Comments on: On Loving…Unconditionally

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:15:00 +0000

Just wondering Ginny, did you ask your pastor for advice on this?

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 02:55:58 +0000

I look at what the Bible has to say and it’s pretty straightforward on the issue of homosexuality. It hasn’t changed. What that man said was awful, and we aren’t supposed to hate people or hurt them, but at the same time accepting the person as a human being and disagreeing with their lifestyle is not hate, it’s disagreement and sometimes its separation. I have gay neighbors I get along with and chat with, and I’d love to see them get saved and change, but I do not condone their lifestyle because it goes against what the Bible says. I don’t hate them, I’m not angry with them, they are not saved, if they were I would expect them to leave that sin behind like any other lifestyle of sin. People say ‘love is love’. More and more this is being used as an argument by some to legitimize pedophilia. (I’m not kidding, it was even in a TED talk.) God is love, but he set boundaries.

By: Fran

Fran — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 01:30:13 +0000

Congratulations to the engaged couple! Love should always be celebrated.

Jesus outraged people in his time by not following many of the Jewish laws of the Old Testament, such as healing on the Sabbath and not fasting. He also distilled the 10 Commandments into the Two Great Commandments, both pouring forth the spirit of the 10 by emphasizing LOVE. (Love God with all of your heart… and love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:34-40)

As time goes by, our understanding is meant to deepen based on God’s revelation to scientists and philosophers. What people didn’t (and often still don’t) understand, they feared, then made laws against. God made us all in his image. We have a lot still to understand. In the meantime, just LOVE. That’s our way to obey the 2nd Great Commandment. Peace!

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:22:51 +0000

In reply to Linda Miller. ❤️

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:22:32 +0000

In reply to Jane. I am so terribly sorry for your loss, dear one. I cannot imagine losing a child. My heart is with you. ❤️

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:52:17 +0000

My son, who has since passed, was gay. I loved him before he “came out” and I loved him after he “came out”. It made no difference in my love for him. He grew up during a time when gays were mostly verbally abused and hated by many who had no problem in calling him names, to his face. He tried so very hard to hold his head high but it wasn’t easy.
It makes me happy to see that times have changed a good bit and in many more instances, people are accepted for who they are.
Your post was wonderfully stated, thank you for sharing.

By: Linda Miller

Linda Miller — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:19:19 +0000

I, too, am a West Virginian and am appalled and disturbed by the comments of that delegate. I truly cannot understand that kind of hatred and cruelty. Jesus loved everyone! Congratulations to your daughter for finding love!

By: Lynn McLaughlin

Lynn McLaughlin — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:49:45 +0000

In reply to MaryJo Pickering. I agree. Love the sinner, hate the sin! I have a son who is married to another man, whom I adore, but I don't like how they are living. I just put them in God's hands and pray for them!

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:30:52 +0000

In reply to MaryJo Pickering. ❤️

By: Ginny McKinney

Ginny McKinney — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:28:00 +0000

In reply to Carol. ❤️