Expert: Carl Fuglein - 9/9/2010

Question
This is a question that perplexes me constantly, I just
don’t see how it can make sense that God hates homosexuals
or that homosexuality or anything to do with sexuality is a
sin. My thoughts, my feelings, my soul they’ve always been
this way, just like I’ve always been Black. I mean if God
created me, if he knows me better than I do myself, why am
this way if he hates it so much?
If he created everything, the he is all knowing, all
powerful, and all seeing, so why would he allow something
like homosexuality, that causes so many LGBGT people to be
persecuted, disowned and murdered; that divides both the
nation and the Church, to exist in the first place?
My question last question is this, if the Bible was written
by men inspired by God, how can we entirely trust everything
that is written in it?


Answer
Raekwon

I hear biterness in your letter.  I'm assuming that you don't like being a homosexual.  But I think you misunderstand the true feelings of God.  He does NOT hate you.  He hates homosexual sex, just like he hates lying and heterosexual sex outside of marriage and stealing and every other sin.  Yes, he did make you homosexual - how you deal with that is what is necessary.  If you remain celibate, you are not sinning.  You may be lusting - most everyone does - but it makes no difference to God whether you're lusting for a man like you do, or a woman like I do.  Paul wrote of being single, and it even seemed like he expected many people to be single - he called it the better way.  Was Paul gay?  A lot of people think so, yet he was the greatest evangelist that ever lived.

I don't know why God made you gay.  It's the one question that I honestly have no answer to.  It doesn't seem fair, but you DO have a way out - be celibate.  And I know that's a very difficult thing for you to do, but nevertheless, it is the answer.

I'm sorry you're persecuted.  But you should know that there are many people like me who DON'T persecute you and there are extremists or terrorists against just about everything.  People abhor what they don't understand, and unfortunately, being gay is one thing most people do not get.


As for your second question.  I think we can trust it, but since it contradicts itself in a lot of places, we have to study it and apply common sense to what it says.  It's a matter of faith.  Either you do or you don't love God and the Bible.

Hope this helps,

Carl