This is a loaded question that assumes that it is alright to be homosexual and you are wrong to judge (the official name for this deviant behavior is homosexual not "gay"). The Bible per se is not against any type of person individually, but warns all sinners to repent and that God has provided a way of salvation for sinners. We believe the Bible is the Word of God and this is what is so offensive to them: they cannot admit they are perverted when the Bible plainly tells us so: (Rom. 1:26-27; 1 Cor. 6:9; 1 Tim. 1:10; Lev.18:22, 20:13). Speaking of being against something: Calvin Coolidge heard a sermon and his wife asked him what it was about and he said sin, and when she asked again he said I think he was against it! God is, by definition, against sin, and cannot co-exist with sin any more than matter can exist with anti-matter.
Perverted means this was not the original plan for man. He created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. God meant for sex to be between a man and a woman who were committed in love to each other, i.e. marriage. Otherwise, the kids would grow up insecure and abnormal. It is alleged that boys who grow up without a father image develop deviant behavior or even criminal behavior e.g., Nietzsche and the many blacks in America that grew up with only mothers. Now, I'm not against mothers bringing up children, but God intended for there to be a father figure.
So the Bible is the antidote to sin, as it were; all sin that is, including alcoholism, theft, murder, rape, lying, cheating, etc. Jesus can cure of any addiction or sin problem. "Such were some of you," Paul says in 1 Cor. 6:11. Both the Old and New Testaments clearly define homosexual behavior as wrong, but homosexuals claim they are born that way and therefore cannot help it. Well, a heterosexual was born that way too, and that is no excuse for lust or rape, et cetera.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17). Churches should welcome homosexuals just as any other sinner and show them the love of Christ in forgiveness and cleanliness. Remember how he told the woman caught in adultery, "Go and sin no more! We love the sinner but hate the sin! We are not to single out homosexuals and hate them or become homophobic. Amen! Soli Deo Gloria!
Perverted means this was not the original plan for man. He created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. God meant for sex to be between a man and a woman who were committed in love to each other, i.e. marriage. Otherwise, the kids would grow up insecure and abnormal. It is alleged that boys who grow up without a father image develop deviant behavior or even criminal behavior e.g., Nietzsche and the many blacks in America that grew up with only mothers. Now, I'm not against mothers bringing up children, but God intended for there to be a father figure.
So the Bible is the antidote to sin, as it were; all sin that is, including alcoholism, theft, murder, rape, lying, cheating, etc. Jesus can cure of any addiction or sin problem. "Such were some of you," Paul says in 1 Cor. 6:11. Both the Old and New Testaments clearly define homosexual behavior as wrong, but homosexuals claim they are born that way and therefore cannot help it. Well, a heterosexual was born that way too, and that is no excuse for lust or rape, et cetera.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17). Churches should welcome homosexuals just as any other sinner and show them the love of Christ in forgiveness and cleanliness. Remember how he told the woman caught in adultery, "Go and sin no more! We love the sinner but hate the sin! We are not to single out homosexuals and hate them or become homophobic. Amen! Soli Deo Gloria!