Gagnon, author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice and a plenary speaker at Exodus's 2009 Freedom Conference, said that a June interview in The Atlantic shows that Chambers's views have veered. "Some of us choose very different lives than others," Chambers said of gay Christians in same-sex marriages. "But whatever we choose, it doesn't remove our relationship with God."
When asked to clarify whether or not that meant "a person living a gay lifestyle won't go to hell, as long as he or she accepts Jesus Christ as personal savior," he replied, "My personal belief is … while behavior matters, those things don't interrupt someone's relationship with Christ." In the course of the interview, Chambers made it clear that he believes that homosexual acts are sinful.
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Rom 1:25 because they exchanged the truth about God
for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is
blessed forever! Amen.26 For this reason God gave them up to
dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those
that are contrary to nature;27 and the men likewise gave up natural
relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men
committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty
for their error. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge
God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Jud 1:7 just as Sodom
and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual
immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a
punishment of eternal fire.
1Ti
1:10 the sexually immoral, men who practice
homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and
whatever else is contrary to
sound doctrine,
1Co 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
God's
condemnation of homosexuality is abundantly clear--He opposes it in every age.
- In
the patriarchs (Genesis 19:1-28)
Why does
God condemn homosexuality? Because it overturns God's fundamental design for
human relationships--a design that pictures the complementary relationship
between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:18-25; Matthew 19:4-6; Ephesians 5:22-33).
The Gospel clearly calls people to repent of their sins. Chambers is denying this. Repentance isn't merely a confession of one's sin, but an action that requires turning in a different direction--here, from sin and to Christ Jesus.
Luk 6:46 "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell
you?
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
Rom 6:11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go
on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present
yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of
righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but
under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it
never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for
obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of
obedience resulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of
sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,
18 and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
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