why does "god" hate gay people, when he is supposed to love everyone?
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God loves all his children. He does not hate anything or anyone. He is all forgiving. People cannot purify anyone either. Gay people can make their life choices just as we do. Are any of us free of sin?
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what you are seeing in response to homosexuals is not Christian. As another person answered, Jesus ate with, associated with, and worked with the people who needed the help he had to offer the most- in other words, he showed those who needed it- love. Christianity has become so corrupted by man, that those who "hate" in God's name have become much more common than those who follow God's word- and that word is "love thy neighbor as thyself" it is acceptable to God to hate the sin, but one must love the sinner- and that isn't what "churches" are about anymore.
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God hates a lot of things. He is quite vengeful and jealous. But I believe some people take the bible too seriously. For example, the bible says,"Honor thy mother and thy father.". An abused kid who's family is over-religious will take this as,"Obey like a slave." They won't do anything about. If you are so concerned about the bible and who's going to hell, have you not read the passage about who gets to cast the first stone? So if you are so concerned about Miscegenation, homosexuality, or inbred souls, then you should read Corinthians. \n\nBut just remember, God gave every one free will. The Bible contradicts itself a lot. So maybe you should question it a little bit.
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Gay people can believe in God the same way everyone else believes in God.\n\nMerely being gay is not a sin. Homsexual acts are sinful. Gays and straight alike are called to live a life of chastity.\n\nHowever, the disordered nature of homosexuality cannot be ignored. Nature did not intend to have same-sex relationships. The physical differences between male and female prove this.\n\nAnd who designed nature? God did, of course. To deny, defy, or flatly ignore the male-female sexual relations nature intended is to deny, defy, and flatly ignore the Will of God.\n\nThe rejection of God's Will is always sinful.\n\nBut none of that means a gay person couldn't also be a model Christian. We have to remember the axiom, "Hate the sin, not the sinner." One must avoid the sin of homosexual activity, but merely being homosexual is not a sin.
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It comes from the true source of all hatred---Satan the Devil. He does not want anyone to worship the true God. He is angry because he was thrown out of heaven, along with his demons and like a roaring lion, he is always looking to devour someone--and when we see all the hatred,injustice and suffering all around us, we realize that many are following him. We must remain faithful to God till the end, for soon Satan and all who are on his side will be put out of existance forever.
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ugggg! i hate that! so many people have gotten into debates with me about this (they are all republicans.)\n\nthey say that they hate gay people because they hate all the gay lingo and the pda with other men. although they are not bothered by boy girl action.\n\nthey think that people choose to be gay; they DON'T!\n\nwhy would any one WANT to change into something that will make their life hard?  Why would you want to change into something that makes you love someone you can't marry or start a biological family with?\n\nplease, son't get me wrong, i am in no way trying to say that there is anything wrong with being gay....really....i am just saying that it is not a choice....people labeled "gay" are born that way.\n\nsome people however choose to think they are gay or bisexual....i think that it is just a personal preference....a luxury to be able to have sex with both genders.\n\ni like all your questions.\n\np.s. GOD DOES NOT FROWN UPON BEING GAY!!!!!!!! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU REPUBLICAN CHRISTIANS/CATHOLICS SAY; GOD DOESN'T "FROWN UPON" ANY KIND OF PERSON UNLESS THEY HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG....BEING GAY IS NOT WRONG!!!\n\nsorry...that is a pet peeve of mine.
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I think he is okay but, the hatred on gays is pathetic. He seem to have a christian prospective but, need some guidance. He consider himself a christian and going to heaven but, hating on gays is giving him a seat in HELL.
