I am 17 years old, I am Catholic and have a few questions that i am going to ask intelligently and with respect, all is ask is a response in the same manner.
I just finished watching a documentary on your religion and church. I saw you getting your message out to everybody which was that they are going to hell and God hates them because they do not believe in your church values. You tell people that God hates them for sinning and they will go to hell. Everyone sins, nobody is perfect, I do my best to obey God, but I do make mistakes. God knows people make mistakes, it is in the Bible as well. In the bible it tells us that no one is perfect and the Jesus was the only perfect one that has walked this earth because he was God. When I sin, I repent, I confess my sins to God so that I may be forgiven and do my best not to Sin again. When I was watching the documentary I witnessed a little boy that was 7 years old that was showing a book he wrote to show how to obey god and one of the rules was dont lie, after which he said “I think everyone lies sometime.” In your religion what happens when you sin? Does got hate
you if you sin once?
What happens when a gay person stops being gay and starts praising God and is sorry for what they have done and wants to make it right, what should they do according to your religion?
Good evening, Kurt!
You asked:
1) In your religion what happens when you sin? Does God hate you if you sin once?
What a question! Answer: One sin is enough to damn a person to Hell; and since each son and daughter of Adam is born in sin, is dead in trespasses and sin, they are, as a matter of fact, deserving of Hell fire for eternity (Rom. 5:12, Rom. 3:23, Rom. 6:23, Jas. 1:15, Eph. 2:1). Out of Christ’s mouth we know that most of mankind is headed to Hell (Matthew 7:13). But we also know that there is a “very small remnant” of people not going to Hell – the people that the efficacious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ covers and makes clean and righteous – the people that God loves and forgives. In the Bible, those precious people are called “the elect,” “the election,” “the sheep,” “beloved of God,” “saints,” “the called,” “the faithful in Jesus Christ,” “faithful brethren,” “them that have obtained like precious faith,” and “them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.” You see those terms? Very definite, select, distinct, limited. These people have the grace of God abiding on them that saves them – not because they deserve it, not because they have no sins or less sins – but because it pleased God to love them for the “praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made [the elect] accepted in the beloved.” (Eph 1:6)
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Eph. 2:8-10.
“For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.” Romans 9:15-16.
So in summary: If God elected you to salvation (before the foundations of the world), it doesn’t matter how many sins you commit – He will always love you (of course those sins will be a continual grievance of mind and heart to you on this earth, and you will be forever seeking to strive against those sins, to repent of those sins and to live a Godly life). But if God predestinated you (before the foundations of the world) to live a life of sin and to die in your sins, it doesn’t matter how hard you “want to make it right” – you’re going to Hell.
2) What happens when a gay person stops being gay and starts praising God and is sorry for what they have done and wants to make it right, what should they do according to your religion?
Answer: I can’t say it better than what can be found on the www.GodHatesFags.com FAQ page, to wit:
“When the grace of God operates on the heart of a human, that human desires to obey God and live soberly and righteously. And when that happens, that person is profoundly impressed with his sinful nature, and falls on his knees begging God’s mercy. And God has mercy on that heart. Then, and only then, a true spirit of repentance exists, and forgiveness follows.
The average homosexual – and average false preacher – today would have it that God forgives the practicing homosexual even as he continues to be a practicing homosexual. Forgiveness does not come without repentance. Repentance does not come, by definition, without the sin stopping. When the homosexual conduct stops, the person is no longer a homosexual. Homosexuality is a behavior – not a trait. Until that happens, it is folly of the worst kind to claim that God has forgiven the homosexual.”
Thanks for writing!
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