accepting of homosexuals
Note the passage:
Genesis 2:24
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
Why this is accepting of homosexuals
This is evidence that Ruth and Naomi were something of a passionate nature
Ruth 1:16
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
Why this is accepting of homosexuals
God wouldn't depict such loving words if he didn't accept lesbians. He would be trying to make them sound dirty. This does not sound dirty. This sounds like love. God is love.
Samuel 20:41
After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.
Why this is accepting of homosexuals
Quite simply because David and Jonathan kissed each other, which after a devestating experience, is usually a practice that takes place with a partner. ⏩'
Samuel 1:26
David says to Jonathan: Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.
Why this is accepting of homosexuals
Every verse in the bible is extremely important. The fact that this was put in the bible, clearly shows to me that their love was worthy god's acceptance. David clearly loves Jonathan, he even compared it to the love he received from women stating it's the best love he's ever had.
Samuel 18:1
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Why this is accepting of homosexuals
This verse proves that these men became one in soul which a similar thing is stated in marriage, two become one flesh when two people get married. The passionate love that these two men had were something of a passionate nature.
Samuel 18:2
From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return home to his family.
Why is this accepting of homosexuals
This verse shows that Jonathan's father loves David like a son, which sounds to me like he classed David as a son in law, which son in laws are someone's offspring's partner.
In conclusion
Even if Ruth and Naomi were not homosexuals, because in those days, disliking homosexuals was a people problem, god clearly wants the world to astablish that two women can become one flesh in love, as like two people can become one flesh in marriage. Two women can love each other so much that they want to go wherever the other goes.
Even if David and Jonathan were not homosexuals, because in those days, disliking homosexuals was a people problem, god clearly wants the world to astablish that two men can become one soul in love. Two men can love each other as they love women, and two men can kiss each other and love each other as much as they love themselves.
Parents can love that new person so much that they don't want that person to go home to their own parents.
It's okay for other people to love what those two people have for each other. Which is love. ⏩'
Debunking Christian's supposed homophobic passages
Genesis 2:24
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Debunking
Already, I can see that this isn't saying the same genders can't love each other. It actually makes me laugh how people can see it this way. It literally says that two in love become one flesh. Which means that two in love become only one gender anyway.
Which says to me that if a man and a woman marries, they will become one body and one gender, if a woman and a woman marries, they will become one body and stay that gender. If a man and a man married, they will become one body and stay one gender. Where is the homophobia in this passage?
Jude 1:7
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
Debunking
“Strange flesh” likely refers to the fact that the angels they wanted to assault were not human. Also, sexual immorality could be anything. It could be beastiality for all we know. Can you pin point what exactly is homophobic about this passage please?
Leviticus 18:22
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination
Debunking
Note that this passage includes as with. This means cheating on your wife with a male. Levicus laws are all talking about dishonering people.
Dishonoring your woman when she is on her period by forcing her to get naked, dishonoring your family by coming onto close relatives. Disonering god by sacrificing your children to a different religion. Dishonering your nabour by coming onto their partner. Coming onto your daughter in law, coming onto your fathers new wife. It is all aboit dishonering people. God would not have bought up out of the blue, a random sin. This whole passage was about dishonoring people.
Romans 1:26
Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature
AND
Romans 1:27
In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Debunking
In this passage, there is absolutely no reason to conclude that this is talking about lesbians. In this whole chapter, Paul was talking about Idolatry. Which is where people idolise supposed godesses etc and treat them like god.
It is talking about dishonoring jesus which is shameful.
Why would Paul jump from all those passages, to oh yeah, no gay people please. He wouldn't do it.
The most common sense understanding of Romans 1 is that Paul is describing shrine prostitution, cult prostitution, people who use sex to worship the fertility goddesses of ancient Rome.
Which makes perfect sense seeing as this whole passage is ROMANS. You can find more evidence of this here:
https://www.gaychristian101.com/does-romans-say-that-god-gives-gay-people-over-to-homosexuality.html
Corinthians 6:9
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men
⏩'Debunking
Men who have sex with men, the original translation is men who sleep with enslaved male prostitutes.
Timothy 1:10
For the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine
Debunking
The word “homosexual” is not found in the Bible in translations written prior to 1948, it was added as a result of the translators' own prejudices.
Debunking Christian's supposed Transphobic passages
Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.
Debunking
The word translated as “clothing” here, keli, is translated elsewhere as “armor”, and the word translated as “man”, geber, actually means “warrior”.
This implies a prohibition against intent to deceive by pretending to be a warrior, or for a warrior to deceive by disguising himself as a woman.
In conclusion to all
I asked the lord when I was 14, that if it's okay to be bisexual, may he make a man I fancy enter the church - I prayed this on Christmas eve. I prayed this before I left the house to go to church.
I also prayed that he'd talk to me. This was a man that was an outright 'sinner'. He drank, he smoked, he blasphemed often. He was very sexy. You would not expect a man like this to enter a church, it was so unlikely.
He not only entered the church, he arrived late, and sat right infront of me. The vicor said, please turn around and shake hands and introduce yourself to the people behind you. At this point, I was so nervous, and I'd had enough proof, I looked stand offish anyway, and I prayed he wouldn't, and he didn't.
The lord accepts everyone, and I know that. If he can accept me, he accepts you. Please stop making the lord out to be a villan. He is perfect. The bible was made thousands of years ago. If you want to feel accepted, I ask you to pray to him yourself.
Problems are created by us humans. Rape, murder and anything in between, it is a people problem. Starvation, it's a people problem. The amount of power we have as a human race to stop all of these things is rediculous. Yet it carries on by no fault of our own.
Jesus only has the power over kind loving individuals, people who cry out even if they don't know who they are crying out to. He has no control over someone who is controlled by sin. That is free will. He can only pull a mind away from that if they have truly asked for help.
So ask for him today. You never know if one day you'll be put in a position where you give into your own mind. And if you have him and idolise no other god, trust me, he will pull you through.
Thank you for reading this page. I hope this is enough to convince you that god is not Transphobic or Homophobic. Much love!
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