I'm a Christian, but has "praying away the gay" actually worked for someone???

Question

I'm not gay I just thought it was an interesting concept. . .and was wondering what other views were on it.

Answer 1

OLD-watch something else besides South Park

Answer 2

I am a Christian also with many faults and errors. Those faults were not removed when I believed in Jesus. Societies put some people with faults in a box, marked unacceptable, while others with faults are accepted. God doesn't do that; everyone is accepted by him through faith in Christ and being baptized. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all thing are become new." This new creation is invisible in the material world and perfect in Christ. People interpret the "new creation" differently so that they can "see" the new creation, but all they can see is the material man in the Fall of Adam. Things spiritual are invisible and are by faith which is also invisible. Things material are able to be seen, such as religion, society, jobs, relationships, and such.

If you are in the spiritual realm, Jesus said, "Ask me anything, and I'll do it." If you can not find the spiritual realm, ask God for his help (from your baptism, recognizing your burial and resurrection in Christ). All things are possible, but God gave man a free will and won't violate that. He will help you with your problems, though, if you invite him.

Answer 3

Religious led conversion ministries claim to have “rehabilitated hundreds of thousands” of gay people. But so far, none have been adequately documented and these so-called success stories refuse to come out and be tested by medical professionals who can use standardized sexual response tests and psycho-analysis, there is even the No Lie MRI the only brain scan that almost accurately detects truth better than any polygraph, to determine whether they really have changed their orientation.

Why do they not want to submit to these tests?

Gay conversion success stories who have gone public always end in scandal. For example, John Paulk, "a prominent ex-gay leader once featured as 'going straight' on the cover of Newsweek magazine, who was later confronted and photographed patronizing a gay bar in Washington, D.C. to the recent exposure of evangelical minister Ted Haggard last year. There are too many to list now.

If indeed these pastors truly have Christian compassion for gay people they would not seek to deliberately harm them would they? No. They would research and get the proper, medically approved views on those who have a homosexual orientation not so. They would go to professionally approved, internatioanally respected, accredited sources that have been doing objective non-religiously motivated research for over 70 years, like the American Psychological Association or American Pediatrics Association.

But they do not WANT to do this. They want to justify discrimination and to do so, they must reduce these people's orientation down to a "habit" or "chosen lifestyle" like tennis or knitting.

Answer 4

Oh, I just read about an organization that has just turned thirty. There are a few that have married people of the opposite sex and produced families. There are more who simply report diminished attraction and success with celibacy. And there are many who have given up and don't believe that there is any success. So I'm giving it a qualified yes as I don't have any personal experience.Here's the website article.http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/october/5.52.html

Answer 5

Thanks for the question. It's a good one.

Well, no, it never seems to be just by prayer with the Lord. Certainly, we don't want to discount prayer, which is a vital part of our spiritual growth. But, it is just one item on a whole list of relational sins that we may need to combat, as well as being a sin against the body, as it says in 1 Corinthians 6:12-20. These relational sins almost always need to be confessed to God, and to another believer, as it says in James 5:16. Ask any addict, and he or she will tell you that bringing the sin into the light via confession, takes away the power of the darkness that kept one in bondage to it, which also involves shame, secrecy, and denial. Plus confession brings accountability to others in the body of Christ, and a sense of belongingness too. All these needs left unmet will keep a Christian not only from walking in freedom, they will also not be able to become spiritually mature, as well as psychosexually mature. Psychosexual maturity involves living beyond a gay, straight, bi, or whatever lifestyle, where one's identity used to be in one's inclinations and lusts. Christ tells us this is not how we should think about ourselves any longer. We are to live in holiness and in service to others, no longer seeing others as a sexual object to satisfy our lusts. Once an ex-gay Christian conducts his or her life in this manner, eventually their same sex attractions begin to diminish, and are predominantly replaced by seeing others as Christ does. Some go on to not only experience this dimunition of these desires, but they then begin to, or increase, their opposite sex attractions (yet the desires are not lustful, out of control, longings) but rather a natural, pleasant, controlled opposite sex attraction. Sexual temptation towards the same sex may remain, mostly in a fleeting sense at times, and at times not experiencing any sexual temptation whatsoever.

This is the experience that all Christian ex-gays talk about when asked by others. I know because I am one.

Answer 6

It probable works for a time, in case you have controlled to cajole your self which you're promptly, and that in case you get married it will be nice. yet you are able to no longer deny your nature continuously, and in case you attempt to you will finally end up puzzled and in a multitude. lots extra constructive to renowned who you're and have a courting out interior the open.

Answer 7

I do believe that praying with any one who has decided to change their life for the Lord works. It is a personal decision to stop any sin and live for Jesus.

However, I did pray for my brother who was a drug addict for 35 years and God caused some events to take place in his life that made him realize that he needed Jesus. So, yes. And he was healed from Satan's hold on him.

Answer 8

That isn't how it works.

A person has to realize they are a sinner needing a Savior. And then be born of God, Gods way. The adulterers or fornicators aren't an adulterer or fornicator anymore, but the old man has died, sins washed away & the new man alive in Christ.

Answer 9

What's with all the gay questions today? Must be a bunch of gay trolls around today.

Answer 10

You might want to check with the some of the ex-gay ministries, like, "Love Won Out."(see link below)