Like sexuality for instance. He said that any man that lies with another man or a woman with a woman will be burned in a furnace of fire.
I know being bisexual or gay is considered a sin, but I thought God forgave all our sins.
2007-11-01 05:03:19 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Supposedly, he forgives us our sins (whatever they may be) as long as we really and truly repent and turn back to him. As for the whole sexuality issue -- I personally don't believe it's a sin, I don't believe that God believes it's a sin -- I am pretty sure that he would feel, especially at this point in time, that LOVE is the main goal on this earth -- so wherever a person finds it, they should hold onto it. People have been twisting his words since the dawn of time. Jesus was a good person with nothing but love in his heart. If he's going to punish anyone, I think it will be those who speak ill in his name and judge others!
2007-11-01 05:11:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're completely wrong. That is not what the scripture says. Probably what your homophobic pastor taught you right? The scriptures reads shall drink from his own blood, not burn in a furnace of fire.
The Bible is entirely symbolic. The "Lake of fire" is symbolic for the judgment of God which is there to bring all man to a knowledge of their wrong doings against one another, and it is through the lake of fire that "all man (Greek: mankind) shall be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth" (1tim 2:4).
Not only does God forgive us of all our sins, but, and you'll never hear this in Church because they try to make God a marketable commodity for their religious based business, it is God who makes us sin in the first place (eph 1:11 "...........he who works ALL THINGS after the council OF HIS OWN WILL. and many other verses). The development of knowledge is based entirely on contrast and relativity; i.e. if you don't know down then you don't know up, if you don't know evil you can't know good. This is why the knowledge of good and evil were placed in the same tree (again symbolism). God uses our experience here and now so that he can work with us later on; he is merely laying the ground work for us in this life.
So God makes some people gay and then says not to be gay because he knows you can't possibly resist it. These kind of experiences either make us grow or break us and cause us to be more dependent on God.
Gotta go but you should visit this site; i dont go to church and don't believe in church but I like studying off this site. www.bibletruths.com
2007-11-01 05:16:01 · answer #2 · answered by billy d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The big sin is the one where you don't believe. Anything else can be forgiven. But if you have unbelief how can you ask someone you don't believe in forgiveness for sin.
Jesus was the New covenant so is our way back to God. He became man and was 100% man and 100% God at the same time. He is the only one who is able to get us back. When we confess and ask for forgiveness of sin then we also change our minds. Confess and repent (change our minds) Reading the gospel of John might help and then Romans
Actually if you wanted to be pedantic I don't think it mentions Lesbians (although I could be wrong) but the general gist is that same sex relationships are and abomination to God.
2007-11-01 05:12:45 · answer #3 · answered by : 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does NOT forgive homosexuality unless one first repents and lives the "straight" life thereafter. Just ask any fundamentally devout Christian, Jew, or Muslim. As believed by too many of the faithful of the three major religions, homosexuality is an abomination more grave than murder, so terrible a sin that even the Muslim president of Iran, during his recent visit to the U.S., declared that there are NO homosexuals in his country! How frightening to think that those of a different sexual persuasion have been rendered extinct in Iran, or that there are fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. who would gladly exterminate homosexuals if the law did not inhibit them. What a sorry mindset.
2007-11-01 05:39:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
While it is a sin to be bisexual...because god created a man and a women instead of a man and a man or vise versa ...he didn't create hell (or the way people know it as in like with fire and stuff) Read Ecclesiastes 9:5 it says there there is no such thing as hell so you don't burn eternally plus...
Look at it this way
If you had a daughter or son ...would you be able to burn their little hands in the stove just because they disobbeyed you???
It's the same way for God he is love and even though like i said it is a sin to be homosexual he allows people to repent and only if they trully mean it... not automatically ...like if you sin you that doesn't mean youll be forgiven just because you have to ask to be forgiven...
Take care...
2007-11-01 05:13:21 · answer #5 · answered by just a girl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only sin God does not forgive is Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Gays and all that stuff is an abomination to God. But can be forgiven. You should read the scriptures to educate your self on God's word more.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2007-11-01 05:10:06 · answer #6 · answered by mariposa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forgiveness isn't automatic. Jesus' blood forgives all sin, but there has to be "repentance." Now repentance means more than saying "I'm sorry." When one truly repents, they STOP doing what they are asking forgiveness for. People like to falsely assume that Heaven is a free ride. "I'll just say I am sorry or holler up a few Hail Mary's." Neither of those are enough to receive the forgiveness of Jesus. You have to change your heart. Furthermore, until our hearts are changed, through obedience to His Word, we will always think like unsaved man thinks and not how the Lord thinks.
2007-11-01 05:16:41 · answer #7 · answered by HeVn Bd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does indeed say that, but it doesn't say He will never forgive them. He's listing the punishment for such actions.
Jesus supercedes the old laws, because He is God. He says that ANY man (or woman) that sins against the Son of Man will be forgiven.
The only sin that's not forgivable is to blaspheme the Holy Ghost.
2007-11-01 05:07:00 · answer #8 · answered by tcjstn 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Once you take Jesus as your personal savior and ask God to forgive your sins, become a Christian, your sins are forgiven. ALL SINS Now being a Christian and wanting to live your life right you will strive to live your life in the manner God wants you to. No one is perfect and we will never be perfect but living for God makes us try to do the right things.
2007-11-01 05:10:26 · answer #9 · answered by shanla 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it fairly is of any convenience, all and sundry who commits a mortal sin and is forgive by using God will nonetheless be punished, by using Purgatory, presented he's Catholic. God teaches us additionally to love the sinner, yet HATE the sin, as he does. God could be the choose, his rule is trouble-free. the only factor incredibly unfair is that God grew to grow to be guy and suffered the punishment which could have been ours. As for homosexuality, it fairly is organic, besides the undeniable fact that it fairly is organic in a nature of a fallen international. it isn't the way God meant it to be, yet he does not condemn homosexuals, in simple terms they who relentlessly devoid of shame take exhilaration in "the acts". Sorry you're having a stressful time with faith, yet in Roman Catholicism, we don't, or incredibly no longer meant to, condemn all people for his or her sins, it rather is devil's interest while we meet God. he will provide God each rationalization why we could continually visit Hell, and he will have a trouble-free case, yet as quickly as Jesus testifies on our behalf that his blood covers us by way of fact we believed on him, we can be saved. As a Roman Catholic, i like all and sundry, no rely what, I do have harsh emotions in direction of people who hate and condemn, yet i like all of them the comparable. Pope Francis presently washed the ft of a Muslim female, that bowled over christian communities who hate Muslims. i'm hoping you come across God and that he classes you on a precise course.
2016-10-03 02:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