is this a religious paradox?

Question

This is the 3rd time i'm trying to post this question. they won't let me.

If God made you the way you are, then:
1:God made you a homosexual, homosexuals perform sodomy.
sodomy is a sin.
So did God make homosexuals to commit sodomy so they won't be allowed in heaven?

Answer 1

God made us.
Satan perverted us.

We all have different sins in out lives, and we must repent of them and ask god to change us.

We are then acceptable to God, even if we are still fighting against our old sins.

Answer 2

You make several untenable assumptions in this illustration:

1) God made people homosexual. That is, it is a trait that one is born with rather than acquiring or learning. That is very open for debate.

2) Homosexuals perform sodomy. Many homosexuals, just like many hetereosexuals are not sexually active. This is an unfair stereotype that says homosexuals are sexually promiscuous.

3) God will not allow sinners into heaven. This goes against what the gospel of Jesus Christ teaches. We are ALL sinners, and if that prevents us from getting into heaven, then NONE of us have any hope.

Try to think through your argument a little before you post it, otherwise you just end up sounding silly...

Answer 3

God makes all people - gay, straight and in-between - and God doesn't make junk. Who are you to disparage any of God's children or God's gifts to them? Hypocrite.

FYI a lot more straight couples than gay couples participate in sodomy, i.e. anal sex. Why are you ignoring them with all the people you are [inappropriately] judging and sending to hell?

Loving another person is not a sin. Nor is expressing that love through sex.

You know, you should try tolerance, justice, and understanding for change, like that guy said about loving one another, and treating each other as you would like to be treated. What was his name again - oh yeah, JESUS.

Answer 4

As a Christian, I believe a lot of people are way off track as to the "who will be allowed in heaven" issue. I don't believe God would eternally damn someone for being homosexual.

Answer 5

I love religious paradoxes (parodi? paraducks?). Like if god is all powerful, could he create a boulder that even he couldn't move?

Are people who practice homosexuality self made or genetically (god) made. Both.

You can be kinky and do it 'cause it feels good. The church would lable you a sinner on many levels. Do it 'cause it seems natural to you? If you beleive in God, then god mad you that way. How can the church call it a sin if god created it?

Answer 6

You could have asked this question without mentioning sodomy.

Howabout...

God made man, man is a sinner, to sin means death and hell so...

Did God create man for the purpose of sending him to hell?

One might just as easily argue that God created the stars in heaven specifically so they would collapse and become black holes.

I like to think that we all shine like stars.

Answer 7

I think you are confused. God designed humans. Humans have sinned and fallen short. God does not make homosexuals. God makes human beings. What you do with your life is up to you. It may be harder for you not to commit certain sins than it is for other people, but it is still a sin. Same things goes with adultery, murder, or any other sin. If homosexuals accept Christ as Lord and Savior then they to can receive salvation.

Answer 8

Gensis 1:27; says God created man in his own image, (He is not homosexual, Matter of factly he is not a sexual being at all, per reading my bible)

Leviticus 18:22; Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination.. KJV

Romans 1:24,27,32, KJV;
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who CHANGED the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. 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 likwise 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.... Who knowing the judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but take pleasure in them that do them.
This is what God says about homosexuality...
But he also says this..
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God.. 1st Corinthians 6:11(NIV)

God did not make anyone homosexual but he did make them in his image, and he does say even though some of you did this sin, you can be forgiven and washed in the blood and still receive Jesus as Lord..

Answer 9

i believe this might be a sincere question (but I haven't read your other questions).

You could ask the same thing about any sin; why are we created to sin, why is there a hell.

First of all, christians don't believe that ANY sin forbids them heaven, that all their sins are already forgiven.

To understand the Islamic view on sins and the way we were created, see my links below

Answer 10

Perhaps homosexuality then is not genetically linked after all and is a product of environment or peer group. Perhaps he gives some people genetic abnormalities so that those who have none will see how greatful they should be for their own health. That being the case maybe he would be hoping you would be able to rise above your problems and show the world that handicaps can be lived with in a Godly manner. How do we know what God has going on in His mind? I have enough trouble figuring out what goes on in my own finite thinking brain, much less what goes on in the mind of the infinite.