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I am not saying that someone who struggles against Alcoholism isn't a christian, but God teaches us in 1 John that unless you are striving for righteousness, "Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous (1 John 3:7)." "For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed (John 3:20)." If you are struggling against temptation that you are practicing and striving for righteousness, but if you are living in sin and accepting sin as normal or ok (ie Gay Christians) then they like it saying in 1 John 1, "walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth." You may not like the harshness of this concept but Jesus does not teach tolerance to sin no matter how you look at it.
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Honestly, if it's a sin to be who you are, then I am not sure why people follow Christianity. Those who are gay are being true to themselves, and it's always makes me wonder how a person can say that being gay is a sin, while a few minutes before they were saying that the person should be who they are . . . .
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If I was trying to justify sin I'd still be gay.. So no, I'm not justifying sin. I'm simply saying God understands your struggle. 
Everything I have read about homosexuality is that it is unknown and that it seems to be both genetical and social (probably a mix).
Interesting link of the studies done: Homosexuality: Nature or Nurture in AllPsych Journal
And if Nature is to seen as a measuring stock for whats normal or not it is quite common among animals... allthough I don't know any stuides that has been done on "rape" or that the father was not there.
Homosexual behavior in animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Interesting link of the studies done: Homosexuality: Nature or Nurture in AllPsych Journal
And if Nature is to seen as a measuring stock for whats normal or not it is quite common among animals... allthough I don't know any stuides that has been done on "rape" or that the father was not there.
Homosexual behavior in animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Of course you can change. The human will is remarkable. I mean you can force yourself to have sex with a gender that you are not attracted to or as some does (catholic priests for example) not have sex at all.
I just say that I don't think you need to change that, homosexuality like race, colour and fetishes is nothing that is wrong unless it hurts someone else. I have gay friends and they are just like my other friends - they just get attracted and want to live with their own gender.
But... then I am against stoning, slavery and all those other things that the bible mentions and that I say are signs of the age it was written in and the minds of the authours. But... that subject we have already discussed
I just say that I don't think you need to change that, homosexuality like race, colour and fetishes is nothing that is wrong unless it hurts someone else. I have gay friends and they are just like my other friends - they just get attracted and want to live with their own gender.
But... then I am against stoning, slavery and all those other things that the bible mentions and that I say are signs of the age it was written in and the minds of the authours. But... that subject we have already discussed
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Of course you can change. The human will is remarkable. I mean you can force yourself to have sex with a gender that you are not attracted to or as some does (catholic priests for example) not have sex at all.
I just say that I don't think you need to change that, homosexuality like race, colour and fetishes is nothing that is wrong unless it hurts someone else. I have gay friends and they are just like my other friends - they just get attracted and want to live with their own gender.
But... then I am against stoning, slavery and all those other things that the bible mentions and that I say are signs of the age it was written in and the minds of the authours. But... that subject we have already discussed
I just say that I don't think you need to change that, homosexuality like race, colour and fetishes is nothing that is wrong unless it hurts someone else. I have gay friends and they are just like my other friends - they just get attracted and want to live with their own gender.
But... then I am against stoning, slavery and all those other things that the bible mentions and that I say are signs of the age it was written in and the minds of the authours. But... that subject we have already discussed
As far as I know, the bible does not talk about how/when gay people become gay. It does say that we are ALL sinners, born into sin, who have totally missed the mark and come way short of deserving God's glory.There's something really awesome and important that it does say about gay people, though, in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?" (That's everybody, by the way...) "Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
So, who then can be saved, since we are ALL unrighteous? This next verse is not as often quoted, but it's beautiful... it's one of my very favorite verses in the whole entire bible:
"And such were some of you. 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."