Do gay people go to heaven
A reminder for the Christmas dinner table: No, LGBTQ persons are not marked for hell.
The holidays are a time for celebration, but they can also be a time of great anxiety and dispute among families. This is especially true for many families of LGBTQ persons.
A grandparent recently told me he thinks his grandson is gay. But that’s not the problem. His angst comes from the in-laws who, he says, think that “homosexuals are going straight to hell.” What if this comes up at the dinner table? What if it comes up at Christmas? The effect of these words on a juvenile person can be profoundly wounding.
I’m a Catholic educator. Not long ago, a Catholic teenager told me that she asked about gay people during a parish religious education class. “They go to hell. It will never change,” said the teacher. And during a recent conference, I asked an LGBTQ young person in the audience, “Has an senior ever said anything to you that was hurtful?”
Not only are these responses theologically and morally false, but they are also examples of the assertive rhetoric that LGBTQ persons experience as spiritual harm.
“Yes,” the student responded. “My seventh-grade religion teacher said
You Will Go to Hell
Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals1, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9b-10.)
A professing Christian husband and father leaves his wife of thirty years for a immature woman the age of his daughter. A Sunday Academy teacher is obsessed with his favourite sports team, going into short phrase debt to form trips all over the country to watch his team play. A college student heavily committed with the local collegiate ministry regularly has sexual intercourse with his girlfriend. A young male attends church regularly but frequents homosexual bars, looking for gay men, and goes home with them. A seeming loving and good adjusted lesbian couple, who know the Bible well, claim to love Jesus. An elder in a church regularly cheats on his income tax and steals money from his company. A young mother who teaches children’s church constantly badgers her husband for a bigger house, a nicer car, excel clothing and runs up huge credit card bills trying to satiate her covetous and idolatrous lifestyle. A pastor preaches
Can a Gay or Lesbian person leave to Heaven?
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(Letter)
I know the Bible says it’s a sin, but it also says that the only unforgivable sin is not accepting Jesus. If a Homosexual person accepts Jesus but does not change his lifestyle, can he move to Heaven? I have a cousin who’s Gay.
—Lucy
You’ve asked a very vital question—and a very hard one.
And you are exactly right: there is only one sin that is unforgivable. That is the sin of not believing and not receiving Jesus Christ into your life.
A lgbtq+ or homosexual person can acceptChrist, just as an alcoholic, a drug addict, or a mass-murderer can accept Christ. Jesus’ offer of salvation is unlocked to everyone.
Your doubt is whether someone can acceptChrist, not change his lifestyle, and still move to heaven. The Bible teaches that if someone has truly accepted Christ into his existence, nothing can preserve him out of Heaven. In John 10:28, Christ says of Christians,
“I offer them eternal being, and they shall never perish; no one can grab them out of My hand.”
So, Lucy the real doubt, I believe, is whether your cousin had a life-changing experience with Christ. Jesus said in Luke,
“Why do you ca
LGBTQ+ church bid: 'I was told being gay would send you to hell'
"As a Christian, when you've been brought up to be taught it's not OK to be gay or to be in a same-sex partnership, but you are. You can't change how you feel."
She even tried to use her faith to alter who she really was because of her conditioning.
"Believe me, I've prayed and prayed and prayed to try and change how I see boys and how I see girls," she says.
"[But] I was made this way. God made me who I am."
Betty's life is intimately bound up with her religion. She works as centre manager for a Christian philanthropy offering community support and aid to the people of Rhyl, Denbighshire, taking over from her mother who helped establish the charity out of a church during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Her personal faith and relationship with Christianity is strong - it is clear to see it permeates every aspect of her experience, and this remains the case despite some of the experiences she has had with churchgoers who disapprove of homosexuality, and have made that plain to her.
However, when she initially embarked on a relationship with a woman, she went throu