Am I entitled to love God even being Gay?

[mj2006a]

I am bisexual and despite of my gay feelings I never felt God did not love me and I could not have a relationship with him no matter what all of ther religious people in the world say. I love God and believe that through His love and grace one day I will achieve to be the person he wants me to be (and I am not claiming he will heal me from homosexuality). I am just claiming I will work with his graces and follow whatever mission He has for me. I do not live looking for flesh relationship all the time. Most of my time I am trying to be a guy with respect, dignity, integrity and that adds something to the community where I live. Do you, other gays, bisexual feel you do not have the right and even avoid a relationship with God? Why do people make us, gays, feel we do not have this right? God is sooooooooo very good to me! Do you have a relationship with Him?

 

[Ninjitsu]

God's "condemnation" of homosexuality is man's invention. If God didn't want homosexuality on Earth, nobody would be gay. It exists in nature, and it's existed in society since the dawn of human history.

It's unfortunate that "religious" people often take their religion too seriously to the point of misconstruction. Or people become devious without knowing it by bending interpretations to serve their own personal views with the intent of forcing it on others. The Bible exists as a guide for spiritual health, and to live with, tolerate, and get along with your fellow man. Passing judgment and/or looking down on someone because of their sexual orientation is a kind of hate that goes against everything that the Bible stands for -- even though since day one, the Bible was written by man. So any bias that one might see comes from that mortal perspective, and not from the loving eyes of the creator that made you the way you are.

So in the end, keep walking in the path of the light, and no one can take away the relationship you share with God. That's between you and him -- and no one else.

 

[hanzosword]

I love God also and I do have a relationship with him. I believe a lot of things were added to the bible many years ago out of fear about homosexuality that are just not true. I've come to realize that there is nothing for any gay or bi person to feel guilty about. God created us the way we are and we are always loved and accepted.

I used to believe every word of the bible until I started questioning the whole "eternal hell" thing. It just didn't make sense to me so I researched for a long time and I found that it is not entirely true. It's sad that people have put so many fear-based things in that book and have so many people shook up today over nothing. God only loves and he does not judge. I think deep down people know that but it's hard to accept when you have been taught the opposite your whole life.

So basically I think we can be close with God no matter how we are in this life. Things are totally different from his perspective and he knows we are here to experience positive and negative things. It's the purpose of life on earth, to experience.

 

[grady26]

I have sent the message many times.

The Four Gospels, the teachings of Christ, never mention homosexuality.

So a true Christain has no basis to condemn same sex relationships if he/she follows the teachings of Christ.

Sure, in the Old Testament, you have an angry god who rules out homosexuality, masterbation and even shell fish, so go figure.

And as for the New Testament teachngs of Paul (formerlyu Saul) condemns homosexuality, but Christ, the loving son of god, never condemns.

And to answer you first question, sure, you can love god. He loves you.

Grady

 

[fireside]

Your beliefs are yours, man. Do with them what you may. Your faith is yours alone to guide you as you see it fit. Outside influences don't pay your bills for you, so don't let them believe for you. If you feel your deity loves you, then so be it.

 

[blogthissucker]

I don't think God has a problem with gay-ness. Love's a good thing.

Whenever people say that gays should just ignore their temptations (because they think it's in the Bible) I tend to wonder they they would ignore their attraction to the opposite sex if some ancient book had told them that it was a sin. They would probably say it was a moot point if you asked them, but it definitely isn't.

 

[mj2006a]

Thanks for all the question. The reason for my asking is that as soon as we mention the name of God the conversation dies. I absolutely believe that God loves each one and everyone of us. It is a matter of how we respond to this love and the relationship that we hold with him through prayers. However, every so often, people, in the gay world, AT LEAST THE ONES I KNOW, do not like to talk about faith or even living this faith. I live my faith the way I can and think it should be lived: Not making every guy a meet an object to be fucked; trying to see each one as human being.... but wanted to see if my perception was right or wrong. I am glad to know that despite of being "judged" and "outlawed" many of us still believe we are dignified human beings worthy of a relationship with the creator.

 

[fireside]

I'm perfectly fine living a spiritual life that doesn't center itself around a specific creator or god being. In its acceptance of a transcendent existence, one could say my beliefs are not true atheism. I feel that we are, with ourselves, capable of overcoming all our obstacles and rising above our troubles to achieve whatever it is we see fit.

 

[Danugh]

Look i said this before and ill say it again.

You can be gay and still love God and be religious.

Being gay is NOT the sin.

You cannot help being gay, you are born that way.

What you can control is having gay sex with men and thats the sin.


So be gay all you want just dont practice homsexuality and you will be fine ok.

 

[red1979]

Of course you can love God. He loves all of us no matter what we do.
Think of God like a parent. A parent can love their child no matter what he does. I know a lot of people here probably have parents who have disowned them because of their practices, but deep down we know parents are supposed to love us anyway, and fortunately, God is perfect so he will love us no matter what we do. Now, loving us unconditionally isn't the same as condoning or condemning our actions. Our own actions determine where we go after this life.

 

[flixelblix]

I'll never forget what my mother told me once when I was young.

"Aids is Gods punishment for gays. It says in the bible, thou shalt not sleep with thy brother".

And people wonder why I'm Pagan...