Just saw the 4 minute clip from Lisa Ling and the Minnesota Camp for young gay Christians on Oprah's OWN Network. Got to say, I also believe God is love, and our greatest Loving Savior the Forever Single Man Jesus Christ loves people passionately--male and female, young and old, rich and poor, gay and straight. When the Bible says we have the right to intimacy with our married eternal partner, "Thou shalt not commit adultry", this keeps life smart and simple with a covanent commitment lasting for eternity. When the Bible says "Thou shalt not kill" I understand is means don't go out and kill in cold blooded murder. If you make an accidental killing or kill in self defense, you could run to a city of refuge and still live. God's loving kindness and longsuffering with us, with patience, mercy and grace understands we need same gender friends and opposite gender friends. Our conscience is strong, as we pray for the Holy Spirit to guide us, helping us to avoid sin, and helping us to know when we indeed must repent from sin, giving us a way of escape from sin, and helping us to overcome when we have sinned. Helps me enjoy life with men and women of all ages, as a sincere Christian, and staying sexually pure for over 50 years.
Same gender attractiveness and staying within acceptable boundaries can be different for different ages, people groups, situations, and individuals. Best to be smart and safe with your most acceptable looks, love, touch and kindness. Save any experimentation within massage therapy boundaries. Save sex between you and your eternal partner, which God wisely and richly blesses when it is male and female with covenant commitments. And I believe God wisely and richly blesses same gender two by two relationships for Hisglory and the powerful witness of His work, not to include sexual indulgence, or even the thought of such.
I've received plenty of grace, called on God for mercy from time to time, have a great community who in a strange, even shunning way, has guided me toward God's stable straight and narrow path. I also understand and appreciate same gender relationships that work well, especially in the arts, and am deeply sad when long-term marriages are dissolved with too many divorces.
God is love. And God's love lasts forever. And forever love binds us all together whatever gender.
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