If God made us in His image, why would He condemn homosexuals?

Question

I can't wait to see the responses from conservative Christian groups quoting the Bible!

I would like to REPHASE the question to:
"would He" instead of "why would He" - sorry to all...

OK people... I didn't say PHYSICAL image anywhere, did I?? no. In His image means
our ESSENCE, INDIVIDUALITY, and UNIQUENESS. The only thing we all have in common is our UNIQUENESS

Those who take a wife/husband.....
If you do not multiply, then you should be labelled as sinners?? Think about that when those that DO multiply cannot care for their own in many cases.

I wish I could respond to some of your answers, but then it would be a forum. So many of you are stuck in a groove, and can't seem to find the insight to get out. But I respect each of your answers, even the first guy who responded.....

Answer 1

If we were to assume the existence of God, then all God's words have been interpreted by the citizens of earth FOR the citizens of earth. Whether the Lord exists or not, cannot be determined by thought. Mankind has corruptly, and hypocritically set forth moral codes in the name of a God we cannot perceive. God is unknowable, unnattainable, and can only be configured by this race of clever ape to be communicated to other clever apes.

Now, assuming God's existence, why should he condemn anything he has created? If things in the universe were happening that weren't meant to be, then we would have vanished, before we ever got here, because the universe dots all of its I's and crosses all of its T's. Morality is just another cosmic inevitablity.

The theory of God can be whatever you, as the subject perceive him to be. Hence you can chose whether to believe God condemns homosexuals or not. The only thing that is a fact, my hominid, is that the only condemnation we can prove is delivered by all the wonderfully clever primates that populate this terra firma. Hence, only we, the citizens of earth condemn homosexuality, for a number of reasons and fears.

More appropriately you may ask, "Why do human beings condemn homosexuals?" I will not answer that question now, in the interest of brevity, but I briefly surmise that it is because homosexuality challenges many people's beliefs of what is morally right and wrong. Homosexuality shows the male gender, more so, that he, the heterosexual, may perhaps, be queer to the relations of man and woman himself.

Who condemns homosexuals? Well that one is so simple, it stares you back in the face. The answer to that one is homosexuals antonym condemns homosexuals. Heterosexuals. Heterosexuals condemn homosexuals, and that is all there is, and all there ever will be, my fellow follower of verity.

Answer 2

I get the impression that you would like for conservative Christians to use actual Scripture to respond to your question. I'm a conservative Christian and I have a few Bible excerpts.

First, here is what the Bible says about being in His image. This is from the version called The Message; not my favorite for theological reasons but it's perfect for Y!A. "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflect our nature so they can be responsible for...." And it goes on to list different things in the earth. (I think it's pretty fun for the brain that it says "our" and not "my" or "his".) Anyway, that was to point out that it is not necessarily in a physical manner but in our abilities, our nature that we are made in the image of God.

Here is one of the scriptures that is used to show that God condemns homosexuality. (Please note that I used homosexuality not homosexuals. Just as there can be a great difference between Christianity and Christians.) "Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex, use and abuse the earth and everything in it, don't qualify as citizens in God's kingdom. A number of you know from experience what I'm talking about, for not so long ago you were on that list. Since then, you've been cleaned up and given a fresh start by Jesus, our Master, our Messiah, and by our God present in us, the Spirit." This particular version does not use the word homosexual but in other versions it does. I do believe this version still holds true as an answer to your question. God does not approve of sexual immorality for same gender or opposite genders. Therefore, of course He condemns homosexual behavior.

Which then brings up whether or not homosexuality is immoral or moral or right or wrong. There are plenty of scripture verses that say that it is wrong. And I've heard some excellent arguments about those same verses that could cast some doubt on the validity if you believed that it was the society at that time or it was simply so long ago or the original word means such and such. That does not matter to me since those verses are not what convinces me that homosexual behavior is immoral. It is this one: "It's not good for the Man to be alone; I'll make him a helper, a companion." And when God created another human it was a woman, for the man. In that creation, He made the female form to fit to the man. There is a particular place in the female body that is for the man and not for urination or defecation. Which is not like man on man nor is that kind of "fit" found with woman on woman without artificial substitution.

I know that this line of thought is not agreeable with all. And there may be comments along the lines of, "Well, what about when a man has sex with a woman anally" or "What about children" or "What about that fact that I'm not happy in a relationship with the opposite gender." I'm not addressing the "what abouts" here. (I can but this is long enough, already!) The point is that God will not approve of something that goes directly against His intentions.

