This I Believe: Gay Forever, Hell For Never | NPR Illois

Contents:

• 'IF I GROW UP TO BE GAY, WILL I GO TO HELL?'
• THIS I BELIEVE: GAY FOREVER, HELL FOR NEVER
• BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH
• ‘DON’T E BACK, THEY’LL KILL YOU FOR BEG GAY’
• GAY PEOPLE ARE GOG TO HELL, SAYS EXPERT WNS IN MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE TRIAL
• DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?
• CAN A GAY OR LBIAN PERSON GO TO HEAVEN?
• RELIGN AND ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS

'IF I GROW UP TO BE GAY, WILL I GO TO HELL?'

The problem is that this qutn often rri wh an rrect assumptn: Homosexualy is so offensive that ’s unfivable.

Bee salvatn is by fah alone Christ alone and we are not saved by our works good or bad, y, a homosexual person n go to heaven. If they have, then to ntue wh a homosexual liftyle is livg rebelln and a believer will eventually experience misery and dive disciple. So then, one would no longer be intified by one's prev inty or slavery to any particular past s—whether as a dnkard, adulterer, homosexual, thief, vetor, idolator, fornitor, extortner, etc.

THIS I BELIEVE: GAY FOREVER, HELL FOR NEVER

The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicg homosexuals, thiev, the greedy, dnkards, the verbally abive, and swdlers will not her the kgdom of God. For other rourc on this issue see this article on Homosexualy: The Biblil Christian View, and other articl on Homosexualy. He also helpfully clarifi that havg ever mted a homosexual act or a heterosexual s do not forever exclu one om the kgdom of God.

LiftyleLife & relatnshipsParentgThis was published 4 years agoOpn“If I grow up to be gay, will I go to hell?

Children hear about Israel Fol's homophobic ments, and they have Pl HeyHer qutn is doubly shockg given she has two gay uncl, we speak openly about homosexualy our fay, and her father and I uld not re ls about the genr of the people she choos to love. LoadgIf my dghter was disturbed by Fol’s ments, image how much more trmatic and troublg his ments are to children who intify as gay, or to those who wonr if they might be. Growg up I was obliv to the impact that our homophobic muny, Brisbane the ‘80s and early ‘90s, had on my iend’s self homophobic jok, the “fag” pranks such as boys verg school books wh the word “fag”, and, y, people thory clarg that hell awas him, have all ntributed to McCulloch feelg ashamed, unacceptable and unlovable for his entire life.

BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH

They experience poorer mental health out than their peers as a direct rult of the stigma, prejudice, discrimatn and abe they experience jt for beg, who last week lnched a crowdfundg mpaign aimg to raise $3 ln to ver his legal bills his appeal agast his ntract termatn by Rugby Atralia (which was shut down on Monday morng), fend his homophobic post as “an act of love and passn” have no ia of the effect that the msag have on the people they are I thk of how my iend has suffered om homophobia his whole life, and all the boys and girls, past and prent, who will be eply wound and trmatised by Fol’s words, is unfathomable how anyone uld ever jtify them as lovg or ’s not unmon to e ancient texts to provi jtifitn for hatred, but if Fol wants to play the bible rd, let’s talk about what else he uld do wh $3 ln stead of fendg his right to tell already vulnerable and margalised people that hell awas them.

Im slightly havg a panic attack bee I have read so many damn people who say that homosexuals go to hell and you mt change your liftyle, but I nt jt change who I am,.

The church I went to preached that homosexuals don't rpect Christians and to me that's fuckg bullsh, so like, yee, im pissed off, sorry. The prev paragraph is what much of the LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgenr) muny hears on a daily basis om “Christians” everywhere.

‘DON’T E BACK, THEY’LL KILL YOU FOR BEG GAY’

As a young gay man, I have learned to hi ont of “those” people; the on who I know will nmn me for wearg eyeler public or holdg my boyiend’s hand. I have been driven out of one of my childhood church and the church I found as a teenager ma me unfortable when the pastor began talkg about all of the immoral people, cludg “the Homosexuals.

” Bee I am gay, fdg a church has been one of the harst thgs to do, right up there wh havg to tell my parents. Although many Christians don’t agree wh homosexualy, I n’t wrap my md around why people like me would be sent to a place of eternal burng. But any gay person who has experienced that niggle of anxiety before announcg their queerns will unrstand.

GAY PEOPLE ARE GOG TO HELL, SAYS EXPERT WNS IN MICHIGAN GAY MARRIAGE TRIAL

Yet even when I’m 90% sure the person I’m addrsg will be acceptg, I still get that ltle jerky stomach-knot right before I say the words “gay” or “girliend” to someone new. Durg my unrgraduate gree, I basilly gave up gog to church altogether bee felt like all the Christian stunts were harned anti-gay ’s a time and a place for what I ll “activist church-gog”: gog to a church where you know you won’t be accepted jt to remd them that queer Christians do exist.

DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?

However, to receive this gift, we mt reject s, cludg homosexual behavr—that is, acts tend to aroe or stimulate a sexual rponse regardg a person of the same sex. People tempted by homosexual sir, like people tempted by improper heterosexual sir, are not sng until they act upon those sir some manner. Throughout history, Jewish and Christian scholars have regnized that one of the chief ss volved God’s stctn of Sodom was s people’s homosexual behavr.

But today, certa homosexual activists promote the ia that the s of Sodom was merely a lack of hospaly. Although hospaly is a s, is clearly the homosexual behavr of the Sodom that is sgled out for special cricism the acunt of their cy’s stctn. Lot even offered his two virg dghters place of his guts, but the men of Sodom rejected the offer, preferrg homosexual sex over heterosexual sex (Gen.

To disunt this, some homosexual activists have argued that moral imperativ om the Old Ttament n be dismissed sce there were certa ceremonial requirements at the time—such as not eatg pork, or circumcisg male babi—that are no longer bdg. Elsewhere Pl aga warns that homosexual behavr is one of the ss that will prive one of heaven: “Do you not know that the wicked will not her the kgdom of God? Do not be ceived: Neher the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostut nor homosexual offenrs nor thiev nor the greedy nor dnkards nor slanrers nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God” (1 Cor.

CAN A GAY OR LBIAN PERSON GO TO HEAVEN?

Th, people have the rrpondg tun ncerng homosexualy that they do about btialy—that is wrong bee is unnatural. Many homosexuals argue that they have not chosen their ndn, but that they were born that way, makg homosexual behavr natural for them.

RELIGN AND ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS

Jt as one n acquire alholic sir (by repeatedly beg toxited) whout nscly choosg them, so one may acquire homosexual sir (by engagg homosexual fantasi or behavr) whout nscly choosg them.

Even if there is a geic predisposn toward homosexualy (and studi on this pot are nclive), the behavr remas unnatural bee homosexualy is still not part of the natural sign of humany. Homosexual activists often jtify homosexualy by claimg that ten percent of the populatn is homosexual, meang that is a mon and th acceptable behavr.

But not all mon behavrs are acceptable, and even if ten percent of the populatn were born homosexual, this would prove nothg. If those sir manift themselv a homosexual fashn ten percent of the populatn, all that do is give rmatn about the mographics of origal s. Furthermore, the ten percent figure clus people who are not exclively homosexual but who only engaged  some homosexual behavr for a perd of time and then stopped—people who had gone through a fully or partially homosexual “phase” but who were not long-term homosexuals.