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That, is the question that has no real answer.  The Bible speaks about sodomy, but always as a forced act or as part of a purely hedonistic culture.  Does this mean that God hates sodomy, or that he hates hedonism and rape?\n\nTo further question the teachings, one would begin to wonder, if God is all powerfull, and all-knowing (as in, he knows everything that was, everything that is, and everything that will be) and created everyone, why would he create some people knowing that they would do evil?\n\nFurther, why would God create these people, knowing that they would perform evil acts, and that he would have to punish them for all eternity in a torment beyond all possable comprehension?  If God loves us, why would he do this to us?\n\nWhat kind of God would tell us that he loves us, and then create us, with complete knowledge that our ultimate goal would be eternity in unimaginable horror?\n\nIf we start with the assumption that we have a Good and loving God, for no other kind of God is worth worship, then we must also assume that the Bible passages that tell of him punishing and tormenting us for our actions are flawed, either by misinterpretation of God's word, or to fullfill the purposes of whoever wrote those passages.\n\nThis will leave us with only one possable conclusion: that God does not truely hate or intend to punish people for things that they have no control over, or things that they are naturally predisposed to.  For, whether homosexuality is a choice or a fact of an individual's nature, it cannot be argued that the individual's personality is predisposed to homosexuality, for any choice comes from a natural inclination to make that particular choice.\n\nThis would leave most of our actions in God's hands, for God, as all knowing, knew every act we would perform in our entire lives before we are even born.  But a person must be held accountable for his actions, and some actions, such as murder, are clearly wrong.\n\nWhich brings us around to the possability that God is not all knowing and is as much in the dark about our actions as we are.  This would also open the door for homosexuality being a despised sin that God did not forsee occuring in an individual.\n\nPerhaps it's simply not possable to understand all the reasons and thoughts of God, or to truely get a grasp upon which of the Bible teachings are accurate to God's word and which are not.\n\nMaybe we can only do the best we can do, being the best person that we can be and hoping that our actions make God happy.\n\nThe best person that we can possably be is ourselves, to be somebody else is impossable.  I think that is all God really expects of us.\n\nFollow your heart when deciding what is sin and what is not.  And never judge somebody for their actions.  Only those who have never sinned or thought of sinning are worthy to judge.  Maybe some of us are wrong, maybe all of us are wrong, but we simply aren't in the position to decide that.
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ok spud, its not just 'gay' people.  it's people in general.\n\nyears ago i was an unhappy Baptist.  being baptist just wasn't doing it for me and i had been born and raised in that faith.\n\na lot of the baptists i knew were mean spirited and hateful. they also had the "we're the only ones going to heaven" attitude.  i began looking for another faith.  that is a HARD thing to do, believe me.\n\ni worked in a pharmacy where one of the employees was obnoxious about his protestant faith.  if you asked him how he was he'd say "He was fine ever since he became a Christian." if you asked him what he knew he'd say "I know I'm saved."  and on and on and on.  there were also a couple of Catholics that worked in the pharmacy.  when steve the protestant was telling people why they were going to hell the Catholics never were mean or hateful to anyone. they accepted everyone, it seemed.  they accepted me---even though i didn't know what i was and they accepted steve even when he was telling them they worshipped statues.\n\ni thought to myself, there has got to be something to what these people believe, i want whatever that is for myself.\n\ni asked them how i could learn more about the Catholic Church and they told me about classes that were given at the local parish.  i went and talked to the priest and he signed me right up.  six months of classes later, i knew i'd found what i was looking for.  i joined the Catholic Church way back in 1980 and its been an important part of my life ever since.\n\nso---i don't think its just gays.  Catholics seem to be tolerant of just about everybody.  And that's a good thing.
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I wish I could give you a straight answer.  I am like you, I love meeting new people of all races, ethnicities, genders, I like everyone.  Society is too closed minded.  Saying homosexuality is a sin so we should hate gays is ludacris.  If Christians hate gays because they sin then shouldn't they hate alcoholics, rapists, murderers, all other religions, democrates, just the same?  Shouldn't they put forth just as much anger and protest against these groups as well? People who hate homosexuals have ill logic.  We as open minded people need to set the standard and put morons in their place.
