Homosexuality is a common point of dissention in today’s societies. Our nation, individual states, churches, and schools have all been forced to decide what stand these organizations will take in response to this controversial affair. How do we as a nation, state, church, school or individual decide what is right? Can a person have feelings for the same sex? What is the standard by which we measure what is right and wrong? There is only one standard. There is only one place to go to find the truth. That place is the Word of God, The Holy Bible. Many people claim that The Bible doesn’t address Homosexuality. That is false. God makes His words and thoughts toward the subject extremely clear. He leaves no room for discussion or question. How do …show more content…
“Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable” (New International Bible, Lev. 18.22). He did not make this statement against His own children, but against the sin. According to Romans 3:23, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Rom. 8.23). Our Father loves those who commit the sin of homosexuality. Just as He loves those who commit the sins of gossip, deceit, lying, and all the other sins He speaks clearly against in His Word. However, it is the sin that God hates and finds detestable, not the sinner. Furthermore, in the first book of The Bible, The Lord tells us that marriage is to be between one man and one woman (Gen. 2.24). Homosexuality goes against God’s natural order because God did not design us this way. Genesis’ 1:27 tells us that God created mankind in His own image. The image of Christ is blameless and perfect, based on 1 Peter 2:22 that says, “He committed no sin.” The Lord made each person no matter what race or ethnic background in His image. His perfect image. Therefore just like He did not design me to be a liar and to tell lies, rather I make the choice to, He did not design anyone to be homosexual. They make the choice to. Each individual is born a sinner and we choose the sins we will partake in. Just as every individual on this earth can choose to look to Him to wash away our sins. He looks at us and loves us, washing …show more content…
They too believe that God’s word is clear, as in 1 Corinthians 6:19. Our marriages, bodies, and our sexuality is meant to be offered back to God. They are His temples. They are not our own to do with as we please. (FOCUS ON FAM CITATION) . Not only are those who are in Christian occupations standing on God’s Word, but also Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. CNS News has record and reported Justice Thomas saying, “In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as
Within America’s society today, 3.8 percent of the population is gay, lesbian, or bisexual. With only 17 of the 50 states legalizing and recognizing this type of relationship (“History…”), it puts a stronghold on same-sex couples to publicly declare their love with the promise of marriage. Same-sex marriages should be legalized because everyone has equal rights of freedom and liberty.
God has declared through His loving kindness and His righteousness how He enjoys heterosexual relationships, as Creator of man and woman. God created a woman from Adam’s rib so that Adam would not be alone. Upon completion of God creating woman, God asked Adam to name her; Adam declared she would be called woman as she was created with man’s rib, but her name will be Eve as she is the first woman. Therefore, that pleased God, and we have the first marriage. A marriage where to people man and woman come together. They were creatively designed by God to fit each other. God did not create man to lay with another man, as their bodies are not designed to fit or complement each other. Adam was given instructions from God not to eat from the tree of knowledge and as head of the marriage; it was his responsibility to enforce God’s command. Yet he failed and ate with Eve from the tree. And later that day, as God was walking in the garden in the coolness of the day, He called out to Adam. Adam and Eve were hiding from Him, as they knew they blew it. When God questioned Adam why did he eat from the tree, Adam blamed Eve. God is fair and just and He loves us all. Even when they had sinned against God, God loved them and clothed them with animal skins. In order for Him to provide the animal skins, He had to kill the animal.
He stated, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? (Matthew 19:4-5). The passage that Jesus alluded to is taken from Genesis 2:24, where we find God’s original plan for marriage. Nowhere in the Old or New Testament do we find authority or approval for homosexual marriages. This was not God’s plan. Just because our society accepts them, does not imply that God approves
Homosexuality has always been a concept that separates people. The most well known place with a “gay divide” is in religion. According to conservative Christians, being gay is wrong in the eyes of God. However, those who are more progressive Christians claim that nowhere in the Bible does God directly say that it is not okay to be gay. Also, homosexuality is not just an issue between progressives and conservatives; there is a strong rift between generations of Christians as well as far as dealing with homosexuality goes. As time has passed, society has slowly but surely become more accepting of homosexuality, which causes younger generation Christians to look at being gay differently than older Christians would.
...hat they choose to be homosexual. They choose to love who they love and be attracted to whom they are attracted to. Being that I am a Christian, I believe that homosexuality is a sin; however, I am neither for nor against homosexuality.
One right that many would oppose to give homosexuals is marriage. In “Against Homosexual Marriage” James Wilson says that “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed abomination” (302). Apparently, those who partake in “Adultery, sodomy, premarital sex, and divorce” are in other words, casted to Hell. Religion is only one factor that stops homosexuals from getting the equal rights they deserve.
"[I]t seems appropriate to understand sexual orientation (heterosexual or homosexual) as a deep-seated dimension of one's personality and to recognize its relative stability in a person. Generally, homosexual orientation is experienced as a given, not as something freely chosen. By itself, therefore, a homosexual orientation cannot be considered sinful, for morality presumes the freedom to choose. The teachings of the Church make it clear that the fundamental human rights of homosexual persons must be defended and that all of us must strive to eliminate any forms of injustice, oppression, or violence against them"(Pastoral).
