Do Homosexuals think being gay is worth going to hell for??

Question

I think its cruel that God sends all the homosexuals to burn in hell.

Answer 1

This sounds like religious bullshit to me. Sorry to offend anyone but how can anyone go to heaven if you believe all the religious hype you hear? Only the perfect will have a place there if you listen to every bit of religious teachings, and to my knowledge there is not one adult EVER that has not sinned in one way or another. And as for other religious teachings I was raised in a church and we were taught if you turn to God and ask forgiveness of your sins you WILL have a place in heaven, so who is around to say I am in heaven or hell anyway.

Answer 2

If you think it's a cruel thing for a loving God to do, maybe you should start asking yourself where your beliefs come from. Do some research on Bible translations, and Bible interpretation (EVERYONE interprets anything they read; things aren't as black and white as some people will tell you they are). To answer your question, I have yet to meet a gay person who thinks they're going to hell for being gay. (I'd also mention that given our modern understanding of sexual orientation, nowhere in ANY Bible is "being gay" even mentioned. Homosexual acts sometimes are). Not everyone is the same kind of Christian you are, not to mention that not everyone is Christian at ALL. And in the US, it's our right to not be Christian and not have the law punish us for it in any way.

Answer 3

God doesn't send anybody to hell.

He offers everyone a choice.

He makes it a choice because true love cannot be forced.

People who practice homosexual behavior are sinners just like someone who cheats on his wife.

God can forgive anyone, but they must come to Him in repentance and be willing to give up the sin. God will do the rest.

There is nothing worth turning down Christ for. Turn to Him today and be transformed by God's power.

Answer 4

The idea that God sends homosexuals to hell is not a Christian idea, it belongs to Biblio-idolatry. The Bible did not exist until nearly 400 AD in anything resembling its present form. The Canon of books as we know them was not created until the Council of Carthage.

The fragments we have of early manuscripts of the canonical books differ from one other. There are, by the lowest estimates, about 200,000 differences between the available early fragments. There are no autographs of the Bible -- and the earliest versions written are not something we have. Instead we have thousands of copies of copies of translations of copies. Reasonable scholarly study will show anyone willing to pursue it that the Bible we have is not only NOT anything resembling the original versions of the books that comprise it -- but that we have no idea of what those books might have said. Over a hundred years of Textual Criticism (a theological field where a scholar attempts to recreate what the originals probably said) has failed to yield any better understanding than we had -- and many textual critics are now saying that the search itself is meaningless, that we cannot ever know what the originals said. (See Dr. Bart Erhman; Misquoting Jesus; Harper SanFrancisco; 2006 -- for detailed explanation)

So does the "Bible" condemn homosexuality? In some forms. Is the Bible an authentic copy of anything that MIGHT EVEN POSSIBLY be divine? No.

If looking at the inconsistencies is not enough to convince you -- then I suggest looking at the errors in the received text. Sola Scriptura cannot possibly withstand even a casual but serious and honest examination of the texts.

The Bible 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 Isaac's, but he allowed a general to sacrifice his own daughter without even a murmur, the text giving tacit support to the idea that having given his word, the man had to kill his child. (Judges 11:30-39). It 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 permissible (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 bible-god. This monstrosity also suggests killing kids who eat or drink too much (Deuteronomy 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 grandfathers committed the things being blamed on the kids (Exodus 20: 5).

Putting it in a word, bible-god is a monstrosity, 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 bible-god 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 bible-god routinely changed his mind (I can show you other instances if you wish) then yeah, I suppose its words would matter and gays are therefore going to hell.

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.

Christianity is centered around love, faith in Christ, and Eucharist. At best the Bible is sacred because of its place in the life of the early church and should be regarded as holy myth -- stress on the myth.

I don't expect anyone I know who is gay will be going to the mythic hell it talks about.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
Schenectady, NY
http://www.rebuff.org
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Answer 5

I think it's a set up. God creates gay people and sends them to hell for being the way he made them! Yet another reason why I'm not a christian.