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AS a gay and a Christian (yes, you can be oriented to both)-cannonized text has passsges that state gays will not inherit the kingdom of God. (II Corinthians) But what does that really mean? It doesnt say that they will burn in hell. Those two things are not equivalent at all. What I see in it, is that we do not have the perfect blessing of society and may not fit into all of God's sacred institutions such as having children, traditional marriage, etc. We also are not going to be appreciated in the eyes of family values (there are certain discretions others use that I must respect) However, the Bible does not say in any way that we are condemnable by that alone. To be gay is to be oriented to same-gender attraction. Gay does not equal promisciuty, infedility, debuachary (drug use, etc) in every gay person. The Bible clearly states that God judges and loves people holistically and since it is been proven that being gay is only a part of a person, than therefore it in itself does not make one destined to eternal destruction, which is what many biggots beleive.
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I should imagine that God hates all religions.  Most wars have been fought in the name of one religion or another - and all in His name!  I should think he's fed up to the back teeth with it all.  All that is really required is for us to love one another; to treat each other with respect and compassion; to acknowledge God as our creator, and to have a personal dialogue with Him in the form of prayer.  To this end, I don't think He cares one iota where we choose to pray.
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First, it can certainly be argued that not all sin carries the same weight even though all sin is damaging.  Participating in the Holocaust and stealing a pencil are clearly not the same weight.\n\nIt is wrong to hate anyone.  I do not understand the evangelicals who do hate homosexuals.  If you are going to do that, then you also need to hate gluttons, adulterers, liars, vain people, greedy people, and so forth at least to be consistant.\n\nWhat you are seeing when you see hate is their own brokeness coming through and their own attachment to their own sins.  Unfortunately in the US, Christians tend to misread an important passage because of how it is translated into American English.  People see Jesus as "saving" them.  Unfortunately that has a specific theological meaning and so that translation is favored.  However, it is a slightly better translation to use the word liberated.  God liberates us from our sins is a closer idea.  You are saved if you actually permit God to liberate you.  As an early Christian writer said once, "most people carry their sins around with them like chains.   The chains are broken and they have been set free, but they won't totally let them go.  They drag them around on the ground and they get snared to their old sins."  Christians who feel a need to hate, have really surrendered their salvation in favor of their own sins.  But God does and will let them go again, if they permit God.  Submission to the will of the Father, kenosis, or disolving of self in favor of God, is the key.\n\nNow, there is a question of whether it is wrong to lie to children about Santa.  I have thought about it, but it is a lie like a parable.  Parables are not true, yet they are.  Santa is a similar type of thing, it isn't true, but it is.  You are teaching gift giving and the importance of goodness.  It has become distorted in American culture, but if you read the original story of Nicholas, really we are continuing his ministry 1700 years later.  It really is because of Nicholas this is occuring.\n\nIt is true that all the world sins and it is broken.  It is the experience of the writers of the OT, that the destruction was due to their sin and they recorded that.  It could be listed as a mystery.  It could also be thought of as even though we are imperfect, we have minimum standards of conduct we must not fall below.  For example, no slaughtering of innocents would rank up there no matter who you are.
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The worst Gay bashers are often fighting themselves hardest ... and it's all because we use God against one another instead of for Love.  Blech.
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I've never understood the doctrine of "love the sinner but hate the sin."  When "the sin" is how you define a person (e.g., homosexual, liberal, feminist, believer-in-science, dancer-around-fires or whatever), then how can you claim to be loving the person while hating the very thing that -- in your eyes -- makes him who he is?\n\nIf christians define themselves by their belief, and if I fear and despise everything that their belief stands for, then I have to admit that I would not choose to spend time with christians if I could avoid it (with the exception of family and friends who don't care what I believe).
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Religious people are not "afraid" of homosexuality, they fear the creator, the one who has power over all things and the one who deals out punishment in the hereafter. Those who choose not to engage in things they or their religion deems as sinful acts only fear the one who will judge them for their good and bad deeds when this life is over. Fear of the things that people choose to do with their own lives has nothing to do with it.
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Don't worry, God knows your heart, and He is like any loving parent who hears a child say "I hate you" and still loves the child. Just be careful next time to place the blame where it belongs, on thw rong actions of people, which isn't God's fault at all. Your hatred is actually directed at Satan who causes people to do wrong, and God knows this already.\nps. I have said the same thing before, (and a little more <oops> ) til I realized who I really hated!