Respectfully, my list didn't start with being queer, it started with people who typically don't get assumed or trusted to ever be forgiven, or able to change if they embrace Christ.
No one is condemning you for being gay nor am I lumping you in with rapists and murderers.
I'm giving categories of types of people who aren't ever seen as redeemed or forgiven; whether their sexual desires remain homosexual or not after Christ is another topic I addressed in a different post.
This post is aimed at people who are hypocritical and affirming their own self-righteousness against other Christians (or people on the fence about Christianity) who have testimonies of a different sexual orientation, criminal history, and spiritual practices of the past.
Affirming sin within the pulpit isn't biblical, but condemning people who have extreme experiences or testimonies about their sexuality, mental health, and addictions or self-expressions, isn't biblical either.
You can give people the truth that God made man and woman as they are meant to be, but if our experiences and trauma reshape our ideals and societal standards of defining and identifying what is a man and a woman, that's a change in man's heart and desires, not God's. And God works through all of us, and we all should hold grace to one another to preach the Gospel and accept if people reject it or accept it.
You're not the first gay person to derogatize me as a cunt, yet nowhere in my posts have I demeaned you with slurs, or spoken of you like you're sexually impure and worthless, to warrant this type of reaction from your community.
You can redefine and choose how you want to define your sexual morality and immorality in others, and I'm not forcing you to change your ideals and preferences, you can make your own choices and live in them confidently without my approval or input. In regards to my own sexual morality, and what the Lord has shared and shown me and what He has put on my heart toward the Church and man and the truth of His word, my Bible says differently to what you say and whether you accept or reject where I'm coming from when addressing sin and sexuality is fine, I will still stand by what I say and refuse to stoop to calling you slurs and names because I don't see you that way, nor want to treat you that way. Whether you believe that or not is also up to you, the thing you and I have in common is that God gave us both the ability to choose, and we both can choose how these discussions and truth-debates can go, and how it turns out via intepretation and belief-structure.
I'm specifically talking about Christians condemning or rejecting those who want to connect with Christ and the church, based on their past history or definition of their sexual morality or immorality.
And it's not as long as you love God, people fail to love God everyday; people fail to love as Christ loves us. Sins can be forgiven but forgiveness doesn't cause instant human amnesia of the very real and very difficult transgressions human beings inflict on one another.
You may be gay by naturality and self-discovery, but another person may have raped someone of the same sex by choice and opportunity, that doesn't make them gay, it makes them a rapist and the other a victim. Just as being gay and racist is not the same as just being gay. Racism is an iniquity to mistreat and misappropriate racial difference for supremacy. Sexuality and race are not interconnected in that way in the Bible, because it's not liberalism, where difference equals only oppressed, and disagreement equals hatred. Hatred has very specific intentions that in no way wants the best for another. Disagreement offers the opposite.
Yes, being gay is a sin, but if we talk about it like we're having a conversation and not spewing unfounded accusations, then I can tell you that being gay is a sin, it's a biblical truth, but being gay and not lusting after the same-sex, being celibate, living for Christ alone and not in the concerns or affirmation of others, is not a sin issue particularly, it's a struggle against sexual desires and the flesh- just as God called straight people to not sin by being celibate until marriage, to not cheat on their spouses, to not have more than one wife, to not have sex with your family member, to not sexually abuse others: all these things are instances of sexual immorality (be it sin, iniquity, or teansgressions) because it's a misuse of our sexuality toward ourselves, and toward others.
When we refrain from enacting on our sexual desires as we please - straight or gay - we are actually withholding ourselves and others from the harm, illness, and regret we could perpetuate, because sex has a purpose besides pleasure. This discussion isn't condemning gay people or denying their sexuality, it's actually talking about a broader concept of how our sexuality can be a result of others' sins, exposure, experience, and the wrestle of identity on earth because we are fallen and we are weak, and we are all sinners, and we all are able to be forgiven and redeemed in Christ if we choose to be - and the celibate struggles we face with our sexuality and desires in our faith, doesn't deem us less striving for holiness or less Christian, it shows how human we are and that we ought not to affirm this but accept it as part of our union in suffering with Christ, for Christ.
Again, that's how my Bible defines marriage and sex and men and women, and you're welcome to reject that and dislike it. If I believe these things yet respect you as a person with a choice and am not calling for you to be castrated or killed or stoned or put into conversion therapy, essentially I'm expressing my faith-based opinion and it doesn't make me homophobic or transphobic or "hateful".
