I realize I am just a little late in getting in on this thread but since I am new to the forum, I'm having to play catch - up. If I am understanding correctly this thread is about whether or not a homosexual can be saved - and I'm guessing that it means a practicing homosexual. While I do not agree with the homosexual lifestyle and I do believe it goes against God's word, there is no where that I know of that says a homosexual can't be saved, practicing or otherwise. In Romans, it says for ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So knowing Christ as Lord and Savior does not make us perfect nor without sin. Sure we are supposed to try harder and if we get in the word and stay on our knees then, and only then might we get buy without making too many mistakes in our lives. I was saved at the age of 8. I was brought up in a Southern Bapt. Church and most of my life I have been in the Bapt church except for a few years in a non-demoninational church. I married at the age of 19 had two children and in l984 lost my youngest son in an accident on halloween at a church function. After 26 yrs of marriage I left my husband and consequently divorced him. Why? Because I knew one or both of us would wind up dead if I didn't. Even before our son was killed, there were many problems and to make a long story short, he was a very controlling person, a browbeater, a suicide threatener if I didn't do just what he wanted, when he wanted. There finally came a day when I felt like the Lord gave me the opportunity to get out and I did. I'm saying all of this to tell you that after my divorce was final - and I was 45 yrs old so not a young person, I got involved with a married man. This relationship lasted for several years and we probably would have married but because of his family, his children I knew that this could not be. I had 2 other brief relationships with men (not married) and then I met my now husband of 6 yrs as of today. My question to the person who believes a homosexual cannot be saved - Do you think that during the time I was not living as I should have been that I was without salvation? I don't believe you have to ask over and over to be saved. You have to ask forgiveness, sure but if we had to ask to be saved over and over, then Christ would have had to die more than one time. And we sin all the time - that thought, that word, that unChristlike behavior for whatever reason - which sin makes you unsaved again. A sin, is a sin. We as humans regard one sin worse than another but I believe God thinks they are all bad. He does say that homosexuality is an abomination but then what does he say about divorce - that he hates it and adultery? God does not put limits on who and who cannot be saved. For God so love the WORLD. