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Do all Christians hate Homosexuals? I got a question a little while ago from person asking if, because I am a Christian, I hate homosexuals. The Short answer to this is no. If you want to know the specifics then read on: Many Christians (as well as I) use the cliché "Love the sinner, hate the sin." However, we must realize that this is an exhortation to us as imperfect human beings. The difference between us and God in regard to loving and hating is vast. Even as Christians, we remain imperfect in our humanity and cannot love completely, nor can we hate without malice. But, God can do both of these perfectly well, because He is God! God can hate without any sinful intent at all. Therefore, he can hate the sin and the sinner in a perfectly holy way and still be willing to lovingly forgive at the moment of that sinner's repentance and faith (see Malachi 1:3; Revelation 2:6; 3 Peter 3:9). Mysterious, but true, God can perfectly love and hate a person at the same time. This means He can love them as someone He created and can redeemable, as well as hate them for their unbelief and sinful lifestyle. We, as imperfect human beings, cannot do this, thus we must remind ourselves to "love the sinner, hate the sin." How exactly does that work? We hate sin by refusing to take part in it and by condemning it when we see it. Sin is not be hated, not excused or taken lightly. We love the sinner by being faithful in witnessing to them of the forgiveness that is available through Jesus Christ. A true act of love is treating someone with respect and kindness even though they know you do not approve of their lifestyle and/or choice. It is not loving to allow a person to remain stuck in sin. It is not hateful to tell a person they are in sin. In fact, the exact opposites are true. Okay, that answered the question of do all Christians hate Homosexuals. Now you ask- "So is homosexuality/ Gay marriage a sin?" Before we look at gay marriage / same sex marriage, first we have to remember what the Bible says about homosexuality. The Bible clearly and consistently tells us that homosexual activity is a sin (Genesis 19:1-13; Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9). God does not create a person with homosexual desires. A person becomes a homosexual because of sin (Romans 1:24-27), and ultimately because of his or her own choice. A person may be born with a greater susceptibility to homosexuality, just as people are born with a tendency to violence and other sins. That does not excuse the person choosing to sin by giving into their sinful desires. If a person is born with a greater susceptibility to anger / rage, does that make it right for them to give into those desires? Of course not! The same is true for homosexuality. We also have to remember that homosexuality is just as forgivable a sin as all other sins. God’s forgiveness is just as available to a homosexual as it is to an adulterer, idol worshipper, murderer, thief, etc. God’s love and desire to save extends to homosexuals (John 3:16; Romans 5:8 ). God also promises the strength for victory over sin, including homosexuality, to all those who will believe in Jesus Christ for their salvation (1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17). To give sanction to homosexual marriage would be to give approval to that lifestyle, which the Bible clearly and consistently condemns as sinful. I believe that Christians should stand firmly against the idea of gay marriage / same sex marriage. Marriage is ordained by God to be between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:21-24; Matthew 19:4-6). Homosexual marriage is a perversion of the institution of marriage and an offense to the God who created marriage. God forbids and condemns homosexuality, so He clearly is opposed to homosexual marriage. As Christians, we are to seek to share the love of God and salvation through Christ with homosexuals. We are to be loving and kind to homosexuals, while at the same time not condoning their sinful lifestyle. I hope this answered this person's question as well as some of you others who needed to hear this. (If anyone has further questions, just tell me in a PM and I'll be happy to answer it in my journal. I won't use names as to protect the questioner.)

Posted by: Medanite Mon Dec 18, 2006 @ 11:53pm

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Commented on: Tue Dec 19, 2006 @ 04:46am


	word.

Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 02:34pm


	Medanite: Although you make a good defense, I cannot agree with saying homosexuality is a sin. As a Christian myself, I do know God's love for all of his children. However, our society has changed over the two thousand years since the Bible has been written, and the lines that define both woman and man have become thinner and much more vague throughout our evolution. The view of marriage from Puritanism was not only the union of body but the union of souls. If two souls wish to be joined together in scared union, I believe they should have the right to pronounce such love to both the world and God who created all of us equal and unique in ourselves. We each interpret the Bible on different levels, and therefore nothing can be taken literally. The only thing in this world that cannot be taken interpretated is the present, the very moment which we live each day. We can look forward or back for the answers, but the present will not change. More and more, I question Christianity myself for what we say and do to condone each other. God works in mysterious ways, and who are we to say that God hates homosexuals? Lowly humans, prone to sin as you said, even you Medanite can fall into this sin. Does this mean I do not accept you? No, I love you for your intellect and for your imperfections even more. For it is our flaws that make us who we really are, not our purity or divinity; it's the experience we gain from falling that make us better. In the end we all stand before God at Judgement Day, and the wicked will recieve there punishment. It is not our place to had over judgement to others so freely. We must accept and move on, for accepting a person for there flaws is truely divine. I refuse to seperate the love of two souls no matter what the state of their earthly bodies. Therefore, I leave judgement to God, loving and accepting my neighbor as I accept and love myself.

