If homosexuality is such a terrible sin, why is it not in the ten commandments?

reply to post by lizziejayne

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I'm not going to yell. Thank you for your feedback

But let me ask you this: Are you truly in control of choosing who you find attractive? Or choosing who you fall in love with?

I cant believe this...all the gays getting woman and having babies before a straight,sexy and young single man like myself...sexy is hypothetical..i dont like society.

[edit on 23-12-2008 by Solomons]

reply to post by Solomons

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You would not believe the amount of women that throw themselves at me. I have had a few women ask me to father their children! The Ladies love the gays.

reply to post by Solomons

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Yea, I feel your pain.

It is all about listening. I found out the hard way. You got to listen and understand or at least pretend to understand.

Oops, this is off topic. Sorry.

reply to post by TasteTheMagick

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Me personally? I was born this way. I must admit, I find it difficult to understand how others can consider that sexuality is a choice. In the same way that a heterosexual doesn't wake up one morning and decide to be straight, a homosexual doesn't decide to be gay.

I appreciate the Christian view on choice when it relates to acting on sexual preference. For example, as a homosexual/heterosexual I can choose to live a homosexual/heterosexual lifestyle or I can choose to abstain. However, as far as choosing my actual sexual preference to begin with, I challenge anyone to try - in earnest - to decide to be their opposite sexuality for a day! These things are NOT a conscious choice IMO

IMO the debate by many Christians loses its impetus when it's founded on the "you choose to be gay" argument.

reply to post by JohnnyCanuck

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I don't get the point.

There is a difference between the laws of this government and the laws of God...

1. Slavery was not illegal or against God - The point is it's a law not a commandment from God who is Superior to the government. God thought it was ok to sell your kid!

2. Sacrifice of an animal was not against God. It's against the law now!

3. Having sex with a woman on her period is un-healthy!

4. Eating Shell fish, working on the Sabbath are the only 2 sins against God in your letter... So I don't get your point... If you eat Lobster and work on the Sabbath your sinning!

reply to post by heyo

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When it comes to the infertile, they are not in sin because of their inability to procreate. They should look into sources of the infertility and try to find a fix if possible (sadly, does not happen too often). We are asked by our faith simply to procreate to the best of our ability once we are in a sexual relationship. It should be an act of love, sensitivity, bonding, and prayer. Those who cannot have children are still loved by God and have done no wrong. They may look to adoption which is a meritorious act, raising one of God's children in a loving home where there once was not one. Though what they should mainly try to do is to hold together and become deeper in love with one another, pray for children one day. If that day never comes, they should not be resentful but rather grateful for what they do have.

As for hypocrisy:
How can any good man be freed from hypocrisy if all men sin? Criticism as an act of good will becomes sinful with this mentality. We sin out of human weakness. This does not mean that in all cases we cannot judge another. If we personally admit our human weakness and strive to suppress our evil tendencies then I think we are justified in criticizing another man's weakness in order for him to better himself. Jesus used the analogy of slivers and logs. What he was talking about more are people who refuse to repent but get off to bossing and criticizing others. Hypocrisy is never a good thing but there are degrees of it, and Jesus addressed the worst kind: that of the Pharisees who do one thing and say another, deceiving the people, leading His children astray by selling out their culture to the Romans and then admonishing the Israelites.

reply to post by asmeone2

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Emphasis mine:



I am supposing that you mean "the Christian religion in general" is the "many people"? If so, then I'd like to respond.

Jesus' command about the sin of "adultery" is so broad that I can't imagine any man that has not committed adultery the way Jesus defined it:

Matt 5:27-28 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

This means that any TRUTHFUL pastor's "sermon" about these verses is going to make a LOT of the men in his congregation very uncomfortable.

Modern "chri$tianity" is mostly about that: Money.

If a pastor started preaching about ADULTERY as Jesus defined it...he would probably make those who pay his weekly $alary a bit upset.

Perhaps if he did, then the next week he could preach about DIVORCE? (As Jesus spoke about it?)

