What Does God Think About the LGBTQ?

Introduction

Homosexuality & Lesbianism & Transgenderism Are an Abomination unto the Lord thy God

 

Homosexuals and lesbians do “not like to retain God in their knowledge,” so “God gave them over to a reprobate mind”.

 Homosexual sin causes God’s fierce judgment, “like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah… which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath”.

 Nihilistic – rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless. No God, no heaven, no hell, so screw it!

 Apostasy – is generally defined as a falling away, a withdrawal, a defection. In Christianity, apostasy is seen as a withdrawal from faith and trust in God. Although it is not found in the English Versions of the Bible, a translation of the term is used twice in the New Testament, in the Greek original, to express abandonment of the faith. 

 There is a way out of this, a way to redemption:

Romans 10:9,10   If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.

 Bible Translations:

 HCSB – Holman Christian Study Bible

NIV – New International Version Study Bible

Voice -The Voice

Dake’s -The Dake Annotated Reference Bible

Steven Andrew – Paster of USA Christian Church

 

Study prepared by: John W Cadwallader

What Are Gods Thoughts on LGBTQ
Romans 1

 

HCSB – Rom 1:18-32   God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness

NIV Notes – wrath of God. Not a petulant, irrational burst of anger, such as humans often exhibit but a holy, just revulsion against what is contrary to and opposes His holly nature and will is being revealed. God’s wrath is not limited to the end-time judgment of the wicked. Here the wrath of God is His abandonment of the wicked to their sins.

19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 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 people are without excuse.

HCSB Notes – 1:20   Mankind’s problem is not that he doesn’t know the truth. The history of the human race discloses a determined effort to oppose the will of God. People are without excuse for their idolatry and practical atheism.

21 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. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

HCSB Notes – 1:23   The Bible says humanity started with knowledge of the one true God and then declined into polytheism as humans were separated from God and fractured from on another. Paul warns that loss of knowledge of the true God resulted in the worship of images resembling mortal man. Even in the modern age we have seen dictators worshiped as god, and the Bible says this sin will be repeated climactically in the end times. (2Th2:3-12; Rv 13:1-18)

24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

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The Dake 1:24   Wherefore, God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: with this sin God gave men up to defile their souls.

The Dake Notes – 1:24  uncleanness is a scriptural term for homosexuality and other sex perversions of men and women

HCSB Notes – 1:25   The loss of the knowledge of God in the mind and heart leads to an exchange of truth for a lie. Something created is served and worshiped rather than the Creator and judgement is the result (Ps 81:12; Ac 7:42)

From Idolatry to Depravity

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

The Dake 1:27 And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error.

The Dake Notes – 1:27 This is sodomy, pederasty or homosexuality

HCSB Notes – 1:27   The Creator intended male and female to be joined in marriage (Gn 2:24). As an example of the sort of sexual perversion Paul would have been aware of in his day, the emperor Nero castrated a boy named Sporus and married him. Such degrading passions result in appropriate penalty.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 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, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 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.

HCSB Notes – 1:28-32   Paul’s list of sins was no darker than what other writers of that time reported. All sin is serious. Lesbianism and homosexuality may seem particularly objectionable but and of the 21 sins listed (Gl 5:19-21) cut people off from the life of God and bring spiritual death. When society applauds others who practice these sins, it has lost its moral compass. Ancient philosophers warned about the social effects of popular plays. Murder and immorality were so common on stage that people no longer reacted when they occurred on stage that people no longer reacted when they occurred in daily life. Modern entertainments have a similar effect on minds and the values that guide behavior.
NIV Galatians 5:19-21 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
The Voice Notes – Paul sounds a sober warning God’s wrath is here; it is not some far-off future event. Paul says that God’s wrath is already at work in the world in what is effectively God’s “hands-off” policy. God, he says, steps aside and give us over to idolatry, sexual sins and depraved minds. Human sin and depravity are both its cause and effect. You see, we are not only punished for our sins, but we are punished by our sins. If God ‘s salvation consists essentially of His presence with us, then His wrath consists of His absence or separation from us. The bad news is this: God’s wrath is real. Without the good news of Jesus, no hope exists.

