Will u go to hell for being gay

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You’ve asked a very key 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 queer or homosexual person can acceptChrist, just as an alcoholic, a drug addict, or a mass-murderer can accept Christ. Jesus’ offer of salvation is uncover to everyone.

Your scrutinize is whether someone can acceptChrist, not change his lifestyle, and still move to heaven. The Bible teaches that if someone has truly accepted Christ into his being, nothing can hold him out of Heaven. In John 10:28, Christ says of Christians,

“I provide them eternal experience, and they shall never perish; no one can steal them out of My hand.”

So, Lucy the real ask, I believe, is whether your cousin had a life-changing experience with Christ. Jesus said in Luke,

“Why do you ca

“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 equip them to hear that their beloved child is gay. This is the child you possess 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 encourage you to sit down, loosen, maybe get a cup of tea, and soak in what I’m about to tell you. My hope is to reference 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 get to that. But at the bottom of it all, this is not about you. Most parents’ first mistake is to mak

Is being gay a sin?

Answer

In order to answer the doubt “Is being homosexual a sin?” we need to oppose some assumptions upon which the interrogate 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 pause this question up and deal with each piece separately. Rather than question, “Is being same-sex attracted a sin?” we need to inquire, “Is it sinful to have homosexual 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) entity 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

This article is part of the What Did Jesus Teach? series.

Silence Equals Support?

In a 2012 article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?¹

The article was occasioned by a story about a gay teenager in Ohio who was suing his high school after educational facility officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.”

Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the statement on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes,

While it’s logical to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would have disapproved of homosexual sex, there is no record of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, permit alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself offer an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.

Oremus seems to suggest that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not include been very concerned about it.

There are at least two reasons that we should be skeptical of this view.

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