Christian Capsules: Season 3 Capsule 3: Apologetics (Love Whomever?)

Being able to debate or defend the faith is reliant on one’s ability to know scripture and the context therein.  This is Apologetics.  The newest, and one of the largest debates, is the argument of homosexual relationship love.

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Apologetics: The Question of Love

Being able to debate or defend the faith is reliant on one’s ability to know scripture and the context therein.  This is Apologetics.  The newest, and one of the largest debates, is the argument of relationship love.

The Question:

Gays and lesbians argue that if God is love, and love is from God, why can’t they love the same sex?  Shouldn’t they be able to love whom they want?

This is a very good argument and fuels many so-called homosexuals who claim to follow Christ.  Many Christians fail to be able to scripturally debate against it.  Knowing how to defend the faith is an essential duty of Christianity, just ask Peter.

but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;

Peter 3:15

Now let’s address this love argument.

1John 4:7 is the most often quoted verse when questions of loving same sex arise.  The homosexual who promotes themselves as Christians always run to this verse.

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

The claim again, God is love and love comes from God, so how can loving the same sex be wrong?  Furthermore, they intensify their argument by suggesting that the love they have is an uncontrollable feeling that is given to them by God.

So, we need to tear this down a piece at a time.

God is love, no one disputes this.  John does write this in his letter.  

All love does come from God since he is the author of love.  This is also correct.  However, John’s context is that we should love others the way God love us.  It’s not a romantic type of love.  Scripture never contradicts scripture.  So, if you are willing to base an argument using scripture then you must believe that it doesn’t contradict itself.  

Now know this, you can see the design of relationships from the beginning with the creation of Eve.  The marriage of Eve being brought to Adam by the Lord and the verse Genesis 2:24 that says:

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

The wife in this instance was Eve a woman (woman means out of man).  Add in the human sex parts and where they go, and it becomes a simple deduction.  Creation’s relationship design was for a man and a woman to become one in marriage.

But let’s go deeper.

Many who have same sex relationships claim to feel an overwhelming sense of love for the opposite sex so it must have come from God.  I’m here to tell you that not all love is used for good.  The commandment of love does not extend to the desires of our heart, rather than the desires and intent of the creator.  We do not tell God what His intent on love should be, but rather follow the intent laid out by scripture and Jesus.  Jesus to love our neighbor as ourselves, a command based off the intent of the command giver.  Love turns bad when the object of our love is based off fleshly desires.  Take money, for instance. 

1Timothy 6:10 says:

 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

As we can see this sort of love is not good; attacking the premise that all love is good no matter what we love- as long as we love.  

I can love being a serial killer, but that is obviously not the design nor the intent of God.  That is my desire while having love nurture it.  The Bible’s intent of love is to love the way God loved us first in the general sense and in the relational and romantic sense to love your wife or husband which follows the divine will of God.  

How do we know this? 

It’s clear from Paul in Roman’s Chapter 1.

Let me read a portion to you.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

28 And just as they did not see fit]to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 

Paul says that homosexuality goes against the designed intention of Creator, therefore God gave them over to their degrading passions.  Scripture never calls this diving love.  Instead refers to them as passions.  These passions masquerade as coming from the Divine, but they are not.  These passions become fleshly objects that are incorrectly infused by love.  

The Bible is clear on what is acceptable and what is not, therefore the assertion is that not all love is good for us, nor do all glorify God.

7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Jude 1:7

22 You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. 

Leviticus 18:22

As you can see you can easily dismantle the argument that “God is love, so loving in a homosexual way must be godly.” 

To fit our desires we, try to make the Bible say what we want without considering the other verses.  Context of the verse or chapter is rarely given.  The verse out of 1john was referring to us a Christians loving others because God first loved us.  That verse was not referring to a desire nor a romantic relationship with the same sex.  It was love on a general level, like well, how Jesus loves us.

We must remember when explaining the real interpretation of the Bible we must be patient and understanding. 

 Remember we direct our love to improper things all the time.  We must be disciplined and not act on our would-be indulgences.  

One may love the woman outside of their wife and want to form a relationship with her.  But that obviously would not be the right implementation of divine love. 

 You cannot argue God is love so that love could be made appropriate,
 especially when God has obviously declared it isn’t.

This is being battle ready folks.  Being able to defend the faith when called upon to do so.

This concludes  Season 3 Capsule #3

My name is Jermaine Ferrell, and I’ll talk to you next time

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