There is no LGBT Christian, among other changeless certainties

Side with nature, side with God

For the past 30 years or so, world culture has pushed the rights of marginalized people not to be marginalized, to the point where reality itself is warped. History, scripture, biology, physics, law, and nature must bend to the feelings of people who, like everyone who has ever been born, has come into the world from a mother. Now, we have a young generation for whom gay, or lesbian, or bisexual, or transgender, or whatever mix of pronouns people have chosen, isn’t simply tolerated, it’s part of their daily reality. If fish don’t realize they’re swimming in water, as the old rubric goes, then young adult culture doesn’t realize it’s living in a very sexually blurred society.

Giovanna Elena Gundim, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

In the end, metaphysics cannot be avoided. Either there are changeless certainties that are true whether we believe them or not, or there are only our beliefs. And if there are only our beliefs, then it’s pointless to be a Christian. As G. K. Chesterton wrote, “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.” He also wrote, “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” In the world where there are no truths, there are no fallacies, and therefore there are only fashions. This is the world of those who claim there can be self-identified gay, lesbian, transgender, and all the other genders who also claim the Kingdom of God through Jesus Christ. There cannot.

Those who say God is love and therefore all kinds of love is God are committing a category error and advancing a fallacy. There is precisely one kind of love that is God, and that’s the Greek word “agape,” meaning a merciful, sacrificial, grace-imbued love. It is the kind of love that compels and empowers those who have Christ in them to love the unloveable, to love their enemies, to love those who would torture, and even kill them. It is the love that drives charity, to speak, to act, to live in love. It is not the love that burns with desire for the flesh, or for things, or for money, or for fame, or for self-realization and self-actualization. It is not the love of physical tenderness, except between one man and one woman.

This is not opinion. It is what the Bible, both the Old Testament and the New Testament, has written for all in the world to read. The fact that the people in the Bible were people, and had multiple wives, slept with people who were not their spouse, murdered, coveted, lied, and did all the things that people do today doesn’t change the foundation of who God is and what God requires in order to be in His Kingdom. Either one believes that there is a Bible and its metaphysical precepts—the “why” the world exists around us—are real, or that reality is whatever myth people spin from their own minds.

God’s love is one that grants people the ability to choose our reality, either the one He created, or the ones springing from our own minds. The Bible is filled with references to “vain imaginations,” “futile” thinking, “foolish hearts,” and “pretension.” There is no shortage of rebellion against the certainty of God’s love and His universe. David wrote of it in Psalm 139. It’s a beautiful song, high poetry.

People cannot claim the poetry of the Psalms as the cry of their own hearts, to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength,” as Moses wrote in Deuteronomy 6 in the famous “Shema Yisroel”—”Hear O Israel” prayer, the creed of Judaism, and the First and Greatest Commandment proclaimed by Yeshua, Jesus the Christ—and also claim that the reality illuminated by scripture is not real, or subservient to the feelings and needs of their own minds. They may as well claim that gravity is real, but it doesn’t apply to them, and jump off a high tower expecting to float.

It is a fallacy for someone to claim that Christianity exists and also that a self-identified and fully living as a gay or bisexual or transgender person is also following Christ and has received the Spirit of Christ in their own spirit. Either they are living as they please, and Christianity doesn’t exist except as some vain imagination of their own, or Christianity exists and they are living in rebellion to it, and therefore are not followers of Christ. Having both is impossible; they are incompatible metaphysical constructs, or as philosophers and logicians would call it, mutually exclusive paradigms.

Just as it is not possible to claim Christ’s spirit and also Buddha, or Lord Rama, or to sacrifice animals or food to idols, it is not possible to claim Christ’s spirit and also your own imaginations of self.

