What does LGBQT+ mean? It describes a group of people who are in rebellion to God’s order for human sexuality. There are several reasons I believe that we should abandon this acronym in favor of the Biblical terms sexual sin, sexual immorality, or another Biblically correct term:
We need to refer to sinful behavior as what it is, sin; not use a term that sounds neutral at best, but is branded as a good thing at worst. The Bible condemns all sexual behavior outside of marriage between one man and one woman, so Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender and other departures from God’s guidelines, are wrong, and are harmful as they are not according to Gods perfect and beautiful design. God’s design is for a sexual relationship only within the covenantal marriage of one man to one woman for life. Anything else is sin: fornication, adultery, homosexuality, transgenderism, bestiality, incest, prostitution, and more than two partners in a relationship.
We are teaching our children something that is false by using this acronym. We need to teach them the truth of sexual purity, especially in our age of sexual revolution against God’s order.
Moreover, we do a disservice to those caught up in sexual immorality by agreeing with and using their language and definitions instead of God’s. Out of care and kindness to them, we need to lovingly speak truth.
As Christians, we need to use Biblical terms for that which is good and Biblical terms for that which is wrong. When we use innocuous or nice sounding terms for what God declares sin, we are inadvertently helping to market sinful behavior.
The terms that the Bible uses for sexual deviancy are:
Zanah: This Hebrew term, often translated as “commit fornication” or “be a harlot,” is used in the Old Testament to depict sexual unfaithfulness and is frequently employed metaphorically to describe Israel’s spiritual idolatry.
Porneia: This is the most common New Testament term, translated variously as “sexual immorality,” “fornication,” “whoredom,” or “idolatry.” It broadly encompasses any sexual activity outside of a biblically defined marriage between one man and one woman, including adultery, homosexuality, bestiality, incest, and prostitution.
Moicheia: While often translated simply as “adultery,” this term is sometimes included under the broader umbrella of porneia in New Testament vice lists.
Ekporneuo: This is an emphatic form of the verb meaning “indulging in sexual immorality,” found in Jude 7.
Based on these arguments, out of love and desire to speak truth, we should use one of these terms: sexual immorality, sexual deviancy, sexual sin or sexual anarchy.