Why does God allow people to have gay feelings?
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 06/02/2009 - 14:14
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We're living in a fallen world, and every one of us is born into this world with an imperfect sinful nature. Whilst it's true that God has 'knit me together in my mother's womb' (Psalm 139:13), the Psalmist also makes it clear that 'surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me' (Psalm 51:5). An inevitable consequence of living in a fallen world with a sinful nature is that we will all desire and long for things, which are clearly prohibited by God in the Bible. Some people will struggle with anger, others with envy, still others with hatred, bitterness, jealousy, slander, or a desire to steal, or commit adultery, or to rebel against their parents. Most people will struggle to one degree or another with lust; for the majority it will be lust over people of the opposite sex, but for some it will be lust over people of the same sex - the Bible simply calls it lust.
The gospel of Jesus Christ redeems (rescues) us from the power and consequences of our sinful natures and begins to transform us, so that increasingly, step by step, we desire and are empowered to live lives which conform to God's pattern for living in the Bible. It's worth noting that very often 'gay feelings' are actually masking a legitimate, unfulfilled need for a right kind of same-sex intimacy, affection, affirmation and acceptance.
God gave us complete freedom,
God gave us complete freedom, since that is an integral part of true, "Agape" type love.("A space in which anything can exist") Since we are "free", it can only be mankind who has "introduced" the "Gay Feeling", or have allowed them to be "introduced". Satan wants us "screwed up" and heading towards hell. So to begin with he's knotted up our early childhoods so that, for the vast majority of people, we hate ourselves and play these elaborate "games" to appear O.K. Most of us are very hurt and angry inside, I know I was. And it's taken me a lifetime but I feel there is only one way through this and that is to draw alongside Jesus, into deeper and deeper prayer, and He W I L L heal us. It may take some time, be very painful BUT it will be thorough and carried out in absolute love and tenderness. Certainly this has been my experience Fine, I'm sure He hasn't finished with me as far as the "homosexuality" is concerned but I'm significantly moving, and I'm become more and more aware of His wonderful love and peace. On the whole the world is against us, including the churches because they are also packed full of hurting people unable to look inside, which is where poor Peter was until he denied Jesus and Jesus looked at him and Peter had to dramatically face himself and "he wept bitterly", but what a "man" that eventually made of him! Jesus is encouraging me to look at myself and I have never liked what I saw, BUT I feel it is the only way to growth, wholeness and a real life with our Lord and Saviour.
B R I A N.