God versus Gay. Do you agree with this whole statement?
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ROMANS 1:24 \nWHEREFORE GOD  ALSO  GAVE THEM  UP TO UNCLEANNESS THROUGH THE LUST OF THEIR OWN HEARTS,TO DISHONOR THEIR  OWN BODIES BETWEEN THEM SELF:\nWHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE,AND WORSHIPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THEN THE CREATOR,WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER.\nAMEN.\nVERSE 28-\nAND THEY DID NOT LIKE TO RETAIN GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE,GOD GAVE THEM TO A REPROBATE MIND,TO DO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT CONVENIENT.\nBEING FILLED WITH ALL  UNRIGHTEOUSNESS,FORNICATION,WICKEDNESS,COVETOUSNESS,MALICIOUSNESS: FULL OF ENVY,MURDER,DEBATE,DECEIT,MALIGNITY,WHISPERS,BACKBITERS,HATERS OF GOD,DESPITEFUL,PROUD,BOASTERS,INVENTORS OF EVIL THINGS,DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS,\nWITHOUT UNDERSTANDING,COVENANT BREAKERS,WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTIONS,IMPLACABLE,UNMERCIFUL:\nWHO KNOWING THE JUDGMENT  OF GOD, THAT THEY WHICH COMMIT SUCH THINGS ARE WORTH OF DEATH,NOT ONLY DO THE SAME,BUT HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM THAT DO THEM.
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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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Some people place an inordinate focus on a handful of passages from the Bible (which, as far as literature goes, is terribly overrated) that condemn homosexual behavior as an "abomination."\n\nBecause the Bible is full of contradictory nonsense, what people often do is they pick and choose which parts they will listen to. Like the part about stoning one's children to death if they talk back to you - no one really pays attention to that, or to the passage about how eating shrimp and lobster is an abomination. That would just be too inconvenient.\n\nSo when people already don't like gay people - which is what they pick up from this wonderfully homophobic culture of ours - all they have to do is flip open the Bible and find the passage in Leviticus that agrees with them, and then they can feel perfectly justified in their bigotry. Indeed, they often begin to force this hatred upon others, such as with that awful Fred Phelps and his grotesque little cult in Kansas.\n\nHere's the thing, though: if people do not choose to be gay, but in fact are born that way, what would that say about God? And what would that say about the Bible?\n\nReligious people will either plug their ears or run fleeing from anything that threatens their dearly-head beliefs. It's how they organize their entire thought process about the world and the other people in it, after all. So there is no way they could ever acknowledge that the Bible is mistaken, because God doesn't make mistakes. And if being gay is a mistake, then it must be because people choose to be that way.\n\nBut I look at it like this: those who take the Bible as the inerrant and literal word of God are choosing to be ignorant. Which is also why they continue to think the Earth is only 6,000 years old, was created in six days, and Adam rode a pterodactyl to work.\n\nGive me gay over stupid any day. Cheers!
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YES YES YES!! THANK YOU! Someone actually put two and two together and figured this out!\n\nThe whole concept of religion is contradictory.  My favourite example is where the bible supposively says to love all of his childrem, but then goes on to contradict itself by saying except for gays, except for lesbians, so on and so forth.\n\nPeople are always all "Oh, God is a loving God who forgives all out sins...BUT WILL SMITE THE SINNERS!!"  Contradiction.\n\nPerhaps God has bi-polar disorder.\n\n\nYou made my day.
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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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in my opinion and my opinion only. i think that it is wrong to be gay and lesbian and be allowed to marry. i really dont hold it against people who are, cause that is part of what makes them who they are. but god intended it to be a man and woman that are married. not man and man or woman and woman. god intended it to be one way. marriage is a sacred bond between man and wife, not man and husband. but this is just my opinion, you can take it or leave it.
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Why does so many people ask about if gays are loved about god, other people etc? I do not think god has a split about loving his/her people. And who can god be gay with? I seriously do not think he/she has a social or love life.
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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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Absolutely! God made you and he loves you very much!   Don't doubt that for a second.\nI have a problem with the "christians" who are so against gays. Who are they to judge? In the bible it says to judge not or you shall be judged. \nGod gave us the freedom of choice to determine our own course of life and be it wrong or right, that is a personal choice and if god isn't standing there telling you "Not to do this and not do do that" how can someone stand there and tell you what is wrong or right "in god's name"???
