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Homosexuality, what is God's view?

There are many "Christian homosexuals" who are not forthright about their homosexuality with their church leaders and fellow churchmen. Some identify with being homosexual but say they are not sexually active and therefore not "in sin". Still others secretly believe that God is okay with their sexual lifestyle so long as it is monogamous and within the context of gay marriage. Is it wrong to tell these different brands of "Christian homosexuals" that they are in sin and must therefore denounce homosexuality as a sin punishable by eternal fire? What about Christians that confuse fellowship with outreach. Is it acceptable to have intimate friendship with homosexuals? What of scriptures like, "be not unequally yoked", or "how can two walk together unless they agree?" Let me hear your thoughts.

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Permalink Reply by Danny M. Guess on February 25, 2010 at 4:42am: They do not come out of the womb as a homosexual. It all depends on their upbringing and how "loose" their parents are with their morals and not correcting them at early stages of their life. Satan seizes opportunities every second of every day and finds a persons' weakness and keeps embedding it into their minds and makes them think lustful thoughts whether it be homosexual tendancies or any other immorality to anger God. Satan caused Adam and Eve to fall from grace in the Garden of Eden and since that time sin has been around. It is not transmitted through family genes or anything of that nature. Satan knows what is abominations to God and every day he plays on them using weak minded individuals and implanting into their minds that what they do is right although it is totally evil and immoral. Even Job was plagued by Satan, Job did evrything right in the eyes of God and Satan even told God he would bring Job to sin, but Job stayed faithful even though he was going through pain and suffering at the hands of Satan daily. He knew it was not God causing all this and he kept his faith and endured.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Berlin Gambolputty on February 25, 2010 at 2:51pm: My parents are not at all loose with my upbringing- they're pretty darn tight. However, I still go behind their back and whatnot. Not with my sexual orientation, but with plenty of other crimes. Even having strict parents during the early stages of ones life could screw them up for good when they're older; they'll turn their backs for they believe their parents were too strict and held them back. Unless the parent went all out to brainwash their child, correcting morals has little to do with homosexuality. Plus, since little kids don't have sexual urges yet... or at least not aware of the concept and wouldn't understand it if you told them (I had to add that because I read a book about Sigmund Freud which informed me that babies are, in fact, very sexual creatures), a parent doesn't go around telling their little boy to stop making out with all his little boy friends because that is very wrong indeed. You just don't see that. Though, when I was little, I didn't get the concept of homosexuality at all and how it would be a sin, and when I heard of it while my mom was listening to Rush Limbaugh, I thought it was a very swell concept. I thought boys were gross. Little girls like to hang out with little girls and little boys like to hang out with little boys. I am aware, however, that a close relationship with one's parents could effect their sexuality, however. They observe their parents and can base their relationships on what they see. If they have two loving, heterosexual parents, then they'll grow up to marry some person of the opposite gender. But if their parents totally hate each other, then they'll have similar relationships with their spouses or might turn homosexual in order to avoid the pain that their parents experience from one another on a daily basis. This leads to another point- heterosexuality, to a person who's experienced this, could be completely wrong. It would seem to a person that this marriage between a man and a woman could not be from a loving god but definitely from the Devil and could definitely be perceived as very evil and immoral. They might feel as if homosexuality would be and escape provided by a god of Love. Just a thought.
Sorry if this is a bunch of mumble and jumble. I kinda rambled and didn't go over my work, but it's not as if I am turning this in for a grade... :]; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Danny M. Guess on February 20, 2010 at 1:42pm: Read Romans 1:22-32 and this will tell how God feels about this subject, it ia a total ABOMINATION! Anyone who is currently doing the unnatural acts should seek repentance and cease and desist from this immediately.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Berlin Gambolputty on February 26, 2010 at 11:09pm: it is probably very hard to quit immediately. i mean, we're only human. I'm sure if jesus ever had to struggle with homosexuality he could quit immediately, but notice how i said 'struggle'.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Deidra Mitchell on March 2, 2010 at 2:14pm: You are going to struggle because you are not doing what you use to do. Thats when you lean on God to carry you through. Also, read the Word of God and start speaking it over your life.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Berlin Gambolputty on March 5, 2010 at 9:45pm: hopefully when you say 'you', you're not talking about me.... cuz im totally straight... just thought i'd say that just in case. guys are wonderful. homosexual guys are cool cuz i can understand them. but homosexual girls give me a headache cuz i have no idea whatsoever about their emotions and whatnot.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Deidra Mitchell on March 9, 2010 at 4:00pm: sorry... i thought you was. I Should had ask you first. sorry again.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Danny M. Guess on February 20, 2010 at 1:46pm: They are not born that way, it is what they choose to do because God gave them a mind to think and Satan gets into with his devious ways and destroys these people because they cannot avoid temptation. Their thoughts that it is ok is a bunch of bunk and there isno place for it in the christian society, let alone the clergy!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Berlin Gambolputty on February 25, 2010 at 1:51pm: We're human as well as christian so of course we'd be obsessed with sexual immorality. It is scandalous. O.O...and you have a huge point about marrying out of race and how that's acceptable now-a-days. There are a billion other Old Testament rules that are- even Jesus broke some of them, such as the rest on the Sabbath rule. Also, maybe homosexuality is somewhat of God's plan to solve overpopulation... which would be a good thing...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Berlin Gambolputty on March 5, 2010 at 9:48pm: O.O clergy? they're still around???? i read about them in ap world... like, in the middle ages... where they were totally hated and despised cuz they were dirty rich and didn't care about peasants.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Berlin Gambolputty on February 24, 2010 at 4:20pm: This is actually a very well thought out question... I like it because it is very hard to tell your view on the matter and it seems as if you genuinely want to hear opinions.

