My Pastor told us that homosexuality is an immoral sin, do you agree with him?

Question

Also, my Pastor said Pre-marital intercourse is a sin, do you agree? Do you think Post Marital intercourse is a sin? My Pastor said it is, but I don't believe him. What does yall think?

Answer 1

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers? ~Elayne Boosler

Answer 2

I don't agree with your pastor on either example. It is unfortunate that your pastor feels this way about homosexuality. I am gay, and I can tell you that I was born this way. Homosexuality is nothing more than a sexual orientation. Just as heterosexuals are straight, homosexuals are gay. Scientists are beginning to prove that homosexuality is genetic. I don't know how you can argue with science. As for sex, I believe that as long as you are in a committed and loving relationship, it shouldn't make a difference whether you are married or not. Marriage is simply a legal document that finalizes your love and committment for someone. Perhaps your pastor has misinterpreted the Bible's thoughts about homosexuality. The passages in the Bible that are supposedly against homosexuality, are in fact against many different kinds of lustful acts. Sex only becomes a sin when it is done out of lust instead of love. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

People believe in Aliens, UFOs., Ghosts, The Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Santa Clause, Elvis is still alive, One day the are going to win lotto, there going to have the ideal relationship and live happily ever after. Well this guy is trying to make you believe this, if you do also look out for the next rainbow to see if the leprechauns left a pot of gold. You'll know when your ready to make love but alway's use a condom and practice safe sex. Also ask your pastor if he has ever heard or Viagra ? Well he needs them. play safe.

Answer 4

The question really isn't about what your pastor says...it's about what you believe. For instance, I am a Baptist christian and I read, study, and follow the Word of God (the Bible, of course). If you follow the Bible as well, then I've listed a few scriptures to help confirm that your pastor is right. Homosexuality is a sin (I Corinthians 6:9-10, Leviticus 18:22). As a matter of fact, people were put to death back in Biblical times for practicing homosexuality (Leviticus 20:13). Also, sex before marriage (also referred to as sexual immorality and fornication) is consider wrong as well (I Corinthians 6:18-20). If you are unsure about the validity of someone else's statements, the best thing for you to do is research it for yourself.

Answer 5

I don't think homosexuality is a sin. Premarital sex may be, but it's a sin very few do not commit. The reasoning behind women not having sex before they were married was to ensure that all children were her husband's. It's a whole ownership thing that doesn't really fit anymore, however, people are slow to let go of old ideals.

Answer 6

I think your pastor is deceiving you because he has been deceived.

Your pastor believes that a book, called the Bible, is the true and accurate word of God. He therefore takes very seriously SOME of the verses in that book.

Many churches do not think that the Bible is verbally inspired. Your pastor may also, at different times have condemned those churches as not "really being Christian" even though the members profess Christ.. The idea is to keep you from thinking about them very deeply. You see, the facts are on their side and not on your pastor's side.

The canon of the Bible was not formalized until the Council of Carthage -- when it affirmed a resolution of the synod of Hippo recognizing a group of books drawn together and claimed as divine by Bishop Anathasius. Anathasius did not even coin the word canon until 327 and the Council of Carthage did not formalize the list approved by Hippo until the 390s, and then sent it on to "the Church across the sea" (Rome) for the Pope's approval.

There are no full copies of what is now considered scripture until the 4th century. There are two copies from the 4th century (Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus) together with hundreds of manuscript fragments of various forms (Papyrus and Vellum Manuscripts and Vellum Palimpsests). Overall there are over 5000 copies of at least part of the present canonical Bible that are from the sixth century or earlier. These range from a few verses to whole books, to Bibles that were read in churches. According to Dr. Bart Ehrman, one of the foremost experts in the world on Textual criticism and Textual reconstruction, those manuscripts have between them at least 200,000 differences. Some of those differences are minor, or meaningless -- but some are very important and would change core Christian doctrines like the Virgin birth of our Lord and his divinity -- among others.

One does not need to be an expert to see that the Bible is fiction, and not the Word of God however. Even the American Bible Society explains scriptural accreation as starting with Hebrew tribesmen telling stories around a campfire. That is exactly where the earliest parts of the Bible started -- then it was expanded through midrash and so forth.

