How can someone be born gay?

Question

God would not do that to you.He would not at all make things like that.The devil loves children he loves each and everyone of them.So that means he can do all kinds of weird things to your mind and make you grow up saying that your gay.He targets little children because they don't know right from wrong,and he wants to get them at an eairly age because they grow up the rest of theire natural lives thinking that.But you have to watch out because the devil plays dirty tricks.So god did'nt make yall that way the devil did.Because most of them blame god.But one day hopefully they will wake up and smell the coffe and say,Im listening to the devils words each and every day!!

Answer 1

Before answering that question -- you do realize that Satan was and is, to Judaism -- the progenitor faith of Christianity "the Advesary" NOT the advesary of humans, no, the advesary of G-d -- and his position is actually within the heavenly court. He's SUPPOSED to challenge G-d.

The title Devil came later, and actually means "little god" or something like that -- its been almost 20 years since I took that course.

Now that said. Your question is really primarily theological. What you are really asking is how can God allow anyone to be born gay. You make a presumption that very few Christians would -- that the Devil can effect a preborn infant. You are welcome to your diverse theological construct however. I'm going to answer the question you actually asked, rather than the one you meant to ask, I think, then I'll speak briefly to your theology.

How can someone be born gay?

In a word, genetics. there is a great deal of scientific evidence that it is inborn. Beyond scientific evidence there is anectodal evidence.

The fruit fly study is actually fairly conclusive. But the pheremonal and eye blink studies are also compelling. I've included links below for those that are interested. Beyond that, research increasingly suggests that at least for males, X28 is the crucial gene. I am saddened by this, because I believe that once it is proven, gay people will be wiped out -- and I think that is sad, because given the number of species in which homosexuality exists (see Dr. Bruce Bagemihl's book "Biological Exuberance" from St. Martin's Press) I think it serves a purpose.

Now as to the theology behind your question: The Bible speaks out directly about a lot of things. It says that the world has corners (Isaiah 11:12) and that it sets on pillars (I Samuel 2:8). It says that God accepted a human sacrifice -- he may have prevented Isaacs, but he allowed a general to sacrifice his own daughter without even a murmer, the text giving tacit support to the idea that having given his word, the man had to kill his child. (Judges 11:30-39). The Bible clearly maintains that genocide is often commanded by God (Joshua 10:40-42 and I Samuel 15: 2, 3 and 8) and that, after killing all the adults in a race, taking the female children as sex slaves is permissable (Numbers 31: 17-18).

The God revealed by the Bible is not only both a liar who doesn't know the natural laws of his own world, and a monster, as shown above -- but he has no real regard, even for his own people, whom he forces into cannibalism (Leviticus 26: 27-29) when he is mad at them; or his priests, whose faces he wipes with dung (Malachi 2:1-3).

It is not only gays and lesbians that are hated by biblegod. This monstrocity also suggests killing kids who eat or drink too much (Deutoronomy 21: 18-21), and says that if he is angry with parents he will kill their children (Leviticus 26:22) and he blames things upon children whose great-great-great grandfather committed the things being blamed on the kids (Exodus 20: 5)

Putting it in a word, biblegod is a monstrocity, a horrific demiurge of evil. Something that even he admits ( Isaiah 45:7 ) [Furthermore, the word used in Hebrew for evil, the word ra' is widely conceded to mean a number of different things: It can mean "wickedness," "mischief," "bad," "trouble," "hurt," "sore," "affliction," "ill," "adversity," "harm," "grievous," and "sad." So no matter what particular interpretation is given of this word -- it has profoundly negative implications. The idea that god is sovereign over the affairs of man makes this even worse, because no matter what interpretation it has, it indicates that biblegod deliberately does harm.]; evil about which he sometimes changes his mind (Exodus 32:14). What a font of unchanging morality -- that almighty God can decide to kill an entire people, and then be talked out of it by a human servant... Furthermore, it is obvious, if God can change his mind, then even if the Bible were not full of errors and horrors, you could not trust that God had not changed his mind on any other issue in it.

So, yes, I suppose if one wants to take as truth a book that says that beetles have four legs instead of six (Leviticus 11: 21-23) and that rabbits chew their cud [which they do NOT] (Deuteronomy 14:7) and if you are willing to, having accepted it as truth, overlook the fact that biblegod routinely changed his mind (I can show you other instances if you wish) then yeah, I suppose its words would matter.

I on the other hand, while a Christian (as in Christ follower) am NOT a literalist, and do not think that a book of bronze age myths owing heavily to the Sumerian and Egyptian myths in the Old Testament and to a collection of pagan faiths, particularly Mithraism in the New Testament matters at all. Nor do I think that the Jewish "Advesary" is really a "devil" that can affect anything at all -- despite the use that the Roman Catholic church and all its schisms has put it to.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
Schenectady, NY
http://www.rebuff.org
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Answer 2

Being gay is a reality...god and the devil are debatable to say the least....on this planet earth there are animals such as cats dogs tigers, humans and billions more...you have gay cats, gay monkeys you name it...it's called nature..if you like to believe that god made this whole planet then god made gays too...get real man! Its just an excuse to say that all things that in your eyes are wrong are from the devil and all that's good in your eyes is from the hand of god...christians have a bad cirriculum vitae in history...the devil might have made christians...why do you judge other peoples behaviour when it's got nothing to do with you...trying to cover up that your first sexual experience was with someone of your own sex?

Answer 3

Nor God nor the devil makes gay people.
Being Gay is a choice. Why do people like the Raiders?

The problem I have its become a fashion status to be gay.

Answer 4

Because they are. It's not a choice at all. A person cannot change something like that. It's like saying people choose to be female or male.

Answer 5

How can someone be born intersexed? It is a DNA mutation and entirely not the fault of the baby who was born that way. If you do not know what intersexed is, you should look it up.

Answer 6

Callalabo, you're dead wrong. When did you have a little meeting with yourself and decide to be straight? You didn't. You woke up one morning and were attracted to men. It just happened.

The same thing is true of gay folks.

Answer 7

We can see by your uninformed comments that the Devil is at work in your life. God made us all...wonderful and perfect...in his image. Who are you to question Gods works. He said... my greatest commands is this...that you love one another as I have loved you.
So you will be prayed for...that you be less judgmental...and more christian like.....
Peace be with you

Answer 8

How can someone be born short? Or blonde?
Or a racist, mouth-breathing, sister-screwing, gap-toothed redneck like yourself?
Oh and by the way, you've been reported.

Answer 9

I don't think anyone is born gay... God would not make them that way... it's a choice

Answer 10

people who are born gay are born the same way as people who have blue eyes.

but you have to put in a heap of work to become stupid.