if god created everything in the universe, then how come gay people are condemned in the bible?
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This is a great question.  God created EVERYTHING, right?  He has dominion and control over EVERYTHING in the universe, right?\n\nSo why is there sin?  God obviously didn't CREATE sin.  He ALLOWS it, but he didn't create it.  So who did?  Satan?  Man?  Either way, one of them, either the devil or man, has the same creative power as God then.  \n\nIf God didn't create homosexuality, and man did, then that makes man as powerful as God.  \n\nBut personally, I think God did create homosexuality - otherwise you wouldn't see it documented in EVERY species of animal on the planet.  And before you disagree, do some friggin research - all species have homosexuals.  It's not a choice, it's biology.\n\nAnd GOD created biology.
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We ALL sin and fall short of the glory of God.  We were born into a sinful world after Eve ate the apple in the garden.  Is homosexuality a sin? Yes, but so is gluttony, gossip, coveting, stealing, abuse, etc, etc....  God see's all sin as the same in His eyes.  It is a shame that the world cannot love the homosexual as God loves them....he created them just as He created me, a sinner.  But He died on the cross to save us from those sins.  God forgives me as a glutton-gossip-coveting female, so he can forgive anyone else who commits sin....and we all do commit sin!  God is sad when we sin, he hates sin, but he sent Jesus, his son into the world as a sacrifice to save us from our sin so we can spend eternity in heaven with Him!  What an incredible promise!  Grace and mercy to those (homosexuals) who have to deal with the judgment of "some" Christians who really do not understand the unconditional love of Jesus Christ!
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Why do people refer to homosexuality as "wrong" and a "problem"? - apparently God tells them to
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homosexuality has been around since before the bible was even a foot note society is accepting this more and more. Christians Jews everybody. it becoming one of those things that just doesn't matter if its in the bible or not live how you want and be happy and don't listen to these little pricks who think differently
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This is a difficult issue, I'm afraid. The Old Testament forbids sex between men. There is a passage (Romans 1)quoted by many Christians, which apparently says that God hates same sex sex - if you can get you head around that double. However, if you read it properly, it's condemning people who are so sexually jaded that they will try anything once, so to speak.\n"18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. \n21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. \n24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. \n26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In 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. \n28Furthermore, 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. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. " \nNOTE - the bad words aren't homophobic - they are directed at the whole society. Some of the bad things are symptoms of a whole attitude.\nAs a Christian myself, I don't know what God thinks about same sex love. But I know he does love the lovers - whatever. \nI think Christians could be more loving in their approach to those with homosexual feelings. \nI think that's what makes gays and lesbians so angry and upset. Honest confusion is to be preferred. It's God who will judge people's hearts, not us!
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Are we starting this again this morning? The entire Yahoo Answers seems to be obsessed with this topic this last week.\nLet me clarify once and for all:\n* homosexuality is something born with, not chosen (why \n  would anyone deliberately choose such a difficult life-\n  style in our society?)\n* The bible does condemn it.\n* how do I explain this paradox? I don't know. It just is. \n  not my fault, I didn't write the bible or create peoples\n  sexual tendencies.\n* why did God create something and then condemn it? I don't\n  know that either. Heck, maybe he didn't, and Satan got \n  his nose in there to mess with us. Or maybe one is not  born with it, but it's a  product of environment and   experiences. Maybe I'm wrong in\n  my previous statement. I DON'T KNOW, AND YOU DON'T EITHER.\n* Only God knows the answer to any of this, and apparently,\n  he ain't tellin'! For the time being, anyway. Maybe he \n  just threw in stuff like this to test how we would react, \n  hateful or tolerant.\n* The fact that the bible, in my interpretation, condemns something hardly  means\n  that I have to go around condemning or persecuting it, I\n  was not born to be the judge of the world. The bible tells\n  me to love my fellow man, sinners and saints alike, and\n  be a good example of Christianity, lest I steer others \n  from the faith by turning them off to religion by watch-\n  ing my sins. \n* In this case, that could include sins of \n  bigotry, hate, and abuse of all who don't belief exactly\n  what we think they should believe, if we Christians aren't\n  mindful, and fall into a trap. \n* besides, what if my interpretation of the bible is in-\n  correct? It could happen, you know, to all of us.\n* That said, and religion aside, it is still a hate crime in\n  this country to persecute others on the basis of their \n  sexual orientation. It is also not allowed in Yahoo \n  Answers.\n\nTo sum up, we don't understand why this is, but it doesn't matter either. Just live and let live.\nIMO.
