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Jesus Loves LGBTQ+ (I Hate Conservative Christian Views)
5 years ago
This really needs to be said. Just had a huge debate with a certain individual (not going to mention their name) they claim to think that homosexuality is a sin and that God hates people like us yet loves us enough to pour his wrath? Doesn't make a bit of sense to me, no not one bit. I'm pretty sure God is not going around pointing out every little thing that's wrong with a person as someone who claims to be a true follower of Jesus goes around and does the very same thing God told us not to do. He specifically commanded us this very thing "Judge not and you will not be judged. Condemn not and you will not be condemned." I can understand why this individual has this kind of backwards thinking and that's because they've been heavily doctrinated probably for many years. They haven't done enough research to understand that homosexuality wasn't even written in the bible until 1983. The original language was hebrew and in these clobber scriptures it was translated as boy molesters (pedophiles) will not inherit the kingdom of God. So therefore Jesus does not condemn homosexuals.
Most conservatives even say that we are just living in lifestyles. Being LGBTQ+ is not a lifestyle, it's part of who we are. Loving someone in a healthy way is not a sin. It really peeves me to think that a Christain can even think this way saying "oh, well even though your a Christain and you have a relationship with Jesus, you can't truly be a follower of Christ if your gay and so God can't love you and you won't be able to enter heaven." To me that's a pretty messed up statement and cruel way of thinking. I don't believe that to be true.
Love is not a sin, hatred and judgement is and it's very hurtful to us just because of who we are attracted to and who we are. I really think the conservative Christains really need to do their research more and stop being so narrow-minded. I'm pretty sure God would not want his children to go around telling people to stop sinning completely because in reality it's not going to happen. I mean what's wrong with being in a healthy loving same-sex relationship? Nothing! I'm tired of these so called Christains claiming to think they know everything about who God is and believe in a man who wrote those scriptures when he clearly was human and made an error or two as well as that one man who paid America to have homosexual put in the english bibles. It's error, plain and simple! How hard is it for you to grasp that understanding?! God is the one who never changes and never makes error.
I really didn't want to say anything but when I saw his journal post about pointing out different sins and telling others to stop sinning i couldn't just sit by and say nothing. Something in my spirit told me to say what I felt was the right thing to do. I can't just sit by and let these Christains go around acting all religious and high and mighty acting like they got it all together to the point of judging and and condemning individuals. Most people don't want to be forced into religion, most people are not completely ready to hear that quite yet. You have to learn to love people right where their at. We are all on our own journey and the last thing Christains need to do is go around and bible thump people who aren't ready. I know Jesus did not do that. He doesn't force himself on others, we humans in our flawed thinking tend to do that which is not the way to go about it.
I will not stand for it! Love is love no matter your sexuality and gender! God loves everyone and that includes us LGBTQ+ people! God made you and wired you uniquely, you can not change that part of you. No one can pray the gay away! 
I'm really sorry you have to go through that. You don't have to be in a building to be in a church. The church can become a part of you. After all, the church starts with us as true followers of Christ. You don't have to say anything about it.
You believe in a mistranslated scripture that wasn't in the bible until 1983 which was put in there by a person, not God himself. Believe it or not there was LGBTQ+ that existed 2,000 years ago but was not really mentioned a lot in the bible. Jesus didn't point much of that out because it wasn't even an huge issue to him but a lot of Christains today like you seem to think that it is.
If you want to cause an issue on this journal, I suggest that you please keep it to yourself because I can not deal with judgemental Christians like you anymore. No wonder they say "Judgement first resides in the church". Thankfully I have family who knows and loves me all the same and I have a church that doesn't condemn and judge LGBTQ+. Mine is very accepting.
One thing God commands us to do is to love one another, and to not cast judgement upon others. Nobody is perfect, nobody is free from sin. We are supposed to worry about our own shortcomings and wrongdoings, it's wrong to put others down for their own sins. That's for them to deal with and for them to answer to at the end of the day. So many Christians forget this. Who cares who someone dates, as long as it's consenting and legal? That affects the other person in absolutely no way whatsoever. I don't know why people put so much of their focus on what others do with their lives, that's legal and consenting.
God also loves everybody. He's not going to stop loving us because we're LGBT+
I'm sorry, it just pisses me off that there are some Christains like this and I felt like something had to be said about what I had to deal with.