Why does God hate homosexuality?

Answer 1

General Answer

God does not hate anyone.

Christian Answer

God does not hate gays. They are gay because of sin, which causes imperfection, we are all sinners and imperfect. God hates the practice of homosexuality. It's a matter of immorality. It falls under God's standards of fornication which applies to all who practice sexual relations without the benefit of God's arrangement of marriage between a man and a woman.

According to Genesis, God's purpose for the mankind was to be fruitful multiply and fill the earth. Only a man and a woman can produce offspring.

The practice of homosexuality is an abomination in God's eyes and all who practice such things will be destroyed in the coming war of God's great day at Armageddon and nothing nor no one will be able to prevent this great war that's coming upon the entire inhabited earth. God hates all who practice immorality, not just gays.

Answer 2

Answer

God has not told us that he hates gays. Perhaps it is only his spokespeople who hate gays.

Answer

According to Leviticus, it is homosexuality that God hates. It goes against God's original plan and sense of order. The people involved were not mentioned, just a description of their behavior. A person is not their behavior. The word for homosexuality as we understand it was not created until perhaps the 1800's, though it clearly existed since very early on in human civilization.

Answer 3

Short General Answer

God doesn't hate anyone.

Jewish Answer

G-d does not hate gay people. Even the strictest Orthodox Jews believe that there are 613 Commandments and NO ONE follows them all.

Christian Answer

Just as God hates sin but does not hate sinners, so God hates homosexuality but does not hate gay folks. God loves homosexuals unconditionally, but he loves them enough to punish them as a father punishes a child. The gay person is the one who chooses to punish themselves to Hell, God is trying to offer them a free pass to heaven if only they will give up their ways.

However, they cannot give up their ways alone. That's why they must ask Christ to take over their lives and give them a new nature. When one has Christ living inside, one is never lonely. If you need companionship, then there is no reason friends or siblings cannot live together outside of a romantic context. Romance and physical relations are not necessary to not feel alone. Parents love their children and are not their lovers, and most who love their dogs are not in love with them. There were two friendships in The Bible that rivaled most marriages, and there is no Scriptural proof that those unions were of a romantic sort.

Gay-Affirming Answer

The sexual orientation of gay people is already settled before birth, according to scientific studies. God makes all things good. It is not possible that God would make people and then hate them for pursuing bonds that everyone else takes for granted. Gays are created to live happy, fulfilled and loving lives. Do not judge yourself or others on stories in the bible from thousands of years ago the writers of which had no understanding of what a gay person is. God doesn't. The scope of this depends on who you ask.

Answer 4

Here are some opinions from our community:

• In the Bible, (Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13), it says if a man lays with another man as a man would lay with a woman he will spend eternity in Hell.
• God loves everyone. What he does not like is the unnatural behaviors some people engage in such as homosexuality. The Bible says a man should not lie with another man as with a woman for it is an abomination.
• The Hebrew text of the Bible doesn't actually say that. The word "Abomination" is a King James translation, which was used because the word "unkosher' hadn't been coined yet. The word To'evah means "inappropriate for Jews" or "unkosher." It does not mean "abomination".]
• This is one of Christianity's greatest paradoxes. If God loves everyone, he should love gays right? Yes he should, yet the Bible says otherwise. What most people fail to realize is that the Bible is not the direct words of the Almighty, but was written by various men (and women at points) over centuries. The modern Bible has been edited multiple times by the Vatican and other Christian groups to remove anything that is contradictory to their teachings. The gist is: take everything in the Bible with a grain of salt as it is almost entirely fiction and exaggeration. Biblical literalism is the reason why most Christians are looked upon as backward and ignorant.
• According to the Lord Jesus Christ [the Creator God of the Old Testament - John 1:3]... God's Love, Mercy and Forgiveness is extended to those: "...that LOVE ME, and KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." (Ex.20:6)
• It's not a question of "does God love me" -- it's, DO I LOVE and OBEY GOD... regardless of who the person is asking it.
• That's who God loves: "...to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My Word." (Isa.66:2)
• Few people in the world have read God's Word in it's original language, in order that they may learn to tremble when they read it. When you tremble reading God's Word... it's part of God's gift to you to let you know He loves you.
• God loves everything that he has made. He looked at everything he made and saw that it was good.

Answer 5

God doesn't hate gay people or condemn them to hell. Certain Christians do this.

Conservative Christian Answer:

Muslims and certain Christians believe that homosexuality is immoral and a sin. They have a deontological view of this and believe it is just as wrong as other sins such a murder. They don't necessarily hate gay people or believe that God hates gay folks. However, their words can sometimes be misconstrued, and actual hatemongers may co-opt such words as their own or use them as excuses to commit such acts. Often, the real haters don't have much of a moral foundation and use others' words as an excuse to act in a hateful manner.

Deontology is adherence to a code. The problem with using Biblical deontology as a system of ethics is that the entire Bible isn't followed consistently, and not all commands are seen as equal in value. So people arbitrarily pick and choose what to follow. There is debate as to whether opposition to homosexuality was to be extended to all people, or if it was limited to a single sect of Jewish people. So if you believe that every commandment extends to Christians, then you have a problem, since modern Christians wear mixed fabrics and eat things condemned in the Old Testament. We eat pork and seafood other than fish, so how is that different than homosexuality? However, the New Testament does give some clues. At one of the first Christian councils, the question arose about what Jewish laws were Christians to be held to. They concluded only 3: Abstain from idolatry, eating animals that were strangled to death, and fornication. Fornication is the general word for all sexual sins. Whether that includes homosexuality is up for debate, at least from the perspective of modern gay apologists. They say that what the Bible condemns is pederasty, intergenerational sex, and nonconsensual sex, that nothing is against a loving relationship between two consenting adults.

The Bible does not specifically condemn gay people, only their presumed practices. Not every gay person does the things that many think they do, depending on how you define "gay." If you see it as a behavior-based lifestyle and not as an orientation, then you'd have difficulty separating gay people from what they do. But if you see it as an inborn or at least a deeply-rooted way of being or identity that is determined early in life, then you'd have to admit that a person can be both gay and celibate or even choose to live as straight even if their emotions craves otherwise.

As for eternal punishment, most Christians believe that is caused by a lack of a relationship with God. Anyone who hasn't asked Christ into their heart and became filled with God's Spirit, is, according to Christians, headed for Hell. So any person, gay, straight, les, or trans, can ask Christ to come into their heart and take over their lives. Whether a person remains gay or trans after conversion is a matter of debate. There are people who claim to be gay Christians, and it is not up to us to doubt the veracity of their salvation. That is between them and God. There are many anecdotal reports of people leaving homosexuality and identifying as straight or asexual after conversion to Christianity. But there are also reports of such people relapsing in serious ways. That is one of the reasons that various reparative therapy groups closed. While some were sued or harassed by laws misapplied to target them, other such groups collapsed internally due to hypocrisy and scandals.

Answer 6

God does not hate. Period. People have made this statement for their own purposes and beliefs. A large number of these people are in fact gay and refuse to admit to it. They preach against it which is self hate and they think if they are loud enough, no one will suspect the of being gay.

Answer 7

Some bigoted, malevolent and malicious people say that god hates gay people. However, intelligent people are not taken in by these lies. God loves everything that he has made. This means gay people, who are born to love the same sex, are also loved by god.

Answer 8

God, if there is one, doesn't hate gay people. People who think they know what god is all about hate gay people.

Answer 9

God loves everything that he has made. He looked at everything he made and saw that it was good.

Answer 10

God made gay people they way they are and wants them, and everyone, to be happy, living fullfilled lives.