didn't god make the gays too?

Question

isn't god in charge of it all?

Answer 1

God gave us all challenges.

Answer 2

Thus, although God had not given a detailed law code, as he later did with the Israelites, men were not without some means for determining right and wrong conduct. Idolatry, for example, had not yet been specifically condemned by a stated law. Nonetheless, as the apostle Paul shows, such practice was inexcusable inasmuch as God’s “invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship.” The venerating and rendering of “sacred service to the creation rather than the One who created” was against all reason. Those following such an empty-headed course would thereafter deviate into other unrighteous practices, such as homosexuality, changing “the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature.” Again, even though no specific law had been given, such practice was obviously contrary to the way of God the Creator, as the very structure of the male and female manifested. Man, having been originally made in God’s image, had intelligence sufficient to see these things. Hence, he was responsible before God if he went contrary to God’s way; he was sinning, ‘missing the mark,’ even without a specifically stated law to charge him with guilt.—Ro 1:18-27; compare Ro 5:13

Answer 3

Yes, He sure did. And He loves them very much. But He didn't cause them to be gay. Even if they have some genetic predisposition to it, that still doesn't mean they have to live a homosexual life style.

Ok, there is more to it than that. In and of themselves, they may very well not have the strength to stop. Maybe they can, maybe they can't. Maybe the cleptomaniac just can't stop shoplifting. Maybe the abusive person just can't stop letting themselves loose control. Maybe the drug abused just can't stop going for that next high. We are all sinners, and we are all in the same boat on this.

The Bible says "Whoever sins is a slave to sin." (John 8:34, see also Romans 6:15-20). So the homosexual, the theif, the adulterer, the liar, the murderer, or whatever sin it is, no matter how little or how big, if we sin, we are a slave to that sin. It has power over us and controls our lives. If we try to pull away from it, it doesn't want to let us go easily. That's where God comes in. If we turn to Christ and turn away from our sins, He will not only forgive us, He will give us the power to live for Him, and not to live in sin.

Read Galatians 5:16-25. It basically wraps this up in a nutshell. We all have sinful desires, whatever they may be, but having the desire is not justification for carying it out. Through Christ, we don't have to carry them out, He sets us free from sin, and gives us brand new life in Him.

Answer 4

Didn't God make pedophiles? They are just following the sex drive within them. It is not a choose, but the way they are. So they should all be let out of prison.

Didn't God make drunks? After all, look at all the evidence that alcoholism is genetic. You are born with it. So how dare we outlaw drunk driving or drinking by minors.

Didn't God make psychotic murderer? They are born with that twisted desire within them. We need a government funded program to supply them with axes so they can freely express their right to be murderers.

Didn't God make people who are suicidal?
Didn't God make people who are theives?
Didn't God make people who are anrgy and abusive?
Didn't God make people who are liars?
Didn't God make people who are violent?

...or maybe human beings have the ability, no the moral obligation, to be more than just a drive within them? Maybe they are required to live according to a higher standard then their own selfishness or desires?

Maybe that is why God came as Jesus Christ and gave his life and rose again so that we could receive a new, higher, nature by faith that frees us from the old desires and lets us grow into all the good things God has for us.

Answer 5

God created man in His image, which is perfect and does not include homosexuality, but then... "sin entered in" owing to man choosing to thwart God's authority and eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Praise God for free-will, but look what man did with it?

What has happened since sin entered in is well, painfully obvious, but praise God He has provided a way of escape and for healing through His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, that whosoever believes in Him (and all he taught, no more and no less) might not perish bu have everlasting life. ---John 3:16


Here's the Deal:

The Bible says that lying is a sin. It says that hating your parents is a sin. It says that stealing is a sin. It says that sex outside of marriage is a sin. It says that homosexuality is a sin.

Just because someone is born with an overwhelming urge to lie or hate or steal doesn't change the fact that those sins are still sins and will suffer consequences if someone thwarts God's authority and commits them anyway.

So it is with homosexuality. Just because someone has an overwhelming urge to have sex with the same gender does not mean that it isn't still a sin. One just needs to choose, "Am I going to commit this sin or not?"

Or, is it better to make excuses for my behavior and simply say that God created me as a thief or a liar or a homosexual?

Answer 6

He created the people. He did not make them homosexual. Since He is against it (as these verses show) he obviously would not have made them homosexual.

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 7

God created people and the POTENTIAL for sin. MAN brought sin into play through disobedience and the maturations of his mind. Homosexuality is a CHOICE, not a condition. The Scripture says, "For what communion hath light with darkness? What concord hath Christ with Belial"? In other words, how can sin exist in the same plane as salvation? It can't because, "No man can serve two masters. For he would love one and hate the other". God created the POTENTIAL for homosexuality to exist. The CONDITION was brought in through man's introduction to sin through Adam and Eve's disobedience.

Answer 8

God made man (I'm including both male and female in this term, man), and man made choices. Mankind still makes choices and can choose to be a God-made man or a self-made man. Having persuasions come at a person is not what makes the person. It's what they do with those persuasions that makes them who they are.

Answer 9

God made gays....but He didn't make them gay.
Calling yourself gay is just an excuse to have sex any way you prefer. If you say your born that way, then you have your lifetime excuse for being promiscuise. You don't have to have impulse control because you can say your were born without it.

Answer 10

I think he did...I mean I know a few gay people that are christian and they say they didnt choose it,and no one would want to because of the harassment.I truely believe if the one thought it was wrong he wouldn't do it.He helps lead so many kids to christ.
I didnt look at my boyfriend and think ok I'm gonna love him,it just happons.I think it's the same way with homosexuals too. Alot of biblical text is believed by scholors to not be anti-homosexuality but a message to multiply in the tribes and another is a translation error.People that say oh no gays in heaven prob. arent that worthey either...judge not folks.
EDIT: addiction comes through genes...soo that arguement is rather flawed.Homosexuality is thought to do that too..it makes sense if you read up on it.

Answer 11

Indeed God made gays. He gave them life, He gave them free will. However, He didn't make them homosexual, any more than He made me prone to addictions, or made a person a habitual liar. It's sin that does that, and that's Satan's domain.

And as to a translation error... I read Biblical Greek to some extent... 1 Cor. 6:9... arsenokoites means literally "masculine copulation" and is rendered "abusers of themselves with mankind", and this is listed among those who will not inherit the Kingdom of God. What else could "masculine copulation" imply, other than homosexuality?