Unfortunately, this site has become a place to just completely bash Christians.
The apostles of the NT as well as the prophets of the Tanakh were against homosexuality because they recieved revelation from God that He despises that act (notice that I say the act, not the person). Although a person sins, they can still have forgiveness if they repent. If they sin willfully even thinking that they can have forgiveness in the future anyways, then they can repent of that willfully sinning too. It isn’t people you repent to, but God who knows everything that is in your mind and knows if you truly mean it. So it is pointless to point fingers at God or people, because God is perfect and humans can’t send other humans to hell. If you live in sin without repentence, then you are not a Christian. In order to be a Christian, you must believe in Yeshua the Messiah and everything that He said along with the authority and revelation He gave His apostles. If you are not obeying the Lord then you are not a Christian, which means Christ-like. Christ is the Greek word for the Hebrew Meshia or Messiah.
So the answer is that you cannot be LIVING in homosexuality. Although there is one point a friend of mine brought up which I think is valid. He said that homosexuality is a sin like any other, and that although a person has those types of feelings, it does not mean they are going to hell. It is if they act out on those “perverted” feelings that the person actually commits the sin. Understand that I do not say perverted in the derogoratory sense, but only in the proper sense. A Christian believes that humans were created good, with good desires and other good qualities, but that because Adam decided that he wanted to be like God, knowing good and evil directly disobeying the command of God, sin entered into the world and distorted/perverted the original course of things. So understand that I am not calling homosexuals perverts, just their ways and desires perverted. The good thing would be to desire God above all things, and that is what a Christian does. If he does not, then there is no way that he is a Christian, and he must accept that everything God says is true (just to clarify God wanted man and woman to be united, another man would not be a suitable partner for man which God made for man).
Unfortunately, some people do not understand that God hating sin does not equate with God hating the person who sins. Sin kills the relationship between God and man. If the relationship is killed between God and man, and God is everywhere in heaven, then that person must go to a place where God is not, and He is not in the lake of fire (which God made for the devil and the devil’s angels). That is why Yehsua (God the Son) Himself decided to pay for sin for us by becoming human and becoming separated from God the Father and from His body (meaning that His spirit left His body, and He was not in communion with God the Father–hence “My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?” He was quoting a Psalm actually for those who don’t understand). When Yeshua died and was raised back to life by the Holy Spirit, the debt of sin which we owed with our lives and our spirits was payed in full, and all we have to do is repent and believe that He has made a way for us to be with Him again. A Christian believes that He is now in communion with God by the Holy Spirit living inside of him and teaching him, giving him special powers and abilities and responsibilities. the biggest responsibility is for that Christian to tell other people about how to come to God, by believing in Yeshua and repenting of their sin. If a Christian does not warn people, and warn them in the deepest love and concern for the other’s soul, then we are disobeying the Lord, which is sin and which we must repent of or we might as well as just walk away from Christianity altogether.
So it isn’t out of a biggot heart that I make my point clear that homosexuality is wrong. God loves homosexuals, but we as Christians are obligated by love for our fellow man to warn them of the consequences of sin and help them out of it. Wow, I’ve said a lot! Sorry, I just felt that I needed to explain why I say what I say in defense of the Gospel. I’m not embarassed or afraid to state what I believe and why, but I want to make sure that people understand that homosexuality is a distortion of how God intends for us to behave (and is thus sin), and that God still loves every sinner and welcomes the sinner with love and peace and with the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts, which anyone can recieve if they will be willing to give up everything for the sake of the Gospel of Yeshua.
There is a lot to this matter, so I may have missed some points. Then again, whoever said “reality is simple to understand?”
This will probably be my last post considering there is just too much that offends me and the Lord in this site. It isn’t the viewpoints necessarily, but just the attitudes of the people here; I feel like if I don’t agree with someone, then they will just jump down my throat and verbally abuse me and that there is just open blasphemy which isn’t constructive to a conversation or argument. To me, that is a sign of an amateur philosopher. But feel free to contact me with a personal message only if you have any questions about Christianity (and you can be respectful) as it will be sent automatically to my inbox in my e-mail account.