Hi, my name is Stephanie, and today I want to talk to you about the Christian homosexuality
conundrum.
So, let me present you with something that might sound familiar.
The Bible says homosexuality is a sin.
So, these Christians say, homosexuality is a sin.
And so a gay or lesbian person hears this and thinks, well, I am a homosexual, so you
think that my very existence is a sin or an abomination.
And so now we have this thing going on where Christians are really awful because they don't
care about people who have attraction towards other people who are of the same sex and so
they think that God made them to be that way.
So you have people coming from the homosexual standpoint saying, well, if God has created
me like you say, and homosexuality, being attracted to someone of the same sex is a
sin, I can't help who I'm attracted to, so either your God isn't a good God, or even
if they believe in God, God, they think, is not a good God.
Or Christians have it wrong and that homosexuality is fine.
So we have a little bit to unpack here.
First is what is homosexuality?
The attraction towards someone of the same sex.
With this particular definition, someone who is homosexual, therefore, someone who is attracted
to someone of the same sex, can be a Christian in right standing with God.
Now, before you start screaming at me and start saying, Stephanie, you're teaching false
doctrine.
Stephanie, the Bible says homosexuality is a sin.
Let's clear up what the Bible actually says.
The Bible says that it is wrong to lay with another man, so a man and a man to lay together
like they would with a wife.
So, basically it is wrong for same sex people to be intimate with each other in the way
that married people are.
That has nothing to do with feeling attracted.
So, someone who is in a relationship where they are doing intimate things together in
a same-sex situation are not in right standing with God because they are sinning.
But someone just having feelings of attraction toward someone of the same sex does not make
them sinful.
So, a lot of this problem is coming from the idea that we should embrace and just go for
every single feeling and emotion that we have.
We should just act on it because it's what makes us feel good.
The problem here is that you're thinking that if I am attracted to someone of the same sex,
I must now get in a relationship with someone of the same sex and take that further.
However, that is not necessarily the case.
And that's also why you are seeing some weirder stuff - and I am not equating someone feeling
same-sex attraction to this - but I am saying that the idea of prompting people to do whatever
makes them feel good and just do what they feel leads you to people who do intimate things
with animals and inanimate objects and things like that.
Things that are very clearly not natural and not normal, and just really jacked up because
you told them if you feel it, you should do it.
And that's just really not the case.
If I feel like hitting someone upside the head, I probably really shouldn't do it.
Now, is it a sin that I felt that way?
No.
But, if I sat there and entertained the thought of how nice it'd be to just whack them right
upside the head and see the pain on their face and hope that they get knocked out, then
I'm really going on the sinful side because I'm entertaining that idea and doing it in
my heart.
However, having an attraction for someone is not sinful.
So, from the standpoint of homosexuality being having an attraction for someone of the same
sex they can technically be following after God and be a Christian because even despite
the feelings, they honor God above their feelings.
They honor God above their emotions.
Now, I do believe it is possible, it is possible for God to make a way and for you to be in
a heterosexual relationship.
It is possible for God to deliver you from that stuff.
But I would like to note that still having those feelings doesn't make you sinful.
It doesn't make you not honoring God.
And I am really thankful to Jackie Hill Perry for opening my eyes on this situation because
it is something that I had not really fully understood and she really put it into words
that made sense and she said that Christians don't really understand that being set free
and being delivered and following after God does not necessarily mean being "straight."
Now, again, this is not about what you do, it is about your attraction.
So, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're gonna like girls if you're a guy who is attracted
to guys.
It doesn't necessarily mean you're not going to feel that way ever again.
It doesn't mean that.
It means that you are deciding that you are not going to do intimate things with someone
of the same sex.
Really, this is just a thing that people get so confused about because we make it our identity.
Especially with the LGBTQ+ community, they really push it as your identity.
They want to define you with a label down to every little thing that you could possibly
have.
What is your gender?
What is your sexual attraction?What is this?
What is that?
And you can have this really, really long description of "who you are," but who you
are is not based on how you feel about whether you're a girl or a boy or whether you like
girls or boys.
That is not your identity and I find it really sad that people feel that way.
So, between the LGBTQ+ community pushing that if you feel a certain way, that is your identity,
and Christians not understanding the difference between a homosexual act and feeling a certain
way, we have this clash that comes where it almost seems like Christians are saying if
you're gay, if you're lesbian, whatever, you're a bad person and God doesn't love you, that
you're just a sinner, that you're just an abomination and that is not true.
I just wanted to come and talk about that because this is really a big issue that I've
been seeing that people are taking it all across the board.
If you feel attracted to someone of the same sex, you're just a bad person, God hates you,
blah, blah, blah.
That's not true.
So, I really do, again, I would suggest you go check out Jackie Hill Perry.
That she would be able to explain that in words that just finally clicked to make sense
to me, that make sense and is Biblically founded.
