Homosexual sin: what is that?

probably the anal sex part. you know, the same anal sex that it's perfectly okay to have if you're a guy and a girl and you've got your purity rings?

i'm so glad you asked this question because i believe the church is getting it wrong. it is not the temptation or the struggle with homosexuality; it is giving into and living a homosexual lifestyle. please consider this theoretical example: i was born with a quicker temper than my gay friend. i could live in anger all the time and blow up at people saying "this is just the way God made me, why wouldnt he let me act like this" or i can confess it as sin and ask God to help me control it (and he will). BEING angry is not a sin; ACTING in anger is.

this is how i view homosexuality. though no one just "decides to be gay", they do at one point have those thoughts and decide to give in to them. for some people it's when they are young and don't know any better. this is understandable for someone who doesn't believe it is wrong, and after you've embraced the lifestyle it is hard to change your mind about it... just like with drugs and alcohol. but that doesn't mean God cannot change and heal you.

i have so much love for the gay community and i'm tired of christians hating on them. i hope you can see that i'm writing out of love-- i'm not afraid to stand up for what i believe in, but i'll do so in a loving way, not a condemning way. God's message is that we can be reconciled with him (through jesus), not that we are condemned. you've probably heard of John 3:16 but have you ever read the verse after it?

"For God did NOT send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved."

the common Q from gays to straights is, "when did you decide to be straight?" i myself struggled with homosexual thoughts for a short time in the past. i think a lot more people have than will admit! when those thoughts came up, i could either accept them or give them to God. so yes, i have decided to be heterosexual by yielding those thoughts. and i believe anyone can do the same, whether they have a bigger problem with it or not. (again with the analogy-- i may have to work really hard at surrendering anger, or the urge to hurt myself, or whatever it may be. that doesn't mean God doesn't love us the way we are. as the saying goes "he loves us too much to let us stay the way we are"-- he has a better plan for each person than we can imagine, and he sees the harms of homosexuality. he will heal each person who is willing to surrender. God accepts ALL who come to him sincerely, repent, and believe.)

(sorry it's so long, this is a topic that hits home for me in many ways.) i hope this answers your Q as well as enlightens some fellow believers on here.

Being homosexual, in and of itself, is not a sin, and there is NOTHING in the Bible that says it is. Now, just like anything else in our lives, it can lead to sin.

It's not a sin. The word "homosexual" was not even coined until the late Nineteenth Century.

Homophobia is a sin like lying, stealing and murder. Those caught up in this sin try to deflect attention away from their own immorality by pointing fingers and throwing stones at others...and using God to justify their sin to themselves.

There is no sin to Homosexuality, they claim it is sodomy. But of course they will claim anything to get their own country and claim to be religious. I mean if you can justify beheading and flogging through a holy book, along with eating the flesh of your offspring, then you can justify the hate, oppression, and repression of a people just look at the Crusades.

The practice of homosexuality is destructive to the human soul. God makes it clear that homosexuality is a sin (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9; Jude 1:7; 1 Timothy 1:10; Revelation 21:8). Supporting gay marriage is a sin because it means to support homosexuality and the perversion of Holy Matrimony. If a nation legalizes gay marriage, that nation will be cursed.

Homosexuality is caused by iniquity. Iniquities (tendencies that cause one to sin) pass down the generation line (Numbers 14:18). When one accepts Lord Jesus as their Saviour, God forgives their sins and removes their iniquities (evil tendencies) in the subsequent transformation process which makes one more and more like Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Hebrews 9:12-14

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Titus 3:5

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

After genuinely accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, ALL sinners (those who practice homosexuality, alcoholics, liars, drug addicts, fornicators etc.) will be saved and transformed. Each believer is cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and receives the infilling of the Holy Spirit who renews them.

REDEMPTION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH

Because mankind is incapable of meeting God’s standard of perfection necessary to abide in God’s presence (Romans 3:19-20,23), God sent His Son Jesus Christ to pay the total debt for the believer’s sins and mercifully credits to his account Christ’s righteousness (Romans 3:21-28,5:1-11; 2 Corinthians 5:18-21). Jesus’ gracious act of atonement was complete and covers all sin (Colossians 2:13-14; 1 John 1:9). Salvation is not based on good deeds but according to the mercy of God (Titus 3:4-5). Believers are justified by faith; it is a gift by God’s grace (Romans 4:3-8; Ephesians 2:8-9). A true, living faith will result in a desire to live a holy, loving life of good works (Ephesians 2:10; Galatians 5:6; James 2:14-26), but failure to be absolutely successful at righteous living does not negate the believer’s justified status.

If you sincerely say this prayer, your sins will be washed away, you will be redeemed to God, be saved from eternal torment and inherit the Kingdom of God:

"Dear Jesus,

I am a sinner.

I repent of my sins.

Please forgive me and save me by your shed blood;

come into my heart.

I want to receive you as my own personal Lord and Savior.

Amen"

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It is only a sin if it is not done properly.

"And thou shall feel my wrath whosoever practices the act of homosexuality incorrectly"

According to the Bible the same as eating shell fish, or wearing clothes of two different fibers, or planting different plants next to each other. Homosexuality is just the latest crusade that some Christians use to promote their hate. I guess the ones that do subscribe to the same religious school of thought as Bin Laden. Fuddie Christians would sooner follow him then the teachings of Jesus.

The fact that homosexual sex doesn't produce offspring.

Stupid reason.

there isn't one

God made LBG people too

some straights like anal

how does it come under premarital when most christians don't want same-sex couples to marry?

edit: "homosexual" was a term coined in 1869

Sam C - I don't need your love and you are a bi-sexual so you shouldn't be condemning others

Jane S - incest isn't like LBG as incest is within the family, pedos are not consensual and abuse kids