Question:
I have a hard time fighting temptations especially homosexuality. I know that it is a sin. What tools do I have available to fight this situation. I do pray about it and ask God to give me strength to fight these feelings but feel at times that it is hopeless. I want my life according to God’s plan and his will but feel at times I will always struggle with this situation. Please give me some insight on how to deal with this situation.
Answer:
Instead of praying for the strength to fight your natural impulses, why not pray for clarity about your life? I assume your urges do not involve harm or coercion, so ask yourself, who told you homosexuality was a sin? Why do you believe them?
If you want to live according to God’s plan, you must be able to know that from within your own heart. There is no point in living according to the plan of a religious figure who doesn’t know your divine purpose.
Make a serious commitment to knowing yourself from the inside out and don’t give credence to messages that don’t resonant with who you are. You’ll eventually discover that those who try to make you feel bad and sinful are just trying to compensate for their own fears, insecurities and guilt. Don’t give them a moment of your attention, they have nothing but confusion to offer you on your spiritual quest.
Love,
Deepak
Byron Katie asks a simple question: Is it true? The impact of the question is enormous and has helped me
immeasurably. I thank you, Deepak, for reminding me of the value of the question. When you asked, who
told you homosexuality was a sin, it reminded me of the very first time I had that very situation questioned in
my life.
I felt so might lighter and unburdened. Thank you for your work.
Thank you so much.
Keep talking directly to God. Resist temptation and it will flee from you.
If the title of this question is ” Accepting homosexual Urges”, people can engage in the conversation with more ease of mind.
It has been written by God on every heart to know what is right, good,healthly, safe, and perfect. Be that and live each moment joyfully. I am that I am.
It states uncategorically in the Bible that the practice of homosexual acts, adultery, and all fornication (sex outside of marriage) is sinful. God’s plan is that if we engage in any sexual act, it take place within the confines of a male/female marriage. It is there–it is clear–it is unequivocal. There are also restrictions against lying, theivery, murder, and many other voluntary actions. What our society has done, however, is convince itself that some choices are not choices–they are actions we are helpless to prevent ourselves taking because “that is how we are” or “that is how God made me”. The simple fact is that sin is sin is sin–none is worse than any other–none is unforgivable. But we are all called upon by our Maker to make a committment to try to avoid sinful choices–to seek His forgiveness and a meaningful relationship with Him–and to accept Jesus Christ as our one and only mediator between Man and God. There is no other way. Wishing it weren’t true, or denying the truth of these facts, does not MAKE them untrue. God bless anyone who comes through this site trying to find true help–Mr. Chopra, you are not a man of God and you are deceiving these people with your teachings. I urge you to repent and to seek out the truth. No one should take any one else’s word (including mine) for what God has taught us–he should find out for himself through studying the word of God. It’s not easy–but it is that simple.
Luke 6:36-37
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination. ”
“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.”
“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;”
“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) ”
“And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither [whatsoever] worketh abomination, or [maketh] a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life. “
All we are doing when we look outside of ourselves, when we look around at the world…all that is….is a reflection of ourselves! It is all one, we are all one…and if we simply apply what that really means…our feelings, our thoughts, our intentions, our actions, our lives and world’s reality will change completly. If we trully believe that they don’t exist…you know, no fight, no problem, no limits….then they simply don’t.
To the person who asked the original question:
Don’t stop fighting the homosexual urges. God loves you, and He will never give you more burdens than
you can bear. You WILL be free if you seek God and don’t give up. Don’t pray only when you get
tempted. Make a habit of praying and reading the Bible daily.
I highly recommend the book: “The Spirits of Sexual Perversion” by Laneen Haniah. It will get you started
on the road to freedom. You can find it on amazon.com.
May God bless and sustain you. I’m praying for you.
Express and enjoy that which resonates at the deepest level of your soul, the important things you already know, regardless of those that pontificate and all other outside influences there is an answer deep down inside you already waiting for you to discover it. At this deep level there is no real question, no real uncertainty, at the deep level of peace and joy you will find a resounding certainty one you do not need to justify to others, explain or defend, when you KNOW what is right for you you KNOW. No one needs to explain it to you, you stop looking for outward comparisons to measure yourself against and live free and joyfully in the now, honest with yourself, expressing and enjoying that which resonates at the deepest levels of your soul. Good Luck!
To all who ask the question concerning homosexuality. I invite you to go to Acts Chapter 10 and read how the early followers of Jesus called those who were not like them unclean. According to their religious law some people were clean and some were not. Today some in the Christian Church continue to say who is clean and who is not. In this text Peter recieves a vision and then proclaims “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts men from every nation who love God and do what is right.”
