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THE REASONS BEHIND THE ABOVE MEME ( Part - 3 ): CHRISTIANS IN GENERAL

I want to tell you about the true Christians that you will meet on the streets, at school, & at your workplace.

Christians are of every walk of life with varying personalities. S/he is a Saint before God as s/he has been sealed by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:3) & washed clean by the blood of Christ (1 John 1:17).

However, not one of them (in their right, theological minds) believes that they deserved to be saved (Ephesians 2:2-3) but all of them were saved nevertheless by God's grace (Ephesians 2:8). The only real difference between Christians & the unbelieving is that they're forgiven & saved.

CHRISTIANS & POLITICS

Unfortunately, Christians far and wide have been influenced by politics, but this is not unique only to them.

The reason for this is because we're all - Christians and non-Christians - are given only the content in agreement with our own worldview thanks to an algorism used by commercial and social media that collects data from every site we click into.

The hope was that we, the consumers, would draw us to buy more things, via, our interests.

As a result, commercial advertisements appear showing items we've explored and articles, stories, and videos show up on our social media feeds that are according to our worldview.

Commercially it had a positive effect that we buy more products, yet had also a negative effect that we see and read only the things we religiously and politically agree with us. We became insolated from other perspectives and then see others as belonging to the fringes of society.

This resulted in the polarization of America.

CHRISTIANS & THE LGBTQ+

And so, many of us who are socially conservative Christians will appear to hold to a fringe worldview when in actuality, nearly half of America are also socially conservative. At least 40% of us, are, while the rest are economic conservatives.

The threat of the Gay Agenda for example may be silly and perhaps founded in Homophobia, but like every belief there is a kernel of truth in them. To us conservative Christians there is enough of that believe otherwise.

Nevertheless, most of us does not hate the LGBTQ+ community as we are told by Jesus to love our enemies. If we're told to love our enemies who persecute us then how much more do we with a people who just want to live the way they want to?

SOURCE: The Social Dilemma, Netflix documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0

THE REASONS BEHIND THE ABOVE MEME ( Part - 1 ): THE PREVADING POINT OF VIEW

As I frequent the LGBTQ+ stream I began to notice memes that share, over and over again, the same, formulaic statement of:

Christian + "Homosexuality is a sin" = Homophobe (Hater).

Rarely do I see distinctions made between Christians who hate the sins of vs. Christians who hate the person, not just the sins in relations to.

I understand that it as a statement of ultimate fact, meaning, that regardless of whether or not a Christian is a loving believer or not is moot because calling it a sin - is - an act of hatred from the LGBTQ+ point of view (of course, not all in that community believed that).

However, while it is understandable to believe that it is also wrong & it only perpetuates the tension and animosity between the LGBTQ+ communities and their much more socially conservative counterpart.

In fact, I saw a meme here that really bothered me. The meme, which since has been erased, shows a comment from a Christian girl urging her LGBTQ+ audience to repent & give their lives to Christ so they can be saved. To me that is something that cannot be done by a hater, & yet, below a response came to her smartly but rudely done as if she was just another hater.

Is that truly the general feelings of the LGBTQ+?

Then a few days ago I confronted a person I thought was a homophobe; he wanted to start an alliance with another stream in the event of conflict with the LGBTQ+. Thankfully, the owner who was a Conservative rejected flatly rejected it as he does not want to be responsible for a major inter-stream war & believes the instigator is a Homophobe.

Still, frequenting the conservative stream there is also a general feeling amongst Conservatives (Christians & non-Christians) that the LGBTQ+ community rashly label anyone a Homophobe - just for disagreeing with the LGBTQ+ lifestyle. That was affirmed by the person I confronted.

THE REASONS BEHIND THE ABOVE MEME ( Part - 2 ): THE DISTINCTIONS MADE

And so, for those here who believes that all Christians who are against the beliefs & practices of the LGBTQ+, I've made the above meme to distinguish between two types of Christians, concerning. The point I want to make through this meme is this:

Not all Christians who sees the LGBTQ+ beliefs & practices as sinful are Homophobes/Haters. We may hate the sin but that does not mean we hate the ones committing or identified by it. You can argue that by our opposition to is an act of hatred, but to us it is not the same.

I can hate the sport of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) as it could be to me, a gladiatorial sport, but that does not mean I hate those who participate in it.

I hope that by this would improve relations between your and our communities.

As an illustration, the following are two videos of street preachers: one uses the method of "Open-Air Preaching" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIe0ewcq_0s&t=613s ), & the other called "Confrontational Evangelism" ( the first half is an introduction to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2x9QTvv3bU&t=197s ). Bear in mind, the two types must raise their voices in preaching in order to be heard in the street.

What these two methods have in common is that both confront hearers with their sins & both calls them to repent & believe. However, the first one implores but the other provokes; the other tries to reason & the other accuses them of making excuses (sometimes as if they're naughty children).

To be fair, not all who uses the latter are haters. In fact, such a method of preaching seemed to be done by those who wants praise from Christians because they're suffering for the faith.

Are any of them honest, who actually believe that the method in question is biblical, therefore right? Possibly. However, if they truly love the people they're preaching to, why treat them with such seeming disgust & contempt? Why scoff at them to repent & believe?