Do Gay People Go To Heaven?
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Posted By: Jack - 12/1/2002 10:53:00 AM
I originally posted this in the member's-only forum, but I'd like to know what everybody else thinks, as well. I'll kick things off with my opinion. What do the rest of you think?
Member Comments:
Jesus said "whosoever will" come unto Him will be saved. Sin is sin, and we are all saved from our sin at the Cross.
No person gets saved, never to sin again. There are good, serious born-again Christians who still smoke. Some still occasionally drink.
There are also genuinely saved, born again Christians who are addicted to alcohol, tobacco (as already noted) and even some who are addicted to drugs.
Because they still are addicted to their besetting sin doesn't mean they are not saved. It just means Jesus isn't done with them yet.
That principle must apply to homosexuals as well as smokers, drinkers, and addicts and habitual sinners of all stripes, or it doesn't apply to any of them.
If not, then Romans Chapter Seven seems to have no particular application in the life of a Christian. And neither does Ephesians 2:8-9
There are plenty of people who believe that if someone continues in an habitual sin after they are saved, then they must not be saved.
Proponents of this view obviously haven't thought that position all the way through. Unless they have satisfactory answers to the following questions:
What if your habitual sin was something innocuous, like an addiction to Pepsi or fast food?
Gluttony, like homosexuality, is actually named in Scripture, unlike, say, cigarette smoking.
Does an addiction to Pepsi or Big Macs mean one is not saved?
Do you have to be fat, first?
What if you are fat?
Does it mean you are ineligible for heaven?
And if sin is sin, then who decides which habitual sin is too sinful?
God?
Scripture?
Churches?
Other Christians?
Is the disqualifying sin gluttony? Or homosexuality?
Cigarettes? Cigars? A joint? A beer? Cheating on your diet? Does a waitress who doesn't declare a tip on her income taxes become ineligible for heaven? Which sin is the deciding factor?
You see the problem.
Clearly, there are only two possible black and white answers. Either sin is sin and we are saved from all sin at the Cross, or no person who sins after being saved can hope for heaven. What if they forget to confess something?
That doesn't sound like 'freedom' to me. Sounds nerve-wracking. More like bondage TO sin than freedom FROM sin when carried to its logical extremes.
So to me, the correct answer is just as clearly Option #1. "Whosoever will."
I'd be interested in anyone else's feedback on this issue.
Lou
http://www.vietvet.org/loutplei.htm