And if you're offended, then that's fine, Christ offended all of us by revealing the depth and weight and severity of our sins and desires and struggles, and calling us to deny these things and take up our Cross. It doesn't make Christ hateful. It shows how much He truly loves us still.
And it's a false equivalence to say I'm making gay people out to be rapists when the discussion is about the forgiveness of past sins versus iniquities. Being actively gay is a sin, just as being a heterosexual cheater or a liar, but being a rapist is a transgression against another. It's iniquity of being consistently immoral and unfair unto another, which leads to being a transgression: doing an act of wrong unto another without control, without restrain, and without regard or sanctity for their life.
God can forgive your sins, iniquity, and transgressions and forget them because He's judging you through what Christ did on the Cross for you, and the mercy you were given; and human beings can forgive but not forget sins, iniquity, and transgressions always because of their traumatic and harmful impact. We're not God. We will have sexual desires, trauma, bitterness, and unforgiveness all throughout our lives, and we will struggle with each - but when we start deeming who is less worthy in the church based on sexual orientation, and pasts, we fail to see the work of the Cross: which again, was the point of my post. Christian hypocrisy and affirmation of sins; not you and your current life that's unconcerned with the christianity.
You take the positive message I intended with the post for Christians to stop being short-sighted and only looking at the person for their sins, their sexual desires, and their struggles and their past transgressions, and try to twist it to be a condemnation of you as a gay trans person.
No one is rejecting you as a human being, we disagree with your identity politics, but we welcome you to share your views, your experiences, and your personality into the church, because even though we may not affirm it all, we still see you as valuable and worthy because God's created you with a purpose.
We all have lives and beliefs we want to live out according to our own sense of morality, shaped by experiences and traumas, but it doesn't make them anymore right or true or for our own betterment.
If you didn't like my post, you could've scrolled on or removed it from your page. Instead you want to condemm the positive message of the post, which is actually defending you against Church hypocrisy and alienation, and make it into something politically hateful. My God does not condone the beheading and murder of gay people, nor does He tell us we are less worthy if we follow Him and still have homosexual desires or struggles with our physical identity as men and women. He calls us to bring our troubles, our insecurities, our anxieties, and our iniquities to Him with an honest and open heart.
And just as God does this for me, I would expect myself and my brothers and sisters in Christ to do the same, without compromising the truth of the Gospel, and the Word of God.
If you truly believe your sexuality can be equated to the hateful dogma of racists and people who actually harm other minorities, I believe you are mischaracterizing not just your own sexuality but your own community. No one said nor did I write your existence is equivalent to the behavior and identity of racists; how can we deem your existence as a gay trans individual, to be the same or no different to an opposing identity of an opposing ideology that is extremist against you racially and existentially. It makes no sense, and it defeats the whole premise of your accusation. That's why there's labels for these seperate ideologies, if you identify with them.
If you're gay, you're not automatically like a racist, because your movement is meant to be based on "love is love", while racism wants to abolish any unity or love for other races. We can rebuke racism and rebuke homosexuality, it doesn't make homosexuality a behavioral issue or prejudice like racism, because sexuality is not based on race alone, whereas racism is. Misogyny is based on sex and deemed social-sexual power, sexuality today is not so narrow-minded or discriminatory based on the sexual liberation movement, feminist manifestos, and pornography. Vanity and pride is self-affirming, and often looks down on others based on a overglorified ideal of self, sexuality plays or teases this idea into a satisying dynamic between two consensual parties, without actually intending to demean a person's efforts or existence.
Again, all opposing ideologies and behaviors, that are different to sexual identification and expression in typical liberalism.
And for this, we as Christians don't condone racism, misogyny, vanity, and shame, nor should tolerate it, nor do we tolerate sexual immorality, gay and straight, and we hope for all our brothers and sisters to strive for Christ - whether they have gay or straight sexual desires remaining. If you don't like this or don't understand it, then that's alright.
You can equate your sexual preferences and desires and lifestyle to that of racists, misogynists, and stuck-ups, even if it's ideologically slanted and disavows your identity, that's your choice and intepretation, because as much as I disagree with it, I will respect your choice for why you believe so. Doesn't make your accusation right or true, it just makes your accusation... yours.
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