What does God think about the mixing of Faith & Politics? Does being a Christian mean you have to hate homosexuals, be against women’s right to choose

Hello Tracy

As I see it you have asked four questions. They are very good ones and per your preface are things GOD has spoken very clearly about.

Let’s start with the one about hating homosexuals

I. Does being a Christian mean that you have to hate homosexuals?
A. The simple answer to that is no!
No where in the Bible does it tell Christians to hate homosexuals. Yet we are told that homosexuality is a sin. Those two statements are not the same thing. Let’s see why.

B. There is a difference between the person and the action.
1. GOD looks at everyone the same (on face value)

“For GOD so loved the world
That He gave His one and only Son
That whoever believes in Him
Shall not perish
but have eternal life.”
---John 3:16


Initially everyone is the same to GOD. Homosexual, heterosexual, male, female, criminals, pillars of the community, various races, you name it. The arms of Christ, on the cross were opened wide to all.

“Here there is no Greek or Jew,
Circumcised or uncircumcised,
Barbarian, Scythian, bond or free,
But Christ is all and in all.
----Colossians 3:11

2. What we are versus what we do
So why this idea that if you are a Christian especially a conservative Christian you must hate homosexuals?

The idea comes from confusion about what the Bible teaches and it also comes from wanting to create a god that suits us.


GOD never condemns what we are, rather the condemnation comes from what we do with what we are.

A person can be a homosexual and be in fellowship with GOD and another person can be heterosexual and not be in fellowship with GOD. Why is that so? To answer that sufficiently let’s look to one of the major passages in the Old Testament that spells out Homosexual sin. (Leviticus 18:22).

“Do not lie with a man
As one lies with a woman;
That is detestable”
----Leviticus 18:22

There it is. It is very clear that same sex relations are a sin. You can’t say otherwise. Now I want you to take a moment and read the entire eighteenth chapter on your own. It is too lengthy to put here.

What have you found? This sexual sin is but one of many that GOD has listed as sinful. Many of them are heterosexual sins. What is the point?

We are not guilty of a sexual sin unless we commit a sexual sin. All sex outside the marriage commitment is sinful in GOD’S sight. But no person is guilty of a sexual sin if they have not committed a sexual sin. This is the same for those who are homosexuals and those who are heterosexuals.

So to say that GOD and Christians are to hate homosexuals is completely incorrect. We are to hate sin not people.

Where does this leave homosexual people sexually? It leaves them in the same place that unmarried heterosexual people are sexually. It is something that you give to GOD as a sacrificial gift.

GOD knows all things. He knows our hearts. He knows that this sacrifice is done out of devotion to Him.

II. What about a woman’s right to choose ?

The first question to ask is,”Choose what?”
The second question is who says it’s a right?

A. Choose What?
Let’s say it as it is. We are talking about abortion. Abortion by any other name is still abortion. And just what is abortion. It is causing the death of an otherwise viable baby before it has the chance to reach the point that he or she can leave the womb and survive outside the host of its mother.

Of course a Christian cannot stand for this. Not only does it violate the sixth commandment but undermines the very sanctity of human life.

“You shall not murder”

----Exodus 20:13

B. Who says it’s a right?
This right to choose statement popped into the pro-life vs. pro-abortion debate some time ago and I always thought it odd.

We don’t have the right to kill a three month old, a deformed child, or one we find inconvenient after delivery. What makes the baby pre -delivery any different?

We are not talking about excising a sebaceous cyst, liposuction, or selective cosmetic surgery here. It is a human child. We have no such right.

Do you know that this topic was touched on though indirectly in the Old Testament? It involved the premature birth of a child in the womb due to a physical blow to the abdomen. (Exodus 21:22-25).

There was a penalty for causing this. If the child died the penalty was death. Why? because it is considered by GOD to be murder.

III. The Death penalty

Joseph asked his brothers,

“Am I in the place of GOD”

----Genesis 50:19b

The question was a rhetorical one. Of course we cannot take the place of GOD. If GOD says it than the statement is an absolute standard of truth that we must accept.

The death penalty is found in many places in the Bible. We need look no further than the text we just looked at in (Exodus 21:22-25).

“But if there is serious injury,
You are to take life for life…”

----Exodus 21:23

IV. What does God think about the mixing of Faith & Politics?
Our founding fathers obviously intended for faith to be mixed with politics. In spite of what is so loudly blared about. There is not one thing written in the Constitution about separation of Church and state.

If they had meant for such a separation they would not have done things the way they did. For example have you noticed that the highest office in the country (The president) begins with a swearing in ceremony with his hand placed on a Bible and the supreme court justice swearing him in? Even the statment "In GOD we trust". is printed on our money


But putting that aside. You can’t help mix Faith and politics anymore than you can avoid mixing Secular Humanism, Hedonism, or socialism and politics.

Each of these is a philosophy of life that directs the way the adherent goes about life. It is their world view.

Ultimately our way of government is of, by and for the people. And among others Christians are the people it speaks of.

Many places in the Bible talk about the propriety and obligation that a believer has in being involved in their country’s politics. Here is one of them.

“If my people who are called by my name,
Will humble themselves and pray
And seek my face
And turn from their wicked ways,
Then I will hear from heaven
And will forgive their sin
And will heal their land”

---2 Chronicles 7:14

Tracy you asked a very serious set of questions. The answer was more lengthy then I would have preferred (due to the space limitations of this forum) yet far short of what I would have liked to do.

That being said I think we accomplished (well enough) in showing what GOD teaches in the Bible about the questions you asked.

Don
Hebrews 4:12