Jackie Hill Perry Says Homosexuality Is “Real Love”!

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Hey guys, Colin here, and welcome back to the channel where the Bible and critical thinking meet to give you real

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Christian commentary about the things that matter. Thanks so much for watching, let's get into the video. So Jackie Hill Perry is a popular

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Christian poet, writer, and speaker. She has worked with the Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and several other large evangelical organizations.

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She happens to be very politically liberal when it comes to issues of race, and her theology often reflects that.

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But mostly, Jackie is known for being a formerly homosexual woman. That is to say, she is attracted to women, but does not pursue that attraction because homosexuality is sinful and goes against God's design for marriage and romance.

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And for that, I applaud her. That is a very good decision, a very Biblical decision, and she should be commended for making it.

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However, some of Jackie's beliefs about homosexuality are half -baked at best, and at worst, they're extremely unbiblical.

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Now, I'm not suggesting that Jackie isn't a Christian, or that she's a false teacher, I'm simply suggesting that she has some dangerously unbiblical ideas that need to be refuted.

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Recently, she made a comment about how she experienced real love with her former girlfriend. This is a deeply concerning comment because it misrepresents what the

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Bible actually means when it talks about romantic love. More than this, the statement here brings up a great question.

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Biblically, is it accurate to say that homosexual relationships can truly be loving? Well, let's answer that question based on Jackie's comments and using three

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Biblical points. Number one, let me show you Jackie's actual comments on video here so that we know what we're dealing with.

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Watch this. Initially, it was very hard because I was in a relationship with my girlfriend at the time, and I loved her, and I enjoyed her, and there was a real intimacy and a real love that we had for one another that I then had to let go in an effort to honor

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God as best that I could. But that didn't mean that the attractions went away. It seems quite clear to me that Jackie is supporting the idea that she and her girlfriend had a real, genuine love for each other.

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She clearly says that she and her girlfriend had a, quote, very real love for one another. Now let me make this abundantly clear.

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Here's my point. There is not a single passage of Scripture, not one, that says two men or two women can have real, genuine romantic love for one another.

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The Bible absolutely never says that. In fact, that is a very dangerously unbiblical suggestion.

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Romans 1, 26 -27 says this, quote, For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions, for their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature.

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And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

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Now let's take a look at what this passage actually says about homosexuality. It calls homosexual relationships like the one

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Jackie was in dishonorable passions, shameful lusts, and unions that are worthy of a penalty from God, as is the case with all sin.

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You know what the passage does not say anywhere? It doesn't say that homosexual passions are, quote, genuine, loving, caring, or authentic in any way.

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So here's my first point about what Jackie Hill Perry said. When we use words like love in these situations, we need to be sure that our statements reflect the biblical worldview.

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Unfortunately, the statement that Jackie made here was way off the biblical mark, and it even contradicts the

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Word of God plainly. This brings me to point number two. Here is yet another reason why this is completely unbiblical.

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To say that homosexual relationships can be genuinely loving opens the door to saying that exact same thing about all sorts of other sexual behaviors which

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God has condemned as sinful and unloving. By Jackie's own standard, one could easily make the argument that a man genuinely loves the prostitute he's sleeping with.

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You could make the argument that a married man truly loves the mistress that he's having an affair with. But again, these relationships, like homosexual relationships, are condemned as sinful in Scripture time and time again, and they are never once called loving.

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Yet there is absolutely no difference between suggesting that a person could love their mistress or their prostitute if you're going to suggest, on the other hand, that they can love their homosexual partner.

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You see, in our modern culture, there's an arbitrary distinction between those situations, but biblically there is none.

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None of this qualifies as biblical love at all. Because if you truly loved your partner, you would honor them in a biblical way.

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You wouldn't allow them to be in a relationship with you that can never be anything but sin. How on earth could you define that as love?

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Well, really, you can't. To be fair, Jackie does say that she left her girlfriend after realizing that their relationship was sinful.

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However, it's important to note that she was not saying it was a loving decision to leave her girlfriend. At least, that's not her main point in the video.

