What’s the first thing Jesus will do when he returns?
If you can’t OBEY God, what will He have to do with you?
I am obeying Him. I am putting the word of salvation out far and wide.
I might also ask you to examine your own preconceptions. You have a preconception that we should be doing our utmost to be little caesars. Exactly how are YOU “sending homosexuals away” if you view that as the touchpoint of obedience? You seem to be asking everyone else to be doing your dirty work.
And if “advocacy” is your excuse for not undertaking the dirty work personally... then why don’t you also advocate for stoning sabbath breakers so that Jesus won’t find you guilty of omitting that when He comes. The logic is perfectly parallel.
You are question-beggingly wrapping utilitarianism in the robes of Christian faith. Sorry, no sale.
Friend, I do not hate you.
I think I see the core from which you are coming, apart from all the fancy dancy things you have piled upon it. And it’s something like this: homosexual practice is a bad thing for our neighbors, God wants us to do good for our neighbors, while we may not find it conscionable to slay homosexuals today, God still wants us to try to help our neighbors by doing something to try to help get the bad influence of homosexuality from among our neighbors, and to steadfastly refuse that is disobedience.
I could meet you squarely at that one. I think we are arguing about means, not about ends. As Abraham Lincoln said, “I destroy my enemies by making them my friends.” (And I’m a poet and I don’t know it. I rhyme every time.)
We might think from their self-applied monikers of “gay” that homosexuals are forever happy people. Trust me. I’ve seen into that world. They are not forever happy. They are miserable apart from the fleeting thrills they get from their unnatural copulations. They are full of rage and envy and resentment and self hatred and disappointment. Sometimes they blame that on a society that is too stringent, but raw statistics show that homosexuals are happier in stringent societies than they are in lenient ones. The devil has them addicted on his meat hook and cannot make them, as they vainly claim, “gay.”
Anyhow, there is no lack of “stick” in the homosexuals’ life, whether lenient or stringent society. God isn’t mocked, He never gives His glory to another, and they get no true joy. Here is where the strong and wise Christian has an opportunity to minister, to be the “carrot” to the “stick.” To show, where it counts, that God was not woofing when He said “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.”
That’s how I see it, and that’s why I am begging to differ.