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Galatians 3:28 says, "for there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave or free, male or female, in Christ we are one"

If Christ does not see us as male or female, how can he see us as gay or straight?

We are his children, plain and simple...

Please don't quote Leviticus, I Corinthians, Romans, etc... about homosexuality, we all know these scriptures...

I am asking about Galatians 3:28

2007-07-10 10:41:13 · 22 answers · asked by G.C. 5 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

I agree in God's eyes we are all equal...we are all the same...all his children... so, it does not matter to him about something as trivial as sexuality...

2007-07-10 10:48:42 · update #1

22 answers

Well taking the scripture in context:

26You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, 27for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

I would be inclined to agree with you. It doesn't speak of a position in heaven, it speaks of how god views you once you are baptized.

I can guarantee you will have a huge pack of people spouting their religion lines at you like "adam and eve, not adam and steve", and "love the sinner, hate the sin", but it's all a bunch of bunk.

Remember the song from sunday school?

Jesus loves the little children
ALL the children of the world
red and yellow
black and white
they are precious in his sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

It doesn't say he loves only straight children, it says he loves ALL the children of the world.


EDIT:

If, as someone below me implies, "sinners" caused STDs then how come teens in the US who pledge virginity have appoximately the same rate of STDs as "sinners"?

2007-07-10 10:53:23 · answer #1 · answered by bensbabe 4 · 0 2

The context of this verse is justification by faith in Christ Jesus, the fact that Him whether Jew or Gentile (3:36-4:27), hinder a person from coming to Christ in order to recieve His mercy.
There's plenty of places in the Bible that indicates God reconition to homosexuality.

2007-07-10 10:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by SDC 5 · 0 0

You obviously have no idea what you are reading. In order to understand what the book of Galatians is talking about you must learn the culture, history, government, society, religions and other key elements of the time. I see you have not done this yet. In the Jewish law and customs all Gentiles were considered "Unclean" and Jews were forbidden to associate with them. In the times Paul was living and the times of this letter Males and Females were not equal in the eyes of the Law, both Jewish and Roman law. It is not a Gender thing. The fact was that females didn't have nearly as much rights as Males in both Jewish and Roman, Galatian, Cultures. Learn for yourself.

2007-07-10 10:52:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

First of all the comparisons are not over issues of sexually immoral behavior, as would be the case of homosexuality, but over race, gender, ethnic background.

But God does make distinctions over behavioral issues as you should plainly know given verses like: "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." 1Cor 6:9,10

Furthermore what Gal 3:28 is referring to is that even within those ethnic, racial, gender differences he is only referring to status as children of God and not role in the Christian community. For if you read Paul elsewhere, of which you allege to be informed, you know very well that Paul does speak of diversity of role, just as he also speaks of diversity of giftedness.

2007-07-10 12:05:17 · answer #4 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0 0

The distinction in this passage is not literal. If you are in Christ you are a new creature. You are a Christian. Surely there were Jews and Greeks,and males, and females and there were slaves and free men. God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, and you can bet there was a reason for it. Show me one follower of Christ that was gay, or homosexual,(in the Bible) and then we can have this discussion.

2007-07-10 10:50:54 · answer #5 · answered by loufedalis 7 · 0 2

You miss a very important phrase in the passage.
Verses 25-29 give the full picture.
Jesus doesn't recognize GENDER, but He does recognize sin.
And we are all one IN THE BODY OF CHRIST.
To think that this verse means that sin can be part of Christ's Body, is an interpretation that I've only heard from the LGBT community.
To give this verse the meaning that you are attempting, puts it at odds with the rest of the Bible, and makes God a liar.
Do you really want to go there?

2007-07-10 10:53:13 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 1 2

i think of that God created Adam with each and every of the particular and psychological standards (such as sexual possibilities) for heterosexuality, even inspite of the incontrovertible fact that Eve did no longer exist yet, because of the fact God is omniscient and already knew that He could create Eve whilst He made Adam. Homosexuality, on the different hand, became no longer "difficult-under pressure" by ability of God, yet truly a found out habit. the 1st acts of homosexuality could have started later as esoteric male rituals of satanism/paganism, which includes one unearths interior the Temple of Luxor. they have continuously been an abomination to God. this is barely in this final century the place this habit has exchange into marginally "universal" into society, in spite of the undeniable fact that it is the comparable previous evil that it has continuously been.

2016-10-01 08:01:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

How you interpret this will depend on how you interpret Scripture. Those who choose to use Scripture as a means to justify their own homophobia, bigotry and intolerance will not agree with you.

As you know, when you accepted Christ and He sent the Holy Spirit to you, you were given an ability to discern between truth and untruth: "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you." (John 14:16-17) Use this ability.

The purportedly anti-gay passages in the Bible have nothing to do with gay people as we know them today, but no one who wields these passsages as a weapon bothers to study them and see what they really mean. God does not care if we are gay, because he created us as gay people. (He knew us in our Mothers' wombs.) No matter how many revile us for our sexual orientation, we know in our hearts it does not matter. (Even Scripture tells us that revilers will not inherit the Kingdom of God. Thus, they are only condemning themselves.)

We know what really matters: "If you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. The scripture says, 'No one who believes in him will be put to shame.' For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him. For, 'Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'" (Romans 10:9-13)

"Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life." (John 6:47)

Those of us who view Scripture as a guidebook and path to what Christ commanded us to do, do not see the Bible as a an invitation to attack, insult, denigrate and pass laws against gay people. Do you see anyone on here, for instance, speaking out against women teaching men, although that is clearly sited in Scripture as something not to do? It's much easier to insult gay people than take on all the women who attend church, so they downplay whatever passage they don't like while claiming it's all literal. How can we as gay Christians take this seriously?

What really matters is that we love others as we love ourselves and treat others as we want to be treated. Notice how the following does not say that the law is fulfilled by being heterosexual: "For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Galatians 5:14)

In the context of Christ's commandments, Galatians 3:28 is clear in that it means that Christ's followers are all equal.

2007-07-10 18:03:05 · answer #8 · answered by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 · 0 0

If we are in Christ, we are not identified by anything else. Because of this I dont understand why anyone identifies themselves as anything BUT a Christian if they are. If you are gay and you are living in Christ, advertise HIM and not you're sex life. Same with anyone...Dont say "Im a Greek in Christ, I am a Man in Christ, I am a African in Christ, I am a < insert identity here> in Christ" just takes away from being IN Christ.

2007-07-10 10:49:56 · answer #9 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1 1

so, it does not matter to him about something as trivial as sexuality...
I can not agree with you there. If all sexuality was blessed, it would stand to figure that there would be no such thing as a STD. So it is clear that humans have crossed the line into darkness on this subject, but now try to rationalize something God did not create, sin.
Galatians is saying as God is one, so is His image, and so therefore, only one divine ego, God.

2007-07-10 11:05:33 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 1 1

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