ARTICLE 377 and Response as Believer!

Ashley Benjamin
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

Article 377 of the Constitution that criminalises homosexual behavior is now removed in India. The Supreme court made this landmark judgement yesterday. The state has no business in personal matters quipped DY Chandrachud. The stand of the Bible is clear in all these matters.

  1. God created Man in His own image. “So God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him;male and female he created them.”(Gen 1:27)
  2. God blessed the union of man and woman and not the union of similar sex. When there is a union between Man and Woman, the descendants are formed and life continues. “And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”(Gen 1:28)
  3. Its against the design and purpose of creation to engage in homosexual activity. The Bible clearly says its an abomination. ”Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.”(Lev 18:22
  4. We should train our children to think right as how God created them. We cannot discover our sexual orientation patterns as we grow old. We have to understand who we are and what is the purpose behind our existence. We have to train our children and launch them in the ways of God. “Train up a child in the way he should go;even when he is old he will not depart from it.”(Proverbs 22:6)
  5. We should find our love in the Lord and we should rest in His unconditional love. When we allow that love to work in our lives, we model the life that God has purposed for us and we become agents of His love that nurtures,builds and edifies. “But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints”(Ephesians 5:3)
  6. Though one’s sexual life is a private affair, we should make sure that through it all, we function as per the design of our creator. Our relationships should be God honoring. Though we cry for privacy, there is nothing hidden before the Lord and we should be accountable for our marriage and relationships. “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous”(Heb 13:4)
  7. When encountering the LGBT group in workplaces and around us, pray for them to come to the understanding of light. “who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”(1 Tim 2:4)
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