Before you get your head in a tizzy (I know, I know. Outdated/Made up phrase and or slang. Sue me) calm down. This blog is not about to yell about how homosexuality is all wrong, or yell at people who think it is wrong. It's simply my thoughts on it.
My thoughts are honestly confusion. Really, confusion.
I think Brian's sermon helped clear one thing up for me though: God is ALWAYS supposed to come first. Okay, so God is number one priority in my life. (Let's assume he is, and will remain there for this part). If I have a "gay" thought (e.g., "oh that guy looks kind of handsome) is that instantly a sin? (I'm not even going to bother denying that I've never had such a thought) It could be Satan trying to get me off path. It could be the inner core of me, the me that God created, feeling attraction that's perfectly healthy. Sometimes I think if God had meant for people to be gay, he'd have made three guys, and three girls originally. Two men to be together, one man and one woman, and two women to be together. But he didn't he made ONE man, ONE woman. What about people who are homosexual and go to church, pray regularly, and try their hardest to follow God? That could be acceptable. That could also be a temptation that they struggle with. Believers all over the world struggle with sin issues anyway. Hate, malice, lies, those are all over the place. Homosexuality COULD be just another sin for us to struggle with.
Personally? I'm honestly just. not. sure.
I don't feel like I have enough information, and I don't know if I ever will. I'm stuck with a rather paralyzed feeling, jammed between two points and unable to tell which one is the truth, the right one.
What if my lesbian friend grows up, marries a MAN, and is unhappy the rest of her life. Could that be Satan trying to jack her life up, when God actually intended her to marry another woman?
I don't know.
I wish I did, it could definitely make my life easier.
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I'll give you my views on this subject...
I'm Christian. I go to (And still do, on occassion) attened an Assemblies of God Church.
I'm gay. I've known then since I was 12.
It's hard to sit, and believe in god, when preachers tell you, that homosexuality is a sin, and that you will go to hell for it. I tried for so long to make myself turn straight...but, I can't hide who I truly am.
I don't think homosexuality is something satan created. If god says that he loves us, and created us in the beginning, then I believe in my heart that he created me to be gay. I know its wrong to think that, despite what the bible, and pastors say, but its how I feel...I would be misserable if I were to date a female...I just have no physical or mental attraction to them.
If I go to hell for being gay, then I am prepared to accept that consequence, but I cannot make myself believe that god would make me the way I am, and expect me to miserable with someone I cannot truly love.
This whole subject is just confusing, and it upsets me from time to time, for the way I've been treated...I've been shunned from one church, and humiliated publicly in front of the whole congregation...but all of my friends went to that church, and they left when they did what they did to me...its an extremely long story.
But eh, I'm the kind of person who thinks people should believe in what they believe in...I'm not going to tell you to believe in Buddha just because I'm asian (even tho I'm not).
But anywho...sorry for the long comment...you should really get on MSN so we can talk more often ^_^!
bro... Todd here. I'm commenting on the comment left here by "brady", who I'm sure is a great guy, and really is a Christian.
I just need to say (quickly) that people do NOT go to hell simply because they're gay. the Bible teaches that people who end up in hell after Judgement, are those who refused a relationship with God, through Jesus Christ. Anyone who says otherwise is misquoting Scripture, probably for the purpose of manipulating someone out of fear, hopefully "scaring them straight".
S.R., with that said, feel free to check in with me before you start conversing with "brady".
Your friend,
Todd
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