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BTW! Being "gay" is unchristian like. Just like cursing, disobeying your parents, stealing, and drinking....ext.

ok disobeying your parents and stealing i can understand but last i checked cursing and drinkign weren't technically sins so since you were wrong about two examples any chance you were wrong about the gay verdict as well?

Ya, cursing is, especially when you say the lords name in vain.
And drinking is a sin only if you get drunk because that is abusing your body

I think committing a gay sexual act is a sin but I don't think being attracted to the same sex is a sin. I think acting on it is wrong but it's completely wrong to hate gays.

Yeah I agree with this.
Everyone has certain tendencies to sin; homosexuality is only one of these tendencies. And each Christian should strive to overcome his sinful tendencies with the help of Jesus and other Chrisitians they can trust; whether it's the homosexual tendency or any other.
Related to this problem, I've read an article dealing with homosexuality in the context of this passage of Galatians
"The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God."
From what they wrote there, the word for sexual immorality originally was there in the specific sense of homosexual acts. That would mean that it is a part of human old sinful nature; but who is reborn in Jesus is to abandon these ways.


Hating any person is sinful, so to the original question I say yes. The person who hates someone for their homeosexuality has no right to think that they themselves are something better because they aren't sinless either; and in this case they are guilty of the sin of hatred and pride.

We have to accept every person, but we still have to be aware what a sin is and we must not accept its normalization. Whether the homosexual tendency in a particular case is biologically caused or not; homosexual behaviour is still the person's choice and that is a sin, not the attraction itself. We as Christians have to love the person, but we must not approve to their sinful lifestyle.

Go to hell? You know that there is forgiveness for everyone who really wants it, don't you?
We all have tendencies to sin that we must fight somehow. For some a form of this tendency is desire for a homosexual relationship. But even when they don't choose to have this attraction it's still wrong to act according to it. Other Christians have their own issues they must deal with too. They may not be as difficult as homosexuality, and to us it may not seem just that some people have their life harder and some have it seemingly easier, but only God knows why he puts a certain person in a certain situation... from his perspective things can be so very different than from our limited view, and eventually there can be a reason why a person had their fight against their inner sinful tendencies more difficult than another one. We can just know that God will not abandon us if we seek for his help sincerely... and that is valid also for a person who feels lost because is a Christian who has discovered their homosexual attraction, God is there to help those who sincerely seek for him.

I think the question of whether a homophobic Christian is sinning has already been solved, but somehow the subject of this topic has been broader already for some time... and why not, since not much is going on in this guild forum anyways.

And I think in my other posts on this page I have already adressed your points too.

I am aware that homosexual attraction is not a choice. But homosexual acts are a choice. Christians have to be growing into a new beings during their life with God though, renewed beings that have put aside acts of their sinful nature or at least are trying to. There are various different tendencies to said sinful acts present in each person and homosexuality is just one of them. But whatever sin we are aware to be inclined to, we have to struggle against it, for God wants us to become his new creations, dead to sin and to all aspects of our sinful nature. I can't know from a Christian view why at God allows people to have disposition to homosexuality and at the same time states in the bible that homosexual acts are sinful. But we are told that they are sinful, not only in the OT but also in the NT, thus Christians who take their faith seriously should not practice them.