Does God forgive homosexuals if they ask for forgiveness, yet continue with their deviant lifestyle?

Answer 1

Here is your answer:

(1 Corinthians 6:9-11) . . .What! Do you not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, 10 nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. 11 And yet that is what some of you were. . . .

Notice it says " do not be misled"....do not be fooled... do not be tricked...

Mike

Answer 2

If a homosexual "couple" lives together and shares a household, household expenses, etc. it's highly unlikely that either of them will split up and move out, mending their ways.

This makes obtaining forgiveness for sin problematic, and basicly impossible.

If a person lives alone, goes cruising on Saturday night, hooks up with someone and engages in homosexual acts, yet on Sunday feels remorse, asks God's forgiveness, and intends to avoid such activities in the future ... even if he subsequently fails ... than God is likely to forgive.

The key is to avoid "locking" oneself into a sinful lifestyle, which leaves little or no room for repentance.

This applies equally to heterosexual couples who "shack up", except heterosexual couples can always get married in order to eliminate the "sin" problem.

Homosexual marriage is not, and was never a valid concept in the eyes of God, so there is no means of legitimizing a homosexual relationship.

Answer 3

God forgives those
Only if they forgive themselves first
Then we are all here to experience all types of lives
And with that comes lessons
Once we have learnt the lesson well then we with go on for more personal and spiritual growth : )
We are all here to learn
Acceptance
Detachment
Unconditional love
Letting go
Forgiveness
Honesty
And so on, we must be the best we can possibly be : )
Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 4

Personally, I don't believe in a God and or any form of religion. Religion is a man made phenomenon, established to place control over the masses by the churches and their leaders. The Bible is a fictionalized history book, which should not be taken literally.

I believe in Spiritualism. We are all beings of energy connected to one another through the collective unconsciousness that repeatedly reincarnate to experience a variety of lifestyles and even both genders.

We are here on this plane of existence to learn, to gather experience, to love, to be loved, to help one another through life, to develop compassion for our fellow men, animals and plants, to appreciate nature, to develop our intuition, to learn to accept and appreciate one another's differences and similarities, to learn honesty, to learn forgiveness, to make mistakes and to stand up for one's self.

When we pass away, we go through a life review and judge ourselves and our life experiences. We are not judged by a omnipotent God sitting on a throne in the sky.

Love is love whether it be in a heterosexual form, homosexual form, parent to child form, friend to friend form etc. The form is irrelevant. What matters is that you experienced love, gave love and gained life and soul experience along the way.

Homosexuality is not a sin and since there is no God, there is no deviant act to be forgiven.

Answer 5

Homosexual or not. God put us on this earth to find love. So I don't think that you need to ask for forgiveness. As long as you are happy. Besides all the horrible things that are happening in this world, God has worse things to worry about.

Answer 6

Their "deviant lifestyle"?? Oh, brother.

None of us can know what God will or won't forgive. We are not God. There's only belief. What do you believe? We can only know what we will or won't forgive. And Jesus said to forgive everything. Compassion, people. Don't fuss about what somebody else is doing with his or her life and whether or not they'll be forgiven for it. It's not your business. Worry about whether or not you'll be forgiven for your own actions and beliefs.

Answer 7

Well, homosexuality isn't correct through God's eyes. If you ask for forgiveness and keep on doing it, you don't really regret from your actions. If you are truly sorry, you would do your best to improve on those weak spots. You could only get the best help by praying sincerely to God about how you feel. But, you have to keep your life as God wants you to. Read the Bible, where the best advice and lifestyle you should follow come from.

Answer 8

No,
In order to repent of our sins we must define repent. Person in a homosexual relationship can't repent.

Repent means to express regret then try to apply change. If you don't do that your not repenting. A person in a homosexual lifestyle obviously is going to go back to the same lifestyle without any try of change.

Willfully sinning with the intention of repenting is a big no, no and that's what that would be with a homosexual. In Hebrews it talks about willfully sinning with the intention of repentance.

Plus by the way, most people in that lifestyle wont even have regret for what they are doing.

Answer 9

No, God does not forgive them. It clearly states not to purposely continue to sin just to ask for forgiveness later.

Answer 10

No. They need to quit being gay before they request forgiveness.

It's not very fair when you think about it. If a child killer stops killing children and asks Jesus into his heart he gets to go to Heaven. But some harmless and well intentioned homosexual will burn eternally in hell if he doesn't get hip to the whole Jesus/no gay sex directive.

But I guess "sin is sin".

-It looks like all the kind Christian folks that posted answers above me (and probably below me) are in total agreement with me. Now I feel smart and Holy. A sin is indeed a sin.

Answer 11

Forgiveness is based on Repentance and change. See Acts 3:19 - Repent, therefore, and turn around so as to get YOUR sins blotted out, that seasons of refreshing may come from the person of Jehovah