Can you be saved and gay at the same time?

Question

I'm saved, im not gay, my sister just wanted to know. And no, she's not gay either.

Answer 1

When you get saved and the Holy Spirit lives inside you, you start having a desire to please God. Homosex isn't pleasing to God. It starts to become where no matter how you were "born", you realize that you have a choice whether to please God or not. Your love for God becomes greater than your love for any human.
So.....

Answer 2

Being gay is not the problem, it is homosexual acts that are sinful and if unrepentant will keep one from God. However, it is evident in the early church that some Christians had been homosexual and turned form that lifestyle.

Being a homosexual is just a burden that some people carry, like being a gossip, being cruel, or being a heterosexual with an unhealthy interest in your neighbor. Sin is a state of being as well as an action. We are all sinners and that is why we need a savior. So to answer your question, yes, you can be gay and saved at the same time, if you are also trying to turn from those desires.

Answer 3

Yes, you can be gay and saved, of this I have no doubt. If you are hearing elsewhere, then you are talking to Bible thumpers who don't truly understand the Bible. The Bible cannot be taken at face value these days. Too many flaws from translation, and most people don't understand that people wrote and decided what would be in it. There is no record anywhere of God commissioning such a book to be written. When his living representative was here, he also did not mention such a book. That book has done as much harm as it has good when people who lack maturity read it and act on what they see at face value.

Don't be intimidated by thumpers. I'm not saying being gay is necessarily right, but you also aren't hurting anyone else when you do that, so I'd say it's one of the lesser sins that God is worried about.

Answer 4

NO! You can not be saved and gay at the same time - it is a destestable sin before God.

- Leviticus 18:22 (New Living Translation Bible)
22"Do not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable sin.

There is no passage in the Bible that is clearer than, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination." This is a direct commandment prohibiting homosexual unions. This passage clearly associates homosexuality with perversion, including committed, loving same-sex relationships. Any "face-value" reading of the Bible must admit that Leviticus 18:22 prohibits sexual intercourse.

Lev. 20:13 says that homosexual intercourse is an abomination worthy of the death penalty for both partners. Such a thing is as bad as adultery, or having sex with one's stepmother, or having sex with one's daughter-in-law, or being married to a woman and that woman's mother at the same time, or having sex with an animal. Even though the passage suggests that homosexuals should be killed--something the church today cannot do--the passage clearly calls homosexual intercourse an abomination and that persons who engage in such acts must be held accountable for his actions.

Answer 5

In the end, that's between you and God! I am a christian too, and I've known people who are gay, who choose to live as "A sexual" because they were taught that their sexuality is sinful. I've known others who were gay, and DO live a "gay" lifestlye and still live their life as a christian. They are good people who do good things, and I for one, don't think it is my place to judge them, or tell them that how they believe is wrong! As long as they truly believe in their heart, that they are not committing a sin and that God loves them, who am I to say that he doesn't? I tend to look at "gayness" as kind of a birth defect. I don't mean that to be cruel, but if a person's gender is different than what their body says on the outside, it could be just one of those things that happens in the womb. A little signal gone wrong or something. What about babies that are born with both? Who gets to decide what they are supposed to be? Does God love people with birth defects? I think God loves us all, and wants us to embrace each other with that same love, no matter what! Sorry to be so long-winded, but you asked!

Answer 6

jordan l,
You can be saved IF you trust in God through Jesus Christ. Your sins are forgiven once you are counted as one of His children.

So you and your sister have the answer. Many of my bretheren preach a condemnation message, which I am dealing with here.

We are saved by Grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. All who sin AFTER that are still saved. There is no Gay person that goes to Hell for being Gay. People need to trust Jesus Christ and they will be saved. It's just that simple.

Why do you think that it's called Good News?

Answer 7

I talked to a pastor one day, and he said that there are three ways to go, having a full blown out hmosexual lefiestyle, keeping it inside, even though you have thoughts and feelings for someone else, or going all out straight. I think this man may have had some clout, he used to be a Hard Core Motocyclist, and now was the pastor of the church! I BELIEVE GOD LOVES EVERYONE, HE MADE EVERYONE, AND HE HELPS THOSE!

Answer 8

NO!!!!!!!!

Romans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves>
who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever, Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their ERROR which was meet.

There is more in verses 28-32

Answer 9

Being gay, goes against God's order. When a person is saved, he or she has come to the Lord for forgiveness for their sin. That person does not deliberatly go against God then, but lives ones life seeking to please Him and serve Him in every way.

Answer 10

You can be gay and still be saved.

As with any sin, me must repent of it and try and turn away from it.
We need to keep asking God to forgive us and to change us, so that we will stop doing those sins.
Even if we keep sinning, we are still saved IF we keep seeking God for forgiveness and change.

Answer 11

9 Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, 10 thieves, greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers-none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God.

1Corinthians 6:9-10 (NLT)