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He calls homosexuality unnatural and an abomination.\n\nLeviticus 18:22: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."\n\nRomans 1:26-28: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;"
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First of all there is no such thing as god.\nSecondly, according to the fictional book that everyone follows it says that God created man in HIS OWN image. Which means that god must have been a murderer, rapist, child abuser, wife beater, gay, etc...
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Not at all! I back them up actually. If God wanted to promote homosexuality, then he would allow man-man woman-woman realationships, but he doesn't. He actually destroyed 2 cities (Sodom and Gomorrah) with a rain of fire because they were practising homosexuality.
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Yeah, God also loves everyone, and forgives everyone, so why is there a HELL?  The Bible is just a bunch of people that got together to write a fairytale book, to somehow instill morals into people.  Since people were so ignorant back then, they believed everything, and never questioned anything.  Somehow, that book doesn't seem to make much sense to the more sophisticated and intellectual minds of today.
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People, in this case women, who like to try to throw a monkey wrench into the fact that God created men, women and marriage for the purpose of trying to keep stuff like this from happening. The act of homosexuality is even disgusting to God!
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yeah and the bible applies to everyone and the bible says its WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG and so is gay marriage in the beginning it was Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve
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God created devils too ,God created good and bad.We have to choose which path we want to take.And no child is born gay ,as they get older the person chooses what they want to be .  \nBible:\nSome will say that a person may be born with homosexual tendencies. We say that everyone is a free agent. God lays before us two paths and has given us knowledge of where these paths lead. One is the path to which the devil call us. We must avoid that. One is the path leading to paradise. We must stick to that one. Everyone experiences evil prompting from time to time. We must resist those with all our might. If one feels a tendency to do something that God prohibits, he or she should seek help from a  community of loving, caring, believers who would understand his or her difficulty and help him or her overcome it.
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Being Gay is wrong here is your proof\nRo 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: \nRo 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. \nRo 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: \nRo 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
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The entire bible is an expression of people's beliefs.  I think there was something that could arguably have been against homosexuality that was attributed to God, but it's still someones statement of what they think, or wanted other people to think that God said to them.\n\nOne thing to keep in mind about homosexuality in the bible is that when it was written the terms had entirely different meanings.  In ancient Greece and Rome, sex was very much about power (far more than it is now).  In a heterosexual relationship, the man was dominant over the women.  In a homosexual male relationship (and this is all the bible says anything about), one partner was active and the other passive.  Male homosexual relations among people of equal social status were frowned up not because they were 'unnatural,' but because one man was showing submission to the other who was supposed to be his equal.  In parts of ancient Greece at various times, although sexual relationships between adult men were scorned, it was not only acceptable, but conventional for adult men, to engage in sexual relations with boys in their early to mid teens.  In this relationship, the man was the 'active' participant and the boy was the 'passive' participant.  Part of the purpose of the relationship was to solidify the social hierarchy.  When the boy grew up he would likely engage in a sexual relationship with a teenage boy before marrying, typically in his mid 30s.\n\nIn Romans, Paul make reference to women behaving in "unnatural" ways (or something to that effect).  This is often misinterpreted to refer to female homosexuality.  However, it is thought by scholars of ancient history to indicate sexual promiscuity in general.\n\nWhether your take biblical references to homosexuality to be the opinions of individuals or the word of God or Jesus, it is important to remember that at the time these statements were written, the notion of homosexuality, and sexuality in general, were quite different to what they are today.  The people who wrote these statements would likely have been as appalled by modern heterosexual relationships as they were by homosexual relations of their time.  When people point to the bible to say that homosexual relations are forbidden, they often fail to consider the historical context, and realize that it was less a matter of the gender of individual engaging in sexual relations that the power hierarchy it implied.
