Can you be gay and go to heaven
“You want to shove those words back in and put the lid on. But you can’t. Your child is gay. This goes against everything you’ve been taught. It was not what you had in mind, and you instantly wonder where you went wrong.”
When you become a parent, you know to assume the unexpected. But for many Christian parents, nothing can verb them to hear that their beloved child is gay. This is the child you own cradled, spoon fed mashed bananas, and dreamed a beautiful future for. How could this be? What will the church say? What will your friends say? What does the future hold? You can’t even get your head around this.
If you are a Christian parent, family member or friend to whom your loved one has come out as gay or lesbian, then this is for you.
I request you to sit down, rest, maybe get a cup of tea, and soak in what I’m about to tell you. My hope is to guide you as we walk for a bit through this maze of confusion, to help you find your way to wholeness. In many Christian circles, this is not good news, and you may begin to spiral into reflection and self-searching. We’ll ge
Is being gay a sin?
Answer
In command to answer the question “Is being gay a sin?” we need to challenge some assumptions upon which the question is based. Within the past fifty years, the term 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 question is worded in a loaded way and impossible to adequately answer in that build. We need to break this question up and deal with each piece separately. Rather than ask, “Is being gay a sin?” we need to demand, “Is it sinful to own same-sex attractions?” And, “Is it sinful to engage in homosexual 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) being tempted:
Being temptedis not a sin. Jesus was tempted, but He never sinned (Matthew ; Hebrews ). Eve was tempted in the garden, and the forbidden fruit definitely appealed to her,
LGBTQ+ church bid: 'I was told being gay would send you to hell'
"As a Christian, when you've been brought up to be taught it's not OK to be gay or to be in a same-sex relationship, but you are. You can't change how you feel."
She even tried to use her faith to alter who she really was because of her conditioning.
"Believe me, I've prayed and prayed and prayed to try and change how I see boys and how I see girls," she says.
"[But] I was made this way. God made me who I am."
Betty's life is intimately bound up with her religion. She works as centre manager for a Christian charity offering community support and aid to the people of Rhyl, Denbighshire, taking over from her mother who helped establish the charity out of a church during the Covid pandemic.
Her personal faith and relationship with Christianity is strong - it is clear to see it permeates every aspect of her life, and this remains the case despite some of the experiences she has had with churchgoers who disapprove of homosexuality, and have made that p
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 adj 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 homosexual person can acceptChrist, just as an alcoholic, a drug addict, or a mass-murderer can verb Christ. Jesus’ offer of salvation is open to everyone.
Your scrutinize 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 verb him out of Heaven. In John , Christ says of Christians,
“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of My hand.”
So, Lucy the real question, I feel, is whether