What does it mean to be normal?

[GodLovesCats]

God did not create homosexuality and bisexuality. God does not create things that he hates and contradicts Himself.

Those things have happened because of sin deforming us. A person still has a choice on committing the acts.

Explain the facts only God creates DNA and all kinds of sexual orientation are scientifically proven to be genetic.

 

[peaceful-forest]

Explain the facts only God creates DNA and all kinds of sexual orientation are scientifically proven to be genetic.

If homosexuality is truly in the DNA, it is caused from the fall of man. Sin destroys God's perfect and good creation. As I previously stated, sin deforms us. Just because someone is more inclined to commit a sin doesn't mean that person should.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Explain the facts only God creates DNA and all kinds of sexual orientation are scientifically proven to be genetic.

One should avoid the mindset that if something is natural, it is therefore normal, in God's eyes.

It is difficult, admittedly, but God has said certain things, and they cannot be undone.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Americans are always taught disabled people are not normal. If you are blind, you are not normal because most people can see. If you are deaf, you are not normal because most people can hear. If you are epileptic, you are not normal because most people do not get seizures. You get the picture. But people also tell me because everyone has some kind of problem whether it is diabetes, cerebral palsy, PTSD, you name it - I am normal despite having physical, psychological, and social disabilities. Am I abnormal because doctors say so or is everyone normal, regardless of what genetic and acquired medical conditions some of them are dealing with? What does "normal" really mean if it has nothing to do with the definitions of medical conditions and being within certain ranges in medicine? I am being challenged to consider myself as a normal person knowing medically, I am abnormal in many ways.

Everything I'm about to say, I say as a person who does not view herself as normal. And also, I'll be "preaching" to myself here because I struggle in this area. Who gets to decide what "normal" is? Doctors? They look at (or should) what is "text book" or average to have a baseline to know when something is wrong. If you deviate from that baseline it merely means you have a medical issue that needs addressing not that your value has decreased. How about society? Does society get to set the standard? Look at the damage that does. Look, for example how media portrays women should look and bodies outside of that are not "normal" or valuable, desired, etc. No. The only standard that should matter is God's and what He has to say about us. There is no normal and abnormal. There is knit together in your mother's womb. Fearfully and Wonderfully made. Comparison is the Thief of Joy!
And again....Im saying all this to myself as much as I'm saying it to you.

"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Romans 12:2

—CFCats, I know your question was asked in the sense of the physical, but I think the Spiritual has application to it, because the spiritual has solid reality that our current "vapor of reality" doesn't comprehend.

The question has been asked elsewhere, what is a "normal" Christian? What is normal behavior, for a believer in Christ? Normal is something not quite ever achieved for the believer. Normal is perfect obedience. Usual, is somewhere less than that.

Disobedience, which is sin, is worse than we can possibly comprehend. We may experience its damage personally, but it is always, in every way, sin against God. Yet God seems to, for the redeemed, swallow it up without complaint, to such an extent that it is painful to consider, it is more than the mind can encompass. What becomes usual, is repentance and pursuit of Christ; walking with God is not perfect obedience, but depending on him. THERE is where, I hope, one can see how the spiritual "normal" vs "usual" is relevant to the physical. Depend on God.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Explain the facts only God creates DNA and all kinds of sexual orientation are scientifically proven to be genetic.

That is a scientific impossibility. The fact that homosexual couples do not (cannot) have children completely removes the possibility of any such gene being passed on to offspring (which are none). This hinderance would spell the death of any such mutated trait. Simple survival of the fittest. Also not all genetic traits originated with God. As any evolution scientist will tell you, many traits we see in nature have evolved from mutations. There is really no other way to introduce new traits into the genome. As above, any such mutation would immediately be squashed by natural selection. Kind of like a mutation that completely removes the reproductive system from an individual... there ain't gonna be no grandchildren.

 

[Joy]

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