Gay Christians and Gay people of faith today know that there is no condemnation for their God given sexual orientation. The Biblical texts people use to condemn Gays are not speaking of homosexuals expressing love in a context of caring, but sexuality expressed in temple prostitution, or ungodly worship, or rape. This is wrong wither it is straight or gay. But relationships of love of all sexual orientations are blessed of God.
This vision is for the church today. Acts 10: 15 “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.
Gay people of faith are celebrating who it is that God made them to be. Love yourself and know that God loves you…God shows no favoritism. You are a child of God. If you are questioning your sexual orientation find groups of same sex loving people of Faith…they can help you.
And God is not an advocate of any man’s judgment…
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Wow, this is deep. It seems to me that a lot of people think that they are gay or that they might be, but there are often other things that are making them feel this way and that they are not truly gay at all if you get down to the bottom of things. There are others that feel that they are truly gay and that this is the only right and happy way for them to live. For these people who truly feel that they are gay and live that lifestyle fully, why would God make them this way to feel so strongly and then tell them that they are wrong for feeling the way they do and acting upon it? I don’t know. It’s confusing to me. It says that homosexuality is a sin, but I guess you really have to believe in the Bible and Christianity the way it is taught in church to go along with that. I don’t. But at the same time I don’t know what I believe in. I just feel that what I hear in church and read in the Bible seems fake to me. I’d like to learn more. But for those that “think” they may be gay, consider the fact that psychologically there may be something else going on with you that makes you feel this way and that you may someday feel that you are not at all gay and not interested in that way of life at all. You may also find that you truly are gay. Good luck.
Remember that the Bible was Written by HUMANS !!!
Not by God.
Yes, the bible was wriitten by humans, and translated to English over several different languages. When left
to translation, anything can be manipulated to mean what the interpreter wants it to mean. The bible was
used for centuries to govern people. That does not necessarily make it a docturine of each and every God-
seeking soul. I recall a very important message from the bible being “Thou shall not judge.” It is interesting how
acceptable it is to judge the choices of others when we can connect it to an interpreted excerpt from the bible.
There is more to this journey on earth and our questioner is on a journey of acceptance for
who they are and how they feel. Let go of what others THINK is right or holy. Your spirit will guide you if
you quiet down and listen.
Judge not for yea will be judged. Love others as you love yourself. This is also in the Bible. Live life in peace and enjoy.
To those who took my lesson of wisdom, but received it as judgement—pleaz don’t.
It is not heathly to use your body in this manner……you will become sick and diseased.
Is iti inot common sense to understand that putting your organ used for creating into the anus?
Pleaz be safe—what better way to love and care for you than instruction in safety?
Love,
Lorri
…some guided by Christian teachings, quote from the bible to defend their views (Leviticus 18:22 states that homosexuality is an abomination). These people fail to note that Leviticus 10:10 also indicates that eating shellfish is an abomination and the Exodus 35:2 clearly states that a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath should be put to death. This statement has been used by conservative Christians to prove that homosexuality is wrong in their minds. This contributes to homophobia within many religious circles.
stop tellin people to fight who they are. no amount of praying or search within yourself will change your true feelings. if you gay. ur gay. if ur straight. ur straight. accept people for who they are if they are not hurting you or themselves then why is it wrong for them to be how they are. if some one is gay or not it has nothing to do with you. you only get one life to live what’s the point of supressing who you really are and being miserable to make a paticular religion happy when ur. if god loves us he will accept us how we are with no exceptions.
leave the gays and lesbians alone. don’t preoccupy yourself with what they are doing. make sure your hands are clean before you start pointing fingers and handing out judgement. only god judge us. right? so leave dem alone and worry about ur own sins.
k thanks
dianet, where does he tell people, or even insinuate, to fight who they are? You need to actually read what people say before you spew your ignorance and moronism!
For all the haters, what did Christ said about casting stones?
Besides Mr. Chopra comes from a different tradition.If anyone wants a Christian fundamentalist perspective, you would be better served going somewhere else.And if you would like to have the people see and feel the glories of Christ then share it from LOVE.
Damning someone who is feeling bad or confused will only make them feel bad and confused, and not closer
to the truth of Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection into God’s love.
