Can you go to hell if your gay
LGBTQ+ church bid: 'I was told existence gay would dispatch you to hell'
"As a Christian, when you've been brought up to be taught it's not OK to be gay or to be in a same-sex relationship, but you are. You can't change how you feel."
She even tried to apply her faith to alter who she really was because of her conditioning.
"Believe me, I've prayed and prayed and prayed to attempt and change how I see boys and how I see girls," she says.
"[But] I was made this way. God made me who I am."
Betty's life is intimately bound up with her religion. She works as centre manager for a Christian charity offering community support and aid to the people of Rhyl, Denbighshire, taking over from her mother who helped found the charity out of a church during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Her personal faith and relationship with Christianity is tough - it is clear to notice it permeates every aspect of her life, and this remains the case despite some of the experiences she has had with churchgoers who disapprove of homosexuality, and have made that plain to her.
However, when she initially embarked on a relationship with a woman, she went throu
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 lofty school after school 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 fair to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would have disapproved of gay sex, there is no record of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself present an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.
Oremus seems to suggest that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not have been very concerned about it.
There are at least two reasons that we should be skeptical of this view.
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(Letter)
I know the Bible says it’s a sin, but it also says that the only unforgivable sin is not accepting Jesus. If a Lgbtq+ person accepts Jesus but does not change his lifestyle, can he travel to Heaven? I have a cousin who’s Gay.
—Lucy
You’ve asked a very crucial 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 homosexual or homosexual person can acceptChrist, just as an alcoholic, a drug addict, or a mass-murderer can accept Christ. Jesus’ offer of salvation is expose to everyone.
Your scrutinize is whether someone can acceptChrist, not change his lifestyle, and still proceed to heaven. The Bible teaches that if someone has truly accepted Christ into his experience, nothing can retain him out of Heaven. In John 10:28, Christ says of Christians,
“I donate them eternal being, and they shall never perish; no one can plunder 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
Same-Sex Attraction
Same-sex attraction refers to emotional, physical, or sexual attraction to a person of the same gender. The intended meaning of gender in the family proclamation is biological sex at birth. The encounter of same-sex attraction is not the same for everyone. Some people may feel exclusively attracted to the same gender, while others may feel attracted to both genders.
The Church distinguishes between same-sex attraction and homosexual behavior. People who experience same-sex attraction or identify as same-sex attracted, lesbian, or bisexual can make and keep covenants with God and fully and worthily participate in the Church. Identifying as gay, lesbian, or bi or experiencing same-sex attraction is not a sin and does not prohibit one from participating in the Church, holding callings, or attending the temple.
Sexual purity is an vital part of God’s intend for our happiness. Sexual relations are reserved for a man and female who are married and promise complete loyalty to each other. Sexual relations between a man and woman who are not married, or between people of the same sex, violate one of our Father in Heaven’s most important laws and obtain in the way of our
Can a Gay or Lesbian person proceed to Heaven?
See this page in: Dutch, Hungarian
(Letter)
I know the Bible says it’s a sin, but it also says that the only unforgivable sin is not accepting Jesus. If a Lgbtq+ person accepts Jesus but does not change his lifestyle, can he travel to Heaven? I have a cousin who’s Gay.
—Lucy
You’ve asked a very crucial 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 homosexual or homosexual person can acceptChrist, just as an alcoholic, a drug addict, or a mass-murderer can accept Christ. Jesus’ offer of salvation is expose to everyone.
Your scrutinize is whether someone can acceptChrist, not change his lifestyle, and still proceed to heaven. The Bible teaches that if someone has truly accepted Christ into his experience, nothing can retain him out of Heaven. In John 10:28, Christ says of Christians,
“I donate them eternal being, and they shall never perish; no one can plunder 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
Same-Sex Attraction
Same-sex attraction refers to emotional, physical, or sexual attraction to a person of the same gender. The intended meaning of gender in the family proclamation is biological sex at birth. The encounter of same-sex attraction is not the same for everyone. Some people may feel exclusively attracted to the same gender, while others may feel attracted to both genders.
The Church distinguishes between same-sex attraction and homosexual behavior. People who experience same-sex attraction or identify as same-sex attracted, lesbian, or bisexual can make and keep covenants with God and fully and worthily participate in the Church. Identifying as gay, lesbian, or bi or experiencing same-sex attraction is not a sin and does not prohibit one from participating in the Church, holding callings, or attending the temple.
Sexual purity is an vital part of God’s intend for our happiness. Sexual relations are reserved for a man and female who are married and promise complete loyalty to each other. Sexual relations between a man and woman who are not married, or between people of the same sex, violate one of our Father in Heaven’s most important laws and obtain in the way of our