LGBT is Not Your Identity: It Keeps You From It

I know and love many people who identify as LGBT. They believe the urges they act on are not only right but their identity. They also believe these practices don't harm us. Those promoting LGBT practices have hidden all evidence to the contrary. Both academia and corporate media also "cancel," or censor, people telling the truth.

In fact, these are unnatural urges that can bring down the wrath of God on us, keep us from our real identity, and cause damage to both individuals practicing them and society at large. This article will prove that.

Additionally, repenting of our sins and believing in the Gospel gives us access to our Creator, Jesus Christ. He is greater than anything we hold onto in this world. He offers us eternal life after living as instruments of God's will in this one. He has a better identity for us!

You'll also hear the truth from ex-LGBT people who chose Christ. Their stories are powerful! They come from many backgrounds. What they have in common is they all know Jesus Christ is worth more than their old sins.

God's Design for Us

God's Word on God's Design

We'll start with a handful of verses that show what God's Word says about our natural design, especially marriage.

"God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:27)

"...you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." (1 Peter 2:9)

"Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection." (Colossians 3)

"Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh." (Genesis 2:24)

"But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate." (Mark 10:6-9)

"Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers." (Hebrews 13:4)

"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it... Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the church; because we are members of his body..." (Ephesians 5:25, 28-30)

"Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything." (Ephesians 5:22-24)

"I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, 'Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.'" (Revelation 20:1-8)

His Word Explained

God's Word says He made us to love and obey Him first, and love each other as ourselves. We're to reflect and multiply His character across the Earth. Since we couldn't obey, Christ redeemed those who would repent with His blood and commanded us to obey to the best of our abilities with the help of God's Spirit.

We keep trying to reflect Christ who already earned our salvation for us. We also avoid our Father's discipline of our sins which may be severe. One day, we'll be with Him in new bodies on a new Heaven and Earth with our struggles and pain long behind us. It's all peace and joy from there. Until then, we must remain steadfast in faith and obedience.

God declared marriage to be a covenant relationship between man and woman that reflects Jesus Christ's relationship with His church. All Biblical examples of spouses are opposite sex. They are commanded to totally love and give themselves to each other. They stick with each other for life.

God commanded sex to happen only in those relationships. That's both to produce godly offspring and to protects us from harms that sexual sin leads to. It's also a gift from our clearly-generous God. It's meant to be fun! That sex feels incredible, like a drug, makes people more connected to each other. It reinforces those feelings that help committed people stay faithful to each other.

Within that relationship, the couple will raise their children to reflect God's character. Their children will likewise reflect them in some ways. The parents will set an example, teach them God's Word, and love them. Both the passing of their genes and gender differences will contribute to these goals. So will God by His grace and through prayer. That's God's design.

There's plenty of scientific evidence this is true. Outside some deformities (intersex), everyone is split between two genders with complementary, sex organs. Using those organs both creates pleasure and can make babies. Biology confirms God's Word about our design.

In godless science (secular), evolution theory claims that the highest, design goal of all species is to produce offspring in its image (i.e having its genes). If they can't or won't reproduce, evolution considers them or that behavior a failure ("dead end"). The normal design will produce children. By puberty, two of the strongest drives of people are being close to other people and wanting to have sex with them. Most cultures also independently developed clear, gender roles. These match God's Word on human sexuality.

In animals and humans, there's evidence we pass behavior down in some way. That both our righteous actions and our sins can impact our children confirms the importance of having God's blessing on our family and living the right way. That's before they're even born! Once they are, physiological differences in men and women make it easier to raise children in heterosexual, committed relationships.

Christian parents endlessly testify that both God's Word and prayer help in the daily struggles they face. That includes boosting their patience, wisdom in decision-making, and God changing random events to support a stable family (i.e. answered prayers). Studies on children following Christ or religions with similar morals show that they, on average, do better than others in all the good categories (esp family/success) and avoid more of the problems (esp crime). That means God's Word was proven to be good for us by the good results it delivers.

Our Sinful, Damaging Choices

" You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you." (John 15)

"No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it." (1 Corinthians 10:13)

Before I describe these, God's Word makes a distinction between temptation and sin. A sinful urge is a temptation which He doesn't hold against us. Acting on that urge is a sin. God doesn't hate people who experience temptations. He hates us acting on them.

As our sovereign ruler, God enforces His law. He will reward or punish both individuals and groups of people based on their choices. For a life of sin, the eternal God puts His enemies in a lake of fire forever. If we love them, we'll do anything to keep them from buring alive.

God also issued blessings and curses for nations. It's usually just the consequences of their own sins coming back on them (eg STD's, drunk drivers) but can be direct intervention, like plagues or famines. Human history records that most sexually-immoral nations have collapsed or disappeared entirely over time, including large empires. We don't want that wrath to hit our families or nations.

