Arguing with God

The definition of sin is arguing with God.
It won’t matter what your arguments are, when you disagree with God, you are asking for His wrath. Granted, if you don’t believe in Him nor His revelation, then it won’t matter to you what I might claim God has to say. That’s okay, because I’m sure God has plenty of issues with me, too.
There’s a lot of stuff passing before my gaze in this world, and far too much of it thrust in my face, which is pretty easy to mark as “sin” by that definition. Not in the absolute sense, because I can only know what I can discern from my own spirit, and when I label something “sin,” it’s more about my understanding of God’s revelation than it is about God. My theology is nothing more than my attempt to formulate a response to something I can’t really describe. But that’s all God requires of me. He demands I wrestle with the issues using whatever limited talents and faculties I possess, and when I find some sense of peace about them, I am permitted to declare, “Thus saith the Lord.” All I’ve said is this is what I believe He tells me.
How you respond is entirely between you and Him. Go and do your own wrestling, if my words provoke you. But if what I say provokes you not at all, then ignore me. I’m fine with that; I encourage it. Don’t trust me. If what I express does not move you, it’s not for you in the first place. That doesn’t mean you’ll escape His wrath, but it means He’s not trying to get your attention through my words, so maybe He has other plans for you. The point is, it’s not my problem. Nothing I do or so or imagine can make it my problem. I won’t get into trouble with God because you don’t listen, if I can’t get your attention. All that’s required of me is to be faithful with what I have.
So when I say things about LGBT issues, I stand where I best understand God requires me to stand. I care not a whit how you feel, nor the feelings of anyone who claims any part of that. That’s because my feelings don’t matter, either.
Most of the time I don’t address it at all. It’s not as if folks have never heard about the Bible or what it has to say about such things. There are plenty of misrepresentations about it, but most of that is in regards to what we are supposed to do with it, not what God calls “sin.” His viewpoint hasn’t changed since before folks used writing. It’s almost tiresome to talk about it anymore, and I have no great urge to preach about how it will destroy our civilization. Sorry, but the foibles of human sexuality are merely a symptom of much greater sins. You can’t simply pick out crossing gender lines as the whole problem, because that’s just a tiny part of it.
But the greater sin is demanding civil legislation which addresses the issue either way. Until we get fundamental justice on the right track, there’s not much point cherry picking polarizing topics for legislation and propaganda. It’s nobody’s business what the creature called Chaz Bono thinks it is. So long as that person isn’t poking around in your home life creating trouble, it’s just a distraction to put their face and name on TV. People silly enough to watch much TV aren’t going to get much right in the first place. Frankly it’s a much bigger problem having nearly naked women cavorting on the screen with men in clearly sensual poses and moves designed to cheapen sex, and then making it a high-paid business. We’ve got serious problems, and the only problem with the likes of Chaz Bono is a political agenda which seeks to make my faith and calling illegal.
The reason that agenda exists is because those who claim to represent God are doing such a poor job of it. Sure, Chaz wants to argue with God about what He had in mind at birth. Most Western churches argue with God about what He had in mind at the birth of churches, too. Churches want to use human laws for all the wrong purposes, so the LGBT Lobby does the same thing. The grace of God cannot be accomplished by human power. So often and so bluntly has God said that, it’s pretty easy to add, “thus saith the Lord.” There are some Laws God revealed, but we aren’t even close to getting that working right here in the West, so we best leave that alone until we understand the fundamental assumptions behind all God’s Laws. Chaz Bono doesn’t need therapy, corrective surgery, jail nor acceptance; Chaz needs to see God’s truth in action. I dare say that hasn’t happened yet.
When we quit arguing with God ourselves, most everything else takes care of itself.