Forgive them Lord, for they do not know what they do…
Peace
Lorri – If you state that your concern is for the uncleanliness of anal intercourse, does that mean that you are not opposed to lesbian relationships? Also, what about male couples whose sexual practices do not include intercourse? – This is more common than those who are not educated about homosexuality would imagine. Many homosexual males do not enjoy anal sex and so they do not include it in their sexual activity.
If there is indeed a single God, I can not imagine God would be an entity who would look down on any two people loving each other.
For those who quote the Bible to promote homophobia, I would ask, what does the Bible and Jesus explicity say about divorce? It is easy to find verses here and there, taken out of context to promote anything, including slavery, greed, war, jealousy. Although homosexualtiy was rampant in Roman society, Jesus, NEVER addresses it. Instead there are many verses about not judging……
Barb
Stop fighting who and what you are. Deepak said it best, who told you being gay was a sin and why did you believe them? life is about flow and freedom and love, not resistance and suppression of who and what you really are because we are made in the very image and likeness of God and you werent made imperfect being homosexual it was not a mistake. It was a blessing. live in the true nature and essence of who you are and let no one with an age old book of man written “truths” tell you its wrong to be you. Love yourself. peace and blessings. Namaste
it also says in the bible to not condemn. those who are completly
sinless may throw your rocks, but if you have sinned and condemn
others than you are made a hypocrit. i dont like the word
“hypocrit” but there really isnt a better word.
if anyone wants to make a difference than there shouldnt be any
energy wasted on topics such as gay marriage or what “other
people are doing wrong.” we should direct our attention on
understanding and helping others, even when you dont feel the
spirit of christ in the moment, let every breath be toward that goal.
to fight over what is right and good is no better than to fight over
what is bad. either way it is violence.
Dear Deepak,
I want to stress in one of the universal principle which is the law of gender.
This creation was the vibration between the possible and impossible and when you think more of that you will find that this creation continues to evolve due to the opposition.
Male and Female, Black & White, Sky & Earth… etc
So of course, homosexuality is not a sin but praying for clarity is about understanding our creation in this dimension and the principles that rule it.
What do you think?
Thank you Deepak!
To me, your words are clear, easy to understand, and resonate with truth.
Deepak is teaching poison. Flee from it!
Deepak asks the man, “who told you homosexuality was a sin?”
St. Paul, et al. And he was a hell of a lot holier than you are, Mr. Prancing-Through-the-Tulips.
Not that any of you will hear it… But we Christians do not “hate”
homosexuals. We believe that it is a sin to have homosexual
unions. It is just as sinful to commit heterosexual adultery, and we
Christians do not deny that we sin also.
So much of the negative commentary assumes and is concerned with the sexual act. I have a curiousity. If a homosexual couple male ore female stop having sexual contact as often occcurs with people in long-term relationships or marriage, do they now become acceptable in the eyes of the public? or in God’ eyes for that matter? In this case it leads me to the opinion that many people are preoccupied with the sex acts that they believe gay men in particularly are involved in. In particular the hetero men in our society for example find lesbian sexuality way more acceptable and even a turn on in their minds. I suspect a lot of this hatred and fear is based on the adolescent homosexual explorations that most young men have participated in. In other words while it was ok at 14 at 40 it is not. Wives ask your husbands if they had early homosexual experiences or explorations. Most men do. For some it was just a rite of passage while for others it would become the foundation for their adult sexuality. what do u men and women out there think about this. Did gays just not get over early curiousities? are we really all created to follow the same paths of marriage and child bearing? What about people with no sexual interest? Are they inferior to married heteros or superior to homosexuals or both?
So, lemme see if I got this…
Christians are against abortions, and
homosexual unions, too.
Well, who has less abortions than people in
homosexual unions? Here’s an entire class of
citizens guaranteed never to have an abortion,
and the Christians are just tossin’ them
aside.
You’d think they’d be natural allies.
As I am an aficionado of unions, I know
homosexual unions would be welcomed
by me…
SOLIDARITY FOREVER, MAN!
Webster, you’re joking right? I certainly hope so.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi once said…
“It is a deadly serious business we have
with this business of being so serious…”
He had a lot of other good stuff
like that, too.
I would agree that there is a place for the lighthearted humor, but not
every place.
CHICKEN CROSSING
Why did the Chicken cross the road?
(Anonymous, from various sources, with
some additions by Timothy, noted with an
asterisk*; a double asterisk** is my
elaboration of an original item in the
anonymous version.)
Taoist sage Lao Tzu:*
The road that can be crossed is not the
true Road.
(Tao Te Ching, ch. 1)
Also from Lao Tzu:
Those who cluck do not know.
Those who know do not cluck.
