Is it a sin to be homosexual?
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Is it a sin to be attracted to the same sex?  No.\nIs it a sin to act upon that attraction?  Yes.\n\nIs it a sin to be attracted to a woman that is not your wife?  No.\nIs it a sin to act upon that attraction?  Yes.
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I don't mean to offend the ASKER of the question but the people I hang out with don't believe that being in a homosexual lifestyle is moral or good. \n\nI happen to be a Christian and in the bible Leviticus it says that homosexuality is an abomination and a sin to God.\n\nHowever there is absolutely nothing in the Bible that says it is a sin to be handicapped.\n\nChristians believe that God is faithful to forgive our sins if we confess them and ask for forgiveness.  What is dangerous now (and I noticed one of the ANSWERERS to your question also noted this) is that it is getting to be more and more MORAL to be in a homosexual same sex lifestyle.\n\nSO you have the world saying its good and moral and the bible is in direct contradication to it.\n\nHowever I remember in the bible there was a handicapped person and they actually asked Jesus and I quote "Who sinned to make this man crippled?  His mother or father?"\n\nJesus said "Neither his mother or Father but to show Glory to God" and then Jesus healed him.\n\nSo I think I would "re-word" your question.  I think it would be good to ask it like this so as to be even more specific.\n\n"Why are homosexuals accepted into society more than handicapped folks when it is not a sin to be handicapped?"\n\nI see where you are coming from and it is a very good question though even the way you asked it.  But my friends and family don't even put Handicapped folks in the same group as folks choosing to have same sex sinful relations. \n\nNot even close.  There are still some folks out there honest enough to say the bible says homosexuality is evil. \n\nI am one of them.
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If that person does not change their lifestyle(If they continue have homosexual sex)NO,they will not go to heaven.\n\nIf that person does not want to change their lifestyle,they are not showing very much love for Christ,are they?\n\nEven if a person could not choose what they were born as,they can choose not to sin.\n\nIf someone tells you they are a Christian homosexual and they do not abstain from homosexual sex,then they are lying to you and themselves.\n\nIf Jesus could go through the torture he went through for us we can abstain from sin for Jesus.
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The British Minister of Equality didn't answer this question because he knows there's no way in Heaven or Hell that he can answer it in such a way that will please everybody.\n\nAccording to most religious people, homosexuality is definitely a sin.  Meanwhile, all the agnostics and atheists in the world (who are an extreme minority compared to the religious but have all the sociopolitical clout for some reason) say that anything a religious person says is inescapably flawed, and so homosexuality is NOT a sin, and thinks that gays and lesbians should recieve medals of courage just for being who they are.\n\nHere's the thing though.  Nobody, NOBODY is born to be a homosexual.  As a sexual species, a human male is supposed to be genetically programmed to mate with a human female in order to continue the species.  Homosexuals of today get confused with gender roles (if a guy is especially skinny and he enjoys the theater, he MUST be gay, right???), and the more we support it, the more people will follow their example.  Homosexuality is a result of faulty human programming, and how society deals with the error.\n\nBut if homosexuality IS a sin, then you're supposed to love the sinner and hate the sin, right? :P
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To have sexual relations with one of the same sex is against what the Bible teaches.None of us like it when we read and find just how much of our lives offend God.But if you really wish to seek God seek as you are not as you think you should be.We all are perfected only in Christ let him decide whether it keeps you from him.He said he did not come for the righteous for they do not need him,only those that are injured or ill need a doctor.
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I as a Christian personally believe that homosexuality is wrong. Although I say it is, we must always remember, hate the sin, not the sinner. I will gladly get along with a homosexual, but I avoid that sin in their life and try to help them with it.
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It answers the problem of how do you become NOT GAY.\nif your gay but want to be a christian, then you have to not PRACTICE homosexuality.\ntheres a difference between liking your own\ngender and practicing homosexual sex.\n\nOne is a sin, the other is not...
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Yes, many Christians do believe that homosexuality is an abomination. The problem with that kind of thought is that there are 10 other sins that are more readily done than the homosexual act by everyone including gays. \n\nFor example idle gossip is a no-no yet I don't know a living person that at some point doesn't repeat or believe gossip... looking at another person with lust in your eye is a sin but i don't know anyone who doesn't get turned-on be seeing someone other than their mate (who must have turned them on at some point prior to becoming married)... so according to the Bible it is a sin, ONE OF MANY!\n\nNow is a homosexual going to hell for having a same sex partner? If they believe in Jesus as their Savior I'd have to say no... Jesus never said that only the sinless could believe in Him and get to heaven... he made no requirements other than "love one another as they self and Love the Lord your God with all thy heart"\n\nAre practicing homosexuals are destine to burn in Hell just because they have a same sex partner/lover, I very much doubt that would be the deciding factor otherwise there are 7 billion other sinners on planet earth that your going to be joining the gays and Satan...\n\nBTW, there is nothing in the Bible to indicate that lesbians are doing anything wrong, the only homosexual references refer to a man sleeping with a man... Some Christians will try to extrapolate the male/male reference to females but that is a REALLY BIG stretch.
