Judge Not and Liberal Virtue Signalers

Lately, I have had a spate of virtue signalling millenials confront me with the odd notion that I cannot be a Christian because I do not subscribe to their patently un-biblical political views on issues like abortion, homosexuality, race and immigration.  Were the consequences not so deadly for their souls their pseudo virtuous breast beating would be kind of amusing because it violates the one piece of scripture that they always quote and always get wrong, Matthew 7:1 "Judge not, that ye be not judged."  And yet here they are judging my Christianity through the lens of their own progressive liberal intolerance while loudly proclaiming their tolerance.  By misquoting Matthew 7:1 they are actually committing the act that the verse condemns - hypocrisy.

So, who actually IS a Christian?  It is perfectly defined in Romans 10:9: "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." 

For the following to make sense you have to understand that the New Testament was written in Koine Greek, the common street language of the Roman Empire in the Middle East at the time the New Testament was written.

The word "confess" is the Greek word homologeo meaning to say exactly the same the same thing.  It is a legal term of agreement or contract.  The word "Lord" is the Greek word kuros which means absolute master.  It was often used in a military sense to denote a commanding officer who had life or death authority over his soldiers.  It was also used in the master slave relationship to denote the master.  You are literally agreeing to become the bond slave of Jesus Christ.   In modern terms the whole phrase could be transliterated to mean, "Publicly confess and contractually agree that Jesus Christ is the absolute master of your life in all things at all times."  

In the next phrase the word "believe" is the Greek word pisteuw which means to be convinced of and entrust or place absolute faith in.  The word "heart" is the Greek word kardia.  Over the last few decades, the term "believe in thine heart" has been mistranslated to mean some sort of emotional experience.  A little understanding of Greek culture is necessary here.  The New Testament Greek man thought the heart was the center of the intellect and soul and the stomach was the center of the emotions. A better definition would be "the soul or mind, as it is the fountain and seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes, endeavours."

So, to be a Christian you must "Publicly confess and contractually agree that Jesus Christ is the absolute master of your life in all things at all times and be convinced in your soul or mind, thoughts, passions, desires, appetites, affections, purposes and endeavours that God raised him from the dead."

So, if  you are truly a Christian then you must agree with God on any issue He addresses.  Homosexuality is a perfect example since it is addressed just a few chapters back in Romans 1 where homosexuality is condemned as a product of willful unbelief and disrespect:

¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth ^[l]in unrighteousness, ¹⁹ because that which is known about God is evident ^[m]within them; for God made it evident to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. ²¹ For even though they knew God, they did not ^[n]honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and ^[o]crawling creatures.
²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. ²⁵ For they exchanged the truth of God for ^[p]a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed ^[q]forever. Amen.
²⁶ For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is ^[r]unnatural, ²⁷ and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing ^[s]indecent acts and receiving in ^[t]their own persons the due penalty of their error.
²⁸ And just as they did not see fit ^[u]to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, ²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, ^[v]haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; ³² and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

After reading this passage of scripture you cannot in intellectual honesty say that homosexuality and Christianity are in any way compatible. To accommodate homosexuality you must either refuse to believe the plain meaning of the scriptures or dishonestly re-translate or re-interpret them.  And my friend, you CANNOT do that and still be Christian.