Why Now?

This is the first time I've heard this question that begs a response from me; "Why after over 2000 years is the argument only now being made for the acceptance of homosexuality in Christianity?

This is a legitimate question with a few answers.

The first thing you need to understand is that this question is asked on the assumption the Body of Christ has always gotten it right in looking at and treating others. Church history will tell you they've done the exact opposite when it came to Scripturally seeing "the other." The exploitation of animals God told us to be shepherds over, persecuting Jews, Protestants, Catholics... the persecution of Jews again... and again... and again, seeing a woman as less than a man, black men and women as less than human. Religious persecution in England founded this country. The list goes on and on and ALL had their justification from the Bible. I see nothing different with what is happening with homosexuals now.

Also, remember that the Catholic Church had a monopoly on Scripture for a good chunk of history and told the masses how to believe on homosexuality with decrees and putting the Church Father's opinion, men who never claimed to be inspired, at the level of inspired Scripture.

The early church that was persecuted for their faith in Christ would rend their garments in grief and disbelief if they knew the modern Church would turn the tables and now be the ones doing the persecuting in the Name of Christ.

For people calling this new acceptance of gays into the church heresy, it just doesn't fit the definition. Every heresy will also start to show its fruit, bleed out its poison, it can't help itself. The only ugly fruit I see is not from the multitudes of LGBTQ following Christ in their sexuality, it's in the harsh spirit and cold heartlessness of those inside the Church to the homosexuals they accuse and demand they leave their sexuality for God to love them. Debating over literal years on social media, I have witnessed over and over loving and kind Christians turn into monsters in their spirit when homosexuality is brought up. The poison that comes from how they believe bleeding out.

For those saying it's a 'new thing' in the Church and that alone makes it suspect, remember that the "Doctrine of (Bible) Inerrancy" only started in the 19th Century. "Evangelical Christianity" only started in the 1700s. Even the "Ex-Gay" movement, which critics of gay acceptance love to embrace and legitimatize, only started in 1973.

What you see with gays becoming Christians and straight Christians accepting them is a great moving of the Holy Spirit only He can do, independently, all over the world at the same time. The Presbyterian church just now made the judgment as a church body to accept gays in ordination while gay-affirming Pentecostal churches in Brazil are exploding with new converts, from Evangelical mega-churches in Texas now embracing gays to gay voices within Orthodox Judaism finally being heard. Something is going on with homosexuals that is bringing them to God in a time like never before in countless numbers never seen with a speed that's making those in the Body of Christ who aren't LGBTQ heads spin.

God is saying to hearts in His "Still Small Voice; "Accept those who are mine because they too hear my voice." The Bible did say God will pour out His Spirit in the last days. I truly believe gays are the last group breaking down the gates to rush into the Kingdom because as a community I believe they were only now mature and willing to accept God's calling to multiply it. Gays being the last group called into the Kingdom was a Prophetic Word given in the 70s by Pentecostal leaders

 

The question now is this? On what side will you stand on? 

Fighting the Holy Spirit pouring out to these people you don't understand? Or praising God for those who were lost and now are found?