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When you find any big perversion of text in modern bibles (i.e. hell, Trinity) that has led to centuries of false doctrines, it leads you to suspect and treat other things you've been taught more thoughtfully.
I shared orthodox Christianity's views on homosexuality until pretty recently when I started really digging into the original texts. I found out that there was SO VERY LITTLE to hang a major doctrine upon, especially in the way Christianity has so focused on this one issue.
To be honest, I still don't know 100% if the Bible teaches that homosexuality is wrong or not, but when you find out that you've been deceived by at least 80-90% of the evidence, it makes you realize that people somewhere down the line had an AGENDA. So at this point, I'm willing to err on the side of love and not make homosexuality into the huge, heinous sin that Christianity has, because there's really only two places I could find in the entire Bible to possibly support the current orthodox teaching, and even one of those (Leviticus) includes all kinds of laws we don't keep today or even consider rational.
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT BEING LOVING AND JUST in the way we treat others a million times more than it ever addresses homosexuality, and for me that means, regardless of anything I perceive as sin in someone else's life, I am not to cast them out, ridicule them, point out their sin (unless I've dealt with all my own), disown them, oppress them in any way. In other words...I am going to love them, affirm them, and treat them as equals and let God be the Judge of what is right and wrong. If He wants them doing something differently, that has to come from the inside out (God-initiated), just like He has to do with me on all my issues.
The other thing I've been realizing lately is that the Church has been famous through the centuries for focusing on the outer life as a means for divisions (skin color--yep, it's true, gender, and sexual orientation). All these things are on the "outside of the cup" but the only thing Jesus is interested in is what's in the heart. You can have a person in any said category with a good heart, or with a bad heart. So, it's not the outward life, it's the inner life, that's what God looks at.
A few meaningful verses to me on this subject:
"...for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 1 Sam. 16:7
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Gal. 3:28
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Matt. 23:25-28
So, what would God focus on? Your good heart or sexual orientation?
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