has he been shunned by his family?
normal people treat the “out of the closet” as dead.
normal people treat the “out of the closet†as dead.
I don’t hide the fact that I disagree with the behavior but I try to demonstrate God’s love.
One young lady who “identified” as bisexual had been commenting about how “Christians are full of hate.” I asked her if she thought my wife and I hated her. She seemed confused and I mentioned my wife and I were Christians and I believed we always treated her with love and kindness.
Later she came to me and told me we seem to be what Christians say they’re supposed to be.
First, this person with the disordered sexuality is already at a disadvantage when it comes to having normal relationships with anyone, male or female. A decent relationship with a normal family member may remind them of how attractive "normal" is, and may hopefully prevent them from seeking the false consolations of an exclusively "gay" "community".
Second, there are all kinds of people among our families and friends who have some level of sexual disorder. There are people who live with their "fiances," there are contraceptors, there are the divorced-remarried (non-concurrent polygamy), etc. etc. If you justly applied the rule of treating those who fall short of sexual virtue as "dead," you might as well have your family get-togethers in a mausoleum. You might as well be in a casket yourself.
This does not mean that you go all "I'm OK/You're OK" on them, as if you accepted the serious degree of disorder in their lives as the "new normal". That's bogus. You can be decent to people without any approval--- at all --- for their faults and sins.
I find the following axiom is true in my own life:
Satan knows your name, but calls you by your sin.
God knows your sin, but calls you by your name.
I like your comment, I wasn’t sure normal was allowed as a category of humanity.
You have been reported. (sarcasm intended)
Not to ruin anyone’s Saturday but homosexual behavior is one of many, many sins (such as hate) that, if not repented from, will still earn a one way ticket to hell.