Buddha:
If you ask this question, you deny your
own chicken nature.
Star Trek’s Captain Kirk:
To boldly go where no chicken has gone
before.
Plato:**
To know her true self, for the greater good
of all.
Zeno of Elea:
To prove she could never reach the other side,
given that, before she can get there, she must
get halfway there; and before she can get
halfway there, she must get a quarter of the
way there; and before traveling a quarter, she
must travel one-eighth; and …
John Lennon:**
Imagine all the world’s chickens, crossing
every road in peace…
Colonel Sanders (of KFC—Kentucky Fried
Chicken):
I missed one?
Hugh Hefner (the “Colonel Sanders of Hot
Chicks”):*To fully expose its delightful body.
Maybe she would like to come live with me…
and dress up as a bunny.
Dr. Seuss:
Did the chicken cross the road?
Did she cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road,
But why it crossed, I’ve not been told!
Ernest Hemingway:
To die. In the rain. Alone.
Martin Luther King Jr.:**
I have a dream that one day all of God’s
chickens, chickens of every color and faith,
from every village and every hamlet, will be
free–thank God Almighty, free at last!–to
cross any road without their motives called
into question.
Louis Farrakhan:
The road, you will see, represents the black
man. The white chicken crossed the
“black man” in order to trample him and keep
him down.
Grandpa:**
Well now, listen here, my young friend.
In my day, we didn’t ask why the chicken
crossed the road. Someone told us that the
chicken crossed the road, and, by golly,
that was good enough for us. Those were
simpler times, and we were simpler folks.
Barbara Walters:
Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments we
will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first
time, the heart-warming story of how it
experienced a serious case of molting and went
on to accomplish its life-long dream of crossing
the road. We’ll have all the details you want to
hear, right after this break.
Oprah Winfrey:
Well, I understand that this chicken is having
problems, which is why he wants to cross this
road so badly. So, I’m going to give this chicken
a car so that he can just drive across the road
and not have to live his life like the rest of the
chickens.
Dr. Phil:
The problem we have here is that our chicken
friend won’t realize he must first deal with the
big problem on THIS side of the road before he
goes after the problem on the OTHER SIDE of
the road. He needs HELP realizing just how
STUPID he is for not taking on his CURRENT
problems before adding NEW problems!
George Bush:**
We don’t really care why the chicken crossed
the road. We just want to know if the chicken
is with us or against us. No middle ground here.
In fact, Vice President Cheney tells me there’s
evidence this chicken is a terrorist in collusionation
with the enemies of our freedom. Dick, do you have
your gun handy? Wait a minute now, Dick! Make
sure that thing’s pointed in the right direction, okay?
Colin Powell:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see
the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road…
Ralph Nader:
The chicken’s habitat on the original side of the road
had been polluted by unchecked industrialist greed.
The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on
other side of the road because it was crushed by the
monstrous wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.
Pat Buchanan:
To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American.
Jerry Falwell:
Because the chicken was gay! Isn’t it obvious? Can’t
you people see the plain truth? The chicken was going
to the other side. That’s what they call it: “the other side.”
Yes, my friends, that chicken is GAY. And, if you eat that
chicken, you will become gay, too. I say we boycott all
chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal
media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like
“the other side.”
Ronald Reagan:**
As with the Iran-Contra matter and Nicaragua, I don’t
remember. But I’m sure it was in our great country’s
best interests.
Bill Clinton:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken.
Sigmund Freud:**
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken
crossed the road clearly reveals your underlying sexual
insecurity. What were your feelings about your mother?
Carl Jung:*
How synchronous, Herr Freud, that this chicken should
cross this road at exactly this moment on the way to
its full individuation!
H.P. Lovecraft:
To escape the crawling horror lurking on this side of the
road, a nameless and foetid monstrosity that cannot be
conceived save in the dreams of madness.
Howard Cosell (sportscaster):
It may very well have been one of the most astonishing
events to grace the annals of sports history. An historic,
unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt
such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to
homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurrence.
Bill Gates:
To lead the other chickens across the Info Superhighway
and into a world where there’s a computer in every home.
William Blake:
Little chicken, who set thee free
To wander here on Highway Three?
“Oh, sir, your question’s very odd;
He is called the Lamb of God.”
Weekly World News:
Nostradamus predicted chicken/Bigfoot horror!
Thomas Jefferson:
All hens are endowed by Nature and Nature’s God
with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of the
other side.
Karl Marx:
Driven by the lash of economic necessity, it was
historically inevitable.
