Question on Homosexuality

[MARLASINGER]

i posted this in the Advice section but hopefully i will get more responses here; my question is, Is Homosexuality Wrong? i really need an answer on this and i dont know much about the bible and what it says although i have gone to church (catholic) but this was when i was little and i didnt understand very much. i would very much appreciate your comments on homosexuality.

 

[dojuice]

Here's a Bible verse that talks about homosexuality:

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offecders nor theives nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swingdlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. 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" (please notice how homosexuality is listed as a sin, but that God still forgives it, it is a sin just like every other sin, that can be washed away with Jesus' blood)

 

[LegomasterJC]

Also just like other sins should not be kept in practice after the person is saved.
People who say that homosexuality is just a disease, a disorder, a condition... are right. But that is not an excuse. Sin is sickness and the wages of sin is death.

 

[MARLASINGER]

i still dont understand why its wrong..i mean you cant control your feelings for someone you care about and love. please help

 

[adam149]

i still dont understand why its wrong..i mean you cant control your feelings for someone you care about and love. please help

It is wrong because God defined love and marriage to be between a man and a woman.

The idea that homosexuality is an inborn, genetic issue that people can't help or change is not borne out by scientific study.

To understand some of the issues, see:
http://www.equip.org/free/DH055-1.htm
http://www.equip.org/free/DH055-2.htm

Also see this scientific paper (I don't agree with everything on the site, but this article is enlightening):

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/magazines/tj/docs/TJ_v9n1_homosex.asp

 

[stray bullet]

i posted this in the Advice section but hopefully i will get more responses here; my question is, Is Homosexuality Wrong? i really need an answer on this and i dont know much about the bible and what it says although i have gone to church (catholic) but this was when i was little and i didnt understand very much. i would very much appreciate your comments on homosexuality.

Marlasinger, you might visit our Catholic forum www.christianforums.com/f26 for help regarding our Church and our views on homosexuality. You will find thorough answers, both biblical and in what the Church teaches, on any questions you might have.

 

[dsdumpling]

This thread was moved from Questions from non-Christians here.

 

[elanor]

Hi Marla! Welcome to CF!

The rules on the board are such that homosexuality-right-or-wrong questions can only be discussed in certain forums. I'm sure that stray bullet is correct about being able to discuss the Catholic church's stance on this issue in the Catholic forum. In addition, you can discuss the issue in the Philosophy and Morality forum: http://www.christianforums.com/f40, the Liberal Theology forum: http://www.christianforums.com/f119, and (in the Christian Only area) in the General Theology forum: http://www.christianforums.com/f80. Here are the rules about threads dealing with the topic of homosexuality (see the second post in this thread) : http://www.christianforums.com/t800919.

You will find that Christians don't all agree on this issue.

May the Lord lead you in truth and grace as you seek to follow Him always.

 

[SoulFly51]

i still dont understand why its wrong..i mean you cant control your feelings for someone you care about and love. please help

Actually you can control your feelings. It just takes discipline.

I happen to be a Christian and I believe everything in the Word of God (the Bible) is true. God gives us many commandements about how to live through His Word.

The reason I personally think homosexuality is wrong is because God says it is wrong. That is the only reason I can give you.

You sound like a young man. If I were you I would contact a local church of Christ and ask to speak to a minister about your problem.

 

[JVD]

Yes...you can control your feelings, you must control your feelings. All of us have feelings that we must control.

I may not have any feelings for another man, but I may have feelings for another woman, who is not my wife. Those feelings must be controlled.

Just because someone occasionally has feelings for another person of the same sex does not mean they are homosexual. It also does not mean they will act on those feelings.

All of us must control our feelings. If not, we are nothing more than instinct driven lower animals.

 

[fishstix]

i still dont understand why its wrong..i mean you cant control your feelings for someone you care about and love. please help

You can control your actions and what you do with your feelings though. And you can give your emotions and every other part of you to God and do what He wants rather than keeping everything for yourself and doing what you want. Like I said before, each of us face different temptations. But with God's help we can flee those temptations and avoid having temptation turn into sin. God promised us that He wouldn't let us be tempted beyond what we could bear and that He would provide a way for us to get out. Other people have dealt with those same feelings and temptations that you are dealing with - and with God's help many have triumphed over them. Don't let your feelings and emotions rule you - in this or any other area. Don't base your actions on how you feel - base them on what God says is right and true.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

 

[forgivenmuch]

my thoughts on the matter... yes its a sin. we can be set free of it if we choose to be.
i have 2 siblings that are homesexuals. and its lust of the heart. i been around gay people i see what goes on with it. i know that sexual abuse as a child can make you gay. i seen it to many times. it really does damage to a childs mind. you see movie stars coming out of the closet and even in our goverment. and people are growing to except it more and more, but the bible tells us its sin. we live in a sinful world theres no sin worse than the other. we all sin and come short of the glory of God. we should strive to be like christ. and when we sin and do not even think twiced about it.. then we need to check up with our lifes. in romans in the bible theres some verses that could go with this.

romans 1 verses 25 thru 32

i will go over some of these.. i would suggest you read them all..

