why be gay when god does not allow it?

Answer 1

You can try not to be but it is not something within ones control.

Answer 2

Your question is actually an assertion. It is an assertion that "god" does not allow people to be gay. While one could argue semantics and point out that if god didn't allow it -- it wouldn't be. Let me take a more thoughtful route.

The Bible is, while a very nice book that is the basis (in one form or another) the basis of the three great monotheistic faiths of the West -- actually a book of myths, and some of them are pretty horrid myths.

The earth is not flat, it does not have corners, and it is not established on pillars. Beetles do not have four legs, they have six. Rabbits do not chew their cuds, they have none. Ai and Jericho were both abandoned when the Israelites came to them and Jericho NEVER was walled. Oddly, though a million Jews (more or less) marched around the wilderness for 40 years and ALL died there, we cannot find a single skeleton from the march, even though we have found the remains of tribes of 200 non-semites in the same area. Pi really DOES work, and a perfectly round pool cannot be made that uses a pi of 3.0 rather than 3.14 -- it would leak through a gap in the side.

The god of the old testament, almost certainly either a rendition of one of the great Annunaki of the Sumerians or of Ra of the Egyptians, is a monster who cannot possibly deserve worship, even if real. He accepts human sacrifice, demands genocides, and wipes the faces of his priests with dung. He is, in very real terms, anthropomorphic, having a palace on top of the firmament (the dome covering the earth) where he keeps snow and hail "against the time of troubles" (war???) [If you want to read up on this type of thing, there is a fair list on the site I maintain. Go to http://www.rebuff.org and read the three pages under bible on the left hand menu.]

The short version of what I am saying is -- its myth. Fairy stories, like Grimm's and like Santa Claus. Furthermore, Christianity, despite what you have been told, was not HISTORICALLY based on the Bible as you know it. The canon was not established universally in anything resembling a form you would recognize until the Council of Carthage, hundreds of years after Christ. The early church had 40 gospels, but no one church had more than one book or maybe a very few. Often a gospel, or a letter -- or sometimes nothing at all. Different bishops wrote different canons, just as they had different theologies (gnostic/anti-gnostic for example). The Council of Nice (Nicea) established the creed by vote, and many things (trinity) won by only one or two votes. Divine inspiration? Not unless you count assasination, quite a few occurred connected to Nice and to Carthage.

The idea that the Bible is infallible is no different from the idea that the Pope is, and it is even newer.

So, should anyone be concerned? Not if the reason one is concerned is the Bible. The Bible is provably a mythic book. If you want a Christian community to belong to on the other hand, there are lots of them that accept gays. If you are protestant, look for a United Church of Christ congregation, or a morelight presbyterian, or contact me and I will suggest more. If you are wanting to experiment with a more traditional liturgy, try calling your local Episcopal diocese and asking to be recommended to a parish that is welcoming to gays. Don't be afraid, just ask. If you are near Pittsburgh -- maybe not, that bishop is nuts, so is ours in Albany but not so badly -- most are ok.

Hope that all helps. Don't worry, no one will suffer for being gay. God knows that the Bible is a myth.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
Schenectady, NY
http://www.rebuff.org

Answer 3

Because believe it or not my friend they see not a thing wrong with what they do with there own lives. Some of them don't believe that God didn't like this kind of behavior and that is because they also don't believe that it is a sin to be in love with the same sex. Personally I believe that since they don't believe in what God has said let just stick around and see what happens next. As you know our glorious president Bush now wants to push a ban on Gay marriages when before when this issue came to him he didn't even take a second look.

When you see that Gays and Lesbians are happy and feeling that they can live the way they want and do what they want there is really something wrong. And they just don't believe what they are doing is wrong. Ask some Gay or Lesbian what it says in the bible about homosexuality and see what they say.

I can tell you some of it for starters they will say that it is nowhere in the bible the other thing they will say it doesn't say that it is a sin. So basically they don't believe in what the bible says and what the word of God says about this kind of behavior.

Personally I don't see what in the world would make them live there lives this way? Well I can't answer that one so I will leave that in God's hands to lay down the punishment.

Don't you think so too?

Answer 4

If god does not allow people to be Gay, then we have a proof that there is no god or that you are wrong. After all, there are Gay people -- so their existence, together with the "fact " that God does not allow homosexuality leads to a contradiction. The only conclusion is that either God does not exist, or he, in fact, does allow it.

So which is it? Is there not god, or are you just wrong (here is a hint -- "Both" is an acceptable answer).

Answer 5

Um.

Just where in the Bible does it say that God doesn't allow gays?

There are passages in various books that have been interpreted to mean that God frowns on relationships between men, but the Bible has been translated and interpreted so many times, that intelligent people (including theologians) know that one can't read the King James version and think that it is God's Absolute Word.

Answer 6

If God didn't want to create gays/lesbians, He could've used His unconditional power to NOT create them. Don't you agree? But here they are, the gays/lesbians. It must be bcoz God has approved this creation, so why must we, as His creation, bark about His decision? He knows more than any of us do. Probably we should embrace our differences, rather than to condemn. Remember friends, these people are not for us to judge. We are certainly not qualified to do so. Unless if u wanna play-God, then that's a different scenario altogether. But you'll be damned.

Nuff said.

Answer 7

Funny, I speak with God all the time and He's never mentioned the subject of not allowing homosexuality. Glad I don't follow your god.

Answer 8

Who says God does not allow it?
Is that from a literal translation from the Bible?

Answer 9

God also frowns on poor grammar. I'd rather be gay than never use my shift key.

It's in Leviticus sinner. Look it up. Though shalt not ask stupid questions when though canst not type correctly. Lev 49:18 or something.

Answer 10

it's not that you wanna be gay, it's not like you're gonna wake up one day and say, "you know what i think i wanna be gay". it's just like another feeling. it's something within them, that gay people themselves may not be able to answer, like i said it's just another feeling. god does not judge, he just hopes that we make the right decisions. gay people are not out there killing or making other peoples lives miserable, instead other people are making the gay people's life miserable and that's not right.

Answer 11

As in all other things written by a man the bible is a bunch on rumors and gossip and i think if god was real we would have seen him or her already.