God's commands through Jesus are to love God and love neighbor. that includes accepting people fully for who they are.
Hi sojourner, yes, but to love Elohim and love your neighbor, it requires keeping all of Elohim's commands:
Deu 7:9
(9) Know therefore that Yahweh thy Elohim, he is El, the faithful El, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that
love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Deu 10:12
(12) And now, Israel, what doth Yahweh thy Elohim require of thee, but to fear Yahweh thy Elohim, to
walk in all His ways, and
to love him, and to serve Yahweh thy ELohim with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Deu 11:22
(22) For if ye shall diligently
keep all these commandments which I command you,
to do them, to love Yahweh your Elohim, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Jos 22:5
(5) But take diligent heed
to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of Yahweh charged you,
to love Yahweh your Elohim, and to walk in all his ways, and
to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Neh 1:5
(5) And said, I beseech thee, O Yahweh Elohim of heaven, the great and terrible El, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that
love him and observe his commandments:
Dan 9:4
(4) And I prayed unto Yahweh my Elohim, and made my confession, and said, O Yahweh, the great and dreadful El, keeping the covenant and mercy
to them that love Him, and to them that keep His commandments;
1Jn 5:2-3
(2) By this we know that we love the children of Elohim,
when we love Elohim, and keep his commandments.
(3) For
this is the love of Elohim, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous.
Rom 13:8-10
(8) Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
(9) For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and
if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(10) Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore
love is the fulfilling of the law.
So we are in perfect agreement Sojourner, and Yeshua also agrees in that IF one will not listen to what Moses wrote, they will not hear Him. So when Yeshua commands us to Love Elohim and our neighbor, He surely requires of us to love by keeping the commands. And one of those commands is that a man should not lay with a man as with a woman. KB
