{"id":24169,"date":"2026-11-14T19:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T03:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=24169"},"modified":"2026-11-14T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T03:35:13","slug":"an-option-to-the-lgbtq-lifestyle-that-brings-greater-meaning-fulfillment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2026\/11\/14\/an-option-to-the-lgbtq-lifestyle-that-brings-greater-meaning-fulfillment\/","title":{"rendered":"An Option to the LGBTQ+ Lifestyle That Brings Greater Meaning & Fulfillment\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whether you believe man was created by God or evolved<\/strong> from a lower life form, humans are social creatures and need each other; no one is an island and able to survive for very long alone. Because of this, we all need love and physical intimacy, which often leads to sexual relationships. This is true whether one believes in the traditional family and marriage or not including those who have chosen the LGBTQ+ lifestyle. One thing is certain: physical intimacy is a crucial aspect of human survival, and without sex between a man and a woman the human race will become extinct. For those choosing a non-traditional approach to sexual expression, a question must be asked. Is there another and perhaps a better way to meet this basic human need for intimacy and sexual fulfillment while, at the same time, helping to preserve the human race? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The obvious and main purpose of sex is more than just as a recreational activity and for pleasure; rather, it is to propagate the human race. Beyond that, it is a beautiful, physical and psycho-emotional experience that brings two people together in a most intimate way. Love and intimacy between humans can bring the highest joy\u2014at least on a human, physical level. As a believer in God, I see this as the Creator\u2019s design and the Bible, the Word of God, advocates and celebrates sex and physical intimacy in a traditional marital, biblical context.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The human need for sexual expression and intimacy is universal. I have travelled widely to many countries and obviously different cultures view sex and sexuality differently. Not long ago I was in Norway, Holland, England and Scotland. Rainbow flags along with gays and lesbians were everywhere! The so-called pride flag is now universally displayed in the West. Recently I flew home from southern California and in the airport concession store there was a man or woman (not sure which) behind the counter who was wearing a tee-shirt advertising his\/her \u201cqueerness\u201d and transgenderism. I could not help asking myself why do people feel the need to advertize their sexuality? Who are they trying to convince about the rightness of the LGBTQ+ lifestyle? Themselves? Perhaps they feel that if they get enough people to jump on the LGBTQ+ bandwagon, this will somehow legitimize their non-traditional and non-biblical lifestyle. These are questions that need to be asked. How many flags and tee-shirts does one see advocating traditional marriage and heterosexuality? None. Perhaps those who hold to traditional views have nothing to prove because they know what is best for the human race and what brings the most fulfilment and joy in life, and, therefore, neither have to prove nor convince others of it. Is it because thousands of years of humans existence prove that traditional marriage and family is the best thing for the human race, or is this merely an antiquated idea without merit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But since sex and sexuality is a major issue for most people in the LGBTQ+ community, let\u2019s discuss sex. In light of society\u2019s preoccupation with sex, let\u2019s step back and view this as an outsider seeing it from the aerial perspective. Suppose one were an alien from outer space and suddenly dropped onto this planet, one would think that sex was the main focus of most humans 24\/7\u2014especially in America and the West. The themes of much of our current popular music revolve around romance and sex. The present preoccupation with Wokism, DEI and LGBTQ+ lifestyles often center around sexual orientation. A large percentage of movies contain sex scenes. Our educational system is now teaching our youngest children about sex, and children are becoming sexualized at younger and younger ages. Often advertising attempts to grab people\u2019s attention via sex-themed content because, after all, sex sells. Pornography is everywhere, and so is sex trafficking and pedophilia. The U.S. is the largest producer and consumer of pornography in the world. YouTube and similar online video platforms contain voluminous amounts of graphic videos lauding and promoting every kind of sexual expression\u2014especially the so-called gay lifestyle for young boys and girls. Young, photogenic models are employed to promote the so-called gay lifestyle. Clothing styles and cosmetics are designed to be sexually alluring, and the list goes on and on. Unless you live off-grid somewhere in the tundra of Alaska or Siberia, every day each of us is literally bombarded by and forces to swim in a sea of explicit sexual allurements. This seems like brainwashing on a mass, societal level! Is sex and sexuality really such a big deal that is often the driving force behind advertising? Does sex and sex alone promise to bring the long-lasting meaning and fulfillment in life that most people are searching for? If sex is so important and is the main focus in the lives of so many people that purports to bring so much joy and happiness, then why is our society falling apart? Why the drug addiction? Why the high divorce rates and broken families? Just look at the fruits of the lives of those who promote sexual libertine lifestyles. The personal lives of popular singers and actors are typically a chaotic dumpster fire full of grief, scandal, broken marriages and families, lawsuits and addictions of all kinds sometimes ending in suicide and even murder. What is there about this lifestyles that is so alluring?