I've heard many people say that "Homosexuality is a gift from God" or "God made me homosexual". I know that this might offend some people but I would be wrong to not tell you the truth. Those two statements are not of God and therefore are lies from Satan. Homosexuality is not a gift from God nor did He make you like that. Homosexuality is a sin and God hates all sin. "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable."- Leviticus 18:22. This verse clearly shows that God disapproves of homosexuality. "Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator�who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error."- Romans 1:24-27. This proves that God did not make us like this, but simply let us do what we wanted to (free will) as a result of our sinful nature. We as humans wanted to please our sinful desires rather than serve God so God let us choose.
I have met people who have said they were a Christian, but yet accepted their homosexuality. As Christians, we should try our best to put ALL sin to death, including homosexuality. Most people have accepted homosexuality as part of who they are because of what people have told them, saying that it's nothing wrong with being that way. �Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them�- Romans 1:32 . If you are going to accept one sin then you might as well accept all your sins. To say that you�re a Christian and you believe that sin is bad but yet accept this particular sin as part of who you are is hypocritical. It is just like a straight person saying that they hate sin and love God, but their sex addiction is apart of whom they are. We would look at him like he was sadly mistaken, if not crazy. But some people might say "Who are you to judge?" but the question is what type of brother would I be to you if I didn't show you your wrong and left you lost? That would be like a Christian not telling an unsaved person about Jesus because he sees that he is happy in his sinful ways. This is not to down cast you but to rebuke and uplift you to do the will of God and not the will of Satan.
Even though homosexuality is wrong, it doesn't give anyone the right to look down on those who are homosexual, especially Christians. The reason why I say especially Christians is because we should know of God's love and we should know how it feels to be lost and confused since we were all at one time enemies and separated from God. Many homosexuals have abandoned the faith and/or thought and talked badly about Christians as well as Christianity because they have encountered a "Christian" who spoke wrongly of them because of there sexuality. A person who is a homosexual is someone who is living in sin, just as you and I lived in sin before and sin still. So if I know that I myself am sinful, how can I possibly look down and condemn someone who is also in sin? Instead we should not only help them and tell them about the love of God but also show it as well.
In todays society this has become common place and unfortunately acceptable .....Think on 3 things 1st God created Adam and Eve...nottt Adam and Adam or Eve and Eve : be fruitful and multiply....2 God does nott support gays or same sex partnerships or condone this: Sodum and Gamorah...and 3rd and foremost christian is to be christ-like...We are to love one another pray for the lost souls....Good works or good intentions won't get you to heaven....Obeying Gods word and spreading the promise is part of our daily walk...Accepting christ and leaving the past sins behind is the 1 thing that makes us christians....I know that this will severely offend others but it is biblical and nott taken out of context...
To be homosexual is not the sin. To engage in homosexual acts is.
Homosexual feelings are as deep, burning and feel as true as one being married and falling totally in love with somebody else.
Nowadays we too easily say to ourselves, when it feels right, how can it be wrong.... and both the heterosexual and the homosexual often give in to their feelings which they recognise to be sincere and truthful
But this is exactly the lie and deceipt.
Because we are in a sinful state and do not feel the difference between right and wrong. And we can be made to feel about everything.
For the Truth we can fully depend on the bible. And it is exactly there where we read that we CANNOT commit adultery, even when we feel that we deeply love that other person and CANNOT engage in homosexual acts, even if we truly feel that we deeply love that other person.
The problem is not homosexuality.... it is christians who fail to make see homosexuals in a loving way that it is not there identity that is at stake but their tendancy to give in to sin, just like any other person - and that includes heterosexuals in their stunning divorce rate and constant adultery and fornication.
As long as christians push homosexuality outside their congregation, they are throwing them back to their own judgement how to behave.
It is in Church where we are taught the Truth of G-d�s Word and therefore ALL sinners should be encouraged to go there, and BE MADE FEEL WELCOME
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Psalms 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
Psalms 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Psalms 139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Psalms 139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Romans 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
If being homosexual is not a sin, but the act of it is, then thats saying that Jesus was mistaken when he said, "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."- Matt. 5:28. But we all know that Jesus words, were the very words of God. The thoughts we think makes us just as guilty as the acts we do.
God Is To Judge. The Holy Spirit Convicts, and We Are To Love. Point Blank Period. Well said, my brother. We Can't go around judging people based on who they have sex with. It's what is in the HEART that matters most. And it kills me that people want to only focus on this particular sin.( God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because they were doing any and everything with everybody, not just because of homosexuality. There were no moral lines at all). What about the rest??! I enjoyed your post.
I might be splitting a straw in saying this, but here I go...
Nice post! You speak of God's love for the sinner, and plainly point out this thing about many a human's life that is at odds with God's way of life for us.
What I'm not sure about is what you mean by "accept(ing) homosexuality as part of who they are". I (for one) like the idea of accepting someone's homosexuality as part of who s/he is, but not that it isn't a problem. Accepting that something is there that needs to change is the first step toward dealing with it, after all.
But again, a nice post, well thought out, and well scripturally led :-).