At this point, you're probably wondering what damage sexual sins even cause that would justify God's wrath on them. Let's look at them.

Sexual Sin in General

"Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual men..." (1 Corinthians 6:9)

"Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!... Flee sexual immorality! Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s." (1 Corinthians 6:15, 18-20)

We'll start with general problems. Sex outside of marriage leads to being drawn to the wrong people, broken hearts in many cases, more therapy, judging partners against prior ones, pregnancies couples aren't ready for, and higher chance of STD's with medical complications or even death. In surprise pregnancies, people might get stuck with partners that are way worse than they could've had, be single parents weighed down by that heavy burden, or be tempted to murder their children (abortion) for convenience. Abortion is the leading cause of death worldwide at around 50 million children.

In marriage, both porn and adultery damages or destroys relationships. At the least, the cheater is less focused on and sexually attracted to their life partner. They're giving the benefits to others. Some give their partners STD's. Sometimes, the innocent victim experiences verbal and physical abuse from the other person involved in adultery. Just chasing them out of the relationship can lead to tons of stress.

The biggest problem with promoting sexual sin was destroying the nuclear family in America. All good things we had were built on the Biblical design for family. While it was the norm, Americans were more prosperous with less crime and mental illness because they were supported by stable families with a father and mother. Once people switched to fornication and same-sex relationships, national performance decreased while single mothers, crime, and welfare all increased. Destroying the nuclear family was even a stated goal of feminists and Black Lives Matter which made those movements highly damaging.

Homosexuality

"For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error." (Romans 1)

" You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable." (Leviticus 18:22)

" Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire." (Jude 1:7)

Same-sex attraction is a mental illness where people are attracted to the wrong gender. It may start at birth (birth defect), due to their life choices, or a combination of both. The Human Genome Project found no evidence homosexuality is genetic despite spending a fortune trying to. A better theory is that LGBT attraction begins or is reinforced in childhood due to personal fantasies, broken homes, and/or sexual abuse. A tremendous number of LGBT people report these things.

It often starts with trauma, either sexual attack or a bad relationship, which leads to pain from the opposite sex. They get closer to the same sex but think of them inappropriately. Many researchers believe that might lead them away from opposite-sex relationships to act on their same-sex attraction. It's easier than confronting the pain inside of them.

James says sin grows from evil urges in our heart toward the outward act. With or without trauma, the sin starts small by noticing the same sex's body or with small fantasies. Many know it's a sin but keep doing it. Over time, it grows from small fantasies to full-on, sexual urges to homosexual behavior. Most people confirm God's Word is spot on about this.

(Note: Sexual sin in heterosexuals works the same way. It increases due to fantasies over time. Trauma also leads them to make a wide array of sinful choices. For example, most strippers were abuse victims.)

Society Bans Damaging Urges

Although they're unnatural urges, people often want to do them anyway. They believe they should be free to act on their urges. They sometimes think God must approve of it if they have them. So, why would anyone stop them from satisfying their urges?

First, having urges doesn't make them God's will or morally right. Other urges people have include groping people, pedophilia, beastiality, drunkenness, gambling, stealing (kleptomania), beating their spouses, suicide, keparanoia, suicidal thoughts, rape, and murder. Are these good? Should people act on urges just because they have them?

Second, both the Bible believers and liberal atheists have banned or restricted almost all of these things. They did that with laws. They said it was to protect society from these harms. Both sides also pass laws enforcing good behavior, like attending school or how we drive. Liberals even added DEI that moved societal benefits to specific groups, including homosexuals, supposedly for the greater good. So, even people practicing homosexuality (a) know humans have many damaging urges and (b) ban practices they think harm society, and (c) reward practices they think are good for society. Shouldn't we be consistent by banning homosexuality if it's damaging?

Damage of Homosexuality

We've already noted that choosing to be God's enemy without remorse leads to a lake of fire. People leading others into sin are pulling them in the same direction. We've also seen God punishes sin in this life individually, in families, and nationally. We should already be motivate to fight this sin. But, there's more that even non-Christians have warned about.

Homosexual acts can't produce children... ever. It goes against the main purpose of our sexual organs per God's Word, biology, and evolution theory. Every homosexual on this planet would've been dead if their parents practiced homosexuality. They and their partners owe their very existence to heterosexuality. Their future children will also be killed if they practice homosexuality. Promoting it, along with other sexual sins, leads others to do it. Both Progressive schools and Hollywood have invested a fortune into convincing people LGBT will make them special. We've already seen more people start doing it just for attention or due to peer pressure.

