Hate is a sin; sodomy is a sin, but the hatred of sin is - righteousness. Hating sodomy is holiness. Hating sinners is sin.
As a Christian, making excuses for ones own sin not only creates more sin, but it also leads other Christians off the straight and narrow and onto the path of destruction and hellfire.
Christianity is not about fighting with our own people, but it is about protecting them from the unsaved, unrepentant, back-slidden, adulterers, drunkards, prostitutes, gangsters and so forth.
Jesus poses the Christian's ultimate weapon against sin.
How do you know if someone is unsaved? = You will know them by their fruit.
How can we know the contents of someone's heart? From what goes in their mouth or out? = The abundance of the heart comes out the mouth.
Jesus said something awesome in His defense: I have come to complete the law, and not destroy it.
The Ten Commandments still stand. Amazing. (But we are saved by grace through faith?)
Yes! Jesus' life, death, burial, coming back to clinical life, ascending to Heaven to be seated next to the Father, and receiving all the Power of the Godhead (Jesus is God) - faith in this gives us salvation.
But Jesus says that we will know the sheep from the wolves according to their works...
Let's have a look at the ten commandments:
The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 “You shall not murder.
7 “You shall not commit adultery.
8 “You shall not steal.
9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”
The trick is not to teach legalism, but that doesn't mean you can just do whatever you want and make excuses and create your own version of what Jesus said.
Paul is famous for his words about sodomy. Paul says that people who disobey God and do not want to repent and follow Jesus, but rather choose lust are given over to sodomy. Sodomy is what you get if you do not have the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God cannot take a host that is involved in habitual sin.
The Ten Commandments are what the entire Western Civilization is built upon. One of the oldest eastern empires, the Chinese, the fire nation - migrated directly from the Israelites through one of Noah's offspring.
For years the ancient Chinese refused to built towers because of the tower of babel. They even recorded the flood story on ancient tablets.
The Chinese, Koreans and Japanese were given over to horrible poverty, famine and disease because they resisted the Spirit of God. God was nowhere to be found while dictators murdered tens of millions of their nationals, 'cus - they chased God away. You can't blame God if you not even involving Him in the first place.
The Bible compares the Spirit to a dove, Jesus to a Lion (Jesus is actually a warrior, there is nothing effeminate about Him and people reported that he was actually quite ugly and a normal man), and the father is often referred to someone clothed in white with the intensity of the Sun.
Guess what... Jesus (in the book of Revelations is given the same description as the Father). Jesus is the Father, the Father is Jesus.
Whenever you find yourself being disgusted by certain people, you must always remember that our Patriarch Father, Abraham was a Sun God worshiper. This is very important.
Of course Abraham repented, but the point is that - we must approach fleshly and sinful things by the Holy Spirit of God.
Just because 90% of the world thinks that Sodomy is fine, does not mean that Jesus agrees.
Remember, only one person fought to defend the deity of Christ when it became an issue.
All the Apostles were slaughtered by the Catholics.
Millions of Christian families were destroyed during the Thousand Years of Catholic Inquisition.
The Catholic Inquisitions ended in the 19th Century. Just the other day.
Right now the Middle East Christians are getting martyred like crazy.
Being confident and self-improvement are important issues.
The Bible puts the lives of the poor, widows, orphans, martyred and persecuted before our lives.
So if you think defending sodomy is an issue, then you definitely have a bag of issues that you need to start discussing before America, Germany, Europe, China, Korea, Pakistan, Iran or any other number of nations decides to throw in their towels over Peace-Treaties.
Remember that the Prophet Jeremiah was the type of guy who wrote letters to kings/presidents prophesying how God would destroy them and give their kingdom over to someone more worthy.
The Bible teaches us to pay close attention to the signs of the times with circumspection.
If Jesus decides He is coming back right now, and you aren't ready - that's a life wasted, a journey missed and a future waiting filled with the terrifying prophesies of the Revelations, Danial, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Micah, Jonah and Moses. There were many, many, many disciples of God who preached about the end, not just John, not just Peter.