FOR EVEN THIER WOMAN CHANGED THE NATURAL USE INTO THAT WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE. AND LIKE WISE THE MEN LEAVING THE NATURAL USE OF A WOMAN, BURNED IN THIER LUST ONE TOWARD ANOTHER, MEN WITH MEN WORKING THAT WHICH IS UNSEEMLY
GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND.
BEING FILLED WITH ALL UNRIGHOUTNESS AND FORNICATION AND WICKENESS .. ECT..
KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD THAT THEY COMMIT SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF DEATH, NOT ONLY DO THE SAME BUT HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM THAT DO IT..

i would suggest you read these verses on your own.. i did not write everything down.. but we see in these verses that it is sin.. the woman and men left the NATURAL uses of each other... men with men and woman with woman... its a sin.. the world will tell us that its ok..but its not ok.

 

[solidground]

I think that it would be really tough to have to settle in a place where you had to control wrong sexual feelings all the time, i mean, is that Gods best? No, Gods best is that you dont have sexual feelings for the same sex. He didnt create you this way but because of something that was out of your hands it happened. I was reading testimonies the other day of ex-homosexuals and how they were delivered from their homosexuality. Yes, it really does happen!
God is a deliverer, his best for you is that you are set free from these lusts and that you live the life he planned for you. Read some of the testimonies on this site and see what God really can do.
Look up "testimonies of exhomosexuals" on your search bar. I dont have enough posts to post the link.

 

[Friendship]

God is very aware of your problem and yes same sex relationships are wrong, as I said in my introduction I have done things I am not proud of and although I have not had a same sex relationship I use to play around with the idea and it is a perverted spirit, and you are right on your own you can not control how you feel you need the Lord to set you free from those feelings. I do not know your history but I found that with most people men for instance a lot of times did not have a father figure in they're life or else an abusive one or they were around other homosexual alot, with women a lot of times they had lack of a mother figure or abusive or else they were abuse by a man in some way and feel safer with women and there are alot of things that can happen to people in life to cause this confusion but God does know what has happened in your life and he also knows why you feel the way you do and he also holds the answer for you but you have to seek him if you want to truly understand and he loves you regardless of what you have done or are still doing, you can look at a man and a woman and see that they were designed to be together and only a man and a woman can produce children if we were meant to be with the same sex and it was ok we all be unisex and could reproduce with anyone but that is not the case God had a plan for man and woman to be together joined in marriage and reproduce, and also God created man first and when Man could not find a suitable mate for himself God created woman for man ( some women dont like hearing that either) but its the truth.
You can belive what ever you want as God gave us a free will to choose but with choices come consiquences but if you want truth seek God with an open heart and there you will find answers and understanding.

 

[Vi]

I struggle only at how much attention is given to being negative toward homosexuals, yet not toward - say - liars. I have CHristian friends that HATE or at least talk as if they HATE homosexuals. It's sad, but this is something that people pick out and act as though it is a worse sin than being dishonest, and actually the first sin recorded in the NT I believe was the telling of a LIE. The couple who didn't sell all their belongings told the new church that they did and they were struck down dead. hmmm.

a pastor once told me to love the sinner and hate the sin... I try to do that. I also try not to think of one sin as worse than the others... but that's hard sometimes.

I'm pretty sure all sexual-based sins were lumped together but that our culture has separated them and deciced for ourselves than one is worse than the other.

I'll tell you a little story. Many years ago an uncle of mine was drafted into the service to go fight a war. At the time he was sleeping in a cot next to many other servicemen in a large room. SEveral men went to the cot of a gay man and they beat him because he was gay. The other service men were afraid to speak out in fear that they would be though gay as well. These men beat and killed the gay man. That's right... who's the sinner?

 

[Sono_Paolo]

i posted this in the Advice section but hopefully i will get more responses here; my question is, Is Homosexuality Wrong? i really need an answer on this and i dont know much about the bible and what it says although i have gone to church (catholic) but this was when i was little and i didnt understand very much. i would very much appreciate your comments on homosexuality.

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[Friendship]

I do not hate homosexuals, but I cannot say that it is ok or not a sin as that would be a LIE too but sin is sin and actually the first sin in the bible would be disobedience to God when Eve ate the apple and so did Adam and next would be Jealousy and Murder with Cane and Able but anyways, it was very wrong for them to beat that man to death and its definately not Christ like, as like the woman caught in Adultry was brought before Jesus and they wanted to stone her and he said those of you without sin cast the first stone and they all walked away and he said where are thine accusers and she said I have none and he said neither do I go forth and sin no more, so beating someone is not Christlike but on the issue of homosexuality Leviticus 18 verse 22 "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination so the bible clearly states that it is wrong but you will not win a person to Christ by throwing stones at them Jesus showed his love to the sinners and we are suppose to follow his example, we are not to participate in sinful activity or say something is right when its not but just let God's love shine through and be kind and pray for them dont throw stones. We all have skeletons in our closets, judge not lest ye be judged, with that in mind I think I will let God be the judge.