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shadowchaos said:
No, God is not against lesbians. Being gay doesn't make you any less of a person. It doesn't make you any less desserving of God's love. It doesn't makes you any more desserving of His grace.
As for going to heaven... heck if I know. I guess I'd rather treat people as if they were going to heaven then try to figure out exactly who is going where, because as hard as I try, I'm gonna make mistakes; I'm not God. So I'd gather err on the side of being too loveing than on the side of being too judgemental.
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eastcoast_bsc said:Christ said ' I want Mercy not sacrifice" show some mercy
Sorry to rain on your parade, but God IS merciful. Mercy is witheld wrath.
If anyone repents of any sexual sin, He will restore us and forgive us!Jan
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A lot of people think it's just 'doing something wrong to make God unhappy'.
I believe that is true, but it is only partial truth.
Sin, is falling from the grace of God which means that we fall from the level we were created to be. Sin brings us down from the level of perfection God had intended us to reach for. In saying this, whatever you do that brings you down from reaching your full potential is sin, something that wrecks you, first and foremost.
If we do not ask for forgiveness and leave sin to rot inside us, we will soon feel the consequences of built-up failures and won't be able to deal with the residue of sin ourselves. Asking for forgiveness of sin, is therefore an act of acknowlegding yourself as weak and unable without God. It is being broken in front of Jesus and coming to terms with understanding His everlasting mercy and grace.
Satan works to try and pull us away from living free and thus weighs us down by sin that potentially leads us to falling from what God wants us to be.
Here is a something that I've learnt with homosexuals.
I have a group of lesbian/gay friends who come together to drink occasionally and whatnot. Mind you, they're all sensible and have decent jobs and most are involved in non-sexual stable relationships. I was invited to one of their rendevous one evening and they were all drinking and just chilling, talking about their work and their relationships. Soon, they all started to open up about their tormented spirits and how they still felt lost and angry, despite them being 'sure' of their homosexuality.
One girl stated, "I was made for so much more than this. I can't be attracted to men, and I can't help feeling this way about myself, but I know that there is so much more of me that I don't know. I feel totally lost." A chorus of voices murmured in agreement and I found myself tearing for these souls. They are tormented above anything else, and the last thing a Christian should do is condemn them and try to proselytise with endless bible bashing.
Live a life of Christ. You yourself, be a light and salt of the earth and the lost will come searching and will be drawn to the love of Christ through you. We, as Christians, should first and foremost represent the love, hope and faith of the resurrected Jesus Christ and love them like Christ would've loved them. That is what they are hungry for.
A lot of them have been abused in some form or another when they were younger which have lead to psychologically instability and torment. Homosexuality is only sin because it drags down these people from living a 'full life', from living free.
Only God will judge because he knows what is in their hearts. Until then, we have to keep asking the right questions in order to seek the right answers and do what Christ did and obediently obey. Just like the poor widowed woman who gave her all to the church gave most, we don't know what is in the hearts of those who are being tormented. Who knows? These people might have it in their hearts to give more to God than any of us present here.
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