Why are Christians always asking if this or that is a sin?  Doesn't their bible have all the answers?
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The bible doesn't have ANY answers.  It's all a huge hoax.  If you can't figure out what to do or not do in life you're an idiot and a book written by some dead guys isn't going to help.
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Since day one we have been taught that all sin is forgivable. If not, then many are on the road to hell. God is all merciful, all loving, all kind all forgiving...all we need do is ask...and all we ask in His name will be granted.\n\n+David
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Who are we to question the actions of god?\n\nDoes not god forgive sins and transgressions?\n\nDid not Jesus seek out the sinners?
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Christians denounce homosexuality because the Old Testament says that sodomy is a sin. Of course, it says a lot of other things are sins, too, and Christians don't go around denouncing all the people who engage in those sins, so it makes one wonder. I'm pretty sure most people tell lies now and then, but Christians don't go around talking about all the evil liars and telling liars that they will burn in Hell the way they tell homosexuals they'll burn in Hell. Maybe that's because even they tell lies, so they understand how someone might occasionally commit that sin and still be a good Christian. If that's the case, it means they're hypocrites, though.\n\nI think one of the reasons they rationalize their criticism of homosexuality is that homosexuality is a "sin" that lasts a lifetime. Once someone "decides" to live a homosexual lifestyle, he is basically agreeing to commit the "sin" of sodomy for the rest of his life (well, males are, anyway). Many Christians perceive this to be worse than a "one time" sin such as stealing some money from someone but feeling guilty about it and repenting afterwards. And then when homosexuals also talk about their sexuality openly, it's as if they're bragging about their sin, or at least that's how it appears to many Christians.\n\nHowever, what Christians don't think about is that almost all people engage in some kind of "ongoing" sin, like lying on a regular basis, and yet they forgive these people, realizing it's God's place to judge, not theirs. For example, the Old Testament also denounces a child who talks back to a parent with the same fire and brimstone language that it denounces sodomy. And yet you don't see Christians denouncing children as "sinners." A child might be chastized for talking back to a parent on a particular occasion, but you hardly ever hear any Christian with any sense of perspective whatsoever telling the child he's "going to burn in eternal Hell for his sinful ways" just because he occasionally sasses his Mom.\n\nA better example is divorce and remarriage. While sodomy is condemned in the the Old Testament (Leviticus especially), it is not condemned in the New Testament. Jesus doesn't say a word about it. And yet divorce and remarriage are clearly condemned in both the Old and New Testament. Jesus himself says that marriage is sanctified by God and that no one should break a marriage apart. And yet most of the Christians who regularly condemn homosexuality and turn their noses up at gays wouldn't dream of telling people who have divorced and remarried that they're going to burn in eternal Hell because of it. I can see no reason for this except pure hypocrisy. They themselves, being straight, would never commit sodomy (or at least not with someone of the same sex) and think it's disgusting, so it's easy to condemn those who do. But since they themselves may get divorced and have friends who may be or will someday be divorce, they understand the problems that can lead to divorce and sympathize with those who would suffer if they remained married, even though divorce is a sin. Likewise, they see it as simply "human nature" when divorce peole find love and marry again. Why can't they sympathize with homosexuals who would suffer if they never acted on feelings of love and remained alone, or worse, in a forced and fake marriage? Because they themselves have never felt that kind of love, so they don't get it.\n\nDo I understand their reasons for disliking homosexuality? Yes. (Although I personally disagree.) Do I think it's their place to denounce homosexuals? Absolutely not. Even the Bible says "judge not  lest ye be judged." I think it's pure hypocrisy. And if a few more of them were shown how their attitudes towards homosexuality and divorce reveal the underlying hypocrisy, maybe a few of
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God gave us a gift of choice - do the right thing or do the wrong thing, it's up to us to decide.  I don't think people say it is okay to sin, they just do it cuz they made the wrong choice.  Repenting is for the catholic religion, I am not catholic so I don't repent, I do ask for forgiveness (I guess that is a form of repenting) anyways - people will do what they want to do and how they want to do it - that is our God given choice.
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No sin here, weird but no sin that I can see. God gives freedom here. Heb 13:4 is good. I don't see anything that looks life defilement. Also read the Song of Solomon, pretty heavy stuff. Just don't invite the neighbors over, that would be taking it to far.\n\nYou need to look into why God damns? I don't think you get it.
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God would never command such a sinful act that pleases you so selfishly from His people.\n\nPeace.
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Yes it is a sin. I am a Christian, Baptist to be precise.
