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Question: Can a person be "gay" and a Christian at the same time?

Scr.: Rom. 1:26-28; 6:1,2; 8:5-8

This is one of those subjects that always seem to ruffle feathers. Even those who are not homosexuals themselves will argue in their favor simply because they believe that homosexuals have a right to live differently. Unfortunately, too many Christians are actually afraid of them. Are these fears reasonable? Of course not, for just as God created Christians, so He created all of man. Jesus said, "whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me." A sin against a man is a sin against God because man has been made in God's image. That is very clear in scripture. What else is very clear is that living a homosexual lifestyle is sin. It is wrong.

The first main argument is that the God created a man to be with one woman and a woman to be with one man. It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. God saw that Adam was incomplete, that he needed a companion to fulfill all that God had planned for him. So, God created Eve from Adam. Why? What were God's plans for this? God's plans in making two incredibly different yet perfectly fitting beings was to have each portray half of Himself so that when they came together in Him they made a complete picture of Him. That was the way God designed it and God cannot fault.

What then about those men and women who are now "born homosexual?" First question is that is it really genetic? Perhaps. If it is, then we must then ask, why did God create them as such? The answer is that He chose for them to have this struggle in order that if they turn to Him to overcome it they would be incredibly strong Christians. However, this also leaves the option that they would not choose to obey Him, but their lusts. God in His great wisdom knows His own purposes and we can but speculate.
Scripture also talks of this subject in many places making it clear what God's view is. In Rom. 1:26-28, it talks about how when wicked men gave up the truth of God for idols, He gave them over to their own sinful lusts, and the wicked men then left the normal, natural sexual relations with the opposite sex to abnormal, unnatural sex with their same sex. Their punishment for giving up on God was Him giving them over to themselves to be punished in the dissatisfaction of the flesh and the agony of the absence of God.

What then if one becomes a Christian after having already lived the lifestyle and changed the mind to pattern the thoughts to that lifestyle? Can they continue in their sin and be a Christian. Absolutely not. Salvation is a rebirth. We become new. Rom. 12:2 commands that we should live as God would have us, not the world, and to "be transformed by the renewing of our minds." The old passes away and the new, the real arrives with God. Rom. 6:1,2 say that as Christians, we have died to sin, to our old nature, to our flesh. Are we really saved if we say we live when we are still acting dead?

Rom. 8:5-8 packs a big final punch. It makes things black and white; there is no gray. The choice is either for God, or for the flesh. They are against each other in every way. Just as light is with darkness, so is God with the lusts of the flesh. "The sinful mind is hostile to God." Ever notice how those who live in the flesh, who do not struggle with it, are hateful toward God and lovers of God? "Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God." It's either God's control or our control. As C.S. Lewis once wrote in The Great Divorce, "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, "thy will be done." So it is with all sin.

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