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Let’s make this simple – God loves homosexuals, but He hates the sin of homosexuality.
Forget about what you see in the news and what people say on Facebook. Please also put away what so-called “Christians” say when these people picket with signs saying God hates gays (or other pejorative terms).
You can only know what God said about this topic by reading His Word.
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
— Leviticus 18:22 (NKJV)
A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.
— Deuteronomy 22:5 (NKJV)
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
— 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NKJV)
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
— Romans 1:26-27 (NKJV)Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
— Romans 1:32 (NKJV)
As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
— Jude 1:7 (NKJV)
So be careful if you are one to condemn those who say homosexuality is wrong and support those in sin.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
— Isaiah 5:20 (NKJV)
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
— 2 Timothy 3:12,13 (NIV)
The good news is that God loves all homosexuals in spite of their sin, because He loves sinners of every kind and wants everyone to make Heaven.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
— John 3:16 (NIV)But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
— Romans 5:8 (NIV)