I think that it is possible to be a Christian and a homosexual, however, I don't think that God much approves of the whole homo thing because of what he did in Sodom and burning everything up, yet there were other issues besides homosexuality, so it's not like he has this hardcore hatred towards the sin even more so then he does against stealing, or murder, or adultery, or hate, or racism...
I think that homosexuality, meaning feeling emotions towards someone of the same gender, is okay. I mean, God made us to lust after each other for a reason, and that reason is usually so that we can marry some person and with that person have some amazing, epic sex and have babies who will eventually do the same thing one day. Homos though are screwed on the inside for many different reasons, and yeah I believe that they could be born that way but I don't feel like finding evidence right now because the next thing that I research is the Christian church's role in the Holocaust for a speech in English. I don't think they had much role so it'll just be like, "Stupid Christians were uninvolved and totally Nazi."
Avoiding a friendship with a homosexual just because they are homosexual is totally and completely wrong. It sends them the message, I hate you and God hates you too. It makes them hopeless when it comes to Christianity.
Also, I believe that a person can be homosexual and Christian. It's not as if they are worshiping sex, and humans aren't perfect. It is a sin of theirs and guess what? Homosexuality is just one sin. There are many sins. No one can live 5 minutes without sinning. What makes it more horrible for a man to be lusting after a man then a man lusting after a woman that he's not married to? Before we can judge homosexuals, we need to change ourselves. And that means no judging, because without help from God, none of us can change.
Plus, Who are we to judge the homosexual? No one who is straight knows what it is like to be homo, so really, they can't say anything about it. They don't know what the homo is going through. Homosexuals have guts. They are willing to stand up for what they believe in and risk all sorts of torment and prosicution for it, and I have a strong admiration for them.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Danny M. Guess on March 10, 2010 at 3:27pm: They are only mocking God by attending church as homosexual. Period. Read II Corinthians chapter 6 beginning at verse 14, this tells who we should or should not associate with. These "gays" that do attend church need to repent, give up their lifestyle and apologize to God for their mockery!; ▶ Reply to This