Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in an interview with CNN:
"I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us. Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender."
Homosexuality a "gift" from God. Romans 1:18-32 doesn't agree. I don't equate God's wrath with a gift from God.
God's Wrath Against Mankind
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts
were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. (Romans 1:18-32)
6 comments:
Horrifying!
Thank you Bill! I get so tired of people saying that gay people were "born that way" Come on people! That is such a lie of the devil.
I don't know Kristi. I think there's a legitimate argument that gay people were born that way. Afterall, weren't we all born into sin? Some struggle with sexual sin, some with a tendency for the bottle, others with various other sins. The world has made up the term "vice" to describe them. But in the end, it's sin. It's embedded in all of us from birth.
So I don't completely disagree with the argument that people are "born that way," because, well, they were born in sin, weren't they?
Ok, yes, Joey, people were born sinful. However, I don't think that is what people mean when they state that "God made me this way". I do not believe that God made people gay. Sorry, nope.
I simply cannot look into baby Dims eyes and think "Hey, he might be gay."
If people are "born gay" then what about all of those who leave the homosexual lifestyle through organizations like Exodus International?
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