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Thas not true.  I am neither one of those but I can tell you that God says no sin is greater than the other.  Wether you murder your parents or do a man when your a man thats still sin to him and every soul may seek forgiveness.  You may not be correct in your actions, you may not follow all the laws of god, but you can still believe.  God says that taking the same sex to bed together is a sin and he also says that gossip is a sin but nine out of ten times i bet you do that, so what makes you or anyone else better than the other.  If you are gay or a lesbain, to me, that is your sin, you will answer to god just like me for my sins.  Which is greater?  How can god put a scale on how bad you hurt him?  A sin is just that, a sin to god.  Worldly pleasures are just worldly pleasures.  Just try and live your life as correct as possible for god and it shouldn't matter if you're gay or a lesbain.  Just let him know you believe and ask him to live in your heart.  If you truely except him than the lord will help you discover who he has planned for you to love.
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it's a sin, allright.\nbut in no aspect whatsoever that it is a greater sin.\nYou are right, judging people, liars, adulterers, thieves, gossippers, murderes, and so on are equal sinners as homosexuals (who practice the lifestyles).\n\nChurch who treates homosexuals badly are the misguided one.\nThey are basically the same like the pharisees during the  bible times.\n\nI believe if Jesus to walk the earth today, he would hang out in the midst of homosexuals (delivering them from bondage) -just like he walked in the past (among tax collectors, prostitutes, and so on).\n\nPerhaps, the reason why YOU are put in that kind of church is to testify Jesus' love by reminding them (the congregation and the pastors) the bible truth. That they should treated the homosexuals like human being.\nRemind them that they should hate the sins, not the sinners.
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The Bible is clearly against homosexuality.  If you are gay, I recommend not believing in the Bible.
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Homosexuality is not a sin and that’s why it’s not in the Ten Commandments or anywhere else in the Bible except Leviticus.   \n\nThose same “Christians” who are so quick to use the Old Testament to condemn homosexuality abandon the sins of wearing woven materials such as cotton, shaving, eating shell fish, selling food for profit, women preaching the gospel and not forgiving debtors every seven years and a whole bunch more sins which are found right alongside of homosexuality.\n\nThe next time someone tells you homosexuality is a sin because Leviticus says so, ask them if they wear cotton, shave, or eat lobster and then tell them they’re as big as a sinner as a homosexual, just look it up.\n\nI’ve posted the long version which substantiates that statement too many times to post it again, but if you want me to repost it here, just ask.  I can disprove every reference made by “Christians” to homosexuality in the Bible as being misinterpretations and uneducated fallacies.\n\nJesus who was to be God's great clarifier and last word never mentioned homosexual behavior.  I don’t like answering a question with a question, but if homosexuality is this great sin as misinformed Christians believe it is why didn’t He condemn homosexual acts?
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Yes because Jesus died to save all of us for our sins.\nHomosexuality is considered a sin in the Bible, but so is mistreating your wife, or (seriously) whereing cotton and polyester on the sabbath day, or pre-marital sex, all of which are far more common in American culure. Besides, "being" a gay person isn't sinful, it's the act of (and I quote) "a man lieing with another man, and he would a woman" that the Bible condems. Homosexuals have been exploited and made fun of ever since conservatives found out they were fighting a losing battle after Roe v. Wade. Republicans need someone to villanize, and in today's society, homosexuals are that someone. Forgive them, for they no not what they do.\n\nby the way, there is only one line about homosexuality in the bible, and another line that talks about the first one. one in the new testament, and one in the old.\n\non the other hand, there are several scores of lines about the sin of "JUDGING OTHERS!" so as far as sin goes, if you're a morally just homosexual, you're a lot better than a republican who condemns you as sinful and immoral.\n\nfurthermore, the bible makes it clear that men lieing with men (i suppose that'd go for women w/ women too) is an abomination against GOD, not against humanity, so no one has any right to judge you. and if they do, well then, i guess the devil will have to make a special new torture chamber designed especially for them (or not, they'll be in heaven to, God is forgiving of all people).\n\ngod bless you.
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A sin is a sin is a sin.