So, also for those of you who say, well, if you, if you lust after someone in your heart,
you've already done the act.
Is attraction necessarily lust?
And I think this is something that a lot of Christians, especially very religious Christians
get this confused.
Is attraction lust?
And I would say, "no."
Attraction is not lust.
And so for someone to like somebody else, you're crossing the line when you're sitting
there, entertaining the thought of what it'd be like to do, to undress them and to do all
these things with them without their consent, because it's in your brain.
Those sorts of things, that's lust.
But to just feel an attraction towards somebody?
That is not lust.
And I'd like to say that for even heterosexual relationships.
That was something I didn't really touch upon in my Girl Defined video, but I have kind
of seen this thing where they almost seem to equate attraction with lust, and that is
not the case.
It is normal to feel things towards people and that is okay.
However, it matters what you do.
So, look.
If you're a person who is "homosexual," and that is also another thing I don't like doing
because if you're saying, oh, you're a homosexual, that's saying that is your identity.
So, if you're someone who feels attraction for someone of the same sex, that doesn't,
in my opinion, mean you have to call yourself a homosexual, a gay person, a lesbian person,
a bi person if you like, feel like you like both, whatever.
I don't think it's very good to put that kind of label on yourself because you are now identifying
yourself as that and I think it's important to understand that feelings do not mean you
have to act on them in any sort of situation.
Feelings do not always have to mean you act on them.
So, it is just as honoring to God for someone who feels attraction towards the same sex
to remain celibate and to honor God through that.
Not everybody has to be in a relationship.
And a lot of people might say, well, Stephanie, that's really awful for you to suggest that
they can't love.
Well, there's a lot of different forms and types of love.
You get love from your family - from your mom, from your dad, from your sisters, from
your brothers.
You get love from your cousins and your uncles and your aunts and your grandparents and that
kind of familial love.
And then you have friendship love, where you would be willing to even put your life down
for someone else, for another friend.
There is different types of love, so someone who is remaining celibate might not experience
the particular kind of love that Hollywood and everyone else seems to glorify.
And even Christians because they're so obsessed with their future husband or whatever.
You don't have to be in a relationship.
You don't have to get married.
You don't have to do those sorts of things and that's okay.
God didn't call everyone to do that.
And if it's the case that maybe you want to start a family or something like that, I believe
that God can do that for you.
Jackie Hill Perry, she's in a relationship where she's married to a man, she has a child
and I'm sure, previously, beforehand, that would've seemed impossible.
That would've seemed like she should never have that because she was considered gay because
she had attractions.
Look, we shouldn't put people down.
We shouldn't say, oh, it's okay to relations with people because it's "love."
I don't think we always understand the difference between love and lust, but I do want to say
this: Homosexual acts are wrong because the Bible has said so and also it doesn't lead
to anything other than a feeling.
You don't end up with a child eventually.
You just have a feeling in your body.
And our bodies weren't designed for male on male and female on female, so, naturally,
those acts don't make sense and they're not right.
Does that mean someone who has done that before can not be clean and not come before God and
repent and ask that He helps them to remain celibate?
No, they can do that.
They can always do that.
And I also want to make it clear that someone feeling an attraction does not mean that they
are homosexual.
It does not mean that they are lusting after people and it definitely does not mean that
they are sinful or that they cannot be Christian.
So, I just wanted to make these points, here.
That we can love people and we can be fair to people, and look, people are gonna mess
up sometimes.
Even someone who has been delivered from alcoholism.
Some days, they're gonna sit there and they're gonna think, you know, I really want a beer
right now.
Does that make them sinful?
No.
It just makes them a human being.
So, what I just want to say is that I think that churches should open up the doors to
people who are either in homosexual relationships or think they're homosexual because of attractions
and let them know, hey, homosexual acts aren't right and you shouldn't be doing that with
someone of the same sex, however, we're not going to scream at you, jump down your throat,
and get in your way.
We're not gonna call homosexual actions correct, but God works on people in different stages.
We don't know.
We might see, oh, you know, they're boyfriend and ... boyfriend and boyfriend with someone,
so they need to ... stop that immediately.
Well, it goes in stages.
Maybe God is working on something else in their heart before they start to understand
why this isn't going well for them.
So, understand that God works on people in different ways, and you are not God.
You don't know when and how He's gonna work on people, but we're also not going to say,
hey, stay in your sin, it's okay.
God approves of that sin because we don't know what else to do with it.
Kay, that's not the case, either.
So, I just wanted to make that clear.
I hope that I made sense.
I went off script and just kind of let it all come out of my mouth, so hopefully this
makes sense.
I know that there's probably going to be people mad at me from all sides for this.
I don't care because this is just the truth.
And at the end of the day, have empathy for people.
Care about people.
And again, people are individuals.
So, I hope that this video was somehow helpful.
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