The
image of God is not in our physical bodies, God is outside of creation.
When the Word of God became flesh, he had to get it the same way you
and I did, thru our mothers. God is Spirit (John 4:24), all the
attributes we know of Him describe
His wisdom, power, grace, justice, etc., and none of them speak of his
sexuality, genome, IQ, health or height, for He has none of those
attributes, they are all physical. (Funny to think of Him as not having
an IQ, but that speaks to the content and quickness of the mind, and His
thoughts are nothing like ours - He knows everything, always has.)
Secondarily,
we were created in His image at the beginning, but we have continued to
reproduce thru the ages with that image marred. The power to create a
child today comes from the original commandment to "be fruitful and
multiply," and that commandment has not been withdrawn. We bring forth
the next generation based not on an echo or memory of His command, but
on the continuing power of that Word still working to effect new life
out of us. Nevertheless, what or whom we produce is defaced, marred,
wounded from their beginning because we carry Adam's sin nature. Sin
doesn't always mean a conscious moral failing, it means something isn't
the way God planned for it to be and we pass on every sort of damage
there is to our children - physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual,
DNA, whatever.
Speaking
to the irreplaceable and incomprehensible value of your gay friends in
yours and God's sight, you are correct. There is no human being on this
planet that He does not value and care for in a manner and depth that
our current grasp of the word "love" can barely hint at, added to which
He also passionately desires to make Himself known to and thru you and
your friends, even to the point of death. His own, that is.
This
is the place where we have become so familiar with His grace that we
can become forgetful of its tremendous power. We know the story, yadda
yadda, yet we fail to remember that His purpose is to make people in His
image, that His own glory would fill the whole earth - not ours. He
wants His wisdom, justice, grace, and purpose working thru us, not our
reasoning and desires. He made a new and living way to Himself, and we
don't come. We really don't. It's too hard, it's tedious, we don't like
changing into His image, and we're afraid of what He will ask of us
next. It can suck Really bad. For a Long Time.
Marriage
is about being in the image of God, two working as one to create new
life and make this earth flourish like a garden. However, civil
government can do what it pleases. I've thought for a long time that the
government should offer no more than a civil legal union to everyone.
Pack whatever or whoever the body politic want in the thing, God is not
subject to civil law, but He is King and Master over all creation.
What's that saying, you're free to make your own choices, but you aren't
free to choose the results? Forget about what you see in the movies and
what is being sold on every street corner, judgement and revelation are
in the truth about every alternative to God being uncovered and made
plain so there is no confusion about the choices being made.
Love
your friends, look like Jesus. Some of them are going to want out of
the horror this world is becoming and they need you to know the Way in
the dark.
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