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Rather, she said that it was difficult to leave her girlfriend because their relationship together, before she even thought about breaking up with her, was a loving one.

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And that is the problem with her statement here. Make no mistake about it. Here's a passage about love that you probably already know.

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1 Corinthians 13, 4 -6, and it says the following, Love is patient and kind.

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Love does not envy or boast. It is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable or resentful.

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It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Now let's compare a homosexual relationship to this biblical description of love.

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That will give us some idea of whether or not these relationships can be loving. First, the passage says that love is kind.

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But we know as Christians that tempting someone else into a sinful relationship is not kind at all. The passage also says that love does not insist on its own way.

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In other words, it says that love puts others before oneself. But again, homosexual relationships, by definition, are putting their own sexual and emotional desires over the ultimate spiritual well -being of the person they're with.

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In a homosexual relationship, you care more about your own passions than you do about the other person's purity.

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Biblically, there's no other way to define it. And finally, the passage says that love does not rejoice at wrongdoing.

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Love avoids wrongdoing, and it helps others avoid it as well. But biblically speaking, same -sex relationships are a culmination and celebration of wrongdoing in everything they are by their very definition.

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The point here is that Jackie Hill Perry suggests that homosexual women can truly love each other. But the

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Bible says that those relationships don't resemble love in any way at all. This brings me to point number three.

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Finally, let me offer you one last reason why this statement made by Jackie Hill Perry is not only unbiblical, but actually dangerous.

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Her statement gives up important linguistic territory to the unbelieving and secular world. Now let me explain what

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I mean by that. Many of the arguments offered by pro -LGBT movements over and against Christian movements have to do with redefining the word love.

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Many pro -gay activists say, love is love, who are you to tell two people that they're not allowed to love each other?

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Those are their most popular slogans. Many pro -gay churches even offer Bible verses about love taken out of context in order to prove their unbiblical point.

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They say, well gay people love each other, and 1 John 4, 8 says God is love, so how could God have a problem with it?

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And then they quote Matthew 22, and they note that love is at the core of Jesus' greatest commandments to his disciples.

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Love God and love others, as they say. Here's the point. Many pro -LGBT activists, especially the ones who claim to be

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Christians, are using the word love as a fundamental and essential part of their argument.

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And therefore, when Jackie Hill Perry, a popular evangelical writer, affirms the idea that homosexual people can genuinely love each other, she is giving the word love up to the world.

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She's handing the word love to them on a silver platter and letting the unbelieving culture redefine words and terms that God himself made.

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She's offering unbelievers and anti -Christian activists linguistic territory that no Christian should ever be giving up.

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Lest we lend any credibility to these sinful ideas. So in conclusion, Jackie Hill Perry is a

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Christian and a former practicing homosexual woman, and praise God that she's gotten out of that lifestyle. She is seen by many as an authority on Christianity as it relates to homosexuality, and there's a responsibility that comes with that.

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However, Jackie has also said that homosexual relationships can be loving, and she has even suggested that she was in a loving lesbian relationship herself.

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Not only is this a dreadfully unbiblical statement that contradicts scripture at every turn, but the statement also lends credibility to several pro -gay arguments which are completely at odds with the

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Christian worldview. This statement, in addition to several other concerning statements made by Jackie Hill Perry, is enough reason to steer clear of her content, at least for the time being.

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Hopefully she repents in the near future. In any case, Jackie, if you're watching this video, please know that this is not an attack on you personally.

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I am simply suggesting that your views on homosexuality are flawed, and I think they're dangerous to the many

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Christians who follow you. I think you should consider amending those statements and making them more biblical. If you do so, and it's brought to my attention,

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I would happily take down this video. There is always forgiveness for you in Jesus Christ in situations like these.

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I know I've made plenty of mistakes in my teaching as well, and we must confess these things to the Lord and ask for grace and for mercy.

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So let's pray for Jackie Hill Perry that she would repent of this and turn to the truth of God's Word. Thank you, and God bless.