Looking at the received texts, the idea of Sola Scriptura becomes evidently ludicrous. The Bible says that the world has corners (Isaiah 11:12) and that it sets on pillars (I Samuel 2:8). It says that God accepted a human sacrifice -- he may have prevented Isaac's, but he allowed a general to sacrifice his own daughter without even a murmur, the text giving tacit support to the idea that having given his word, the man had to kill his child. (Judges 11:30-39). It clearly maintains that genocide is often commanded by God (Joshua 10:40-42 and I Samuel 15: 2, 3 and 8) and that, after killing all the adults in a race, taking the female children as sex slaves is permissible (Numbers 31: 17-18).

The God revealed by the Bible is not only both a liar who doesn't know the natural laws of his own world, and a monster, as shown above -- but he has no real regard, even for his own people, whom he forces into cannibalism (Leviticus 26: 27-29) when he is mad at them; or his priests, whose faces he wipes with dung (Malachi 2:1-3).

It is not only gays and lesbians that are hated by bible-god. This monstrosity also suggests killing kids who eat or drink too much (Deuteronomy 21: 18-21), and says that if he is angry with parents he will kill their children (Leviticus 26:22) and he blames things upon children whose great-great-great grandfathers committed the things being blamed on the kids (Exodus 20: 5).

Putting it in a word, bible-god is a monstrosity, a horrific demiurge of evil. Something that even he admits ( Isaiah 45:7 ) [Furthermore, the word used in Hebrew for evil, the word ra' is widely conceded to mean a number of different things: It can mean "wickedness," "mischief," "bad," "trouble," "hurt," "sore," "affliction," "ill," "adversity," "harm," "grievous," and "sad." So no matter what particular interpretation is given of this word -- it has profoundly negative implications. The idea that god is sovereign over the affairs of man makes this even worse, because no matter what interpretation it has, it indicates that bible-god deliberately does harm.]; evil about which he sometimes changes his mind (Exodus 32:14). What a font of unchanging morality -- that almighty God can decide to kill an entire people, and then be talked out of it by a human servant... Furthermore, it is obvious, if God can change his mind, then even if the Bible were not full of errors and horrors, you could not trust that God had not changed his mind on any other issue in it.

So, yes, I suppose if one wants to take as truth a book that says that beetles have four legs instead of six (Leviticus 11: 21-23) and that rabbits chew their cud [which they do NOT] (Deuteronomy 14:7) and if you are willing to, having accepted it as truth, overlook the fact that bible-god routinely changed his mind (I can show you other instances if you wish) then yeah, I suppose its words would matter your pastor would be right.

Logically however, just with the examples above, (and there are thousands more) I on the other hand, while a Christian (as in Christ follower) am NOT a literalist, and do not think that a book of bronze age myths owing heavily to the Sumerian and Egyptian mythology in the Old Testament and to a collection of pagan faiths, particularly Mithraism in the New Testament matters at all.

Christianity is centered around love, faith in Christ, and Eucharist. At best the Bible is sacred because of its place in the life of the early church and should be regarded as holy myth -- stress on the myth. And what is a myth? It is fiction.

I think you are smart to disbelieve your pastor. If you have lingering doubts I invite you to contact me by direct email, I would be glad to talk to you, and can provide you scholarly references by the dozen if you need them.

Keep thinking, its the most important thing you can do for yourself.

Regards,

Reynolds
Schenectady, NY
http://www.rebuff.org
[e-mail]

Answer 7

If you believe in the Bible then you cannot disagree with what your Pastor told you,it is sinful and against the laws of God in both cases,however the spirit of the world tells you differently who will you really believe?

Answer 8

Your pastor missed his calling. He is wrong about homosexuality and I don't know about the pre-maritial sex but he needs to rethink about the one AFTER marriage?, he needs to get a grip, I was always taught that it was okay to get happy between the sheets after the "i do's". GOOD GRIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Sounds to me like your pastor is a nut case and very likely a sexual predator.

Answer 10

i think the only kind of sex thats a sin is the kind that hurts people, and i think your pastor is sinning by saying these hurtful things and causeing people to doubt and hide their natural selves. so therefore, he needs to HOP OFF!

Answer 11

If this is something you are honestly concerned about, I'd suggest you read the Bible yourself and decide in your own mind what it says on these topics. Never just blindly follow what someone else tells you.