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When your fellow christians are condemning you for being gay you should point out that none of them are living by the word of God either. I'm pretty sure God frowns on divorce, adultery, and a lot of other stuff that christians do all the time. According to God's word you're not even supposed to work on the sabbath, but they're not trying to ammend the constitution to enforce that rule, are they? They are using their religion as a moral cloak to hide their homophobia. Doesn't it seem strange that they crusade against homosexuality, but have nothing to say about any of the other sins people commit daily. Why do you want to be a part of all this nonsense anyway? Find your own path.
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Some people (primarily biblical literalists and/or purveyors of hate speech) claim that the Bible does condemn homosexuality, citing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Levitical law statements about "a man lying with another man as he lies with a woman is an abomination", and St. Paul's condemnations of homosexuals. But what exactly is an "abomination"? Let's consider the information at this site: http://glow.cc/isa/whatisan.htm\n\nIf we look at each of these biblical citations closely, we see that Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed for homosexuality, they were destroyed for what was a far more serious sin at that time -- the sin of inhospitality. They treated guests very rudely, even assaulting and abusing them. At that time in history, this was one of the most serious sins one could commit. Consider this: http://www.torahquest.org/show_commentary.php?cid=12&regid=14\n\nIn looking at the Levitical prohibitions, we can turn to the greatest expert on the Old Testament, a Jewish philosopher named Maimonides, who wrote most of the Tanach (which is a more detailed explanation of the Torah, or Jewish version of the Old Testament). Maimonides wrote, in his "Guide to the Perplexed" that this prohibition was not against homosexuality, it was actually a prohibition against man's unbridled lust, and against the Cananite practice of that time of using teenage boys as prostitutes for their pagan temples. Also, looking at this practically, it's anatomically impossible for a "man to lie with a man as he does with a woman" (hello, some parts, well one part, is missing!) In those times, "back door" sex was forbidden, so that cannot be what this was referring to.\n\nAs to St. Paul's condemnations of homosexuality, it is worth noting that St. Paul had major hangups with almost any kind of sex, that he himself never married (highly unusual for a Jewish male at that time) and that he was teaching things that Jesus never said. http://www.beliefnet.com/story/142/story_14299_1.html\n\nChristians, by definition, are followers of Christ. Therefore, the first place Christians should look for proper teachings is in the Gospels, where Christ taught us what He expect from us. What exactly did Christ say in condemnation of homosexuals? Not a single word. Nothing, nada, zip, zero. So when it comes to a choice of who to believe when teachings conflict, St. Paul or Christ, IMO we should always go with Christ. Scientists have now proven, through multiple studies, that some homosexuals are genetically predisposed towards this. In other words, they are born that way. Others make a lifestyle choice. This brings up two very important points. God doesn't make mistakes, so the homosexuals who were born that way are not a mistake. Secondly, just "being" homosexual is not, in any way, a sin, no matter how the person got there. Even if we were to believe everything that biblical literalists believe, and all the so-called biblical condemnations about homosexuality, it must be noted that the condemnations are against sexual acts, they are not against just "being" a homosexual. So at worst, a homosexual sex act is the sin of fornication, which I daresay is an equal opportunity sin, and that many more heterosexuals commit this sin than homosexuals (if for no other reason than heterosexuals vastly outnumber homosexuals.)\n\nGod loves all of his children, and He expects us to love each other. Christ preached inclusion, not exclusion. Be patient with those who condemn homosexuals. Sooner or later they will come to their senses and realize that they are wrong. Literalists used to support slavery and thought the world would end when women got the right to vote, but they were proven wrong there, too. And perhaps even offer some pity for those who hate homosexuals, because if we can assume that a recent study was right, the most virulent anti-homosexuals are nothing more than