One of the most persistent and painful questions faced by LGBTQ+ people of faith is this: If God is good, intentional, and sovereign, why would God create me this way if it were wrong?

That question is not rebellion—it is theology. And when we take Scripture, creation, and the nature of God seriously, the answer becomes clearer than many are willing to admit:

God created LGBTQ+ persons intentionally, lovingly, and purposefully—just as God created everyone else.

🧬 Creation Is Intentional, Not Accidental

The opening chapter of Genesis sets the tone for all theology that follows:

“So God created humankind in God’s image, in the image of God he created them.”
(Genesis 1:27)

This verse does not say God created only some kinds of people in God’s image. It does not carve out exceptions based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or conformity to social norms.

The image of God is not limited. It is a divine imprint placed upon all humanity.

To claim that LGBTQ+ people exist outside God’s intent is to suggest that creation contains mistakes God did not foresee or allow. That idea contradicts the biblical witness of a God who declares creation “very good” (Genesis 1:31), not conditionally good.

🌈 Diversity Is a Feature of Creation, Not a Flaw

Scripture repeatedly shows that God delights in variety. Creation itself is a testimony to this truth. God delights in ecosystems, languages, cultures, and bodies that do not all look or function the same way.

Psalm 139 affirms this intimate intentionality:

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb…
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

This psalm does not include a footnote excluding queer bodies, queer minds, or queer loves.

If a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity is part of their inmost being—as countless LGBTQ+ people testify—then it too is encompassed by God’s creative work.

🚫 LGBTQ+ People Are Not Demon-Possessed

A particularly damaging claim asserts that LGBTQ+ people are under demonic influence. This belief has no credible foundation in Christian theology or in the teachings of Jesus.

In the Gospels, demonic possession is consistently associated with loss of agency, self-destruction, and isolation from community (Mark 5:1–20). LGBTQ+ people, by contrast, demonstrate moral agency, spiritual awareness, and the capacity for faithful, loving relationships.

Jesus teaches that evil cannot produce good fruit (Matthew 7:17–18).

Yet LGBTQ+ lives often bear the very fruits Scripture names as evidence of the Spirit’s work: love, patience, kindness, self-control, and faithfulness (Galatians 5:22–23).

To label these fruits as demonic is to invert Jesus’ moral framework. Even more seriously, Jesus warns against falsely attributing the work of God to demonic forces—a spiritual error that hardens hearts against grace itself (Mark 3:28–30).

Calling faithful LGBTQ+ lives “demonic” is not discernment. It is theological misattribution.

✝️ Jesus Never Rejected LGBTQ+ People

Jesus never speaks about homosexuality or gender identity directly. What he does address repeatedly is exclusion, hypocrisy, and religious harm.

• The socially outcast
• The ritually “unclean”
• Those labeled sinners by religious authorities

When law was used to crush people, Jesus restored them. When religious certainty produced cruelty, Jesus exposed it.

This pattern matters.

“You will know them by their fruits.”
(Matthew 7:16)

Bad theology produces bad fruit. Any theology that leads to shame, fear, despair, or self-erasure stands in opposition to a God whose very nature is love (1 John 4:8).

📖 Scripture Must Be Read Through the Lens of Love

A handful of verses are often used to exclude LGBTQ+ people, yet Scripture itself warns against shallow or weaponized readings.

The Bible has been used to justify slavery, silence women, and forbid interracial marriage. In each case, deeper study revealed that cultural context, translation issues, and power dynamics mattered.

Faithful reading is not rigid literalism. It is discernment shaped by Christ.

“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.”
(John 13:34)

🤝 God’s Covenant Is Bigger Than Human Categories

Scripture consistently shows God expanding who belongs.

• Gentiles once excluded are welcomed
• Outsiders become prophets and leaders
• Eunuchs—gender-nonconforming people by ancient standards—are promised honor (Isaiah 56:3–5)

In Acts 8, the Ethiopian eunuch is baptized without interrogation or correction. The Spirit moves first. The church follows later.

❤️ God Creates People for Relationship, Not Erasure

At the heart of Christianity is incarnation. God enters human life fully and affirms embodied existence.

God does not demand self-erasure for belonging. God meets people where they are and calls them into deeper relationship.

LGBTQ+ people do not need to become someone else to be loved by God.

🌱 A God Who Creates LGBTQ+ People Is Still God

If God is truly sovereign, LGBTQ+ people are not an accident.
If God is truly loving, LGBTQ+ people are not rejected.
If God is truly just, LGBTQ+ people are not a problem to be solved.

“The parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable.”
(1 Corinthians 12:22)

The church does not lose faithfulness by affirming LGBTQ+ people. It loses faithfulness when it denies the image of God in them.

🌿 Wrapping It Up

God created LGBTQ+ persons for the same reason God created anyone else: to love and be loved, to reflect divine beauty, and to participate in God’s ongoing work in the world.

The question is not whether God made LGBTQ+ people.

The real question is whether the church will recognize what God has already declared good.