Answer 6

Do you think being hateful and judgemental is worth going?

God doesn't send anyone to burn in hell. Where did you hear that? Love God, and your neighbor as yourself.

Answer 7

First you make it sound like there is a choice. Most gay people know what they are by the age of 5 and there ain't nothing much they can do about it!

Second, what makes you think God is sending them to hell. All the anti-homosexual passages come from Man, Peter, Paul and a few others. Peter and Paul also agreed that women should not speak in church. So if women speak in church then they are just as sinful and just as guilty as homosexuals!

We can't say one passage of Paul is fine as is, but the other discriminates on women so lets ease up on it!

Anyone who wants to beleive that passage on Homosexuals better make sure women shut their trap in church! Not even a song from them! Just sit there and shut up until we get outside!

That's the ltter of the law. Women should be seen but not heard. 1Corinthians.

1 Corinithans also talks of people who keep the company of Fornicators. Fornicators, for those who don't know, are hetrosexuals who screw around before marriage or outside of marraige. One is NOT supposed to keep their company!

So, you have dinner with a fornicator, you talk with a fornicator, have friends who are fornicators then you are as guilty as a Homosexual.

Boy, a lot of people are going to hell now!

So, fornicators, friends of fornicators, aquantainces of fornicators, women who speak in church, men who let women speak in church and homosexuals all get to burn in Hell's fire according to 1 Corthitians and Paul, co-founder of the CAtholic Church, whihc has 15% of it's priests under indicement for homosexual activiteis with young boys.

I'm assuming those 15% priests are going to burn in hell's fire too! I'm assuming not even confession with the Pope clears them!

Otherwise, hey, homos, just become Catholics go into the booth once a week, confess your sins and ALL is forgiven and you can be queer, actively sexual and STILL GO TO HEAVEN!

That's how it works in the Catholic Church, isn't it!?

It works for the priests, why not for the parishoners!

Here's how easy it is to get away with things in Christianity!

Homosexuals, pay attention. Find those churches that have no forgivenness and STAY AWAY FROM THEM.

Find those that are tolerant and liberal to homos, cigarette smokers, booze drinkers, those with casusal sex morals and JOIN THOSE.

You get to do what you want and you go to heave under the terms of your church!

See how easy it is

And the Catholic church is the easiest! Just do it. They forgive almost everything. Murder, no. But most other things they'll just have you do pennace and you are, once again, saved!

You can fornicate.

You can cheat on your wife or husband.

You can lie on your taxes.

You can be gay.

Just go to Confession and it's all done away with!

The Angelican churches are now ordaning Gay Bishops and Women Bishops. So they are very liberal. Look at those churchs.

Angelican churchs in CAnada are marrying Gays!

See how easy it all is!

Some of these churchs wonder: Did GOD make them that way. If so, am I quetioning God's wisdom by objecting to this!

IT's a logical argument. ARe Gays a test from god to see if man either:

Obeys the Bible and Kills them (is that a good God?)

Disobeys the Bible and forgives, forgets, loves their neighbor and enemy as Jesus directed and treats them as humans.

Only God knows the true answer! This is for the book of life folks, get it wrong and YOU go into the firey lake!

It doesn't matter how great a Christian you THOUGHT you were, what matters is what GOD thought of what YOU did in life!

Answer 8

Maybe God doesn't send all homosexuals to Hell. And it is not our place to judge them.

Answer 9

Gay people do go to hell just repent God will forgive you.You can't say it's the way god wanted you to be you have a brain you know the diffrence between rite and wrong god would never make it so you go to helll...It's your decision you're punished for what you Choose to do or be ...Good Luck :)
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Answer 10

Listen, punk, NOBODY goes to hell for being homosexual. People go to hell for sinning. Nobody's first sin was a sexual act. It just doesn't happen. I don't know of any studies done on it, but I'd guess most people are in hell for lying to their parents!