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Steven Andrew, Paster of USA Christian Church

God’s Love & Truth

Are you on Gods side?

God is love. The Bible teaches homosexuals and lesbians: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” Romans 1:22-25

  1. Homosexuals “professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
  2. They “changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man.”
  3. Homosexuals and lesbians oppose God, so He “gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts.”
  4. Sodomites “dishonor their own bodies between themselves”.
  5. Lesbians and homosexuals “change the truth of God into a lie”.
  6. They “worship and serve the creature more than the Creator”.

“God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise, also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” Romans 1:26-27

  1. The Bible says, “God gave them up unto vile affections”.
  2. Lesbians and sodomites “change the natural use into that which is against nature” and “burned in their lust one toward another”.
  3. The Lord says homosexuals “receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet”.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;” Romans 1:28

10. Homosexuals and lesbians do “not like to retain God in their knowledge,” so “God gave them over to a reprobate mind”.

REPROBATE, a. 1. … rejected… 2. Abandoned in sin; lost to virtue or grace… 3. Abandoned to error, or in apostasy. 2Tim. 3. – Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
“the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.” Genesis 13:13. “God is love” 1 John 4:8.

11. God is love and He says homosexuals are “wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly”.
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Leviticus 18:22.
12. Homosexuality is “abomination”.
”Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” Romans 1:29-32
13. The Bibles teaches homosexuals and lesbians are “haters of God”.
14. God says sodomites and lesbians are “inventors of evil things”.
“giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh…” Jude 7
15. Homosexuality is “going after strange flesh”.

“The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.” Deuteronomy 22:5

16. God says transgenders are “abomination unto the LORD thy God”.

God “delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)” 2 Peter 2:7-8

17. Talking of homosexual acts is “filthy conversation” “the wicked” do.
18. God “delivered just Lot” out of Sodom and Gomorrah, “For that righteous man” was “vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked”.
19. The Bible teaches homosexuals do “unlawful deeds”.

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Judgment & Damnation

 

“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” Jude 

HCSB – Jude 7  7 In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions,[a] just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

“And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;” 2 Peter 2:6

20. Homosexuals suffer “the vengeance of eternal fire”.
21. Since they rebel against God, homosexual societies are “condemned”.
22. God promises in 2 Peter 2:6 and Jude 7 to destroy ‘LGBT’ societies.

“like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:” Deuteronomy 29:23

“Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities…, and that which grew upon the ground.” Genesis 19:24-25

23. Homosexual sin causes God’s fierce judgment, “like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah… which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath”.

“where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” Jesus, Mark 9:44
“there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Jesus, Matthew 22:13

24. Jesus teaches all in rebellion to God lose their souls to hell, “where their worm dieth not,” “the fire is not quenched” and “there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth”.

 

God blessed the USA when the founding fathers made laws forbidding homosexual sin. Starting with the first laws of America, from the 1600’s to just recently, homosexual sin was illegal. The founders loved God and said:
“Sodomy: A crime against nature.” Webster’s Dictionary 1828
“Abhorrence and Detestation of such Infamous Crimes” George Washington
Everyone loves and everyone hates. You either love God and hate sin, or you love sin and hate God. Those who call God and Christians “haters” are the real haters and bigots, for they hate God and people; they want people to stay in sin and lose their souls. Some call sin “love,” but encouraging people to sin is hate. The people who call those who obey God “homophobic” will suffer damnation, since God is anti-homosexual and that is basically calling God “homophobic”. Some think homosexuals are “gay,” but it is error to call sodomites “gay,” since “gay” is a positive word in James 2:3 KJV. Homosexual sin is not a Christian or American cause.

Those who support ‘LGBT” lose their souls. They go to hell. If you are not a Christian, call on Jesus Christ to save you. John 3:16, Romans 10:13.

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The Narrow and Wide Gates

 

NIV Galatians – Matthew 7:13-14

13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself and opened her mouth without measure; and their glory and their multitude and their pomp and he that rejoices, shall descend into it

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Forgiveness:

Confess Homosexuality is Sinful

NIV – John 3:16   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.

NIV – Romans 10:13  for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”[a]

HCSB – Romans 10:9,10     If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.

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