Abortion, birth control, and homosexuality have together prevented 50+ million births. What is the cost of that in heaven and to society? What if their children would've cured cancer, ended most poverty, or negotiated peace in the Middle East? What if God would've granted us those prayers but His only condition was that we didn't murder or avoid conceiving those children? What if putting God's commands and our children's life first would've led to great blessings through those children?

(Note: Even godless people, who ascribe value based on talents, say 1 out of X people are highly valuable. They're admitting a huge chunk of 50 million kids would've been high impact and awesome but they threw them away for "care-free," sexual pleasure.)

The second problem is losing the benefits of both passing genes down and physiological differences in parents. Homosexual couples are working against nature to raise their children. How homosexuals confuse or indoctrinate their kids also leads them into situations where they argue with or are ostracized by other kids over the false information about their parents unnatural relationships. For example, one kid believed his "Mom's" could physically have a baby together because woman plus woman is "just like" a man and a woman. Kids will also fight about which orientation is "cooler." Homosexuals are setting their children up for confusion, anxiety, anger, and depression.

How kids talk to each other means the homosexual couples are also indirectly causing other people's children to be more likely to do the same thing. If they impact other families, that means their sexuality is those families' business. If it's sexually immoral and harmful, other families have a right to call it out.

As God's Word warned, countless studies also show higher promiscuity, higher infection by deadly diseases, passing those onto others more often, and lying about having them. CDC says it's a public, health risk. That's not victimless or just their own lives: that's a sin with damaging effects on other people, sometimes killing them, even before we get to divine punishment. Everyone from individuals to society itself are safer if sexual immorality, including homosexuality, is banned.

Romans warns people with sin in their hearts also promote the sins to other people. Homosexuals have gotten into positions of power in academia, Hollywood, government, and big business. In each area, they pushed false information about how homosexuality is great and disagreeing with it is hate speech. Even in science, studies that show it's damaging aren't allowed in many Progressive, pro-LGBT organizations. They've spent billions in Hollywood alone pushing homosexuality on people worldwide. We've not only seen a huge increase in homosexuality but also all the damage I've mentioned.

Global Damage

Finally, part of God's wrath is dropping birth rates. Liberals opposing Christianity have promoted these practices at a global level: feminism devaluing males, devaluing nuclear family, sex out of wedlock, birth control, abortion, and homosexuality. Now, liberal scientists say birth rates are at dangerously-low levels worldwide. While saying it needs to be fixed, they keep pretending it's not caused by sexual sin within their cultural worldviews.

They don't mention birth rates are still high among Christians and people whose beliefs are consistent with God's design. What these people have in common is valuing children, the nuclear family, and the good of their countries. Progressive and pagan beliefs often focus on sexual pleasure but children are a problem. By putting human life and society first, these other groups have more children, their families are more stable, and their children are provably more likely to succeed with less crime and mental illness. Which should our laws reward or ban?

Transgender

"A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 22:5)

"Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering." (1 Corinthians 11:14-15)

"He has said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me." (2 Corinthians 12)

"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Matthew 11)

Gender dysphoria, which supporters call transgender, is a mental condition where a person feels like they're another gender. It's a painful delusion, or feeling, that they don't belong in their body. There are many delusional beliefs. In each case, neither the biology of the person nor their life experiences match the person or thing they claim to be. They're lying to themselves.

The best practice in psychiatry was always to help delusional people face reality with love, patience, and professional assistance where necessary. Studies show most people with gender dysphoria often have other mental illnesses which, if untreated, often lead to their suicide. Psychologists usually try to address all of this at the root.

Today, a newer movement promotes doing the opposite. They re-define gender itself to not have to do with sex organs, then lie to delusional people about their gender to support their delusion, coerce others into lying, and give people who are not a specific gender access to its activities. Those activities might have been gender-restricted for others' protection (eg bathrooms or locker rooms), for fairness (eg sports teams), or for common sense (eg managing pregnancy is biological females only). The new movement gets rid of all of that saying that satisfying delusions is more important than telling the truth or preventing the suffering those lies cause.

To support the delusion, proponents encourage them to mutilate their bodies to match their imagined gender. They hide the ugly truth about people who made choices they couldn't undo. In fact, mental illness that exists before surgery stays in people after surgery. Most still suffer with many killing themselves. Reinforcing their delusion harms, not helps, them.

Recently, LGBT proponents are pushing children to mutilate their bodies before they've gone through puberty. They haven't even finished developing sexually! If parents resist, those proponents claim they are committing "child abuse." Again, these are highly-damaging practices which are inconsistent with how we treat every other mental illness.

At the root, these people hate themselves due to their mental illness. They can't escape by living a lie. Instead, they need to know God loves them so much that Jesus Christ died for them. If they stay close to Him, the Holy Spirit we receive as believers will give them the peace and personal value they desire. In their current body and gender.