I'm going to this progressive church and the discussion today was on sexuality😬don't worry the kids were excused to their church class

before the discussion started. It was about the churches view on sex and purity and maybe the churches went at it the wrong way. They showed a video about a couple of people's experience being LGBT and either being shunned or asked to leave and never come back. Just because they talked to someone about their sexuality.

To me God loves everyone and he wants everyone to experience love and by shunning people you only make things worse and you make people get further away from God rather than come closer to him.

I come from a religion that you can't even discuss sexuality anything outside of marriage is considered sinful. Even just having thoughts about sex was considered adultery. I knew kids that got kicked out of the church and excommunicated. And it only made them rebel more.

I think only God can judge someone so why not wait and let God do his will. Me personally I don't believe LGBT people necessarily go to hell. I also don't think being LGBT is a lifetime punishment. I've known people that thought they were sexually gay later on get married to the opposite gender and have large loving families.

What is your opinion on this?

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ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 51-55, M

My opinion is that there's a difference between accepting people for who they are and normalization of the lifestyle. Not only is the Bible very straightforward about this but you don't even need to believe in the Bible to have misgivings about the LGBT lifestyle. This recognition of it is confined to a very small period of recent history, and only among caucasian circles in Western civilization.
But good luck expecting anyone in "homophobic" parts of the world to accept gays for who they are without the Bible as influence

Lostpoet · M

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP Almost nobody believes that one man has a right to own another man and slavery is in the Bible. I leave everything up to God. He even said don't judge less yea be judged.

Lostpoet · M

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP The pasture also never said that it was right he was mainly just stating that maybe the churches have gone about sexuality in the wrong way.

ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 51-55, M

@Lostpoet the Bible depicts slavery but does not decisively normalize it like it does "homophobia".
And if your pastor didn't say gay marriage is every bit as legitimate as straight marriage, he doesn't sound all that progressive (not that there's anything wrong with that..!)

Lostpoet · M

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP He definitely didn't say anything about same sex marriage or anything about same sex only that we shouldn't shun people or make them feel less deserving of God's love or help and support from the community. I didn't mention the pasture or church I'm going to because this post was about my opinion about what was discussed. And they are progressive from what I'm used to a Christian based church being.

ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 51-55, M

@Lostpoet maybe I'd need to be American to get it

Lostpoet · M

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I don't think you do and I think it's good that the church is willing to discuss these kinds of issues.

ImperialAerosolKidFromEP · 51-55, M

@Lostpoet I mean to understand the threshold for "progressive" there. If I was in a church that threw gays out, I wouldn't go back. But a biblical church would be preaching things that would likely make gays uncomfortable because of what the Bible has to say about the lifestyle. But when I hear "progressive" I think of a church that welcomes the gay lifestyle as surely as it welcomes gays.
Maybe to you "progressive" means recognizing that Jesus also ministered to untouchables

Lostpoet · M

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I haven't been in the church very long but I've noticed that they are open to everyone. I don't ask people their sexuality, but you can kind of guess by their mannerisms and the way they carry themselves.