I know, I know, there’s already been a lot of talk about homosexuality and the different views, but I thought I’d chime in with my own view, because, frankly, I haven’t seen it posted anywhere in my, admittedly limited, travels online.
Homosexuality is, let’s face it, quite a bit different when it’s discussed by people on both sides of the issue. You have some Christians who excuse it, some who claim that “God hates fags,” and some who aren’t sure.
Christians claim that homosexuality is sin. Homosexuals claim they were “born that way.” Who’s right?
I think both are.
Now before you think I approve or excuse homosexuality, you should know I don’t. However, I also don’t think God is eagerly rubbing his hands together like an old-fashioned super villain in anticipation of wasting a few when he gets the chance. I think the “God hates fags” group does more harm than good, and gives Christians a bad rap almost as much as Jews get a bad reputation for being money hungry due to the actions of a few.
Homosexuality is sin. Period, end of story. The Bible mentions it negatively, and in no uncertain terms. God doesn’t approve of it.
But then, why did God make people homosexual? If they are born that way, it’s His fault, right?
No. The clarification lies in what homosexuality is: sin. We are all born with a sin nature, so everyone is “born that way” only in the manner that we are all born in a sinful world and with sinful desires.
Homosexuals, however, have gotten a bitter part of that sin nature. A hard part to fight, a hard part to see as sin, and a hard part to overcome.
Some people have sin natures that make them want to steal. Some have strong desires to kill, to injure, to rape, to molest children. Some don’t have any particular desire towards a certain sin behavior, but are more “generalized.”
The curse of homosexuality is that it is a sexual sin, and that makes it very seductive. The natural tendency is to not fight it, because it feels natural. The fight required to beat it is one that not many people would care to wage. Imagine having a strong desire to bang your head into the wall. You may just find it easier to do so than to fight what is an inborn desire that you feel is right. People don’t like to fight desires. And without God, they don’t see any reason to.
I don’t think homosexuality is a “worse” sin than another, as far as committing it. However, it is a “worse” sin as far as being inflicted by it. It’s a powerful sin that grips a person young, and intertwines itself so deeply that the person sees themselves not as someone with homosexual desires, but as a homosexual to the core.
You’ve heard of child molesters who have been caught before, and beg to have doctors neuter them so that the desire leaves them? Or, at the least, so they can’t hurt anyone else? They know that their desires are wrong, and they admit that those desires are too strong for them to fight for the rest of their lives. Homosexuality, however, doesn’t still have much of the stigma attached to it, so rather than see their desires as wrong, society is acting as if those desires are fine.
Telling an alcoholic that his desire to get drunk is fine doesn’t help him. It makes it worse. The same goes for society allowing homosexual behavior to be seen as natural and normal. In both cases, the person has to admit that the problem exists before any healing can begin. But we’ve convinced ourselves that homosexuality isn’t a problem, and in the name of political correctness, have tossed them to the wolves. In favor of not offending them or showing them that it is just another sin that needs to be beaten, society tells them nothing is wrong, and when they face God, they won’t have any recourse when judgment is handed down.
With the help of Jesus, people have emerged from homosexuality and realize a better life where they experience God’s design for sex, not the twisted version that sin created. Just as with all sin, homosexuality can be beaten. Homosexuals like to say that the fact that some ex-gays still feel homosexual desires at times proves that they aren’t “cured.” However, this doesn’t account for the fact that many Christians, if not most, still feel desires occasionally to fall back into their own pet “sin” as well. It’s called temptation, and no one is exempted from it. We, as Christians, however, are protected from it at the point where it would be too much for us to resist. Those who are not Christians, and so not saved and redeemed from sin, don’t have that divine limitation working for them. So, to them, the desires do prove to be too much to resist, and after a time, are accepted to the point where resistance isn’t even considered.
But in the end, God loves those who suffer from homosexuality just as much as anyone else. He’s more powerful than the desires, and will still save whoever calls on his name and sincerely asks to be saved. Homosexuality is nothing new, and is part of the sin nature, although a rather strong and insistent portion, and those of us who have not been inflicted by it should thank God for that, and try to understand why homosexuals don’t want to face up to their sin. It’s not an easy thing to do, and we should be supportive of those who decide to beat it. And we should never say “God hates fags” if we truly believe in a God who wants all to come to salvation and healing.
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My point was that homosexuality is a much more "sneaky" sin, in that it manifests as a natural desire, and that also makes it harder to fight against for someone not saved. I wasn't excusing it at all, just stating my understanding on it. It's like comparing two or more virii, where one strain is able to hide in the body better than the others.
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A question...Does the media play an integral part in the dramatic rise of homosexuals in our societies? These days i see more and more homosexuality on TV, gay presenters making obvious innuendos, in the tabloids, in music etc. All hinting on how it is OK to be gay for the last 30 years, and it's been so long and relentless that it's finally acceptable as normal and far less considered sinful, like mass longterm brainwashing perhaps. Yet I see national gay right movements still marching on, as if they still have no rights at all. I don't see this level of marches by disability rights groups about non-acceptance and bullying, which I believe is an even bigger problem. Well not as widely broadcasted on TV anyway.
I don't hate people with homosexual tendencies, hate is an ugly foreign word to me anyway. But I do find it difficult to believe people are born homosexual, or lesbian, but instead learn it. Newborn babies as far as I believe are all perfectly innocent in mind anyway. They have no senses of these kind of awarenesses I'm sure. From Babies to toddlers to children they all learn and naturally absorb by what they see, hear and also naturally believe what they are told by their adult peers, teachers, educational programmes, even soaps and so forth.
Now we have the PC brigade lobbying for the awareness in schools to "our children", isn't that dangerous? I mean aren't teenagers at a vulnerable age? Children soak in a lot of things. Life is confusing enough for teens without this kind of education being spoon force-fed into them, and what about the even younger children who are too busy playing football and hopscotch to even realise about what the concept of sex is? Why even go there when they're not even thinking about the birds and the bees?
Another point, Some children are shy and reserved and not popular with the opposite sex for whatever reason, yes? So especially to them isn't advocating the teaching of homosexuality especially dangerous to those fragile who are maybe shunned by their classmates for their lack of popularity, bullied by falsely being called gay, because they can't get a boy/girlfriend? Isn't the education system going about it all wrong combatting bullying?
I agree with ChristianGuy on near everything he says, except I'm not convinced that people are born gay, but instead learn it, like other sins and like everything else. I believe it also all depends on upbringing. But I'll reiterate that doesn't make anyone a bad parent. Nobody is perfect, and it can be especially difficult even to the best people to be a 100% perfect parent.
I can't stand the word homophobe, Just because a parent wouldn't be overjoyed if their kids came out oneday saying they're gay, it doesn't make them bad misguided uncaring parents, just the opposite as they're concerned for their own childrens future wellbeing which isn't wrong, yet made to feel like they are which I find pretty abhorrent in itself. I don't like that new-fangled politically correct word.
Politically Correct doesn't necessarily mean Morally Correct. There's a vast difference in the meaning ;)