is it a sin?

Question

if it's true that some people are born gay,how can it be a sin when you have no control of how you're born.how can something you had no control over be held against you?

Answer 1

My friend; I am a Christian and I apologize for the hateful remarks from the so called Christians. I can not really help you on this except to tell you that I am sure that God loves you. I find it hard to believe that anyone chooses to be gay. I do know of many gay men and women who after being saved went on to live a very happy straight life. Most of the Christians who point fingers have there on sexual secrets in the closet as do I. We all struggle with our life choices. The Bible is clear that I am to fix my own life before finding fault in yours. I will pray for you and hope that I have helped some. I do know that God loves you and will help you. No sin is any worse than another.

Answer 2

If you start with the assumption that it is genetic, then you have to ask why their parents weren't homosexuals.

I mean, after all, isn't that what the study of genetics is all about?

Is homosexuality a dominant gene, or a recessive one? Has the genome project discovered which base pair it's resting on? Can it be analyzed scientifically?

So far, it's only conjecture, and an argument used by homosexuals to justify their own lifestyle.

In fact, there's more evidence that alcoholism can be an inherited trait, but when someone is drunk, we don't say "Well, that's just the way he was born. It's not wrong to get drunk."

Utter and complete nonsense!

There is absolutely no shred of evidence that there is any kind of chromosome that makes a person homosexual! What is it, instead of an XY pair, it's an XT pair? or instead of an XX pair, it's an XK pair? Nonsense!

And when you take an MRI of a homosexual's brain, you don't know if the chemical change is the CAUSE of homosexuality, or if it is the results of homosexual activity damaging the natural flow of chemicals in the brain.

So, until you come up with something a little more scientific, without all the heresays and conjectures and pre-biased attitudes of people who support the homosexual agenda, you don't have a leg to stand on.

It's still sin because God said so, period.

Answer 3

You have no way of knowing for sure that people are "born gay"...perhaps they are, perhaps they aren't. If you want to accept the "party line" on that issue, fine, but I don't accept that as a fact (nor do I believe it can ever be proven conclusively).

But assuming for a moment that it is true, how is it any different to be born gay or straight? If people really are "born gay" then no it isn't a sin any more than it is a sin to be born straight. Furthermore, even if they aren't "born that way", if their sexual preference is a result of childhood experiences and/or traumas beyond their control, the consequence of those events isn't their responsibility either just as a child who is molested isn't guilty of a sin!

Sin isn't what you are, it is what you do. I think God made it pretty clear through Jesus that he doesn't hold our "sinful nature" against us...we are all tempted to do things that he told us were mistakes...what God evaluates is our ability to overcome those things we "have no control over"...to listen to his instructions despite the opposing force of our myriad human desires and drives!

Our sexual drives are something we all are "born with"...we're also driven by our need to be loved (or our feelings of love), by self-preservation, by a desire for justice (retribution/revenge), and a whole lot more. All of those drives/desires can lead us to sin...to ignoring God's instructions for the way he designed us to live. Frankly, I feel sorry for people that think we don't have any control over those drives. When I hear someone claim that because they were born gay, it is ok for them to have homosexual relationships, I feel the same way I feel when I hear a straight person say that since God gave them those drives, it is ok for them to act on them...and the same way I feel when I hear justify staying in a bad relationship because, "I love him/her". Get a grip folks...we ALL have the ability to control our behavior...we all have the ability to resist temptation to do things we shouldn't.

If being "gay" is your temptation (or anyone else's temptation) it isnt that temptation that constitutes sin...sin happens when you choose to give in to those temptations...when you choose to believe that you don't have a choice!

Answer 4

Was Satan created as an evil angel in the beginning?

Is God like Satan, to support abomination?

The creation was perfect in the beginning, but because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve, the creation was not perfect anymore, and the death and all sin and all abomination come first from the devil.

If you believe in the existence of God, so you can't deny the existence of the devil, and you can't deny many men are under the control of evil spirits. And sodomites and all sinners are under the control of evil spirits. But sodomites are very much more under the control of evil spirits because they use to do abominations against their own body!
It's exactly like a suicide!
So yes it is a sin, because God never created man and woman to do abominable things with persons of the same sex, with animals, with children, etc.
If Adam and Eve were respectful towards the Word of God, all these abominations and all other sins would never have existed.
And God hates all works of the devil, and all works of sodomites are works of the devil; see what happened to Sodome and Gomorrah, and you will understand that it is not a joke: God hates sin, and will never accept Satan and his horrible works in His Kingdom, that's clear.

Yes, it is a horrible sin!

I wish all sodomites leave their horrible and satanic ways to be cleansed by the Holy Spirit and to become children of God: Forever...

Answer 5

Are kleptomaniacs born with the temptation to steal? And if they are, shouldn't we make it legal for them to take little things from Wal Mart without paying for them?
Can we prove that there is a gene for kleptomania?
We know that there are serial killers who were sadistic even in their early childhood. Perhaps they were born that way. Should it be held against them, then, that they are only acting on instincts they were born with?
Obviously, we can see that being born with a predilection to a certain type of behavior doesn't make that behavior O.K.


And what about sexual preferences? Is it true that a person is born with a particular sexual preference?
If it is true for homosexuals, is it also true for pedophiles, or necrophiliacs, or for people who are into animals? And if they were born with that preference, shouldn't we allow them to follow their own hearts?

No, science has not proven that there is a "gay gene"...but what if there should be a gene that controls sexual preference? Would it make a difference, then, if a man is "born" preferring small children to grown adults? Would we make it legal for him to "marry" his tiny sweetheart??

We need to think about these things, before we claim "I can't help it, it's just my nature...I was born that way" as a reasonable excuse for our behavior.

Answer 6

No one is born gay. No matter what anyone says. People choose to be gay. why is it that people who are "gay" can break that habit so to speak so they can follow Bible principles. The Bible states that there was a man and a woman in the Bible together. Not a man and a man. Not a woman and a woman. But a man and a woman.

Answer 7

Everyone that is born on this earth is born into sin. Christ came to redeem us back to God. The bible says that, " those who know to do right and does it not, to them it is sin." What the law ( the ten commandments) could not do (save us from our sins) Christ did that we might become the sons and daughters of God.

Answer 8

I don't believe it to be a sin, but from what I've seen of the those who argue it intelligently, its the acting on it that's a sin. Again, I don't believe that, but thats the distinction that's been made.

Answer 9

Because a great many people believe it is choice, not birth. And even beyond that, one should be able to control one's nature, supposedly. After all, we need to be taught social niceties like "don't hit" and "don't take what isn't yours". This is 'natural', yet we overcome it.

However, I personally feel it to be no sin at all.

Answer 10

It is only a sin if you believe it is a sin. Whatever other people think has nothing to do with it.