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Because most Christians are hypocrites. There's also a part in there that says women are "unclean" during their period and lists directions to sleep in your own bed without your husband and to go sacrifice an animal at the end to cleanse yourself. One of the many reasons I'm no longer a Christian...  When I asked people in my church "what gives?" with this verse and all the woman-bashing in the bible, they say "oh, we dont do that anymore", yet they still use this book as a form of worship. They still go around preaching about the "good book". Ironically, these are the first people to go around calling other people hypocrites. It's a messed up world. What can I say?
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Well I'm agnostic but will answer this anyways...\n\nI find this one of Christianity's few logical points.  All people carry some form of greed, arrogance, conflict, etc. in them.  No matter how good a person you are, you WILL sin...its bound to happen.  What the concept of being a sinner means is that Christianity is admitting that its followers will not lead a sinless life (which is realistically true).  Basically, we're imperfect and we know it...but God loves us anyways.\n\nFor non-Christians, its an excuse for Christians to admit they're imperfect while still maintaining that their beliefs are.
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Being gay isn't a sin. Acting on it is. I am a heteralsexual and I can't just say, God made me a sexual being, so I can have sex any time and with anybody I want." Sexual sin is sexual sin, no matter who it's performed with. Why do you think God gave guidelines for living? was it to "spoil all our fun"? When you discipline your children, is it because you want to be mean to them, or because you know better than they do what is good for them?\nWe have done things our own way for awhile now and what has it gotten us? AIDS, STD's, teen pregnancies, abortion, sky high crime rates, kids killing kids... I could go on and on, but that is enough to get you thinking.\nOne more thought. As humans, we have more intelligance and reasoning power than our pets. If we saw our pet doing something potentially harmful, would we stop him or, so he won't think we are mean, allow that behavior? And if we stop him, will he understand why? No, but we know. When God says no, we won't always understand why, but we can be sure that He knows and it's for our own good.
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Unfortunately, the majority of people in this forum who question the Christian faith design their "questions" to be extremely inflammatory - they're looking for the reaction, to offend; not for a reasonable dialogue. Not everyone excells at letting such things roll off their back.\n\naddition: see some of the above responses to your question to see what I mean
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Many people have besetting sins in their lives that they struggle with for a long time. But the Bible says:\n\nRomans 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.\n\nAs a Christian counselor I've tried to help people with this type of issue and sometimes they are successful and sometimes they continue on with their struggle. Basically it seems to me that the ones who don't overcome usually don't see their particular sin as an enemy who needs to be defeated or they don't want to do the work that it takes to overcome in that area of their life.\n\nGod will help us to overcome our enemies but He calls us to join in the battle and to see sin as an enemy. If we call a sin our friend some of the time and invite it into our life He isn't going to give us the victory.
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I am sure that you have heard of the scripture,\n"For all sin and fall short of the glory of God"\nBeing saved has only one requirement, that is that one believe that Christ died as an atonement for our sins. All sin not just some sin.\n\nNO sin is greater than any other sin. A lie is a sin, cheating is a sin, wearing polyester clothing and cotton clothing is a sin (according to leviticus). All sin is equal because no sin can be looked upon by God because of his purity and holiness. All sin is equally dark because it causes a seperation from God.\n\nBecareful trying to make a judgement call you have no authority to make, only God knows who truely believes in his son. \n\nThe bottom line is being Gay will not stop anyone from being saved, no more than a liar can not be saved. The common denominator is Christ. \nJohn 3:16 states "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, so that EVERYONE who believes in him will not perish, but have ever lasting life. \n\nNo where does that scripture say not to Gays.\nFurther more, any one should be careful about judging, for by the same measurement which you judge others so shall you be judged.\n\nBlessings,
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Christ died to cover all sin past, present and future. That doesn't give you a license to sin though. If you love God and have truly been "born again" then you will find all sin as offensive once you see it as sin. Once a person who is "born again" realizes that they have sinned they have a conviction burning inside of themselves to ask for forgiveness, and to permanently separate themselves from the sin forever. I would say that all of us struggle with sin but some of us have chosen not to fight it and instead just simply give in to it. I think that is the difference also in someone who loves God (the one that struggles and hates the sin) and someone who just wants to get to heaven (the one that seeks forgiveness knowing that they will in the future seek out to do the same sin again and again). I don't want to go to heaven just for the sake of going to heaven. I want to go to heaven to be with the One that my heart desires. I want to know God as I am known and see His face. The only way that I can see His face is to hate sin in the way that He hates sin.
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Beats me why they get so upset over it,\n\nBut yes there is no rules against it in the bible
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errr....i kinda wish this question was better written.. but i'll try to answer it anyways...\nthe reason we sin is b/c God gave us that option.... if u sin.. its satan work... so dont sin?.. \n(this is harder than i thought)