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now let\u2019s step back again and take an aerial view of the issue of sex and sexuality by asking an important questions. What really is the big thing with sex that it should garner so much attention and focus? Why is our culture including those in the LGBTQ+ lifestyle placing so much emphasis on sex and sexual orientation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Admittedly, the human sex drive is a powerful force. Thank God for it, or else the human race would die out. But the Creator instructed us to rule our sexual passions, or else they will rule us. For example, if people\u2014especially men\u2014failed to control their sex drive, rape along with sexually transmitted diseases, illegitimate children and broken families would be the rampant norm. Anarchy would rule resulting in a society full of mentally and emotionally damaged if not suicidal people. To prevent this, God gave humans guidelines regarding sexual expression, not because he is a cosmic killjoy, but because he wants the best for the children he created. When one makes their sexual passions or orientation their identity and the main thing in their life, then one risks becoming a slave to this\u00ad. Sex will rule a person and subsequently become the clouded window through which they view everything in life including love, marriage and family. Sex will likely obscure one\u2019s thinking. Suddenly traditional family and marriage, which is the bedrock fabric of society and upon which the survival of the human race depends become less important if not unimportant. It then becomes easy to forget that were it not for marriage and family\u2014a God originated and ordained institution\u2014the human race would eventually die out, and you and I would never have been born. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With these truths in mind, consider the fact that all sexual activity outside of marriage leads to the undermining of marriage and family resulting in the eventual downfall of society. Moreover, by choosing the LGBTQ+ lifestyle, we take ourselves out of the blessings that our Creator has for us. We are choosing a path that leads to heartache, psychological and emotional trauma, disease, broken families and relationships, abortion or infanticide, idolatry, and eventually the extinction of the human race. Society tries to put a good face on the LGBTQ+ lifestyle, but this is a lie of the devil who always over-promises and under-delivers. One cannot go against the immutable laws of the Creator and biology and expect to be blessed. It is like jumping off a cliff or tall building and expecting to beat or outsmart the inevitable consequences of the law of gravity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the let\u2019s briefly discuss the hard facts concerning the LGBTQ+ lifestyle from the Bible, the word of Elohim from the Book of Romans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (Rom 1:18\u201332)<\/p>\n\n\n

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So in the larger scope of life and humanity, in the eyes of God and the Bible, what puts traditional marriage and family on a loftier level than the LGBTQ+ lifestyle, where the main issue seems to be about one\u2019s sexual orientation and merely fulfilling one\u2019s needs for intimacy, sexual fulfillment and pleasure? What more is there about traditional marriage and family that is so important besides the fact that it is the solid bedrock upon which human society rests? A major reason is that marriage and family form the basis for a civilized structure and order, and human governance, which in turn helps to prevent anarchy and eventually the extinction of the human race. Here is the bottom line: when we rationally (as opposed to \u201cemotionally\u201d) consider all the factors pertaining to human existence, satisfaction and fulfilment, it is better for us to get married and have children. Why? Because this is something we ought to do as a human beings out of gratitude to our parents and ancestors who gave us life, and because we owe it to the next generation to continue the life-giving process. It is also our duty to pass on the good values that we have learned from those who came before us, and to do our best to improve the next generation by not repeating the mistakes of our ancestors. Not only that, we were created biologically a certain way for a reason, and this fact should be obvious and self-evident. Why? It is because men and women are unique and different based on how they are physically and biologically equipped. Plus each of us possesses unique gifts and qualities for the purpose of making the world a better place. The social construct of marriage and family is like petri dish or class room where one\u2019s unique qualities and gifts are developed and tested, and then is the launch pad from which each person is rocketed into society hopefully for the greater good of all. Bluntly speaking, it is traditional marriage and family that takes an immature and somewhat useless even uncivilized young person and turns them into a mature and civilized human who can now be a benefit to society and to the entire human race. Sadly, too many people in our society now view marriage and family as a pass\u00e9 if not a negative institution. This is largely the view of many if not most in the LGBTQ+ lifestyle, where many are at least apathetic toward traditional marriage and family if not virulently opposed to it. Thus, the LGBTQ+ lifestyle ultimately not only is self destructive and will ostensibly lead to the demise of society and eventually to humanity, but it is sinful. This is not a good thing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So basing life choices on mostly if not totally on emotional feelings such as lust, the desire for sex and physical intimacy rather than on rational thinking is a dangerous proposition. Why? Because emotions are fleeting and capricious and change over time, sometimes even moment by moment. Basing lifestyle choices on feelings rather than on critical thinking can