What do Christians do when they find out they're gay?

Question

Or is it suddenly ok to be gay when you're Christian?

Craig R. You don't find out you're a thief until you actually steal something, on the contrary you don't need to have sex inorder to realize you're gay!

Just some education for the uneducated

lol...exactly, they become priests *o*

Jeff_d 57, are you nxxxs You don't become a murderer until you actually kill someone regardless if you knew before head you were going to do it! Try to think before you rant!

Answer 1

I love the sinner, but not the sin. Meaning it's not OK. But I will never hate the person.

nfd

Answer 2

Hold on a minute, a thief doesn't find out they are a thief until they steal something? They didn't have a pre-meditated intention to take what wasn't theirs, or if on the spur of the moment, they didn't make a conscious decision to steal?

So law breakers are just sleep walking and have no idea they are doing wrong until surprise, surprise, they wake up after the act and say "Oh look at that, I just killed someone, I must be a murderer, but it's not my fault because I didn't know what I was doing so Judge you have to let me off your Honor!" ?

To answer your main question, it's not ok to lie, steal, murder, commit adultery or have lustfull thoughts and that applies regardless of whether you are gay or straight, Christian or an atheist.

It's not ok for any of us to break God's moral laws.

We don't earn eternal life by being open-minded, accepting, and above all, LOVING. We get it by admitting we are sinners, turning away from sin and believing that Christ took our punishment so we could be saved.

Answer 3

The word Christian is too loosely being thrown around these days. I suppose I am not a very well studied person but i will take a shot at defining it. Christian: Person who realizes this world is not as magnificent as the world God has to offer, realizes his sin, notes that only through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ he can be saved.

I dunno if anyone can do better, probably but i guess ill work with that for now.

Paul was a very troubled man, he was so troubled in fact that he says temptation lured him so much that he decided to be celibate. I have always had that as my answer to your question, i have already had that question before. However, I realized that as troubled as a person may be, sex is not as important as it is held up to be today, yesterday or even the day before. If one is held in a trap one simply jumps over it. The bible says "if your arm makes you sin cast it out." For some reason i always took this verse literally, but now i think i see it more clearly. if there's something that makes you sin, a situation that will lead you into sin, or a decision that will indirectly take you there it would be most correct to avoid it. To cast it out from one's life. I can honestly say that I am heterosexual, but if I became attracted to other man, I would have to decide between the pleasures of this world or the pleasures that Heaven has to offer me.

Answer 4

It is OK to be gay when you're Christian. What's not OK is having sex with someone of the same sex, whether you're Christian or not. (Sin is sin. There is not one set of rules for Christians and one for everyone else.)

If you find out that you have attractions to people of the same sex, you try to get help to overcome it. It's not that the attractions themselves are sinful. They're not. At worst, they constitute a temptation, and a temptation is not a sin unless you give in to it, and actually commit the sin you are tempted to commit.

No, the reason you try to get help is that attractions of that type are unnatural and abnormal. This was agreed on by everyone, including psychiatrists and psychologists, until about 30 years ago. When they changed their minds about that, it was not because of any new discovery. It simply became politically unacceptable to hold that opinion. There still are individual psychiatrists who believe it to be abnormal. For the most part, they are discouraged (to say the least) from speaking their minds on this point. Ostracized is more like it.

Anyway, we Christians don't care what the psychologists say. It's mostly quackery anyway, in my opinion. It's unnatural because it's clear that God made our bodies to function in a certain way, and it ain't that way.

As far as being tempted, it's as big a problem for people with normal attractions as for those who are abnormal. We all have to control our sexual urges to some extent. You can't just jump on anyone you see, like a dog or a monkey.

And as far as abnormality, I'm as abnormal in many ways as homosexuals are in that particular way, so I don't judge them for being abnormal. The only time I have a problem with homosexuals is, not because they're homosexuals, but because they want to use media and the courts to force everyone else to pretend that they're perfectly normal.

That's not fair. I don't use the courts to force people to consider my neuroses and temptations to be perfectly normal.

Answer 5

They do not do anything. It is not a sin to be attracted to the other sex, the sin is when you act and have sex. It is just like a heterosexual that has sex outside of marriage, the sin is no more or no less. Sex is determined by God to be between a man and a woman. Everybody has a sex drive, we must use it according to what is acceptable to God.

Answer 6

I wasn't gonna comment on this one unless I found a comment by someone who reckons gays CHOOSE to be gay.

I've asked many people, and especially 'followers of Jesus', when it was they chose to be straight cos I just do not remember making such a conscious choice.
Of course, I understand WHY they say such things cos otherwise they have to admit that 'god' made them that way and 'god' being ‘god' and perfect and all never makes 'mistakes like that'.

Y'all sure are sick pack of puppies and conveniently forget that one that goes: John 13:34 - A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Even as an atheist, I try my best to love my fellow man but narrow-minded pretentious xians make it like hard work.
You sure do test me.

Answer 7

It's okay whether you're Christian or not--I don't understand why people think that God has the capacity to hate a sin or sinner. God is LOVE, not hate.

But, I do have many friends who are gay Christians, and I'll tell you from experience exactly what happens: They become more open-minded, accepting, and above all, LOVING.

Either that, or in the case of one of my friends, they will hate themselves because they are "sinners" but they cannot help the feelings they have no matter how hard they try. I've known people who have committed suicide because of this self-hatred that Christianity has imposed on them.

Answer 8

True believers are filled with God's Holy Spirit. And anything that is against the Spirit, is also against the person who's own spirit has become one with the Holy Spirit. The conclusion is this .... God does not approve of gay relations, they are an abomination to Him, if a person is gay, it is by choice, not by nature. When a person says, " God made me this way, " they are wrong in their thinking. God makes no person to be an abomination to Him. This person has deep physiological problems, and should seek serious help.

God be with you,
Evangelist, William M. Butler
Grace Evangelistic Ministry

Answer 9

A person may be born with gay urges but unless you act on those urges you are not in sin. Just like people may have an urge to kill, take drugs and etc. If you don't do those things you are not sinning. That being said if you lust over someone you are not married to that is sinning because as Jesus said you are committing adultery with that person in your heart.

Answer 10

*BZZZT!!* Wrong answer!

Jesus, the founder of Christianity, said NOTHING about homosexuality [male or female: the word isn't gender-specific] one way or the other. Not one single word. Zero.

There's no demonstrable linkage between sexual orientation [a late 19th or early 20th Century concept: not Biblical] and religion... ANY religion.

Answer 11

Being "Gay" is a choice not a natural phenomena.
To be gay and a Christian is a contradiction, at least that is the way I read it. Therefore it would not be "ok".

I hope that helps.