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To the one who thinks he's the Bible and God expert. Being gay IS NOT a sin. Doing "gross" things with people of the same sex IS a sin. People are born being gay, so they can't do anything about it. Nobody can force you to like someone.
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Right on, brother! I'm with you all the way. That's the last thing Jesus would do, especially knowing that he purposely created that problem on earth for both gay and non-gay people to deal with. No pain, no gain. If you can be gay and make it through life following the good rather than evil in your heart, congratulations! In my opinion you've made it to heaven. The same holds true for non-gays when it comes to following the good in their hearts.\n\nPS,  I believe there is at least some genetic (gene) component that predisposes most gays to their attraction to the same sex. If so, who but God gave it to them?
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It's bullshxt. I totally agree. Who are straight people to say what gays can and cannot do? Are we not people? This country is TOO fxcked up.
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Being homophobic will be your downfall.  While I cringe at the thought of fudge packing, those fairies have the right to do it.  It makes them feel good.  I don't think it is right to discriminate any humans, regardless if they like to smoke pole or not.  So no, the bible (created by man) is incorrect in saying that riding another man from behind has to die.  The bible is incorrect about a great many things.
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When I posted something about this earlier, I was met with .... what do you think?\n\n"Oh gosh, that's terrible!  I'll pray for him"\nor\n"I'm so embarrased.  I'm anxious to find out more about this.  What a hypocrite if it's true."\n\nhahahaha!\n\nNo!  I was met with "Hmmm!  Funny this should come out before the election!"  and "Atheists have gay sex too"
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Gays are going to Hell better turn from your evil ways pal! God doesnt like homosexuality If he wanted that he would have made Adam and Steve not Adam and Eve!! Not shoving religion down your throat just telling the truth. I know your gonna get pissed when you read this and that your going to keep on doing what your doing.
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What difference would it make? It's still the same deity. I think God is all genders, everything in general anyway.
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I'm a Christian and I am not "opposed to gay people". But when you tell me these two things then I have to respond in what I hope is a compassionate manner.\n\n"The discovery that some of us are created and/or shaped in our earliest infancy toward same-gender attraction was made in the last 150 years."\n\nThat may or may not be true although for the sake of discussion let's say that it is. Many people have a tendency towards a particular form of behavior. When they get old enough to make mature decisions they have to decide whether that behavior is beneficial or not and since we are talking about God, whether that behavior is in His will for their life or not.\n\nSome people seem to be born with a terrible temper and are prone to violent behavior. They either end up controling their urges or they reap the consequences of giving in to them. It could be a struggle that they have for their entire life and one that they cannot always win. Hopefully they don't commit murder or just give up and make themselves a menace to those with whom they come into contact.\n\nJust because homosexuality isn't exactly the same doesn't mean that there are not legitimate parallels. Someone who finds themself attracted to members of the same sex still makes a choice about how they are going to deal with that emotion just like someone who is prone to anger.\n\nWhen you talk about not bringing up the "Adam and Steve" argument I have to go outside of the guidlines you want to impose on this discussion. It is apparent from the command God gave to Adam and Eve to go forth and multiply that He created men to have sex with women for the purpose of procreation. God also made sex an enjoyable encounter between two people as an added bonus. So where does that leave today's "Adam" if he is not attracted to any of the "Eves" in this world but instead finds himself attracted to the "Steves" around him?\n\nThe book of Corinthians provides at least one answer to that question and Jesus spoke of another for those who were able to receive it.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:9  Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,  (10)  nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.  (11)  And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  (12)  "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything.  (13)  "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"--and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.\n\nIn this passage the Apostle Paul is speaking to relatively new believers who have been born again by the Holy Spirit. He talks about how some of them USED to be things like drunkards and men who practice homosexuality.\n\nWhen I came to Christ at age 43 I had been a drunkard for many years and had developed a chemical addiction to alcohol. I haven't had a drink since a short time before becoming a Christian but it was a real struggle for me until I was born again. That doesn't mean that I'm never tempted to drink or that I've lost the desire to have a cold beer on a hot day but it does mean that now I have supernatural assistance to overcome my struggle.\n\nI don't go around telling people about how Jesus made wine for the guests at a wedding and how I would be justified in drinking since it's not illegal and doesn't hurt anyone else. Instead I know that it's not in God's will for my life to drink alcohol and so I consistently make the choice every day of my life