Reflecting directly on the cultural attitudes and sociocultural messages explained throughout this course, it is clear that race, gender, and sexuality are all socially constructed in one way or another. Contrary to popular belief, race is actually almost completely socially constructed, it is not biological. Further, a human’s DNA does not differentiate at all to create any specific race. However, society has categorized certain things, such as skin color, to determine the race of individuals. In simpler terms, there are not specific genes that parents pass on to their offspring that determine their race; society categorizes people into specific races when they are born based on their
This essay will discuss the ways sexuality is gendered and their impacts towards both men and women by exploring the contemporary heterosexual scripts from a sociological perspective on three main aspects; i.e. sex drive, desire and power. It studies how men are deemed to have a higher sexual edge than women, who acts as the relationship gatekeepers. This essay analyses the theory that women predictably pursuits love and relationships while men are more sexually controlled by lusts and cravings. Sexual dominance and passiveness is another traditional script inspected in this essay, focusing on how men are always expected to be the prevailing initiator thus devouring more power in relationships while women stays being the weaker, submissive receivers.
Homosexuality is no exception. Twisted enough, and mistranslated enough, the Bible can create grounds for many opinions, however far out they may seem. What is important to understand is the fact that not a single person is completely rid of bias. The opinions of important figures, from preacher to presidential hopeful, are influenced by more than just the Bible. Culturalism plays a huge role, if not the largest role, in creating popular opinion when it comes to the Conservative Christian community and topics such as homosexuality. There are over 30000 verses in the Bible, yet only seven verses are believed to mention homosexuality, and of these, all seven have explanations as to why viewing them as God’s hatred of homosexuals is wrong and even ignorant is some cases. Conservative Christians used the Bible to justify slavery decades ago. Now they use it to justify the hatred of homosexuality. While the fault does not lie with each individual Conservative Christian, the community, and particularly its leaders, are responsible for recognizing the effects of culturalism and the influence exerted by religious leaders. Until the community takes responsibility for it, there will be no change when it comes to homosexuality, or future controversial
There are many arguments that are constantly being voiced about why we should turn our heads away from the many homosexual couples that desperately want to adopt. Since 70% of America’s population are Christian, they voice strong opinions towards the opposition of couples being of the same gender. On a vote taken in 2017, 31% of Orthodox Christians oppose gay couples. They voiced the teaching of “man and man is a sin and an abomination in the religious society.” Hebrews 13:8 states that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever; he does not “go with the flow. Many Christians interpret this excerpt as God's word that homosexuality is unnatural, a perversion, an abomination, fornication, vile affections, and a great sin against man. They
Many of us have been reflecting on questions about intersex and what it actually is. I’ll be explaining the definition of intersex, how common it is the conditions of intersex and what is basically considered to be intersex. Intersex is when a person is born with a sexual anatomy or reproductive system that doesn’t quite fit the description of male or female. Some examples are, a person could be born with an outer appearance as a female but could have male anatomy on the inside. Also a person can be born with what looks to be as both male and female genitals, such as, a boy can be born with a small penis or a scrotum that’s divided forming what can look like a labia or a girl can be born with a very large clitoris or even not having a vaginal opening. Then there’s the gene mix up. A person can be born with mosaic genetics which means that some of her cells have xx chromosomes and some have XY chromosomes.
Homosexuality (the tendency to be more sexually attracted to the same sex) is often confused with homosexual behavior (acting on homosexuality by engaging in homosexual acts), but the two are distinctly different. Even though homosexual behavior, especially in more recent years, has become an acceptable standard in our society it is a voluntary act and a sin, but the church has the ongoing responsibility and God-given call to love our neighbors, regardless of their sin because we too are all sinners. In light of this, we as Christian should treat homosexual behavior as we would any other sin by condemning the sin yet loving, nurturing, and keeping accountable the sinner.
Society has shaped the thoughts and minds of many individuals and because of this personal beliefs towards LGBT people came into play. Society was constantly telling people that there was something wrong with them if they were LGBT and that they would go to hell for it because God did not approve of it and it was a sin. I would like to say that because society was judging people and denying them, that they were committing a sin. It is not their place to decide the fate of certain people, the only person that can make those decisions is God. God is the one that decides whether we are deemed worthy to go to Heaven or not. With that being said, I grew up in a family that is very religious on one side and the other side had their person beliefs
The treatment of the LGBT community in American Society is a social injustice. What most people think is that they just want to be able to marry one another and be happy but that’s not it. They want to be treated like humans and not some weird creatures that no one has ever seen before. They want to be accepted for who them are and not what people want them to be and they deserve the right to be who they are just the same as any other human being. After all the discrimination they have endured they should be allowed to be who they are and be accepted as equals just like people of different skin color did in the times of segregation. We have a long way to go as a country but being the greatest country in the world in the eyes of many great America will make big steps to make things fair.