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Absolutely not!  If God didn't want people to be gay he wouldn't have made them that way.  No where in the bible does it say that homosexuality is wrong.  And even if they did, the bible was written by people.  It's just been interpreted that why by a bunch of homophoblic individuals (i.e. closet gays) who can't bear to see other people actually be happy.  God made you gay, and trying to change that has got to be worse than sleeping with men!  I mean, if you try to change you you are isn't that basically saying that God screwed up?  Don't try to change who you are.  If there is a heaven, you'll get in.\n\nIt's not unnatural or unhealthy to be gay.  People have been engaging in sexual relations with others of the same gender for all of recorded history.  Many primates engage in homosexual relations.  There's even a species of fruit-fly that does it.  At some point someone decided it was wrong, but it's not.  It's perfectly natural.  Do whatever feels right and don't worry about what other people think, or what other people tell you God will think.\n\nEdit: I was just reading mckenziecalhoun's post, and it made me think.  This isn't entirely relevent (or really at all relevent), but when I think about it, it seems to me that people who think they're going to Hell generally actually won't.  I'm basing that on the idea that if you repent for your sins you won't go to Hell.  My understand of repent is that you have to sincerely feel bad.  If you believe you're going to Hell, you believe you did something bad.  It's one thing if you lightheartedly reason it out and determine you're going to Hell, but if you actually believe it, I think that constitutes remorse.
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ToLiveIsToExplore,\nIt true, and I am glad that you noticed. The Laws of before were to illustrate different things, especially having to do with Christ in His relationship to sin, and the human relationship to God. You put way too much down that I want to go through right now, so I'll keep it short, (I'm moving right now).\n\nHomosexuality is not a special sin. It is covered by the blood of Jesus just like any other. So people don't go to Hell for being Gay, rather they go to hell for not trusting God through Jesus Christ.\n\nSo if you are Gay, be Gay and trust God to fulfill His promises. So the focus isn't on sinning, it's about trusting God.\n\nWhy do some Christians bring it up all the time? Because they are not taught the truth. They believe that certain people are worse sinners than they are. And that's a bad attitude. Their pastors are sinning everytime that message is brought by them to the congregation.
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Is homosexuality a sin?\n\nby Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays\n\n------------------------------------------------------------\nQuestion 1 - In your opinion, does God regard homosexuality as a sin?\n\nQuestion 2 - In your opinion, do the Scriptures object to homosexuality?\n\nRev Dr William R Stayton (Baptist -- minister, certified sexologist,\nassociate professor of psychiatric and human behaviour, servant\non faculty of LaSalle University's graduate department of\nreligious studies, holder of master of divinity from Andover\nNewtown Theological School and a Th.D. in psychology from Bostonuniversity):\nQ1:        \n        Absolutely not!  There is nothing in the Bible or in\n        my own theology that would lead me to believe that\n        God regards homosexuality as sin.  God is interested\n        in our relationships with ourselves, others, the \n        things\n        in our lives, and with God (MAT 23:36-40).  There is\n        nothing in the mind of God that could be against a\n        loving, sexual relationship, freely entered into,\n        without coercion, among sincere adults whether gay,\n        bisexual or straight.\n\n   Q2:        There is _nothing_ in the Bible regarding homosexual\n        orientation.  In fact, the Bible does not concern\n        itself with sexual orientation.  It does speak out\n        probably against gang rape, male prostitution for\n        religious purposes, and pederasty (sex between an\n        adult and youth).  I lead bible study programs on this\n        subject and am convinced that the Bible does not\n        address the issue of a person's sexual orientation.\n\n\nBishop John S Spong (Episcopal -- bishop, most published\nmember of the Episcopal house of bishops, author to 11 books and 50\npublished articles, phi beta kappa graduate of UNC Chapel Hill,\nholds masters in divinity and an honorary doctorate in divinity\nfrom Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, received honorary\ndoctorate in divinity from St Paul's College):\n\n   Q1:        Some argue that since homosexual behaviour is "unnatural"\n        it is contrary to the order of creation.  Behind this\n        pronouncement are stereotypical definitions of\n        masculinity and femininity that reflect rigid gender\n        categories of patriarchal society.  There is nothing\n        unnatural about any shared love, even between two of the\n        same gender, if that experience calls both partners to a\n        fuller state of being.  Contemporary research is\n        uncovering new facts that are producing a rising\n        conviction that homosexuality, far from being a sickness,\n        sin, perversion or unnatural act, is a healthy, natural\n        and affirming form of human sexuality for some people.\n        Findings indicate that homosexuality is a given fact in\n        the nature of a significant portion of people, and that\n        it is unchangeable.\n        Our prejudice rejects people or things outside our\n        understanding.  But the God of creation speaks and\n        declares, "I have looked out on _everything_ I have made\n        and `behold it (is) very good'." (GEN 1:31).  The word of\n        God in Christ says that we are loved, valued, redeemed,\n        and counted as precious no matter how we might be valued\n        by a prejudiced world.\n\n   Q2:        There are few biblical references to homosexuality.  The\n        first, the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, is often quoted\n        to prove that the Bible condemns homosexuality.  But the\n        real sin of Sodom was the unwillingness of the city's men\n        to observe the laws of hospitality.  The intention was\n        to insult the stranger by forcing him to take the female\n        role in the sex act.  The biblical narrative approves\n        Lot's offer of his virgin daughters to satisfy the sexual\n        demands of the mob.  How many would say, "_Th