it really bothers me when i see people say bad things about my God. but i think it bothers me more to see christians be so hateful to gay people. a lot of people are sending the message that God hates them because of something they feel is the way they were born. their sexual orientation makes sense to them, and the idea that God created them that way, yet rejects them because of it, does not make sense to them. can you blame them for being angry? if this is how they see things, how can we expect to impress upon them the importance of a relationship with God? as a christian, it is my understanding that the most important thing we must ALL do is give our lives to the Lord. until we do this, we are all powerless to change anything about ourselves. if homosexuality is wrong, how can we even ask someone to change when they do not know God? and how will they ever know God, if the ony representation of Him they know, is from people who misrepresent Him?
2006-09-22 15:59:17 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
wow. you are one of the most sensible xians i've ever encountered. don't know the answer to your question, but keep on askin' it!
2006-09-22 16:02:31 · answer #1 · answered by S 2 · 8⤊ 2⤋
There is a fine line between showing love and somehow still letting someone know that their sin will forever separate them from God. If you love them you have to let them know that they must turn from their sin and seek forgiveness and salvation. As Jesus forgave the woman at the well, He also told her to "GO AND SIN NO MORE" While it is not in our power to forgive, we are clearly messengers and the message is still the same as Jesus spoke it then. Yet you are correct it must be done in love. Sometimes it is necessary when people keep making excuses and saying there is nothing wrong with what they are doing to become more confrontational, just as Christ showed when the religious leaders continued in their sinful ways and He went head to head with them. Some people will only hear when they are told directly and forcefully to turn or burn, it has saved many. Although that is not my way and I sort of cringe when hearing it done, I've heard converts say that it was the guys voice on the corner that sunk into their heads.
2006-09-22 16:12:13 · answer #2 · answered by Prophecy+History=TRUTH 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's because Christians have all missed the boat on telling homosexuals the truth about Homosexuality. Homosexuality isn't even the big issue here, it's Fornication and Adultery. Those sins go for everyone not just Heterosexuals. If Homosexuals followed those rules too there would be a lot less hate of gays. Just because you have homosexual lusts doesn't mean you are free to act on them the same way a heterosexual man can't go out and screw every chick he can get into bed. We are here to endure whatever tests God has decided each of us need and Homosexuals just have a tough test to pass but its still the same as the test Heterosexuals have to pass. No sex except in Marriage. And NO they can't get married, Marriage is between a ,man and a woman. If they would just abstain from sex they'd be fine......... but for some reason Gays think that just being gay is a license to have unlimited amounts of sex regardless of God's opinion on the subject. Even gay Christians Ignore the rules of fornication and adultery because they feel that as gays, they have a right to have any kind of sex whenever they feel like it.
All of the answers above this one prove a limited knowledge of the scriptures and a very limited knowledge of human psychology/biology, especially the shrimp answer!
2006-09-22 16:08:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
You ask some poignant questions and I feel your pain over this issue. We are to love each other, no matter what. It is not our right to judge anyone.
My only suggestion to you is to let God deal with it. You can do this by doing a I Peter 5:7 - "Casting all your cares upon him; for he careth for you." When the weight of the world becomes too much, this is what I do. I find peace from Jehovah Shalom. I do not know all the answers and can't sort it all out but He can. The battle isn't yours, it's the Lord's.
If they say they are "Christians" and are hateful to anyone, they are not true Christians. To be a Christian is to be Christ-like. He loves, not hates!
Be encouraged and continue to love everyone. A day of reckoning is coming for us all, no matter our sexual orientation!
2006-09-22 16:11:56 · answer #4 · answered by Jhazzi 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We are not permitted to make judgments against people for any reason. We are, however, allowed to separate ourselves from the actions of those who willfully set themselves against the commandment of the Lord. Whether or not their sexuality is willful is not for me to say. They can come to God through belief and not by action just as the rest of us do. God will decide. I also think that it's foolish to write off an entire people because of what they do today as long as what they are doing is not harming anyone else. People can and do change every day. Many, many people who once thought their unholy desires were uncontrollable have now come to the Lord and have admitted that there were psychological rather than biological reasons for it. Who are we to decide. I choose not to cast that particular stone.
