Erika
God loves you so much regardless, so that's great news. Gay, straight, weird (yay), short (yay) or tall. He's our father... would you, if you had a child, not love your child? Going back to the greatest commandment, which sums up all other commandments, Christianity at its core is to love God with all your heart. Even the first commandment God had uttered was not to have false gods (idols). Everything else is secondary. When we're talking about premarital sex, we're talking about just one of the sins. Even a relationship with a straight partner with no premarital sex could become your false god. It’s about your heart Erika. Not having premarital sex doesn't warrant intimacy with God, let alone, a ticket to heaven. It's all really petty shit, when Christianity is really just about your relationship with God. It's difficult to talk about Christianity to people when majority of the conversations are about whether if they're going to heaven or hell. Essentially, were saying we love God only because he will let us into heaven. Imagine if you had a child and she only loved you because of your big house. Then we have missed the point and broke our father’s heart. To me, pre-marital sex or not, gay or straight, I don't think that's what sends you to heaven. It is whether if He is your Lord and whether if you love him with all your heart. So, no such thing as double doom. But here's the thing. If you can tell me you can love God with all your heart, by dating her or marrying her, I will be the first one to support you in this. If anyone can find a way to love God honorably by intentionally exercising sex outside of marriage and homosexuality on a regular basis, I will not only support it, but will promote it. Maybe there is a way, but my best guess based on what I study, I’m not so sure. I personally do not think this is a phase, I do think this is what your heart desires. And I wish I can tell you to follow your heart, but often times, our hearts are deceitful. How can I be disappointed in you when this is something that you feel in your heart? Don’t only listen to what people say, or ignore them completely, but please find intimacy with the Lord and hear his voice. I know this may not be what you want to hear, but please don’t feel that I don’t care for you from the bottom of my heart. Whatever choice you make, I will love you because I know that’s how our Father will feel towards you. Miss you Erika and your beautiful morning face.
Kurt
This is my personal belief and I hope to answer the issue of Homosexuality without pinpointing one sin over another, but in Christinaity as a whole. As I mentioned before, homosexuality is not a greater sin than premarital sex, watching porn, and lusting- even thinking about any other women in a lustful way (and the list goes on and we're all guilty). This is because we're all born in sin (the fall of man - Adam declared indepednece from God stemming from pride)
So it's not that we don't accept homosexuals, we just want to take back our love for God again. There's these words we refer to as justification and sanctification. Justification is what Jesus already did, bearing our sins and offering us salvation. Once we accept Jesus as our personal savior, we're on our way to sanctification, where we're now in the process of being transformed to the image of God himself (his characteristics: loving, faithful, trustworthy, just etc). I think the key here is the sanctification process. Where we are being transformed naturally by hanging out with something supernatural and divine, we're getting rid of anything that is not of God: Masterbation, premarital sex, lusting, and homosexuality in part. So there are homosexuals that have accepted Jesus as their savior, but are transformed (No not brain-washed, but supernaturally transformed) and genuinely happy by not being homosexuals anymore . No, we're not changing who they are are, because at the root of all things, God made people in the image of God. We celebrate shedding off Every form of sin (sin basically means anything that's not of God: cheating, lying, steal, lusting etc) and becoming sanctfied into his image every day. Once you experience this love and peace that surpasses understanding, you can't help but to find more about him, hang out with him, and pray to him. The heart of Chrisitinaity is not to become better people, but the essensce of Christianity is your relationship with God. And everything else that you see - becoming better people, doing nice things - these are just byproducts of our relationshp with God.
FYI, this will all make more sense once we develop a good understanding of Christinaity (not religious Christianity, but a relational one), but from on outsider looking in, oh man I know how offensive and injustice this may sound because I've been there and I was pissed off. Dude, my best friend from college is gay.
God loves you so much regardless, so that's great news. Gay, straight, weird (yay), short (yay) or tall. He's our father... would you, if you had a child, not love your child? Going back to the greatest commandment, which sums up all other commandments, Christianity at its core is to love God with all your heart. Even the first commandment God had uttered was not to have false gods (idols). Everything else is secondary. When we're talking about premarital sex, we're talking about just one of the sins. Even a relationship with a straight partner with no premarital sex could become your false god. It’s about your heart Erika. Not having premarital sex doesn't warrant intimacy with God, let alone, a ticket to heaven. It's all really petty shit, when Christianity is really just about your relationship with God. It's difficult to talk about Christianity to people when majority of the conversations are about whether if they're going to heaven or hell. Essentially, were saying we love God only because he will let us into heaven. Imagine if you had a child and she only loved you because of your big house. Then we have missed the point and broke our father’s heart. To me, pre-marital sex or not, gay or straight, I don't think that's what sends you to heaven. It is whether if He is your Lord and whether if you love him with all your heart. So, no such thing as double doom. But here's the thing. If you can tell me you can love God with all your heart, by dating her or marrying her, I will be the first one to support you in this. If anyone can find a way to love God honorably by intentionally exercising sex outside of marriage and homosexuality on a regular basis, I will not only support it, but will promote it. Maybe there is a way, but my best guess based on what I study, I’m not so sure. I personally do not think this is a phase, I do think this is what your heart desires. And I wish I can tell you to follow your heart, but often times, our hearts are deceitful. How can I be disappointed in you when this is something that you feel in your heart? Don’t only listen to what people say, or ignore them completely, but please find intimacy with the Lord and hear his voice. I know this may not be what you want to hear, but please don’t feel that I don’t care for you from the bottom of my heart. Whatever choice you make, I will love you because I know that’s how our Father will feel towards you. Miss you Erika and your beautiful morning face.
Kurt
This is my personal belief and I hope to answer the issue of Homosexuality without pinpointing one sin over another, but in Christinaity as a whole. As I mentioned before, homosexuality is not a greater sin than premarital sex, watching porn, and lusting- even thinking about any other women in a lustful way (and the list goes on and we're all guilty). This is because we're all born in sin (the fall of man - Adam declared indepednece from God stemming from pride)
So it's not that we don't accept homosexuals, we just want to take back our love for God again. There's these words we refer to as justification and sanctification. Justification is what Jesus already did, bearing our sins and offering us salvation. Once we accept Jesus as our personal savior, we're on our way to sanctification, where we're now in the process of being transformed to the image of God himself (his characteristics: loving, faithful, trustworthy, just etc). I think the key here is the sanctification process. Where we are being transformed naturally by hanging out with something supernatural and divine, we're getting rid of anything that is not of God: Masterbation, premarital sex, lusting, and homosexuality in part. So there are homosexuals that have accepted Jesus as their savior, but are transformed (No not brain-washed, but supernaturally transformed) and genuinely happy by not being homosexuals anymore . No, we're not changing who they are are, because at the root of all things, God made people in the image of God. We celebrate shedding off Every form of sin (sin basically means anything that's not of God: cheating, lying, steal, lusting etc) and becoming sanctfied into his image every day. Once you experience this love and peace that surpasses understanding, you can't help but to find more about him, hang out with him, and pray to him. The heart of Chrisitinaity is not to become better people, but the essensce of Christianity is your relationship with God. And everything else that you see - becoming better people, doing nice things - these are just byproducts of our relationshp with God.
FYI, this will all make more sense once we develop a good understanding of Christinaity (not religious Christianity, but a relational one), but from on outsider looking in, oh man I know how offensive and injustice this may sound because I've been there and I was pissed off. Dude, my best friend from college is gay.
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