so there have been times where friends have asked me what i think about gay people and it has been on my mind quite a bit. i never can find a way to answer them. i know that in the bible it says being gay is a sin and everything but i can never seem to find an answer for non-christian friends. a lot of the time all they are trying to do, is try and out prove christianity saying that it is a bad religion cos we discriminate homosexuals and it gets so pressuring when i cant find the right way to give them an answer.
could anyone help?
rather than in blog form, i think this could be a good topic for friday :D
ReplyDeletewell ok i just want to say that Christianity is not a religion that discriminates. we persevere because we know the truth and we see the light. if you look at the people around us, there are always "i hate christian" pages and "jesus hates me because i didn't like that picture" , but let's face it, when have you ever seen a page that says "WE HATE ATHEISTS".
ReplyDeleteThe bible tells us that God loves us all, even if we are gay, even if we sin on a daily basis through lying, through neglecting. People think that we're Christians so we discriminate against them because we're God's perfect children and they're not. But we are all full of sin, whether we're gay or not. Just because we may be straight doesn't make us any holier in God's eyes.
This is my perception of why people may think that God "discriminates" against homosexuals. First of all, we look at God's will. Since the beginning he has wanted us to be fruitful, to explore and discover the world and have beautiful children and expand all over this magnificent world he has created. But if you're homosexual, how can you have a child? Yes you can adopt a child, but its not your child, its another person's child, someone else who has contributed to God's will, whether they are Christian or not.
My pastor used to be a social worker, and he tells me that usually people who are homosexual come from backgrounds of abuse or a serious loss at young age, like a parent. People say that you are born a homosexual, and you can't change. As a Christian you should respect this, and not judge them, but not necessarily accept it. But on the other hand, God has made everyone perfect, sculpted us in his image, and yet when we look around us we see so many deformities, like children who are born with cerebral palsy, and children who don't survive, even the people who are born homosexual. But does this mean God just neglected those few people, thinking they would not be of service to his will? no. never. The reason the world has impurities is because of sin. You see, if the apple from the tree of knowledge wasn't bitten, if the snake hadn't tempted us, if sin had not been born... then we can imagine a world where everything is perfect. But unfortunately there is sin, and its not God who makes mistakes, but sin that screws things up.
So if someone does ask you about this, tell them God loves them, no matter who they are. Tell them that its ok, and that you love them too, but keep in mind that you can persevere to maybe make them see some change. Pray for them, maybe God can fix what we have broken.
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ReplyDeleteI think it might be a bit weird to tell people that 'God loves them no matter who/what they are', cause I think it's something that you would say and understand because you truly believe, but if you're going to tell someone else who isn't a Christian, I don't think they're going understand it.
ReplyDeleteMy take on this is that we are sinners, but we are not sin because we can reject sin, and just going over the importance of the fact that we are forgiven even though we sin over and over, so even if being gay were a sin, God still accepts us.
But on a more tangible note, when I think about it, why can't two male reproductive organs make a child, and if our bodies were given parts for its own function, I'm pretty sure the anus is only just supposed to pass out faeces.
But yes, if this was the way that God had intended things to be, then so be it, for it is all part of his grand scheme.