Can u go to hell for being gay
LGBTQ+ church bid: 'I was told being gay would send you to hell'
Betty Harper is so "sick and tired" of trying to find a church where she feels truly welcomed as a gay woman that she is planning to initiate her own.
The 21-year-old aid worker from Llanddulas, Conwy county, is engaged to her partner of two years. Both are Christians who want to discover somewhere accepting to practise their faith but own so far not launch what they are looking for locally.
Betty has travelled a long road to accepting her sexuality. Raised in a "very, very strict" Christian household, the message she heard growing up was that gay relationships were sinful.
But she knew from an early age that was what she wanted.
She explains: "When I was younger I felt different to my friends. I wasn't attracted to the boys [but] I was attracted to the girls.
"My dad was a pastor of a church at this time and all I've known my entire life is 'being lgbtq+ is wrong, and creature gay will send you to hell'."
'It didn't proceed down very well'
Betty remembers first mentioning her ideas about her sexual
Is being gay a sin?
Answer
In order to answer the scrutinize “Is being same-sex attracted a sin?” we need to test some assumptions upon which the scrutinize is based. Within the past fifty years, the phrase gay, as applied to homosexuality, has exploded into mainstream culture, and we are told that “being gay” is as much outside one’s control as “being short” or having blonde hair. So the interrogate is worded in a loaded way and impossible to adequately answer in that form. We need to fracture this question up and deal with each piece separately. Rather than demand, “Is being same-sex attracted a sin?” we need to inquire, “Is it sinful to have gay attractions?” And, “Is it sinful to engage in queer activities because of those attractions?”
Concerning the first question, “Is it sinful to have same-sex attractions?” the answer is complicated. First, we should probably distinguish between (actively) sinning and (passively) creature tempted:
Being temptedis not a sin. Jesus was tempted, but He never sinned (Matthew 4:1; Hebrews 4:15). Eve was tempted in the garden, and the forbidden fruit definitely appealed to her, but it seems that she did not actually sin until she took the fruit and ate it (Genesis 3:6&n
You Will Go to Hell
Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals1, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9b-10.)
A professing Christian husband and father leaves his wife of thirty years for a little woman the age of his daughter. A Sunday Institution teacher is obsessed with his favourite sports team, going into short word debt to form trips all over the country to watch his team play. A college student heavily committed with the local collegiate ministry regularly has sexual intercourse with his girlfriend. A young bloke attends church regularly but frequents homosexual bars, looking for gay men, and goes home with them. A seeming loving and successfully adjusted lesbian couple, who know the Bible well, claim to love Jesus. An elder in a church regularly cheats on his income tax and steals money from his company. A young mother who teaches children’s church constantly badgers her husband for a bigger house, a nicer car, improved clothing and runs up huge credit card bills trying to satiate her covetous and idolatrous lifestyle. A pastor preaches
Can a Gay or Lesbian person go to Heaven?
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(Letter)
I know the Bible says it’s a sin, but it also says that the only unforgivable sin is not accepting Jesus. If a Gay person accepts Jesus but does not change his lifestyle, can he go to Heaven? I have a cousin who’s Gay.
—Lucy
You’ve asked a very crucial question—and a very hard one.
And you are exactly right: there is only one sin that is unforgivable. That is the sin of not believing and not receiving Jesus Christ into your life.
A gay or gay person can acceptChrist, just as an alcoholic, a drug addict, or a mass-murderer can receive Christ. Jesus’ offer of salvation is open to everyone.
Your doubt is whether someone can acceptChrist, not change his lifestyle, and still go to heaven. The Bible teaches that if someone has truly accepted Christ into his life, nothing can hold him out of Heaven. In John 10:28, Christ says of Christians,
“I give them eternal animation, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of My hand.”
So, Lucy the real question, I think, is whether your cousin had a life-changing experience with Christ. Jesus said in Luke,
“Why act you ca