2006-09-22 16:10:41 · answer #5 · answered by reformed 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Like the parable of the priest and the poor man, the priest is thanking God that he is so much more righteous than the poor man, while the poor man is praying that God would help him be better. God will respect the poor mans prayer more, but humans have this annoying tendency to think that they have to be better to those around them. In Don Millers book "Searching for God knows What" he explains the "lifeboat" mentality: If I am less valuable than those around me then I will get thrown off the boat. What people, myself included, have a hard time understanding, is that we don't get our value from our talents, our gifts or what we have that is better than others. We get our value from our creator. We already have value because God has given it to us. Christians are some of the worst for this sort of hypocrisy. They want to portray this perfect society, and often deny God in the process. Ultimately, we can only work on ourselves. The best rules to live by, I think, would be "Love people, regardless of their problems", and "Practice what you preach". When you make changes in your life, the lives of those around you are changed. Good luck, and I'll be praying for you.
2006-09-22 16:09:44 · answer #6 · answered by Island Berry 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
i'm a Christian as well and that i agree, we are all sinners. in reality, anybody who ought to declare they are not a sinner is going hostile to the Bible's teachings it truly is in and of itself a sin. So gay or immediately, all and various sins. So if the in reality reason that ought to correctly take delivery of to outlaw gay marriage is that that's a sin, it can make experience that each one sins must be outlawed. no longer merely stealing and homicide, yet blasphemy and dishonoring ones mothers and fathers. And at the same time as I carry to a touch strict interpretation of the institution clause of the first modification, outlawing blasphemy ought to obviously violate it. for my section, i love the idea of so-talked about as "civil unions" no longer only for gay couples yet for anybody who needs to get married. That way all and various receives equivalent reward below the regulation and if distinct church homes opt to video exhibit of a few couples as married and others as no longer then they could do so as they overjoyed.
2016-11-23 16:21:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
thebeljar,
You are wiser than a lot of people I have read since I started R&S.
I hope you don't get burned out being right - against all of humanity being so unmoving, and uncaring for a group of people.
If they treat this group this way, how do they treat others? What do they really feel toward humanity as a whole?
Not being one to find humanity very apealing - I hope you have a thick skin, and support for the years ahead - dealing with these two faced "Christian family" of yours.
Humanity has not impressed me yet with it's concern for others. Here it's 2006, and nothing Jesus told us to do has happened. There are actually more hungry, homeless, naked, inferm, wrongly jailed, you name it - than when Jesus was here!!
Interesting, and very sad...
Also, If Jesus thought it was important HE would have said something. As it is HE wanted heterosexuals to NOT commit adultery more than anything else. (Commandment # 7 !)
2006-09-22 16:13:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The punishment for eating shrimps is the same as for being gay. It's OK to stone a misbehaving child to death "on the steps of the temple" as well.
MMMMMM, I'm Christian and gay (born again, even), but definitely NOT one of these fundamental nuts. All groups pick and choose what they want from the Bible, the shrimp (lobster, crab) thing is a good example.
2006-09-22 16:06:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
God loves gays and I love gays, God hates the Sin.
2006-09-22 16:09:17 · answer #10 · answered by k-rad 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first misconception is the thinking that God made them that way. God would never create someone with such a damaging disease. Second, we are supposed to be a light unto the world, unfortunately, too many so called Christians think they are supposed to use the light to fry people through self-righteousness. Too bad they don't act that way when one of their fellow Christians cheat on their spouses. or cheat God out of tithing. It is a sin, and it's a failure of a true father figure in their lives that has made them that way. I know because I was a homosexual. No one is born that way, they are seeking a male figure that will love them, but it gets twisted into the lifestyle of homosexuality.
2006-09-22 16:06:48 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