Voltaire:
I may not agree with what the chicken did, but I
will defend to the death its right to do it!
Che Guevara:*
I am in solidarity with all chickens! Viva el pollo!
X-Files’ Fox Mulder:
You saw it cross the road with your own eyes!
How many more chickens have to cross before
you believe it?
X-Files’ Scully:
Mulder, calm down, it was a simple bio-mechanical
reflex commonly found in chickens.
Sir Isaac Newton:
Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in
motion tend to cross the road.
Albert Einstein:**
It depends on the chicken’s frame of reference as
to whether the chicken crossed the road or the road
crossed the chicken. Moreover, given our curved
universe, if the chicken keeps moving in the same
direction, it winds up coming once again to the same
road!
Physicist Werner Heisenberg:
Because the chicken is moving sufficiently fast, you
can either observe the chicken or you can measure
the chicken, but you cannot do both.
Timothy Leary (smiling):**
Because it was the only far-out trip the Establishment
would let this groovy little chicken take.
Jean Paul Sartre (not smiling):**
To impose a meaning upon her accidental existence…
Do you think you could sit with that chicken in a small
room for eternity?
Albert Camus:**
The chicken crossed the road. My mother died today.
Nothing matters. The world is absurd. Chicken’s actions
have no meaning, except, possibly, to her.
Jacques Derrida:*
These are just language games in the logocentric strategy
of discourse. What is a “chicken”? What is the “road”? In
the reappropriation of the original text of this phenomenon,
and being utterly open to its subtext of emptiness and the
many, as part of our ongoing postmodernist deconstructionist
project, we are interested here only in the actual feathers,
tissue, beak, claws, and asphault.
Jacques Derrida (asked the same Q on another occasion):
Any number of contending discourses may be discovered
within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each
interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can
never be discerned, because structuralism is
DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
Vito Corleone:
We made her an offer she couldn’t refuse.
Rogue cops in the L.A.P.D. (Los Angeles Police Dept.):
Give us ten minutes with the chicken and we’ll find out.
Nancy Grace:
That chicken crossed the road because he’s GUILTY!
You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
O.J. Simpson:
It didn’t cross the road. I was playing golf with it at the time.
Mark Twain:
The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Steven Wright:
Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road.
It said, “What for?”
http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/Spiritual_Humor.html
If you feel guilty, change your belief system.
W-O-W
You wrote alot of chiken quotes!
Deepak,
Thank you for being who you are and teaching kindness, we all know this world is full of anger, be it war or religion. You are teaching what I feel God wants us to all practice, acceptance and love for one another. It is the 21st century and by now we should all realize that white laying with blacks, men laying with women and same-sex laying together is all acts of love and should not be construed as anything less. Remember, there was a time in America when a black person and white person being together was a crime and a crime that the church punished. Let us not forget the wars that have been fought in the name of God, yet this, was only mankind and mans greed using the Lord as a weapon, and we continue to see this all too often today.
Thank you again Deepak for teaching love.
Top twelve reasons homosexual marriage should not be legal:
1.Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control.
2.Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people can’t legally get married because the world needs more children.
3.Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
4.Straight marriage will be less meaningful, since Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage was meaningful.
5.Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are property, blacks can’t marry whites, and divorce is illegal.
6.Gay marriage should be decided by people not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.
7.Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
8.Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
9.Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
10.Children can never suceed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why single parents are forbidden to raise children.
11.Gay marriage will change the foundation of society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and we could never adapt to new social norms because we haven’t adapted to cars or longer lifespans.
12.Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a “seperate but equal” institution is always constitutional. Seperate schools for African-Americans worked just as well as seperate marriages for gays and lesbians will.
Awesome job Gay Marriage!!
I was raised pentecostal and was severely abused by my parents with beatings and fastings, irregular school enrollment, and was forced to read the Bible etc.. So i left at 15 and just basically let loose with my gay sexuality. I only knew what homosexuals were because my dad would always say awful things about them and one day i googled it and stated watching gay porn at 13.
I feel guilty whenever i do something sexual with a guy, but at the same time I can feel the “tingle” vibrate thru me at the sheer thought of it and I don’t understand why people are forced to deal with urges they don’t want.
I have cried for weeks, prayed, listened and read all the passages in the Bible and these are now the points i think no one else on here has made.
God loves all man-kind, but no one will make it into Heaven living in sin. We cant repent from sin and continue to do it. Jesus is the only atonement for our sin and the Holy Spirit in prayer is our weapon against the attacks of Satan.
This world is not the place that Christians are to make themselves too comfortable. We are to love everyone but not to cause this love to cause us to sin.
