Saturday, August 2, 2014

Marriage Equality

How does God feel about marriage equality?

If you speak to the majority of Christians they would say that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that it is a "God idea".

I'm now going to say something controversial, and will continue to throughout this particular blog entry.  Most Christians have the wrong perception of God, based on fundamentalist untruths contained within their dogma and the fallible word of God.

Hmmmm, I've said the unthinkable, and being a Christian how on earth can I say that?  Well, if you can lay aside your prejudices and read the words contained within this post, without adding any hidden meanings, or innuendo's, and ask me questions if you are unsure, then please read-on, but don't "judge the splinter in my eye", when the "plank in yours" is HUGE.

Ha!  More stirring.  But I feel that I need to convey to you how passionate I am about truly conveying the nature of our God, who is, the same "yesterday, today and forever".  Who has been around always, more than the 16 billion years our universe has been around.  God is way bigger than we could "ever hope or imagine", and the Bible was written by fallible "man", who is renown for interpreting God "inspired instruction" to suit their own ends.

Oopsie: there goes more stirring.  But, let's get to the nuts and bolts of this blog;

I would like you to consider this;

1) Biologically speaking with are created to have sexual intercourse between a man and woman, for the purpose of procreation.

2) As human begins we are programmed with the compulsion to love.

3) We live in a world that is completely broken and most of the inhabitants don't enjoy a personal relationship with God, so His hands are tied when it comes to doing something about it.

4) Due to 3), our relationships and how we relate to one another is also broken, so even though as per 1), we are biologically created to procreate with male and female, our brokenness makes this impossible for many people. (consider the number of broken relationships you have had personally, or others in your world have had).

5) As per our compulsion to find love as per 2) our brokenness means that we find love where we find love.

Let me explain further; God never intended (and please bear with me as I am merely generalising) for sickness, He never intended for disabled people, His perfect plan for us and our planet was, well, perfection.  Therefore, and I know that it is weird to equate sickness and being disabled with homosexuals and I am by no means wanting to upset or imply that they are the same, but all these things appear to be broken as per the biological intention of the creator (not that God created in the 7 day sense of the meaning - see other posts on this).

So, what I am saying is that homosexuality is perfectly acceptable in our broken world. 

Jesus said, Love one another as I have loved you.  How did He love us? Unconditionally, and without judgement. 

Jesus stated clearly that He hasn't come to judge but to reconcile us to the Father.  Jesus warned us not to judge others, and stated that if we do we will be judged, at the end of our time, according to the way we have judged. 

Love each other.  Accept each other.  In our broken world God brings wholeness and unconditional love, but this only occurs within a relationship with God, which less will be able to experience and find if we continue to judge as they will continue to be repelled by the concept of God due to our display of Him.

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