Why is homosexuality a sin?

Question

Christian kids kill themselves all the time because they're gay and think they're going to hell. What I want to know is why do Christians continually condemn homosexuality when their own children are killing themselves for being that way? Why don't they just accept the fact that that's how they are and love them regardless?

Answer 1

What is a sin?? Who decides that???? Why would anyone even care????

Sex between two consenting adults is their own business... again, who cares? Are you threatened by this????

(PS. and few people kill themselves over being homosexual )

Answer 2

Homosexuality is directly against God's design for sexual/intimate relationship. It is clear in the Bible that homosexuals will not inherit the Kingdom of God (Romans).

Loving the homosexual should never be in question. But, accepting their lifestyle as "normal" is not considerable. A person cannot help how they feel or what their desires are, but we can all control our actions. So, yes, to some extent this is "how they are", but if they carry out a homosexual relationship, then that is wrong. As it is said, we must love the sinner, yet hate the sin.

What some Christians need to realize is that their actions and attitudes are wrong toward homosexuals (Fred Phelps leads the pack of wrongdoers). The homosexual is to be loved and accepted as any other person, even though their sin is unacceptable.

Jesus gave us a great example of how to treat others who live in sin - the only people He directly addressed were the hypocritical Pharisees. Others, He simply addressed them right where they were without name calling or finger pointing.

Answer 3

Ok let me address what the Bible says about homosexuality and then I'll address your question about suicide.

The Bible does contain prohibitions against any kind of sexual sins. Homosexuality is only one of several sexual sins that are prohibited in scriptures. God's rules for his creation (you and me included) are not intended to squelch all of our fun in life. God has created us in such a way that we need to have boundaries in order to live a healthy and whole life.

For example, a parent says to his 3 year old son to not touch the hot stove because he will get burned. Well if the toddler does not listen to his dad, then guess what? The child will get burned. The limit on the childs behaviour is not there to stifle all joy, but to protect the child. In the same way, God as our creator has set some rules for us all to live by. One of those rules like it or not is that homosexuality (and other sexual sins) are prohibited. In the end God knows that it is not best for us. It does not fit his loving design for us. If we can accept that God is all wise and all knowing, we will be willing to accept his limitations he places on our lives. God loves us so much that He only wants the best life for us.

Now regarding suicide, I think that this is a very delicate issue. In the case you mentioned, a son or daughter commits suicide because he or she perceives that the parents love is conditioned on the childs behaviour. There is a concept that is often taught in scripture and that is that there is a distinction between God's love for us and his disapproval of our behavior. Just as a parent should always love his child no matter what the behavior, so it is with God. God loves us unconditionally, but again he does not accept all the choices we make. He will not force us to make right choices, but He calls us to do so. The parent ought to say "I don't like or agree with your choice and neither does God, but I love you anyway and I always will."

Answer 4

Being a homosexual is not a sin. ACTING on it is.

The reason it's a sin is because it's harmful. Look at the statistics for HIV/AIDS if you don't believe me. Sodomy is HARMFUL. Things are not supposed to enter the anus, it's made to have things come OUT. The vagina is made for a penis, not for all the various instruments (not including vibrators, of course, those are at least shaped like a phallus and are made to conform to the shape of a woman's vagina) that lesbians stick into each other. Make sense?

Every single thing that's named as a sin in the Bible is because it's either harmful to the person committing the sin, or it's harmful to others.

That said, I don't believe that there's a single sin God won't forgive, and if my own children told me they were having homosexual urges, I would love them regardless.

Answer 5

Romans 1:18-32
they have been deceived in believing the lie.
God condemns homosexuality. Read the Bible. In case the above Scriptures miss the point, ANY fornication (sex outside marriage) is forbidden. They will not inherit the kingdom.

Be holy, as I AM Holy.

Answer 6

the body is gods temple and you should not kill the reason they kill themself ifs guilt they could move to n.y.c. or. cal. san francisco gay communes no problems GOD dont make no junk so people do not need to kill themselfs it broken homes broken love relitionships lies and trying to live a life that there not old enuff to understand 15,16,17.18,

Answer 7

Cause God said it was a sin, abomination, no good, not natural. No matter how anyone is, we are to love the person but hate the sin just as God said.

Answer 8

The practice of homosexuality is destructive to the human soul. God makes it clear that homosexuality is a sin (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9; Jude 1:7; 1 Timothy 1:10; Revelation 21:8). Supporting gay marriage is a sin because it means to support homosexuality and the perversion of Holy Matrimony. If a nation legalizes gay marriage, that nation will be cursed.

Homosexuality is caused by iniquity. Iniquities (tendencies that cause one to sin) pass down the generation line (Numbers 14:18). When one accepts Lord Jesus as their Saviour, God forgives their sins and removes their iniquities (evil tendencies) in the subsequent transformation process which makes one more and more like Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Hebrews 9:12-14
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

After genuinely accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, ALL sinners (those who practice homosexuality, alcoholics, liars, drug addicts, fornicators etc.) will be saved and transformed. Each believer is cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and receives the infilling of the Holy Spirit who renews them.

REDEMPTION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH

Because mankind is incapable of meeting God’s standard of perfection necessary to abide in God’s presence (Romans 3:19-20,23), God sent His Son Jesus Christ to pay the total debt for the believer’s sins and mercifully credits to his account Christ’s righteousness (Romans 3:21-28,5:1-11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-21). Jesus’ gracious act of atonement was complete and covers all sin (Colossians 2:13-14; 1 John 1:9). Salvation is not based on good deeds but according to the mercy of God (Titus 3:4-5). Believers are justified by faith; it is a gift by God’s grace (Romans 4:3-8; Ephesians 2:8-9). A true, living faith will result in a desire to live a holy, loving life of good works (Ephesians 2:10; Galatians 5:6; James 2:14-26), but failure to be absolutely successful at righteous living does not negate the believer’s justified status.

If you sincerely say this prayer, your sins will be washed away, you will be redeemed to God, be saved from eternal torment and inherit the Kingdom of God:

"Dear Jesus,

I am a sinner.
I repent of my sins.
Please forgive me and save me by your shed blood;
come into my heart.
I want to receive you as my own personal Lord and Savior.

Amen"

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Powerful Repentance and Deliverance Prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71TdHQkliYM

Answer 9

Because it makes them feel superior to those who are different than they are.

And that's the sad truth about humanity. The fact that it's written down in some bronze age text is secondary. they choose to pick out specific passages from that old document to prove to themselves whatever they want.

Answer 10

Why is it a sin? Because God says it is, that's why.