Answer 3

Well homosexual love is considered sodomy and therefore condemned. The Christian religion says "Hate the sin but love the sinner" so I don't agree that homosexuals are condemned but their sin is. Everyone has the ability to redeem himself.
He created people to be spiritually like him but also gave them free will and therefore some strayed. Some became thieves, some homosexuals, some tyrants, some killers, some stopped believing. Well if you accept that killers, thieves, tyrants and other sinners should be condemned why would homosexuals be different? Your question can be applied in the same form for any type of sinner accepting sin as a case of straying from the original mold or right path.

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure that when it said in his image, it meant physical attributes. Where in the bible does it say that it means spirit?

You can't take the bible so literally and then twist the words around... You're turning it into abstract literature. You can define anything any way you want, or any way it makes you feel comfortable but don't push it on other people. If everybody did that like most Christians do, I would have to blow my freakin brains out.

I can't stand the abundance of ignorance as it is. It's about time someone starts trying to develop an energy source that harnesses it, cause it's everywhere.

Answer 5

Hmmm to ans this as a person that studies different religions as somebody would study the stars... when the bible refers to his image it refers to the spirit, in spite what a person ans, which by the way if you dont really know about religion dont ans! It could not by physical because we dont even know how god looks like, he doesn't have sex or a face, or language or anything, god is only a SPIRIT! (n yes the bible refers to that literally!) that is why we look like him, because we have one too... therefore it can not be refer to that. In the Bible there are passages that talks about homosexuality n how it is not wrong as long u dont act on it. Christianity speaks of a free will, yes we are his image yet we can choose not to act christian like, just like murderers, sexual assaulters, etc...it is the same. Yes how wrong to put a sexual choice right next to a rapist, but that is exactly what the Bible says... now if u r asking for a personal opinion that is a different matter, but you ask religiously speaking in Christianity what does it mean to be a homosexual, well there is your ans.

Answer 6

"If a person lies with a person as one lies with a girl, either one of them have performed what's detestable. They have got to be placed to demise; their blood will probably be on their possess heads." Leviticus 20:thirteen There's yet another passage in Leviticus that claims essentially the equal factor. And that is it. Some folks will attempt to let you know that there are condemnations of homosexuals in Paul's letters, however in Romans he is honestly pronouncing that homosexuality is a punishment for one more sin, and within the different locations the phrase translated as "gay" way no such factor.

Answer 7

I don't think "he" does in fact perhaps we should stop looking at God as a person and the bible as infallible. Neither idea hold much water in this day and age of reason that doesn't mean there isn't something, some creative force, the unseen hand, that has created and is still creating to this day. I honestly think that when the scrolls of the bible were written it is much the same as it is today everyone clamoring to clain God as their own. "God" is well above and beyond the religions that have sdpawned up in her name ;)
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Answer 8

I'm not a conservative Christian, however I am Christian. To answer your question, when the Bible speaks of image, he doesnt mean the physical body, he means spirit. God made us a lot like him (i.e. having compassion, having wisdom, having freedom, having the power to be angry) God is not a physical entity in the shape of a man. Physically we do not look like God because God doesnt look like anything. We only understand his attributes that all humans are programmed with.

Answer 9

God made us in His image means that He created us with love and to love. Seperately he condems homosexuality, not homosexuals..... hence hate the sin love the sinner. God wanted us to love each other, and commands us to take a wife/husband and multiply, you can't do that with homosexuality, because God did not design us that way. God condemns all sin though, but also knows that with our sinful nature that we will never atain perfection in His eyes, and that is why He sent Jesus to wash us clean with His blood. And trust me I defenitely need to be washed clean. One of my favorite scriptures in the Bible is Matthew 7:4 "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." I think people in general need to heed this advice.

Answer 10

If I commit a crime, I will be arrested and brought before a judge. Even if he looks exactly like me, down to the brown hair and squinty eyes, he will judge me by my deeds, not by my looks.

Those condemned by God are not judged on the basis of their race, age, background, or form. They are condemned by their own decisions; in essence, they condemn themselves.

Since homosexual behavior is an "abomination" in the eyes of God, those who knowingly engage in it have no one but themselves to blame for the results of their judgment.