Is Christianity intolerant of homosexuals based on 1 Corinthians 6:9 saying they won't inherit the kingdom

Question

To whoever might have told me to not follow up with a question regarding intolerance of religion, I do what I want.

Answer 1

From what I have read on YA so far I think they would hate being with all these uptight Christians.

Answer 2

There really is not basis for being intolerant of people for any reason, but there are Old Testament laws against it that should be taken more seriously in my opinion. Corinthians was a letter written by Paul, the apostle to a church in Corinth addressing a problem they were having specifically. It's a little less authoritative than something, say, that Jesus or Moses would have said. That's just my opinion. As a Christian, I tend to go with what Jesus said opposed to what others may have been dealing with. Homosexuality is a sin, but so is thinking angry thoughts. Sin is sin. I'm not sure why some Christians feel the need to focus on one or two sins as if they are "more evil" than others. I think they're missing the humanity and love that should be their focus.

Answer 3

Christianity is intolerant of sin, period. It doesn't matter what kind of sin it is. Christianity still accepts and loves the sinner, but not the sin. I agree with Bad Cosmo and Barb K. But I would change her statement to say "Where do you get tolerance from that scripture? Tolerance is acceptance and God does not accept SIN". God does accept homosexuals when they repent. The intolerance of homosexuality (not homosexuals) is based on these:

In Genesis 19:1-29 the cities of Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed because the people were so wicked. The men of the city wanted to have sex with other men. So God's judgement on the city was to destroy it by raining down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Leviticus 18:22 (speaking to men in Israel) "Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable."

Leviticus 20:13 "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."

Romans 1:26-27 "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

1 Corinthians 6:9 "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders...will inhereit the kingdom of God."

1 Corinthians 6:13 "The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body."

1 Timothy 1:8-10 "We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers."

Answer 4

What about your own intolerance? You cast a pretty wide net when you characterize intolerance like this, and just label it as "Christianity..." No need to be subtle... whatever aspersions you care to toss, you do what you want.

You feign indifference to all of this, with your calm, pithy rejoinders and your arrogant aloofness. You even go so far as to say that you don't care about any of this. If you say that you don't care about a woman, yet call her 30 times a day, I think that there is a case to be made that you do care. If you say that you don't care about any of this, yet you ask 20 or more questions a day and answer at least that many, there is a good case to be made that you do care very much, and are a shameless attention whore who can't get along without all the adulation that you get from others in this forum.

Say and do what you want, but your words and actions are pretty self-evident...

Answer 5

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Where do you get tolerance from that scripture? Tolerance is acceptance and God does not accept homosexuals.

Romans 1:25-32 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 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:

27 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 recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Answer 6

Intolerant is primarily an accusation that may or may not be true.

As I have stated before I would like to see how an all-gay Christian church works. How come there are none? Do gays or what is the same homosexuals just want to take part in straight churches. Can't they form their own churches?

Answer 7

That is one of several verses in the new testament that speak of homosexuality being a sin. The other very obvious one is Romans 1. Christians believe the bible.....that offends many.

Answer 8

Barb K posted:

Where do you get tolerance from that scripture? Tolerance is acceptance and God does not accept homosexuals.

Christians accept the word of god and, according to the response above, god does not accept homosexuals. So, Christians, who follow gods word, do not tolerate homosexuals.

Answer 9

Are you intolerant of Christianity because they believe differently than you do?

Answer 10

Honestly, I think that's one of the excuses given. Yeah, that verse is against homosexuality, but there are a lot of verses against a lot of things that born-agains do.

And Cosmo, you, like other 'phobes, have confused yourself and your pastor with God.