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    Jesus Doesn't Condemn The Gay Believer
    Jesus Doesn't Condemn The Gay Believer
    Jesus Doesn't Condemn The Gay Believer
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    Jesus Doesn't Condemn The Gay Believer

    By David Bush

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    This is a shorter and simpler gay friendly Bible discussion about homosexuality for the LGBT Christian. Gay marriage is also discussed in a favorable light. Everything this book talks about is gay friendly and it is from the Bible or supported by the Bible.
    In these changing times, I urge every LGBT Christian to read this book and understand what the Bible has to say directly to you! There are things in this book which can give us great guidance in these changing times. This book is short, but it gets right to the point and it is, I believe, solid from a doctrinal stand point and from a Christian view point.
    People say Jesus never talked about homosexuality, but He did. He did so on at least three different occasions. What He has to say about homosexuality does not condemn the LGBT believer. It is not what the right wing conservatives would like us to believe. In fact Jesus made an amazing and timely promise to the gay believer yet few LGBT Christians know about this promise nor do they realize this promise is for them.
    This book also discusses gay marriage from a Biblical perspective. Although the Bible does not discuss gay marriage directly, it does discuss the principle of marriage and, surprise, the Bible does not condemn gay marriage.
    This is a book every LGBT Christian must read and the principles talked about in this book, every LGBT Christian would greatly benefit from understanding! Anybody who is concerned about a gay loved one should read this book as well.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Bush
    Release dateFeb 22, 2014
    ISBN9781310721434
    Jesus Doesn't Condemn The Gay Believer
    Author

    David Bush

    I, David Bush, would like to take the time to thank you for your interest in my books. I have not been an author for long, but I do have a desire to help people and to share my experience and interests with people.I know some of you are wondering who I am, so I will write a little something about myself.I was raised in a small town in Pennsylvania by fine Christian parents. I accepted Jesus as my savior at a young age and was raised in a Methodist Church. I have stayed true to Jesus to this day.In 1977, a good friend invited me to a Christian convention in New Wilmington, PA where I had a powerful, life-changing experience that has helped me immensely! An experience some people call the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. That was wonderful and this experience still has an effect on my life all these years later.The Holy Spirit helped me work through many issues in my my life including an inability to feel secure in my faith and with the difficult time I had being comfortable in Jesus as a gay Christian.As for my sexual orientation I knew I was gay from a very young age, although I didn't know exactly what it was back then. I knew, however, I liked other men.I did date girls at one time and I loved them as good friends and I enjoyed their company, but I did not love them as a man is expected to love a woman. I did end up marrying a woman who I loved as a friend, but who I could not love as a wife. How or why that happened, I don't fully understand. But I do know it happens to a lot of gay people. Needless to say, this marriage didn't last. It couldn't because I couldn't fulfill my marital duties to her.Even so, I stayed "in the closet" for years for many reasons. I did not even want to admit my sexual orientation, even to myself, although a few people knew I was gay. A lot of other people thought they knew I was gay', but they didn't know it officially. Their intrusive presumptions bothered me and made me angry!I didn't know how people would react to my "coming out" in spite of many rumors to that effect. I wasn't sure I wanted to "come out" because emotionally I wasn't ready, because I didn't know how this would hurt my witness for Jesus and because I didn't want to hurt my family.I believe my parents always knew I was gay, but they didn't want to know it. I guess I respected that, and we all were more comfortable with this arrangement. Never the less, both of my parents did welcome Doug into the family before they died. This was a beautiful thing to have happen.I met my wonderful, loving partner, Doug, who worked in a restaurant I used to frequent. We became good friends and on March, 21, 2005, we gave our hearts to each other and he has been my one and only spouse ever since. We've been very happy ever since. Wow! What a first day of spring!In addition to being a gay man who loves Jesus and who has a wonderful spouse, I have a few interests which have captivated me on and off throughout my entire life. But as all of these things cycled in and out of my head and my heart, a few prominent interests seem to keep me captivated very consistently.The top of the list has to be trains. I have loved trains my whole life. I love watching them, riding them, listening to them and I loved the beauty, nostalgia and the prestige that surrounded them. I love the exhaustive history, technology and engineering which goes into trains, track and the mechanical and electrical systems found on the rails. I guess it was always in my blood and everybody knew it! I was widely known as an avid rail fan and there were just no two ways about it!I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to work for three different railroads, and on two of them, I was a locomotive engineer, a freight and passenger conductor and a signal maintainer.I also want to share with you that I was a long-haul truck driver for a few years. I loved the job most of the time, although the road got pretty long sometimes, but for me, anyway, the big trucks did not have the same glory and splendor a train has.I am also interested in electricity and alternative energy. Even as a kid, I used to design wind mills and low-voltage lighting systems in my head, which were suitable for a tree house or a camp. I still enjoy doing this, but now the systems I design could be used in a house or a small business.In fact, the last few power outages we have had, we still had a few lights when our neighbors had none. These systems won't power the whole city, but it does give us some help when we need it. Help in the form of electricity. That is pretty cool!Thank you once again for taking the time to look at my books (Just one now, but I do have plans to write more). I also want to thank you for taking the time to read my bio.I hope you are enjoying your reading experience and find these words interesting and inspiring. Best regards to you always.David Bush

