What worries me the most is that the oldest church has now succumbed. The protestant churches are just a piece of the Catholic Church that couldn’t accept ALL the church had to offer. The Protestant churches teach that they are still a part of the Catholic church, they profess it in their creed but it doesn’t make it so.
While true that polygamy was an accepted practice it was mostly gone by the third century in Christianity and in Judaism.
I personally don’t believe you can really be a Christian and accept homosexuality as not being a sin, a horrible perversion of what God gave us in the Garden. Few churches there are anymore that don’t accept some perversions in the Gospel. I understand their desire to be accepting but it would be better to teach truth, accept the sinner as a sinner until they can repent.
We are after all all sinners and under condemnation unless we repent, by accepting sin as not sin there will never be a repentance and the soul will be lost.
My statements don’t mean to oversimplify the situation.
There are statements in the New Testament that can be taken as an oversimplification, (get ready flame throwers) such as believe on the name of Jesus and be saved. While the statement is true it doesn’t mean only believe, it means believe and show your faith by following Christ, give up your sins and love your neighbor, etc . . .
James says show me your works and I’ll show you your faith. I say, works don’t save us but without them what is our demonstration of faith. Again, as James says, Faith without works is dead.
Our faith should lead us to the works of pointing out to the homosexual the error of his ways, the sin of his ways and help him into full fellowship so he can enjoy life the way it was meant to be enjoyed, following the commandments.
Pope Francis is the guy who has gone apostate boldly enough to actually force a split. He was , by turns, inching and striding toward schism from the beginning of his pontificate, but pretty much tipped his hand in the encyclical "Amoris Letitia."
Some people found it subtle (the whole thing teetered on the fulcrum of a single ambiguous footnote) but for those who have "eyes to see," he was claiming the right to change his predecessors' doctrine, which is teaching concerning faith and morals going back to the Apostles, which he actually does not have the right to do.
I expect the schism to become much more explicit in the next 6-12 months.
You are correct. God put man over beasts and beastly behavior. Man was to worship and think about his commitment to God. Homosexuality is first an abomination and sin came as a Commandment. God is so strict Christianity required an intercessionary to remove fear and breath life into the early Church. Homosexuality leads to death.