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Can a Homosexual be a Christian. One might as well ask, can an insurance man be a Christian? Can a lawyer be a Christian? Can an ecclesiastical bureaucrat be a Christian? Can a rich man be a Christian? Can an infant be a Christian? Or one who is sick, or insane, or indolent or one possessed of power or status or respectability? Can anybody be a Christian? Can a human being be a Christian? All such questions are theologically absurd. To be a Christian does not have anything essentially to do with conduct or station or repute. To be a Christian does not have anything to do with the common pietisms of ritual, dogma or morals in and of themselves. To be a Christian has, rather, to do with that peculiar state of being bestowed upon men by God….
I like this because, as a newer Christian, I naively assumed that a practising gay person could not be a Christian. On the other hand, I did not doubt that, despite the occasional schadenfreude, malice, gossip, and sheer untruthfulness I encountered in my church, those who said they were Christians were Christians.
Perhaps that is the safest assumption: to assume that those who say they are Christians are Christians, and to leave the sorting out of sheep and goats to Him.
More from my site
Paul on homosexuality. Romans 1. Blog Through the Bible Project
In which I am Against (Most) Military Interventions, & Musing on Invisible Weapons of the Spirit
Should gay civil partnerships be blessed in Christian Churches?
Anthony and Cleopatra at Trinity College Gardens, Oxford
Repainting life with your teeth: Tanya Marlow muses on the beauty of suffering in “Joni,” the autobiography of Joni Eareckson-Tada (Guest Post)
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. Paul Tillich
