by Amanda Vande Zande

Created on: November 26, 2009   Last Updated: November 28, 2009

I don't recall that Jesus had ever mentioned anything about homosexuality. I also don't recall that Jesus had ever mentioned that as Christians, we should stand in judgment of homosexuals either. What I do recall, is Jesus commanded that you love the Lord your God with all your heart, your mind and your soul, and that the second commandment was like it, that we should love our neighbors as we love ourselves.

So why then are there so many Christians protesting at gay rights events against these people? It has even gone as far as Christians carrying signs that state God Hates You. Does God hate them? Are you the judge?

It is my core belief that you love the sinner and hate the sin. As a Christian, I will stand on the side of Jesus and not on the side of judgment. We are not called to judge or to hate but to love, and in loving, they should never see you, but Christ alone.

So on the day of judgment, will Christians stand before God and have Him to say: "Well done, my good and faithful servant. Way to make all those homosexual people think that I hate them, way to not win them to Christ so that they may be saved, as I saved you. Way to judge them for me, now I don't have to."

My prayer is that Christians come back to the love that Jesus has taught us, and apply it to the people you may encounter in life. There is no room for ridicule in the Christian life, and if you think there is, you should be so brave as to endure the same fate as the disciples of Christ. The bible states that we will be persecuted and hated for His name's sake.

So in meeting that as our fate, then we should be loving people to Christ and not condemning them by widening the gap in their separation from God.

Do people really hate God? Or do they hate the people of God? The latter would make more sense as we do God no justice at all, and by acting out in judgment, or "doing God's work" for Him, we always fall short, and people fall further and further away.

As I may not personally agree with how the homosexual person may choose to live their lives, it is also not up to me to judge how they live. It's not my lifestyle and I'm not God.

The bible says there in no one good, and we all fall short of the glory of God, so Christians of the world, remember that when you stand in judgment, and homosexuals of the world, God loves you too. He created you in His image. To you both; your lifestyle may not be according to His will, but it is God's job to change you and to judge you. It is your job to believe in the One he sent to die for your sins, once, for all. The only sin now...is your unbelief.

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