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It’s Genetic!

When Chris­tians involve them­selves in dis­cus­sions of homo­sex­u­al­ity, usu­ally a cou­ple things hap­pen: (1) there is a fail­ure to dis­tin­guish between homo­sex­u­al­ity as a dis­po­si­tion and homo­sex­ual acts and (2) peo­ple view it as some sort of argu­ment to assert that, since homo­sex­u­al­ity must have a genetic ori­gin, it’s accept­able and an ortho­dox read­ing of Scrip­ture on the ‘homo­sex­ual issue’ is errant. Well to answer, (1) Scrip­ture con­demns homo­sex­ual acts and thus (2) appeal­ing to one’s genes is nei­ther here nor there.

To begin, a video by Ravi Zacharias on the accep­tance of homo­sex­u­al­ity within Chris­tian­ity: is it pos­si­ble to live a Chris­t­ian life and be homo­sex­ual? As well, William Lane Craig’s pod­cast on how one can be Chris­t­ian and homo­sex­ual:

What many Chris­tians will dis­agree with (at least in my expe­ri­ence) is this notion that there should be a dis­tinc­tion cre­ated between homo­sex­u­al­ity and homo­sex­ual acts. Surely, they … (Read more)