After reading this article by Harold Meyerson who takes issue with the God of Dr. Albert Mohler regarding "God and His Gays", I really wanted to write a response. I wanted to point out how HM ignores certain statements by Dr.M in order to pounce upon others and cast aspersions at Dr. M’s "capricious" God. Then I just got tired. I realized that the more I wrote, the more muddled I was being and consequently the less successful at constructing an apologetic.
The point that HM is trying to make appears to be this: Any God that creates people who are homosexual and then condemns them to hell for their homosexuality is a bad God and ought to be rejected. And I have to agree with him. Certainly, HM is accusing Dr. M’s God of being that way and he’s attempting to use particular statements by Dr. M as evidence, but he does so by ignoring other statements from Dr. M. which I confess bothers me. So here is my feeble but less wordy apologetic to HM’s accusations.
Simply put, God does not create homosexuals. All creation is broken and homosexuality is as much product of that brokenness as is my self-righteous scorn of …anyone. God does not accept the brokenness of His creation. He does not condone homosexuality or self-righteousness. He is not pleased by the existence of death and disease as part of the human experience. These phenomena are evidence of the brokenness of His formerly "good" creation and God has a plan to mend it. That plan is currently in process. When it’s brought to completion, both homosexuality and self-righteous scorn for fellow humans will be done away with, along with death, disease and every other evil under the sun. The Bible says it this way: "No longer will there be any curse." A God who rescues His creation is a wonderful God and arguably superior to a capricious one who sets his creatures up for failure. This is a God that ought to be accepted, particularly by his broken creatures. Otherwise, how else can we hope to be mended and whole?
