Does God care about Homosexuals

Because of the 3 states that have recently passed marriage amendments, bringing the total to 27 now, there seem to be a lot of angry voices clamering both for and against homosexuality, using God as the bench mark. I may not be able to change the minds of the masses, but perhaps a few are wondering what the Bible does say about homosexuality.

But even before I get into that, let me clear up some confusion about God. A lot of people presume to know something about God. I would submit that everything we can know about God is first given to us through the use of a holy book, and then verified through history and life expereinces. So when I refer to God, there can be only two sources. The holy book that I choose to believe, or I am creating my own God. In the 1st case, (that is, the God I follow is introduced in a holy book), one can have a discourse determined on the reliability, veracity, and historicity of that book. As I have studied the various holy books in the world, and I am by no means an expert on any of them, I have found them to be unreliable in many ways. They are 1st unreliable because within them there are many inconsistencies. A legitimate God cannot say one thing one day, and the opposite another. Most of the Holy Books either directly or indirectly conflict in describing God. One day, he is friendly and loving, and the next day he is angry and extracting vengeance. The path way to God in most holy books changes depending upon the circumstances. Only the bible has consistenly represented God as a God of love, who unilaterally provides a pathway of salvation, not depending upon our good works. A second area of unreliability is historicity. Historicity is the historical accuracy of a report. The only holy book that has withstood the test of historical accuracy is the Bible. Other holy books have times wrong, or report events inaccurately, or get the chronological sequence of events wrong. In some cases they even get the geography wrong, attributing an event to the wrong country, or even the wrong continent. The third test of a holy book is perhaps the most accurate, and that is the test of prophecy. Prophecy is the attempt to accurately foretell the future. If a holy book says something is going to happen and it doesn't, can we then rely upon it's ability to accurately tell us about God? Perhaps not. And again, when it comes to this test, only the Bible stands up. there are literally thousands of prophecies in the Bible. While many of them are pertaining to events that have not yet occured, many have pertained to events that took place later, and the Bible got it right. One example is the great flood. It was foretold 120 years prior to it's occurance, and it was accurate. A second was the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. It was forecast in the books of Isaiah, Ezra, and Malichi, several hundred years prior to the actual event, even naming the names of the invading countries that would destroy the Holy City.

That is the first way of knowing God - through a holy book. The second way of knowing God is by defining him through the 5 senses. This is a very precarious way of defining God because it is unvarifiable, and dependent on whatever I may choose to believe about God.

Unfortunatly, most of the pundits speaking about whether God approves of or disapproves of homosexuality speak of a God discerned through the second method. Their God is one of their own making, therefore it coincides perfectly with whatever they want to promote.

So, in conclusion of this 1st epistle on the subject "Does God care about homosexuals?", let us define our perspective of God by declaring that whatever I think about God or his opinion or judgement regarding homosexuality, is based upon what I can learn from the Bible. Therefore, if I can't support what I believe by referring to the Bible, then I cannot promote that position.

Agreed? Great! I'll continue this subject in the next edition of my blog.