Playing Reindeer Games

I'm going to say this one time and leave it here. With all the current debates being made of believing the Bible is accepting of homosexuality from hermeneutics, I was one of the first to challenge others in open debate on social media with those hermeneutics in 2012 and before that in prior website/blog forums going back to 1998. I was, and still am, the only one who makes this argument from the Pentecostal perspective. I have been blessed by incredible saints, from John Boswell to John Shore, and others who paved the way before me in showing I didn't need to compromise the Bible as the inspired and inerrant Word of God to affirm Christ-centered gay sexuality. I ran with that to do my own research, which I put out as my own work, with a ministry I was called to do before most theologians publicly came into the fray and when no name was attached to what was then still a new study of gay-affirming from THE BIBLE outside of a few in academia and the clergy.

I did what Paul told me to do, give credit where credit is due (Romans 13:7). Some have difficulty doing that with me.

I'm not going to lie and say I don't sometimes resent the blessings and praises others have received when I have said and debated the same things years before they came out and said it like it was never said before. I know they got it from me because what they said was unique to me, arguments and apologetics no one made before. Others making money from it is further insulting when it should cost nothing. 

I do understand and accept why I am not acknowledged. I wanted to remain anonymous by putting the message before the messenger. This makes no real human-to-human connection that many find important. This will never change. 

Many don't know, or care, where the original source of my arguments came from and those who take from me will never say they did. I am constantly finding plagiarism. It's easier to plagiarize me than to thank me. I understand, but don't excuse, them not wanting to admit they got their Biblical arguments from a website called "Rotten Queer Christian." 

I'm always blown away when I check how many times this place gets view hits from around the world (my favorites are small islands in strange places and areas deep in the heart of Russia that need that light). Multiply those weekly numbers of site views, and years, and it would be incredible if you haven't heard about, or come across, this site if you did any serious study on homosexuality and the Bible.

My Lord tells me He knows what I do. Seeds I put out for the Kingdom that grow in secret that only He knows and that one day will be counted for me in Glory, but sometimes it would be nice to get a few more "Thanks for being one of the first few to put this out there."

...  2 Corinthians 11:17,18.