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What should Gay Christians do?

CriticalThought

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What do you think gay Christians should do with their lives in order to live in compliance with the Christian faith?

Should they seek to change their sexual attractions?
Should they choose to remain celibate for the rest of their lives?
Should they marry a person of the opposite sex?
Should they seek a long term relationship or marriage with someone of the same sex?
Should they seek to change their religious affiliation or scriptural interpretation to one that accepts their sexual orientation?

I'm not Christian, but as a gay individual I often hear people proclaiming that homosexual behavior is "living in sin". I notice they don't exactly articulate what the alternative should be or even advocate the benefits of an alternative. That is part of the problem I often have with those individuals. They can yell, "I don't agree with the way you live," but they don't offer any friendly suggestions as to how people should live their lives if they have same sex attractions. In my opinion it kind of says a lot about their true intentions and how little they actually care about people with same sex attractions. They are only interested in condemning the behavior and not helping them find a way to live a wholesome and happy life in accordance with their faith.
 
My heartfelt opinion is that gay Christians should trust in the Father who created them and loves them and knows their hearts.
 
What do you think gay Christians should do with their lives in order to live in compliance with the Christian faith?

Should they seek to change their sexual attractions?
Should they choose to remain celibate for the rest of their lives?
Should they marry a person of the opposite sex?
Should they seek a long term relationship or marriage with someone of the same sex?
Should they seek to change their religious affiliation or scriptural interpretation to one that accepts their sexual orientation?

I'm not Christian, but as a gay individual I often hear people proclaiming that homosexual behavior is "living in sin". I notice they don't exactly articulate what the alternative should be or even advocate the benefits of an alternative. That is part of the problem I often have with those individuals. They can yell, "I don't agree with the way you live," but they don't offer any friendly suggestions as to how people should live their lives if they have same sex attractions. In my opinion it kind of says a lot about their true intentions and how little they actually care about people with same sex attractions. They are only interested in condemning the behavior and not helping them find a way to live a wholesome and happy life in accordance with their faith.
They should stop being homosexual's, because as you know; in christianity it's a forbidden sin. And if you do not cease homosexual activities you are not really a Christian. :alert
 
I'm gonna live my life, and just try to treat everyone the way I would want to be treated. Do what makes me happy, and live life to the fullest. What else should I do?
 
The exact same thing that a STRAIGHT Christian should do.
 
What do you think gay Christians should do with their lives in order to live in compliance with the Christian faith?
They should take it up with God. If they are in sin, they're in sin and subject to the judgment of God, just as anyone else who lives in sin. I'm not personally convinced that it's "clean", but I'm not convinced that it's worthy of damnation either.

I can't claim any divine voice or influence, I'm simply expressing my opinion. One should seek personal counsel with God on such matters.
 
They should stop being homosexual's, because as you know; in christianity it's a forbidden sin. And if you do not cease homosexual activities you are not really a Christian. :alert

Okay, no homosexual activities. Does that mean they should try to change their same sex attractions, that they should remain celibate the rest of their life, or that they should marry someone of the opposite sex?
 
They should take it up with God. If they are in sin, they're in sin and subject to the judgment of God, just as anyone else who lives in sin. I'm not personally convinced that it's "clean", but I'm not convinced that it's worthy of damnation either.

I can't claim any divine voice or influence, I'm simply expressing my opinion. One should seek personal counsel with God on such matters.

So it is kinda of, "homosexual behavior in sin that may condemn you to eternal damnation, BUT it is up to God how you should deal with it," kind of thing?
 
I think they should stop being spiritual cowards and leave their religion.

The God of the bible advocated murder of gay people in the OT, reminds us that it is unnatural and worthy of murder in the NT, so I do not see how someone with a shred of decency would worship such a deity, let alone a gay person. Its not like this deity is even repentant.
Leaving Islam was the best thing I've ever done. Even though the Quran's approach to homosexuality is ironically enough more humane than that of the bible (there is no direct advocacy of murder).
 
What do you think gay Christians should do with their lives in order to live in compliance with the Christian faith?

Should they seek to change their sexual attractions?
Should they choose to remain celibate for the rest of their lives?
Should they marry a person of the opposite sex?
Should they seek a long term relationship or marriage with someone of the same sex?
Should they seek to change their religious affiliation or scriptural interpretation to one that accepts their sexual orientation?

I'm not Christian, but as a gay individual I often hear people proclaiming that homosexual behavior is "living in sin". I notice they don't exactly articulate what the alternative should be or even advocate the benefits of an alternative. That is part of the problem I often have with those individuals. They can yell, "I don't agree with the way you live," but they don't offer any friendly suggestions as to how people should live their lives if they have same sex attractions. In my opinion it kind of says a lot about their true intentions and how little they actually care about people with same sex attractions. They are only interested in condemning the behavior and not helping them find a way to live a wholesome and happy life in accordance with their faith.

You're making the mistake in assuming that Christianity is opposed to homosexuality. I think that's a big mistake.

The verse in Exodus calls it an abomination, but not a sin. The two terms do not mean the same thing. "Abomination" means closer to "not part of our culture." To ancient Jews trying to build a nation, that wasn't how they did things, and it would be "abominable."


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Paul's letter (I want to say Thessalonians, but I could be wrong) condemns those who turn against their natural inclination to be hetero to act homo. It was popular in Roman culture of the day for an otherwise "straight" man to engage in homosexual acts for political gain.

Understanding that, the case for a biblical prohibition is weak.
 
