Did god make people gay
Are Some People Born Gay?
Many Christian parents have asked me this question. They are struggling with a child who has recently “come out” and are trying to grapple with this new reality. These parents have lovingly taught their children the Bible, taken them to church all their young lives, and can’t understand how their children could possibly choose this sinful sexual behavior. They think biology may help explain what they are wrestling to explain any other way. So can it? And if biology can illustrate it, is homosexual habit still sinful if God made them that way?
An Evolutionary Dead End
From an evolutionary perspective, it really wouldn’t make any feeling for homosexuality to include a biological basis. One of the major tenets of evolution is reproduction and passing on one’s genes to the next generation. As one storyteller put it, “The being alive of homosexuality amounts to a profound evolutionary mystery, since failing to hand over on your genes means that your genetic fitness is a resounding zero.”1
And if homosexual behavior has a genetic component, how could it even be passed on to future generations? In many ways, it’s an evolutionary lifeless end. Some evolutionists possess tried to e
Does God make people gay? A theologian responds
Washington D.C., May 22, 2018 / 15:22 pm
Sexual attraction does not explain identity, a priest has said, after comments attributed to Pope Francis include prompted questions about Catholic doctrine and the nature of sexual orientation.
"Of course God loves all people. This is his defining characteristic: God is love," Fr. Thomas Petri, OP, told CNA.
"But he does not love sin, indeed he cannot care sin because sin is not only opposed to God but also opposed to the factual good and happiness to which he calls every human person."
"So while [God] may love every person, he does not love the things we undertake that separate us from him and harm our dignity as his children," added Petri, academic dean of the Dominican-run Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.
On Friday, Juan Carlos Cruz, a Chilean victim of sexual abuser Fr. Fernando Karadima, told the Spanish newspaper El Pais that Pope Francis told him that it did not matter that he was gay.
He said the pope told him, "God made you like that and he loves you like that and I do not care."
The comments own stirred a controversy about Catholic doctrin
What Does the Bible Utter About Homosexuality?
What Does The Bible Say About Homosexuality?
Introduction
For the last two decades, Pew Research Center has reported that one of the most enduring ethical issues across Christian traditions is sexual diversity. For many Christians, one of the most frequently first-asked questions on this topic is, “What does the Bible say about attraction to someone of the same sex?”
Although its unlikely that the biblical authors had any notion of sexual orientation (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even coined until the late 19th century) for many people of faith, the Bible is looked to for timeless guidance on what it means to honor God with our lives; and this most certainly includes our sexuality.
Before we can jump into how it is that Christians can maintain the authority of the Bible and also affirm sexual diversity, it might be helpful if we started with a brief but clear overview of some of the assumptions informing many Christian approaches to understanding the Bible.
What is the Bible?
For Christians to whom the Bible is God’s very written word, it is widely understood that God produced its content
This article is part of the Tough Passages series.
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24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged innate relations for those that are reverse to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up organic relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.29They were filled with all style of unrighteousness, bad, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.32Though they know God’s righteous