ultimately be a destructive choice. The LGBTQ+ lifestyle is a flimsy wall to lean your ladder up against. If you climb that ladder and make it the main thing in your life, it will let you down. There is a greater love that lasts forever and fulfills one\u2019s deepest yearnings and needs. This love surpasses anything that physical intimacy and sexual fulfillment could ever give. It can only be found in the context of traditional marriage and family. Why? Because this is how God made humans and correspondingly and uniquely equipped both men and women for their divine, heaven-ordained mission in the contest of traditional marriage and family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why put all of one\u2019s proverbial eggs in the LGBTQ+ lifestyle basket? Again, there is much more to life than fulfilling one\u2019s sexual desires, satiating the need for physical intimacy and looking social acceptance in a non-traditional even deviant context. Why dance on the tiny pinhead of sexual orientation and sexual gratification and make that the epicenter of one\u2019s life? To place so much emphasis on sex is shallow, weak and vacuous and is shortchanging oneself of the greater blessing that only traditional marriage and family can offer! Sex and the LGBTQ+ lifestyle purports to offer so much, but delivers so little in the overall scope of life\u2014unless, of course, with regard to sex, you are talking about the expansion of the family in the context or marriage, which, in that case, the sex act and physical intimacy between a husband and wife results in joy well beyond the fleeting pleasure of the sex act itself. No other sexual involvement delivers so much joy as the birth of a child, the raising of children, seeing them grow into mature adults, and then seeing one\u2019s children repeat this process resulting in the joy of being a grandparent! All of this contributes to the greater flow of the river of life and the blessings that flow therefrom. This is by heavenly design and this river has been flowing for thousands of years. This is a song that billions of human members of this choir have been joyfully singing for generations\u2014a choir where God\u201a Yehovah Elohim, is the Master Musician and Director. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So where to do we go from here? It is about opening one\u2019s eyes to reality and facing some facts. Then it is about purposefully and intentionally making the right choices that will lead a person down a path that will produce good and lasting results in one\u2019s life as well as the next life. The Bible is clear on this issue. The LGBTQ+ not only is sinful, but those in it will not inherit immortality in God\u2019s eternal kingdom of heaven (Gen 18:20; Lev 18:22; 1 Cor 6:9\u201310). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let us consider the Jesus Christ (Yeshua the Messiah) factor. The Bible reveals that Yeshua came to give each of us life and more abundantly. Too often, the Christian religion as re-invisioned by humans and their institutions is more about religiosity, that is, about programs, rituals, throwing one\u2019s emotions at God, about religious formalism, about dos and don\u2019ts, and about building a corporate religious industrial complex than it is about establishing an actual personal relationship with Yeshua by loving him and following his teachings. Too many people have missed the good news or gospel message of how Yeshua came to bless a person through the transformative power of his word, truth and Spirit via a personal relationship with him by the indwelling presence of his Holy Spirit. Religiosity, religious formalism and non-biblical traditions of men in addition to the hypocrisy of many self-proclaimed Christians, who do not walk their talk, and fail to follow the true teachings of Yeshua, have turned many non-Christians off. They can see through the hypocrisy, facade, veil, marketing and merchandising schemes, the pandering to unbiblical societal influences as the church has failed to focus on the transformative power of the gospel message empowered by a personal relationship with Yeshua the Messiah. However, presently for many young people in several Western nations are discovering that true Christianity has much to offer them. They are rediscovering the life, love and power of a Christ-centered life including the long term blessings and benefits of a traditional, Bible-based marriage and family. They are looking for a solid foundation of moral absolutes upon which to base their lives, hopes, dreams and expectations as opposed to the shifting sands of the ever-changing currents of popular societal trends (such as the LGBTQ+ lifestyle) that promise so much freedom even as the shackles of bondage to sin clank on the wrists and ankles of those who fall for the lies. These young people are reexamining the biblical truths about a relationship with Yeshua the Messiah as well as the blessings and joy of traditional marriage and then raising a family within that God-ordained paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now a word to those Bible-believing Christians who disapprove of the LGBTQ+ lifestyle. Christians must learn to be compassionate with those who are considering this alternative and, yes, non-biblical, sinful lifestyle or who are already in it. The fact is that we do not know what has transpired in the past lives of those in the LGBTQ+ lifestyle that brought them to this place. Many are hurt, damaged and broken souls who come from background of abuse and fractured families. It is not our place to judge them, but to love them. Yes, we can still follow the example of Yeshua our Messiah who loved sinners including us (Rom 5:8; Eph 2:4\u20135; 1 John 4:10, 19; John 3:16), while hating sin. As disciples and imitators of Yeshua, these are our marching orders from our Lord and Master, who, while not condoning sin, spent much time ministering to and loving the sinners that came across his path including you and me, and who showed us a better and more blessed way upward and forward!<\/p>\n

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