The orgin of homosexuality came from false idol worship. I don’t think it would have happened if Adam and Eve had never sinned.
Jesus suffered so much for us, we will feel pain and suffering sometimes in this life but that’s part of the deal. Hell is not worth it. Not even the risk even if u don’t believe in hell, its not even worth the risk.
For people who are gay and “miserable” because they cant have a same sex partner, i think you can have a celibate relationship, as long as no sex happens.
I am only 23 so I hope to meet a girl who wants to be straight also and we can help each-other. It takes time but we have to live sacrificial lives to please God. He told us to be a living sacrifice- Holy and acceptable unto God.
Only what God intended is acceptable to Him, not what we feel is fair or unfair. Not to say that I don’t wish that it wasn’t a sin to be gay, its not- its a sin to have sex with the same sex.
Its a lifestyle that is many times tragic, full of drugs and drinking and promiscuity anyway for the most part. Thats goes for straight people also I guess but i think more often amongst gays.
Make Jesus Christ the love of your life, its not always easy, pleasant, satisfying to the fleshly desires but it will be worth it when you escape the damnation and judgement to come.
All religious people who say that gay people should resist temptation do not have an idea of what they are talking out, unless they have taken vows of celibacy. Most people are programmed to be in relationship and we are biological programmed to have sex. Sex feels good and it facilitates intimacy. Someone who is gay doesn’t feel any much different then a straight person. They have crushes, fall in love and want to have sex just likes straights. Usually people are called to celibacy for spiritual/religious reason. Usually when people are called to celibacy it’s because God gave them a gift of celibacy. So if I where to force celibacy on a homosexual would it mean that they some how missed out on a calling.
For those of you calling on homosexuals to be celibate, why don’t you offer instead your sons and daughters to be marry these homosexuals. Maybe it’s not celibacy you should be advocating.
!!! VERY INTERESTING POINT-OF-VIEW !!!
You make some very good points, sorry that no one here seems to have noticed your post.
Hopefully Deepak will consider what you have said and will rethink his statements.
“Praying for clarity is about UNDERSTANDING OUR CREATION IN THIS DIMENSION and the principles that rule it”. Let us all pray together for this CLARITY, it is absolutely necessary if we are to live together in peace and happiness on this earth!
(posted on April 4, 2009
Dear Deepak,
I want to stress in one of the universal principle which is the law of gender.
This creation was the vibration between the possible and impossible and when you think more of that you will find that this creation continues to evolve due to the opposition.
Male and Female, Black & White, Sky & Earth… etc
So of course, homosexuality is not a sin but praying for clarity is about understanding our creation in this dimension and the principles that rule it.
What do you think?)
Love is love. It is not bound by gender. People should be free to love whomever they want: whether it is loving their gay self, or loving a same-sex partner.
honestly i told myself that, one day, and it really made me think, if i was choosen to be gay, or if i was made, wouldn’t that contradict my free will…being black puerto rican, those aren’t attached to free will, it essentially has to do will emotion, i had time to reflect back on when i made that choice to walk that dark road. Eventally i had to find light, and slowly but surely i am, by praying and constantly making a subconscience effort to please god. If you heart is really looking to repent, keep your consistency and mind on top of things. REmember god will never forsake you, even through the most horrid sins, the lord is willing to forgive.
Hi, there are a lots of interesting comments. I can’t say much since myself has this problem. For the reason a person to become a gay I think maybe due to natural causes like a problem in hormone or is cause by the environment that person live. I first start to realize I am a gay was when I fell in love with a male friend of mine. When he move to other school, I cried for a month. Now every time I had that feeling towards a guy I just ignore it. I pray and I believe in God, well sometimes I do ask Him why my cross is such a burden. But the point is, I never give up, He never give up for me, and for a moment I thought I was being selfish. I mean He died for me and all I ould do is complain. Yes, feeling guilty is depressing. I remember my priest once told us that God made us to feel guilty cause He love us so. By feeling guilty we know that we are wrong, and we are like a lost sheep. God wanted so much to bring us back to the truth. Because He care for us and He watch us like a mother watch her little baby in her arms. Now, that was my experience, I hope sharing it would help others. I still got some problems related to homosexuality. But I’m working on it. Deep inside I know I can, and I feel everyone should have the same feeling. God will guide us. I’m such a weak creature but in God I feel stronger. May God bless us all. Amen.
I am glad to be given a chance to give my view on this matter. Sorry if my comments is unclear. I was never good in English.