Re: Christian Viewpoint On Homosexuality
You make it sound like God hates homosexuals! Nothing could be further from the truth. God hates the sin of homosexuality, but he loves the homosexual person.
Gays are taught that they are born that way, but obviously that's not the truth. God has given us free will to make decisions on a lot of different things including sexual lust.
A person who is gay and practicing homosexual activity, can get on his knees and come to Christ and ask the Lord for forgiveness of his sins including the sin of homosexuality. They can ask the Lord into their life and grow in to their Christian commitment from there.
He may continue for a while in his homosexual lifestyle, just as other Sinners don't give up their sins right away because of habit, because of weakness, because of the familiar pulls of our past life, and maybe Satan's even ranglin in his ear.
But over time if one truly has committed himself to Christ, and starts reading His Word everyday and praying to Him and having a personal relationship with Jesus, eventually sins of all nature will begin to manifest themselves less and less..
But make no mistake God loves a homosexual. He hates the sin of homosexual activity.
A person who is presently Gay can come to Jesus right now, and the Lord would welcome them with open arms. He says “come just as you are”.
IF there were a God, I would not be asserting what god hates or loves. I doubt He isn't subject to human foibles, like love and hate. Surely, he's way above all that.
The more I think about it, the whole premise of "God - creator of the universe" is absurd. Its not even logical.
Mankind creates a God because he has an empty void in his being he needs to fill. The mystery of life. The mind does not like a mystery so the only solution he can create to solve that mystery is to invent a God. The mind cannot fathom infinity, that life has no beginning and end.
https://users.drew.edu/jlenz/whynot.html
The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. -- Bertrand Russell
But, it's a half baked solution. If we resolve that life had to be created by a creator, then why are we content with not wondering whether God was created or not? If we cannot accept that life was not created, why are we content that God was not created? It's a half-baked solution, and in my book, it's not a solution, it's not logical, because if we don't accept that God was not created, then it becomes an endless loop. We are back to square one.
It's a logical inconsistency, therefore, to my mind, it's a poor solution to the mystery of life, and a poor solution is not a solution at all.
why not just accept life as a mystery, and concentrate on living it to the fullest, rather than make up a God, who has all this stuff about making us feel guilty, that if we don't do has he tells us we are going to hell forever? my Gawd, all that is really such a burden.
There is no greater freedom to lift from one's soul than the burden of religious belief.
I was stuck in a religion when I was a teenager, and the greatest day of my life was when I realized the God does not exist.
Free at last !
Guess what, my moral outlook did not change one iota.
I have a friend who really believes that, because I did not accept Christ as my savior, I'm going to hell forever.
He really believes that! What an awful thing to be burdened with. I felt only pity for him.
Now, I mentioned that I view freedom from religion as unburdening the soul.
Before you do a "gotcha" ....
Now, yes, I believe there is a soul in living things, that there is a spiritual basis to existence ( godless, though ). But, my reasoning for that is a whole other thread.
"Life is not a mystery to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived" --proverb
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