Does God love Homosexuals Too?

[MorningGlory]

nt

nt = ????

[Giaour]

nt= new testament?

[Guest lovinghim4ever]

God loves ALL. if he didnt then He wouldnt have sent Jesus now would He?

Jesus didnt come for the perfect and right before God. He came for the sinner. He will leave 99 sheep to go find that one lost one.

people don't go to Hell because God doesn't love them, they go to Hell because they won't love Him.

Awesome answers!

NOTHING separates us from God's love.

However, SIN separates us from His presence.

Homosexuals ARE loved by God, therefore they should be loved by Christians.

God loves the person not the sin, therefore we should do the same.

As far as God having no emotions! What? . . .

I posted this in another thread, but I post it again in this one . . .

John 11:35, "Jesus wept."

Emotion-less beings do NOT weep.

Jesus was fully man and fully God, so to say God has no emotion is to say that Jesus doesn't either.

If God has no emotion He would NEVER have sent Jesus (His only begotten Son) to give His life for us.

And, if Jesus has no emotion He would NEVER have voluntarily given His life to save any of us sinful creatures.

[secondeve]

As we are created in the image of God, then every emotion we possess is possessed by God.

So God can lust? I mean, you could try and categorise lust as being exclusively a sin rather than an emotion, but the Bible states more than once that God is capable of jealousy despite jealousy/envy being a deadly sin, so it seems just as reasonable to conclude that, working from this basis, God can feel "sinful" emotions, too, rather than just pure ones.

Which raises the question: if God is perfect but can feel lust and jealousy, then are these emotions inherently sinful no matter who feels them, or are they only sinful for mankind, and not God?

[RustyAngeL]

God has always loved the sinner but hates the sin.

[DarkNebulaWelder]

As we are created in the image of God, then every emotion we possess is possessed by God.

So God can lust? I mean, you could try and categorise lust as being exclusively a sin rather than an emotion, but the Bible states more than once that God is capable of jealousy despite jealousy/envy being a deadly sin, so it seems just as reasonable to conclude that, working from this basis, God can feel "sinful" emotions, too, rather than just pure ones.

Which raises the question: if God is perfect but can feel lust and jealousy, then are these emotions inherently sinful no matter who feels them, or are they only sinful for mankind, and not God?

God only displays those emotions that are in His nature, and lust is not one of them.

Lust is a corrupted form of love, which came with the Fall.

When Jesus was on the cross, he "felt" every sin, and sinful emotion, of man....including lust, I'm sure. Yes, I'm sure God knows what these emotions feel like, but they're not in His nature...so he does not feed off of them, like humans do.

Edited May 21, 2007 by DarkNebulaWelder

[apothanein kerdos]

As we are created in the image of God, then every emotion we possess is possessed by God.

So God can lust? I mean, you could try and categorise lust as being exclusively a sin rather than an emotion, but the Bible states more than once that God is capable of jealousy despite jealousy/envy being a deadly sin, so it seems just as reasonable to conclude that, working from this basis, God can feel "sinful" emotions, too, rather than just pure ones.

Which raises the question: if God is perfect but can feel lust and jealousy, then are these emotions inherently sinful no matter who feels them, or are they only sinful for mankind, and not God?

Lust isn't an emotion. Lust is an overwhelming desire for something. At best, it can be the misuse of an emotion (desire).

[secondeve]

As we are created in the image of God, then every emotion we possess is possessed by God.

So God can lust? I mean, you could try and categorise lust as being exclusively a sin rather than an emotion, but the Bible states more than once that God is capable of jealousy despite jealousy/envy being a deadly sin, so it seems just as reasonable to conclude that, working from this basis, God can feel "sinful" emotions, too, rather than just pure ones.

Which raises the question: if God is perfect but can feel lust and jealousy, then are these emotions inherently sinful no matter who feels them, or are they only sinful for mankind, and not God?

Lust isn't an emotion. Lust is an overwhelming desire for something. At best, it can be the misuse of an emotion (desire).

Arguably, jealousy fits this definition, too - an overwhelming desire for something. But the Bible doesn't say God is a desirous God; it specifies jealous. So, once again, if jealousy, why not lust, and as asked above, does this mean these emotions are only sinful for humans, and not God? Bearing in mind that my initial line of inquiry was sparked by Floatingaxe's comment, I still think the question stands beyond it because of the jealousy precedent.

[ColleenLovesMischief]

To act upon lust is a choice as it is to act upon homosexual lust. We have the choice it is not forced upon us. God does love the homosexuals, but hates their choosing sin over His commands.

[apothanein kerdos]

As we are created in the image of God, then every emotion we possess is possessed by God.

So God can lust? I mean, you could try and categorise lust as being exclusively a sin rather than an emotion, but the Bible states more than once that God is capable of jealousy despite jealousy/envy being a deadly sin, so it seems just as reasonable to conclude that, working from this basis, God can feel "sinful" emotions, too, rather than just pure ones.

Which raises the question: if God is perfect but can feel lust and jealousy, then are these emotions inherently sinful no matter who feels them, or are they only sinful for mankind, and not God?

Lust isn't an emotion. Lust is an overwhelming desire for something. At best, it can be the misuse of an emotion (desire).

Arguably, jealousy fits this definition, too - an overwhelming desire for something. But the Bible doesn't say God is a desirous God; it specifies jealous. So, once again, if jealousy, why not lust, and as asked above, does this mean these emotions are only sinful for humans, and not God? Bearing in mind that my initial line of inquiry was sparked by Floatingaxe's comment, I still think the question stands beyond it because of the jealousy precedent.

It only says God is jealous in relation to human love. In other words, God does not force our love or obedience, thus man can choose not to give Him what He deserves. Thus, God is jealous of our love.

I am not dead set on this either. I would have no problem admitting that we have some emotional traits that God does not posses, but these emotional traits would always be evil (such as lust, if it were to be determined as an emotional trait).