Why don't you focus on trying to convert people who are killing others? Gayness is not contagious and is not inherently violent. Being gay is about attraction, be it lust or love, that's up to the individual and I know I won't convince anyone here of anything.
What's the point of harassing someone online? We're all here to ask and answer questions. We're all just a pile of letters to eachother.
So please take some Valium to calm your jangled nerves and pray for a while on how best to love others. Read that 1st Corinthians 13. Memorize it:
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
13 But now faith, hope, and love remain-these three. The greatest of these is love.
2006-11-16 11:40:18 · 13 answers · asked by Eve 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
To clarify, I grew up very devout Christian. I am bi now. No animosity to either.
2006-11-16 11:48:10 · update #1
You can't convert an Evangelical. It's an impossibility. Faith is like that. Reason, logic, overwhealming evidence to the contrary, majority public opinion are all completely impotent in the face of the True Believer.
American Evangelicals are our own 'Taliban.' Curiously, they share many of the same values as the radical Islamic fundamentalists that America is now at war with. They wouldn't agree of course, but if you look at the core belief system, the comparison is almost uncanny.
Like fundamentalists the world over, they will stop at nothing to make sure their religion gets attention. Timonthy McVeah and David Korrech are prime examples.
You don't see gay people blowing things up or killing gay people and leaving them for dead. That kind of violence is done by True Believers and usually in the name of God.
2006-11-16 12:17:37 · answer #1 · answered by Todd 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I do not truthfully have a preacher. I can expect the hands of 1 hand the humans in my instant neighbourhood who're brazenly devout (ie Christian). They don't push this onto someone else, nor do they make certain claims approximately their God or their courting with Him. I distrust someone who pulls this stunt, for that's what it's. They are both deluded or they search to delude others. The neighbours I am considering pick to do 'well works' with none fuss. This isn't an completely Christian or devout means of sporting on. Even a few atheists get the message.
2016-09-01 13:42:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel really bad for all the regulars over here... the only thing these asshole Christians have is their holy book to hide behind and preach with. For a religion that advocates loving one another, it is nothing but hypocritical and full of hate. Keep fighting the good fight
2006-11-16 11:49:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
amen to that, and well said. I was raised Christian, and still consider myself to be. I never learned anything in Sunday school that it was OK for us to assume the role of God and pass judgment on others, or that it was OK to preach hatred and intolerance. God created and loves us all. why would He consider something He created to be an abomination? those who hate in the name of God are the true sinners. these people need to concentrate on redeeming their own souls!
2006-11-16 12:48:43 · answer #4 · answered by redcatt63 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Wow! I had no idea that they put the most focus on gay people. I am not a gay preacher but if you have your strong convictions like you do why put that out here for us to answer. You have your own relationship with God and it should not bother you what others say.
2006-11-16 11:45:31 · answer #5 · answered by â?¥ Pawya! 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Watching the Ted Haggart scandal close up should make us all pause and hope that the outcome of this situation is tolerance and acceptance of everyone, regardless of who or what we are.
2006-11-16 11:44:21 · answer #6 · answered by maggiepirsq 4 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Some of them are just antagonistic and others are working under the sad misconception that they are being helpful. Please no one take offense to this but if we want your help then we will ask for it, don't go around shoving it in people's faces.
2006-11-16 12:00:21 · answer #7 · answered by Rageling 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I really feel sorry for people who are stupid enough to believe in an Almighty Gladys Kravitz in the Sky who is obsessed with our sex lives.
2006-11-16 11:48:17 · answer #8 · answered by Throbington Steifenholz 3 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Very well spoken and heart felt. God bless you. God hates sin, not the sinner. And hatred is a sin, even more so than homosexuality. I do personally feel that it is sinful behaviour, but that's between you and God. It's not up to me (or anyone else) to judge.
2006-11-16 11:45:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
try reading the whole bible like i have 25 times over......god is equal parts wrath and love..........you might wake up screaming in hell oneday
2006-11-17 11:09:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