is homosexuality wrong
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This is how I've looked at it.
Mind you, I may be wrong.
BEING and DOING are two completely different things, no?
God loves the SINNER but hates the SIN, right?
So do you see where I am going with this?
The ACT of HOMOSEXUALITY, is wrong.
When you're asking if it's wrong to love, no, it's not BUT the Lord plainly states the act of laying with the same sex is wrong.
The reason why I say BEING and DOING are two completely different things is because people who don't agree with this or people who obviously have not read the bible always like to say, "oh, in the bible it says that being a homosexual is an abomination. So basically that means God hates homos."
No. Look here:
Leviticus 18:22 (NIV)
"Do no practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin."
Leviticus 20:13 (NIV)
"If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense."
Now, what that being said, when someone says, "oh, in the bible it says that being a homosexual is an abomination. So basically that means God hates homos," or when there are Christians out there disowning their children and what not or are telling people that God hates them because they ARE homosexual, obviously, parts of the bible would then contradict themselves, no?
For example:
Mark 12:31
"The second is equally important. 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."
God said everything as he said them for a reason. There were no mistakes. He mean't what he mean't. It's just the way that we interpret it that can get us in trouble.
Again, God loves the SINNER but hates the SIN.
So, yes, the act of homosexuality is wrong, but if you are homosexual, God still loves you.
All you have to do is ask for forgiveness and discontinue the act of homosexuality.
I hope that makes sense....
If I am wrong however or if someone finds something in what I said to be flawed, by all means, please correct me.
Mind you, I may be wrong.
BEING and DOING are two completely different things, no?
God loves the SINNER but hates the SIN, right?
So do you see where I am going with this?
The ACT of HOMOSEXUALITY, is wrong.
When you're asking if it's wrong to love, no, it's not BUT the Lord plainly states the act of laying with the same sex is wrong.
The reason why I say BEING and DOING are two completely different things is because people who don't agree with this or people who obviously have not read the bible always like to say, "oh, in the bible it says that being a homosexual is an abomination. So basically that means God hates homos."
No. Look here:
Leviticus 18:22 (NIV)
"Do no practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin."
Leviticus 20:13 (NIV)
"If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense."
Now, what that being said, when someone says, "oh, in the bible it says that being a homosexual is an abomination. So basically that means God hates homos," or when there are Christians out there disowning their children and what not or are telling people that God hates them because they ARE homosexual, obviously, parts of the bible would then contradict themselves, no?
For example:
Mark 12:31
"The second is equally important. 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."
God said everything as he said them for a reason. There were no mistakes. He mean't what he mean't. It's just the way that we interpret it that can get us in trouble.
Again, God loves the SINNER but hates the SIN.
So, yes, the act of homosexuality is wrong, but if you are homosexual, God still loves you.
All you have to do is ask for forgiveness and discontinue the act of homosexuality.
I hope that makes sense....
If I am wrong however or if someone finds something in what I said to be flawed, by all means, please correct me.
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"Live the life you love and love the life you live." You say....
Living the life you love may not always be good for you.
God knows what is right and what is wrong.
The fact that you yourself must ask if homosexuality is wrong just goes to show that some part of you believes that it's wrong.
When you know that what you're doing is good, there is no questioning it.
But if you feel like what you are doing isn't right, but you want to be told otherwise, that's when you start looking for answers that are pleasing to your ears.
It is said that we live hell on earth, God forbid, living the life you love may lead you to live hell twice.
Yes, it is personal choice but remember, whether it be good or bad, each choice has it's own consequence.
Living the life you love may not always be good for you.
God knows what is right and what is wrong.
The fact that you yourself must ask if homosexuality is wrong just goes to show that some part of you believes that it's wrong.
When you know that what you're doing is good, there is no questioning it.
But if you feel like what you are doing isn't right, but you want to be told otherwise, that's when you start looking for answers that are pleasing to your ears.
It is said that we live hell on earth, God forbid, living the life you love may lead you to live hell twice.
Yes, it is personal choice but remember, whether it be good or bad, each choice has it's own consequence.
No. It doesn`t make sense. The distinction between Being and Doing is very dangerous. Is like saying that you can still remain homosexual, but refrain youself from sleeping with men, because God doesn`t like it. You seem to say that the simple attraction is not sinful, is the act that is sinful. In that logic, even a pedophile`s attraction can be excused as long as he abstains himself in "acting". This is like a sort of squizophrenia (where one is divided between desire, on one hand, and act, on the other hand).
Jesus Christ invites us to live the real life, not a squizophrenical one. He said that if one man thinks lustful about a woman, than that man already commited adultery. It is true that at the beginning refraining from sinning is very hard, but in time, with the help of Jesus Christ, we manage to become what we are ment to become. But this abstinence, if it`s not done with the help of Jesus Christ, will become in time very dangerous - the perverted and refulated libido will aliment itself from the interdictions that we impose to ourselves.
Jesus Christ invites us to live the real life, not a squizophrenical one. He said that if one man thinks lustful about a woman, than that man already commited adultery. It is true that at the beginning refraining from sinning is very hard, but in time, with the help of Jesus Christ, we manage to become what we are ment to become. But this abstinence, if it`s not done with the help of Jesus Christ, will become in time very dangerous - the perverted and refulated libido will aliment itself from the interdictions that we impose to ourselves.
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I don't struggle with homosexuality but I feel for those who do. That said, I think the Author of our lives, the One who is Love (God as revealed in the Bible) knows a little more about love than you and I. God defines love because he is Love. But God is also Absolute Truth. Homosexuality was never part of God's plan, it's a result of the Fall into sin from the time Adam and Eve rejected God and said, "we're going to play by our rules now!" From then on, humans created their own definition of truth, love etc.
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God is love, God is love....im so tired of it...Hes also holy. Hes also just. Hes also a consuming fire. Hes also immutable and doesn't change just cause some decides Hes suddenly wrong about how he set up the natural order. Homosexuality is wrong according to nature and God. Period. Keep on trying to justify it..you wont get any nods from me.
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Did you bother reading people's posts? I don't think so. God created everything, including the law to live by. Therefore, what he says goes. His love is true love, what he says is truth is truth. He's both Truth and Love, so he has the right to make the rules. He is holy, we aren't. He hates evil, we tend to love it. Because we're lost in our sin, we need one to save us from that hellish existence. And that one is Christ Jesus. As his creations, we have no say in the matter as to what is right or wrong.
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You are right to be mad and you should and are allowed to question God on this. I think you should wrestle with God on this...and by wrestle I mean pray. Wail and scream and ask Him to show you what He thinks as you read His word. Read Matthew 16:24. Why else are you here on this site? Do you want to love God and impact others in the way God's shown through Jesus? Don't just mouth off and run. It seems to me that nothing is more important to you than being a man....so ask God to show you how to do that. You may find out that it's really Him you're attracted to more than anyone else.