I wasn’t sure exactly where to begin this article. This subject is not one I have personally lived out. However, it is one that I do have thoughts on that I feel are worth sharing, and would like to submit to the common market of ideas as food for thought.
As a Christian, I have spent a decent amount of time endeavoring to understand what it is my Bible really has to say about the topic of homosexuality. I have heard a variety of decent arguments stating how the Bible does not in fact condemn it, and while I do not think these arguments are altogether bad, it seems to me that they do not hold up to an honest and scholarly analysis of the scripture. The conclusion I have come to is that the Bible does declare it as a sin, at least, the action of it. This can be seen in passages like Romans 1:26-27, Leviticus 18:22, or Matthew 19:4-6. However, my goal is not to argue this point, which has been the commonly accepted interpretation of Scripture for centuries, but to discuss why it matters.
After all, so what? Well, put simply, sin isn’t good for us. Homosexuality is not good for us. We have been sold the lie that it is, that if we just accept it, we will be more fulfilled, our society will be better, we will be happier. This is not true though, and it has never been true. It is not good for us or for our society, and the reason is because in order to identify as LGBTQIA+ we must place our identity in something that is not God. Not only that, it requires us to base our identity on our feelings. We are not our feelings. They are not what define us. We must define ourselves based on what God says about us. He says that we are wonderfully made (Psalms 139.14) and that He created us male and female.(Genesis 1:27)
Truly, we are fearfully and wonderfully made, each and every one of us, and God does not make mistakes. We have to reclaim who God created us to be from our birth. I think that we are living in a time when a lot of young people have a deep hunger to discover who they truly are. We were served something dull and lifeless, and I think we want the real thing, which can be found in Jesus. Life is full of hardships and struggles, and it tries to warp us, trap us, and crush us, but we really do have a purpose, and we have to pursue and discover and recover who we are and who God made us to be.