Just Asking with Peter Banzon
I have friends who are gay and I know their struggles. Now my 7-year old son thinks and acts like a gay person. I want him to live how God designed him to be. What should I do?
Your seven-year-old son is beginning to embrace a homosexual orientation. Homosexual orientation is understood to mean sexual attraction to other members of the same sex. At this stage of development, the best intervention is a truth encounter.
Unless resisted and overcome with God’s help, this orientation can lead to homosexual behavior which is understood to mean participation in sexual activity with another of the same sex.
Your son should be lovingly confronted with the truth. As a parent you must affirm your love for your son and continued acceptance as a person. Acceptance does not mean approval of the sexual orientation he is leaning towards. Our source of truth about this issue is God’s word the Bible, not man’s opinion. God created human beings and made them male and female and nothing in between. (Genesis 1:27).
This is the order of life. Jesus Christ affirmed this divine design in Matthew 19:4. Every person must abide with the Creator’s design. To violate God’s intended design is sin against a loving Creator. The Word of God speaks strongly against homosexuality. Leviticus 18:22, 20:13. Romans 1: 25-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, I Timothy 1:9–10.
Because God loved the world, He sent Jesus His Son to bear the penalty for all of our sins, our shortcomings and our failures. When your son surrenders to Jesus Christ and acknowledges God’s divine design, he will be able to live as God intended him to …male not female. God’s design goes much deeper. He created us to have unbroken fellowship and relationship with Him. But sin entered our world bringing brokenness, separation from God and death. Jesus Christ came to make all of us whole again and restore what has been broken by sin.