They should do what all people of faith should do: Decide for themselves whether or not their actions warrant sin and decide on a personal course of action in response to their conclusions. There was a time when divorce was a guarantee of life in hell. Divorcees had to reconcile that commonly held belief with an understanding of self and their relationship with God. For some time, that led to unhappy, abused, neglected, or incompatible couples remaining married. In modern times, people have begun to reconcile the ideal of a wholesome married life with the reality of self preservation and happiness and have begun to act accordingly.

I can see no justification for faith in God to be anything but a personal endeavor. Being forced to practice, believe, or behave in a certain manner because of an obligation to the collective is disingenuous and antithetical to a genuine relationship with God.
 
There was a time when divorce was a guarantee of life in hell. Divorcees had to reconcile that commonly held belief with an understanding of self and their relationship with God.

St. Augustine pretty much believed that all sexual activity (straight, gay, self, with animals, dressed as animals...) was sinful.

Obviously, Christianity had to reconcile itself to the fact that we can't all be the Virgin Mary or there wouldn't be any Christians!
 
A gay Christian should do what any Christian should do: seek to bring glory to God, which is man's purpose in life (see Ecclesiastes). Pray for guidance, read the Bible, and put forth all effort into removing all sin from your life (yes, that means being celibate). Eventually, as they say, you will know in your heart what must be done, and it is then up to you to act upon it.
 
Seek their own best understanding of the bible. Pray and reflect on the Word. And do what they feel God intends for them. If they believe that their homosexual acts is a sin and wish to fight against performing such actions, then they should do that. If they believe that their homosexual acts are a sin, but also believe that there is nothing inherently wrong with the love they feel for another, then they may pray for forgiveness when they do not live up to the standards of the Lord just as all the rest of humanity does when they routinely and continually sin each and every day. If they believe that their homosexual acts aren't a sin, then they go about their day just as any other christian....again, praying for forgiveness of the many sins they do each day, just as everyone else. If they feel that the religion is not for them...then they leave the faith. If other's of the faith seek to dictate or lecture them as to what the bible "truly says" or how they should live or what God thinks...they should pay them no mind, for they are not the Lord and thus have no place to truly Judge nor speak with authority of what he "truly" thinks.
 
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They should stop worrying about what people who dont agree with them think and they should stop trying to convince people to believe what they believe and live their life. It is amazing to me how much people on both sides of the whole gay argument worry and care about convincing everyone else of their beliefs and how much they care about what everyone else is thinking. Live your own life and deal with the afterlife when you get there. If you are gay and believe being gay is wrong then you need help, if you are gay and dont think it is wrong why does it matter to you if someone else does
 
What do you think gay Christians should do with their lives in order to live in compliance with the Christian faith?

Should they seek to change their sexual attractions?
Should they choose to remain celibate for the rest of their lives?
Should they marry a person of the opposite sex?
Should they seek a long term relationship or marriage with someone of the same sex?
Should they seek to change their religious affiliation or scriptural interpretation to one that accepts their sexual orientation?

I'm not Christian, but as a gay individual I often hear people proclaiming that homosexual behavior is "living in sin". I notice they don't exactly articulate what the alternative should be or even advocate the benefits of an alternative. That is part of the problem I often have with those individuals. They can yell, "I don't agree with the way you live," but they don't offer any friendly suggestions as to how people should live their lives if they have same sex attractions. In my opinion it kind of says a lot about their true intentions and how little they actually care about people with same sex attractions. They are only interested in condemning the behavior and not helping them find a way to live a wholesome and happy life in accordance with their faith.

Do what many in the past have done when the come to irreconcilable differences between their religious philosophy and official Church practice....make up a new sect of Christianity. Happens all the time, all the various flavors of Christianity split off of already existing churches.
 
They should vote for Obama.
 
What do you think gay Christians should do with their lives in order to live in compliance with the Christian faith?

Should they seek to change their sexual attractions?
Should they choose to remain celibate for the rest of their lives?
Should they marry a person of the opposite sex?
Should they seek a long term relationship or marriage with someone of the same sex?
Should they seek to change their religious affiliation or scriptural interpretation to one that accepts their sexual orientation?

I'm not Christian, but as a gay individual I often hear people proclaiming that homosexual behavior is "living in sin". I notice they don't exactly articulate what the alternative should be or even advocate the benefits of an alternative. That is part of the problem I often have with those individuals. They can yell, "I don't agree with the way you live," but they don't offer any friendly suggestions as to how people should live their lives if they have same sex attractions. In my opinion it kind of says a lot about their true intentions and how little they actually care about people with same sex attractions. They are only interested in condemning the behavior and not helping them find a way to live a wholesome and happy life in accordance with their faith.

Do you realize that this is a non-political forum??? And you're not Christian, so you are not self-bound by any of its doctrine.
 
What do you think gay Christians should do with their lives in order to live in compliance with the Christian faith?
Abstinence. If I can do it, anyone can do it. Have as many friends as you want, but live alone. Buy a dog. I find the privacy of my man-cave apartment quite enjoyable.


.... especially on raid nights....
 
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So it is kinda of, "homosexual behavior in sin that may condemn you to eternal damnation, BUT it is up to God how you should deal with it," kind of thing?

Something like that. He's the one man is responsible to for inequity, so he's the one to go to for guidance. I don't believe there's a correct answer for every single person.
 
Abstinence. If I can do it, anyone can do it. Have as many friends as you want, but live alone. Buy a dog. I find the privacy of my man-cave apartment quite enjoyable.


.... especially on raid nights....

Jesus promoted abstinence.
 
Gay Christians simply need to wait for social attitudes to influence the church into stopping the persecution. The biblical requirements can simply be swept under the rug with cognitive dissonance like it is for divorced Christians.
 
Whatever they want, I suppose. :shrug:


Find a church that accepts them? There seem to be quite a few these days.
 
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