Jesus' words about divorce aren't going to be pleasurable to hear for quite a lot of his "$alary-payer$"

If, on the third week he preached upon GLUTTONY, and the forth "The Bible says no woman (Bible) teachers are allowed", and on the fifth "that there IS NO LAW OF TITHING in the NT", and on the sixth that "CIGARETTE smoking for PLEASURE is OK according to the Bible"...

...this preacher would end up preaching himself out of a job.

[size=4]Why is it that the "tithes and offerings" are taken BEFORE the pastor gives his sermon!!!???[/size]

...why not afterwards?

Your perceived observation is probably correct (that there seems to be a preoccupation about it), but I deny that it makes any of the other sexual sins less "sinful".

It just seems (to me) that the other sins are less profitable in these last days.

I can second this.

Have had offers myself.

Wow. That must have been a terribly difficuly situation for you, but I'd imagine that it would have been more difficult if you didn't come out.

That is why I loose so much respect for people like Ted Haggard. He made such a platform of standing against gay people when he was, himself, at least bisexual. I would have had respect for him if he had said that he was struggling with the feelings, even more if he had come out to his congregation.

The point is really quite simple. You cite Leviticus as the arbitor of this whole issue...yet you wimp out when it comes to...oh, I donno... justification of slavery. Sorry Sparky, you gotta buy the whole package. Ain't no cherry pickin' allowed. It's called hypocracy.

reply to post by TERAKO68

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I wouldn't say that you are currently an abomination! The Levitical law was done away with when Christ died on the cross! We are under the NEW covenant with Christ. We are now saved by grace not by works (i.e blood sacrifices and the 600+ laws outlined in Leviticus). No sin is greater or lesser than another (and by that I am not saying I think homosexuality is a sin). I may be gay but I grew up in the church and I went to seminary school, I've studied theology and biblical history and the like.

Christians can't even agree on how THEY should live (hence the 30,000 different denominations of Christianity) - Why should they tell others how to live? The Bible is open to interpretation. Dogma is for those who prefer the traditions of man over grace and forgiveness!

~Peace

A good illustration of my point LJ.

I don't think that it wold be a good thing if those other 'sins' were equally condemned, but I think this is a primce case of selectively applying the Bible.

I think homosexuality just makes a good scapegoat.

I am gay, usually, and it is not a choice. That much I know for sure. I say "usually" because that is my main orientation, but I have been known to swing the other way on rare occasions. On those occasions when that happened it wasn't a choice either. It just happened. I just felt the way I did at that time and, very reluctantly I must add, acted upon my feelings for the person. After 14 years being "gay" I spent a wonderful 4 years with a beautiful woman, and then shortly thereafter went back to being gay (or more accurately a-sexual, lol).
Anyway, I think we will find one day that most people have an innate capacity for both hetero and homo sexual attraction, in varying degrees, but usually try and fit in either one way or the other for a number of personal reasons. I think that is why so many fundamental Christians go on about it being a choice -- because many of them are struggling with an inner voice to do or try something, but they are resisting. They probably just think we are not resisting hard enough.
If we would be truly honest with ourselves, and our feelings, few of us, whether on the gay side or the straight side of the fence, are as gay or straight as we would have others believe -- or as we would like to believe ourselves.
I have found that whenever I try to box myself in with any kind of generalization, it only fits for awhile before something happens to shatter my understanding of things. I think that the more open we are to accepting whatever seems natural and good, the better we will be.
Hopefully the ruckus we usually get from the fundamentalist Christians and Muslims is only their swansong and we will be moving on to something more realistic and worthy of belief.

reply to post by archetype_one

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Sadly, many christians still take the OT as the literal law--at least, the parts that are convenient.

I defy you or anyone else to find me the part of the bible where it tells us exactly what part of the law was to be thrown out and what was to be kept.

I've had a lot of very close gay friends. Why? I felt like I could relate to them, many times better than I could have with a female friend, and there was not the pressure that it could turn into something romantic.

OH farout dr_strangecraft!!!!

I just choked on my coffee when I read that.

ha ha

So it is in the ten commandments!

[edit on 23-12-2008 by Thurisaz]