Christians, if being gay is such a sin then why did the all knowing and powerful God write it out of our neurology ?

Question

Surely God could have wired our brains in such a way that homosexuality never happens

Answer 1

Aye, there's the rub... of course an all-powerful god could have created us any way he liked. But he failed to do so. Christians will try to excuse this by saying this being gave us free will, so we would freely worship him instead of being forced into it - which also means a free choice of everything else. No wonder they keep going on about how it's a choice. It helps them rationalise it.

Free will is the knottiest problem in Christian theology. As I well know from studying for my theology degree. If you give your created beings free will, and then punish them for exercising it, God is not nice. Which totally contradicts "God is love". Either that, or God is incompetent. (If you're interested, look into the work of John Hick, particularly his book "The Problem of Evil". Because evil is the same problem - why does "evil" exist, whatever "evil" is? Certainly according to the Bible, evil and sin is whatever God says it is.)

But this is nothing to do with free will, is it? We don't have free will over who we're attracted to. I tried for YEARS to feel attracted to women and it never worked. It's just part of me. I'm a homosexual man and finally giving up on trying not to be one was the best thing I ever did. The logical conclusion is that God is wrong. Or even more sensibly, following a holy book written by people who were ignorant of this is nonsense.

Meanwhile, as you're asking Christians, let's use some logic on the Bible. The Old Testament is clear that homosexual sex is wrong, but it is also clear that not following Jewish dietary laws is a sin, so you have no excuse for ignoring them as Christians do. So we can forget the OT as far as Christianity is concerned. I am NOT going to take any crap from someone who claims to be Christian and eats any meat of the pig.

That leaves us with the New Testament, which only even mentions homosexuality in three places and there are good arguments for saying they have all been mistranslated (I could witter on about this at huge length from my knowledge of NT Greek - just about anything written by John Spong is quite helpful, though).

What makes most sense is of course to start from the assumption that there is no all-powerful god. So be atheist, Satanist or some kind of pagan - all very comfortable with this idea and totally accepting of homosexuality.

For some fun on the whole god question, I am currently re-reading Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods". I thoroughly recommend it. I won't spoil it for you by saying any more but read it and I know YOU will get the point.

Answer 2

Being happy is not a sin in any religion I've ever heard of.

Answer 3

Sorry but with gays.. thats the devil twisting your neurology

Answer 4

Sin entered into the world through Adam and Eve. Sin distorted man's behavior and way of thinking. Romans 5:12

Answer 5

Everyone has the right to have beliefs. Personally, religion has lost its way. I'm not an atheist per se, I'd call myself more agnostic, but to me I'm tired of hearing the words "You gotta have faith."

Answer 6

I am not Christian, or gay, but if God were real and made our brains the way we understand them to be, it stands to reason, if God gives free will, that we have the right to be what we feel we are. Straight, Gay, bisexual, or whatever. The real conundrum is, if God is real is his idea of free will ethical?

Answer 7

Whether a person is sexually attracted to the opposite gender or same gender is not determined before birth by our neurology. Which gender we are sexually attracted to is determined by our psychosexual development. This is largely determined by how our parents relate to each other and to us. If a boy has a Father who is assertive, competent, respectrful of his mother and nurturing of hius Son; the son will most likely be glad he is a male and be able to accept his masculinity. If his mother is loving toward his Father and himself while at the same time be virtuous, the boy will be able to give his love to a female and be heterosexual.

Answer 8

He did wire us in that perfect way. However, we began 2nd guessing his methods when we began injecting ourselves in hopes of perfecting God's work. When we inject the blood and guts of aborted fetuses (the actual vaccine manufacturing process) into our own childrens' bloodstream, exactly what could go wrong? It is very much similar to the idea of cannibalism. What could possibly go wrong physiologically if we began eating each other? These experiments have already been conducted and very meticulously analyzed. The soul of the aborted fetuses used as the medium in vaccine production still remains apart of the blood. That soul still lives in the blood. Sadly, we are injecting our children and wondering WTF is wrong with them? It is no fault of the child whatsoever, the adults are to blame.

Answer 9

Facinating. Simultaneously a proof for god's limitations in creation, and god's irrelevance to Human moral authority. Congrats! Luv u.
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Answer 10

Christians will say it's a choice, not a pre-wiring. They say it's because of sin, not biology.