Bible-believing Christians will never accept or applaud sinful practices of the LGBT community

IN your pages recently I saw the Church of Ireland Canon Timothy Kinahan, Rector of Helen’s Bay, lamenting deeply about the so-called “hurt and harm” caused by the “Church and Christians” to the LGBT community over the years.

His words are perplexing and puzzling. He also goes on to, confusingly, say that “the Church has been complicit in causing untold harm to people whose sexuality was outside what was then considered the mainstream”.

One cannot but discern he makes all these ambiguous statements with a somewhat concealed agenda. If the “hurt and harm” he refers to are in relation to psychological bullying or physical assault, then we too wholly abhor and condemn all such appalling actions.

If, however, Mr Kinahan thinks that genuine and true Bible-believing Christians are somehow guilty of some crime because they voice their disapproval of sinful practices within the LGBT community then, no, we don’t agree with his sacrilegious and offensive utterances.

Every Bible-believing church and every Bible-believing Christian will never approve, condone or tolerate sin of any kind. No, they will reprove and rebuke it, just as God and absolute truth, as recorded in the Bible, does. Sin, in any form, is an offence to God. To applaud the sinful practices of the LGBT community is to applaud, sin and Christians don’t do that. They would only be religious gimmicks if they did.

Yes, Jesus treated people as equal in the eyes of God and the law, but when His law was wilfully violated and desecrated by sinful man, he took firm action.

It seems, in our day, that many ministers in pulpits are joining the ungodly world in their crusade to dismantle absolute truth. Can I assure them, with Biblical authority, that it will never happen?

DONALD J MORRISON Inverness