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      Jesus Doesn't Condemn The Gay Believer - David Bush

      Jesus Doesn't Condemn The Gay Believer

      By David M. Bush

      Copyright 2014 by David Bush

      ISBN: 9781310721434

      Published at Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’e reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. WARNING: This book contains adult discussion which is not suitable for children.

      WARNING: This book contains language which some people may find offensive.

      WARNING: This book contains language which some people may find offensive.

      Table Of Contents

      Chapter 1 What Must Be Overcome

      Chapter 2 Debunking The Classic Arguments

      Chapter 3 Two Passages In The Book Of Matthew

      Chapter 4 John 8: 1 - 12

      Chapter 5 Revelation 3: 7 - 13

      Chapter 6 Revelation Chapter 10 and 11

      Chapter 7 A Few Words About Same Sex Marriage

      Chapter 8 Final Words For Those Who Need Them

      Chapter 1

      What Must Be Overcome

      So many Christian people try to tell everyone, the Bible condemns homosexuality, gay people are an abomination onto God and all gay people are going to hell! It is supposed to say that in the Bible. Where in the Bible!

      It is not my intent to sound cynical. I will admit there are Scriptures which sound like they condemn homosexuality, but when you look at these scriptures in context, they don't condemn homosexuality at all. In fact quite the opposite is true.

      The Bible does not condemn the gay believer. This can be proven by what the Bible has to say. We will do just that in this book.

      If you have read my e-Book, THE MAGLEV BIBLE STUDY, then you should know exactly how these condemning statements are false! These Scriptures have to be taken out of context in order to condemn the gay believer.

      We are not going to cover all of these Scriptures as we did in, THE MAGLEV BIBLE STUDY. We are primarily going to look at what Jesus said about homosexuality and what He had to say to the gay believer and those whom deal with the gay believer. We will look at a few other Scriptures too, but not many.

      Somehow people have come to the conclusion that homosexuality is wrong, even after Jesus said some people are eunuchs [not everybody can be heterosexual] (Matthew 19: 11 & 12).

      Somehow people seem to think the gay Christian is fair game, even when Jesus says they are not! (Matthew 6: 9 - 13; Matthew 18: 21 - 35; Matthew 24: 45 - 51; Luke 6: 37, Revelation 3: 7 - 13) and many many more Scriptures)!

      Somehow people seem to think the gay Christian is fair game, even when the Bible says the law is for the unrighteous and not to be used against the righteous (Psalm 37: 12; 1st Timothy 1: 9). The mention of Psalms 37 here does line up with Revelation 3: 7 - 13. This demonstrates the Christian has no business condemning another believer and this includes believers who are a different sexual orientation than yourself. Many other Scriptures confirm this.

      The Bible goes so far as to give a stern warning to Christian people who condemn Christian people! These accusations can cause a person to miss the rapture and it can keep the accuser out of Heaven! Not only is this warning Scriptural, it is supported by many of Jesus' teachings.

      Somehow even the gay Christian sometimes base their foundation for their faith on nothing more than the incorrect belief that Jesus never said anything about homosexuality, even when Jesus has made the gay church a precious promise (Revelation 3: 7 - 13)!

      Jesus promises He will make the gay believer a pillar in the church in the end times will use the gay believer in a mighty way. We see Him doing exactly that in Revelation chapter 10 and into chapter 11!

      There are still gay Christian people who say, Jesus never talked about homosexuality. Some of these people even base their going to Heaven on Jesus saying nothing about homosexuality!

      It's sad when ignorance and neglect are a major part of one's basis for a person's eternal well being! But when someone is beat down by their own brothers and sisters using incorrect teachings that are wrongly believed to be taken from the Word Of God, some people who don't know who they are in Jesus have nothing stronger to stand on.

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