Homo-Sexuality?

Question

So, it's considered a sin. I know that. Someone emailed me telling me that it says in the bible that they will go to hell.Is this a Mormon version? (I'm Baptist and I... Well I wouldn't say despise the mormons but I think they are immoral and ungodly)

Answer 1

We shouldn't be judging where people go.

Answer 2

Immoral and ungodly are character judgements. To be such you have to be lescivious and live in debauchery. I think even most non-Mormons would agree this doesn't quite sum up the LDS community. In fact, many people even find us to be rather square.

You could run with "intolerant" or 'judgemental", but then not only would you be kind of wrong (with respect to church doctrine) but you would be a little hypocritical as I've seen many Baptists that are down right mean-spirited, protesting funerals, religious services, and condemning people to hell. Come to one of our services and you'll realize which denomination is the one has "hellfire & brimstone" sermons. We preach love.

Answer 3

Funny you're critical of Mormons because you perceive them to be critical of homosexuals.....Isn't that very hypocritical???

Anyway, Mormons believe that homosexual acts are sexual sins (just as they believe sexual acts for unwed persons is a sin).

To go to "heaven" a person must repent of his sins, accept Jesus Christ as his savior, and try to be obedient to God's commandments.

So, a person who understands gods commandments and gods will yet chooses to disobey them knowingly, will most likely not end up in heaven (although he's the ultimate judge, not me).

Mormons believe that everyone will have the chance to learn of and then accept or reject the gospel of Jesus Christ. Some in this life, many in the next. There will be people who lived on earth and were homosexuals that will be in both heaven and hell.

So...what makes Mormons immoral? They preach sexual purity, fidelity, honesty, civility, responsibility within a family, obedience to God's commandments, live by faith, ask for gods repentance regularly, abide by the laws of the land, be a good citizen, father, mother, and spouse, love god, read and study the Bible and live by it's teachings, and love their fellow men. what aspect of that is immoral and ungodly?????

You seem to have a strange definition of "immoral" and "ungodly".

Answer 4

Leviticus 18:22 is probably among the most egregiously misinterpreted verses in the entire Bible. It is important to note that those who would use this, or any other passage in the Bible, as a weapon of condemnation, neglect two fundamental points:

1.) God claims as His own, the EXCLUSIVE right to judge any creature. To wit: The Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7, verses 1 and 2, “Judge not lest ye be judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”

2.) From a simply practical point of view, it is incumbent upon any person who would quote the Bible to recognize that not a single version exists today that is true to the original text; that has not been corrupted by politically motivated interpretation over the centuries of its examination and translation. To believe that any version of the Bible in existence today is the true and un-corrupted Word of God is pure ignorance and denial.

Personally, I have never believed in having blind faith. I am a Pagan because Nature speaks to me in truths, not in translations.

The final point I would make here is that again, those who would quote so-called “anti-homosexual” passages are in plain denial of the rather glaring homoeroticism that permeates the Old and New Testaments, in contexts which lead the open-minded scholar to believe, and rather without question, that certain homosexual relationships in the Bible not only existed, but were indeed blessed by the All Mighty.

The story of David and Jonathan, for instance, is perhaps most famously the benchmark of Biblical homoeroticism. The book of 1 Samuel is laced with connotation that David and Jonathan were, at the very least, “soul mates;” indeed, that they loved each other as if they were one, “Jonathan became one in spirit with David” (1 Samuel 18:1). And when in the course of battle Jonathan was struck down, David laments him most famously in 2 Samuel, chapter 1, verse 26, saying: “…thy love was sweeter than wine, surpassing that of even women.”

There is also a great deal of discourse on the subject of the New Testament relationship of Christ himself and His disciple Jonathan. But I won’t touch on that here…much too sensitive a topic I suspect for our fundamentalist friends.

To summarize, whichever version of the Bible you read, there is both condemnation and acceptance on this, and many other subjects, each aspect owing itself to how the reader interprets the passage. The truth of God’s position on homosexuality is what is in YOUR heart. If you are gay, and you believe…and are rather affirmed in your belief…that God loves and accepts you, then that is what is true. There is no sin in love. That truth is simple. And it is universal, no matter what holy writ you ascribe your beliefs to.

Answer 5

See if you can see what that person who e-mailed you said in this:
17 "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."

Jesus said it all here. I could take all of Christianity and place it on these two verses, which happens to be a quote from Jesus Himself. I see nothing there about homosexuals, or that homosexuals were too dirty for it - it says 'whoever'. And I trust what Jesus said over what anyone else says.

Answer 6

"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." 1Cor 6:9,10

"God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator— who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done." Rom 1:24-28

Jude 1:7 "In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire."

Heb 13:4 "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral."

Furthermore Jesus said concerning marriage "at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’" of which he took as a precedent for marriage

Answer 7

People don't go to hell for sin, they go to hell for not accepting Christ.

This does not excuse sin, for God has a punishment for sinful believers, and its not purgatory. I discuss this here:

http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/kingdom.html

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Answer 8

The closest GOD got to the concept was Adultery.

I guess it's how liberal you define that.