Yet today’s culture forces that impossibility upon us all. You don’t see the culture forcing churches to ordain imams as Christian clergy, or Buddhist monks, or avowed atheists. At least not now, but the Bible teaches it will come to that, as all religions are mixed into one miasma when Christ comes for His own Church. But for now, we see churches forced by culture to abandon the reality of Christ for the vain imaginations of fashion. The churches and entire denominations that accept this are in error. They are putting their faith in a fallacy.

It’s really that simple, and all the arguments in the world about how to interpret the Bible, and how Jesus didn’t explicitly condemn certain people, don’t make the slightest scratch on God’s unchangeable certainties.

Now love compels the Christian to be kind to those who are led in error. God’s love produces gentleness and patience, and peace. So people who want to say the Bible is not what it is, and call something Christianity that is clearly not of Christ, I will not hold up signs or march by their homes, or violate their privacy, or protest at their funerals. I will support medical care and all the things our modern society can grant to those people.

But I will not let them teach my children that their reality is God’s reality. I will not let them design a world where irreversible medical and physical procedures are inflicted upon immature children in service to their own reality and their own desires, which are not of God. I will not call it a “setback” when our highest legal body, the U.S. Supreme Court, rules that transgenders do not have an unassailable right to limit states from banning such procedures.

People living in their own error is a freedom granted by God. I wish them well, but their error is not going to bring them to the truth, which is the only way to attain eternal life. However, when that error is being taught, and actively forced upon Christians, then the error must be opposed, and those who teach the error must be opposed also.

I have compassion for people who feel “trapped in the wrong body.” It must be a terrible feeling. But it is a feeling, not a reality. Not one single person who was ever born is trapped in the wrong body. Psalm 139 says “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” David wrote, “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Either this is true, or nothing outside our own feelings is true. Therefore, the solution to any feelings that are in opposition to these truths is what Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 10:5.

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Any feeling that does not line up with the precepts of God, and the unchanging certainties He has set out, must be taken captive, meaning examined and determined to be false, then discarded. That’s the meaning of being a believer. Taking those thoughts and feelings, and placing them above God, is the definition of not believing, and non-believers don’t get to claim Christ, or His rewards. I’m sorry, it’s just not how things work.

You can’t have things both ways. You can’t live in error, and spread fallacies throughout churches, leading people away from God, yet calling it fashionable Christianity. You can’t get to heaven that way, and people who do it, I think many of them know it. But they’re happy to be crypto-atheists and lead others away from God by pretending to offer a “both ways” reality when it doesn’t exist.

People who knowingly engage in false teaching will have their reward, meaning their punishment from God. They may not get it here in this life, but they will get it in full in the eternal. I’m sorry for them, because nobody should inherit the devil’s due when the unsearchable riches of God are there for them to claim by embracing actual truth of God’s reality. But that is their own choice.

I have no problem with people making their own choice. I have a big problem with people making those choices for others who have not matured enough to understand.

I know this post has been one of those Biblical writings that will turn a lot of you off. I simply want you all to know why it’s so important that the Supreme Court upheld bans of puberty blockers for young people. I want you all to know why it’s so important that churches and pulpits be free to express political choice, because our politics is the incubator of what we force others to do.

And when the church is forced, first by culture and fashion, then by law, to compromise on God’s unchanging certainties, that is the time when Christians must look to God for wisdom.

Wisdom says that you can only have one mutually exclusive reality. Either it’s Christ, or it’s your own imagination. You can’t have both. There are no LGBT Christians, or gay-affirming churches. There are only those who follow Christ, and those who don’t

Let me add this. Political power is not the wisdom of God. Just because Christians “win” in the courts sometimes, or people we put in office do things that align with Christian values, does not mean we should put our faith or believe those people. The people churches and pulpits have endorsed, especially some Republicans, are awful, lying, cheating, cutthroat people. They are people who in one breath say they praise Christ, and in the next 50 breaths violate every one of His commandments.

There is a way to be a Christ follower and also be a good citizen. The path our nation is on does not lead there when churches support objectively ungodly people because they promise to use political power to “help” believers.

The God I serve doesn’t need political help.

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