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Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 02:57pm


	If God did not want me to be a homosexual, he would have killed me before I had these thoughts! Thank you for telling me the way that I live my life is wrong. stare

Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 04:44pm


	Homosexuality is not a sin... Thank you for condemning my views...

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Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 04:47pm


	Poor Lady Luck.... How closed minded to condemn people he does not even know... I agree God works in mysterious ways..... Oh, by the way... U got so upset the code's not right... take a deep breath and relax... it'll be ok.... Your not going through some troubling times about your sexual preference are you? cause if you need to talk.. ill understand...

Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 05:46pm


	I was going to post something but I think that I would prefer to discuss this through a PM....

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Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 08:15pm


	OOC: I had to go for a while, so I added some things to my previous comment (which was too long for the journal comments.) I guess people can interpret the bible however they want, but no matter how many times you translate it from Hebrew to English you always come out with the same meaning. People these days treat the bible as if it is some secret code instead of taking it literally. The bible is God's word and he intends every word in it to be read in collaboration with the others. If you interpret the bible astray from it's word to word deffinition, then you might as well be reading nothing at all. In reply to your comment- "...who are we to say that God hates homosexuals?" As I said before- "But, God can do both of these perfectly well, because He is God! God can hate without any sinful intent at all. Therefore, he can hate the sin and the sinner in a perfectly holy way and still be willing to lovingly forgive at the moment of that sinner's repentance and faith." The way humans hate and the way God hates are two completely different things. Your using the human definition of hate. To your comment about the changing times: It says in the Bible that God NEVER changes, he is was and always will be the same loving, but strict, father. If God condemned homosexuality back then, than what makes you think that he doesn't condemn it today? You say that the times have changed, but it says in the Bible not to conform to the ways of the world. And to your comment about falling into sin. I admit that I tend to fall into sin everynow and then, but the defining thing is whether or not you want to get up after you fall. If you fall and you never get up then you never learn from it. And I didn't say I don't accept them as human beings, I just don't accept the way they are living (in sin).

Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 08:23pm


	I'm assuming that you did not look up the Bible passages that I gave you throughout my journal entry. So I'm going to type it out right here: From the First Paragraph about Hate: Malachi 1:3- but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals. Revelation 2:6- But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

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Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 08:24pm


	From the Question about Homosexual sin: Genesis 19:1-13- The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning." "No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square." But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them." Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof." "Get out of our way," they replied. "This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door. But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door. The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."

Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 08:26pm


	Leviticus 18:22- Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable. Romans 1:24-27- 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. 1 Corinthians 6: 8-11- Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor practicing homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. John 3:16- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Romans 5:8- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 2 Corinthians 5:17- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

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Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 08:27pm


	Genesis 2:21-24- So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man." For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Matthew 19:4-6- "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate." Now, read everything I put above and tell me TRUTHFULLY that homosexuality is not a sin.

Commented on: Sat Dec 23, 2006 @ 08:44pm


	Okay, now I'm going to reply to the other comments: @ Chris: The reason God doesn't strike you down is because of his Mercy and grace. He loves you as his creation so much that he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross for all of our sins. And if you ever decided to go to him, he'll be there with open arms. @ Rose: After reading all of that you still think homosexuality is not a sin? Its plain as day in the scriptures that homosexuality is a sin. No secret codes or inscriptions. neutral You say that I'm condemning your views, but you are actually condemning mine as well. I would add more, but that might get a little personal and that is the last thing that I want to do. @ Robbie: I'm close minded? Well, I wouldn't quite say that. I'm not saying that if your a homosexual you have a one-way ticket to Hell, I said in my journal entry that homosexuality is like all sins and can be forgiven. The only reason why I posted this perticular sin is because I was asked about it. God does indeed work in mysterious ways, but he never changes his ways. He is constant. He wouldn't condemn homosexuality at one point in time and then approve of it in another. God has not and will not conform to the ways of the world just because some politician approves of it. God is higher then they. He decides whether or not you take your next breath. BTW, I did not get the coding wrong, but the journal entry form does not accept over 2,000 characters. Otherwise it will mess the coding up.

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Commented on: Fri Dec 29, 2006 @ 08:17am


	I support everyones likings. I could care less! Im glad that you cleared that up. Us Christians have had that assumption about us forever. mad

Commented on: Sun Jan 28, 2007 @ 02:48am


	Amen!!!!!!!! heart I have been battleing how i should act towards it because I am a christian and often get asked things on the spot to make God seem unrealiable or fictitious because I don't know the answer right away sweatdrop . I mean, I have been exposed to many people who are already married to the same sex or date the same sex. Although, I do believe us as God's people, the body of Christ, should love all people , share the Word and bring them into the house of God without hesitation at all. I've met many chrsitians who act like they are so righteous enough to condemn people in their own judgement but as christians they should know that God almighty is the only one worthy should they not? ~your sister in Christ jenny~

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Commented on: Wed Feb 07, 2007 @ 11:14pm


	I'm afriad I have to add my vote to Lady Rose. She voices my own thoughts in regards to homosexuality, and more. I may be a steadfast christian as well, but circumstances have shaped me into becoming more understanding and accepting of those around me. That includes myself. Bravo, Rose. :3

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