Can you be a christian and gay

Examine the logic. While most people who consider themselves gay do not want to see this as a choice or a struggle, anything that goes against God’s character, design, and purposes is sinful, which will lead to a struggle. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” (Matthew 19:3–6)

Jesus indicates here that marriage is to be heterosexual (the introduction of marriage is an outcome of God having made humanity male and female) and is designed to be permanent—God has himself effected a union between the man and the woman that is not to be separated.

The disciples baulk somewhat at this high view of marriage, and it is significant to not how Jesus responds to their reaction:

“Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.

When someone chooses to identify as a "gay Christian," they are making a sinful inclination part of their core identity instead of allowing God to define them.

You will have to make decisions about whether to go to a same-sex wedding, whether to have your daughter and her partner over for dinner, and whether to attend a church with a gay pastor.

Within the last decade, the Christian opinion on homosexuality has gone through a drastic turnaround. And there are other theologians that make counterarguments from those opposing views.

How do we read and apply Scripture as Jesus did? Examine the logic. We live in a fallen world. Advocates of homosexuality write off the Old Testament passages as obsolete for New Testament Christians. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). He is asking us to examine the fruit. Which one washes his face?”

“Well, we know both wash.”

“Wrong.

“Rabbi, I wish to study Talmud.”

“Do you know Aramaic?”

“No.”

“Hebrew?”

“No.”

“Have you ever studied Torah?”

“No, Rabbi, but I graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in philosophy, and received a Ph.D. How we see and respond to our sin matters. One emerges with a clean face, the other with a dirty face.

He even said, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27, NASB). We can never understand God’s love if we don’t also embrace His holiness. The same kind of criticism that had been launched towards Peter by the traditionalists regarding the authority of Scripture in excluding the uncircumcised Gentiles living outside the Law is being launched against LGBTQ+ people and their allies who are seeking their inclusion in the church.

Jesus and the disciples set into motion what the church must continue to practice—a hermeneutic that practices compassion that moves toward inclusion.

Both of these were re-imagined in order to save life and include those who were excluded. Here are a few articles that explain why recent attempts to biblically justify the gay lifestyle are misguided: “Why God and the Gay Christian Is Wrong about the Bible and Same-Sex Relationships” by Christopher Yuan and “God, the Gospel, and the Gay Challenge—A Response to Matthew Vines” by Al Mohler.

Proverbs reminds us that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7).

But when clean-face sees that dirty-face doesn’t bother to wash, he also doesn’t bother. The Bible is clear that “at the beginning of creation God made them male and female.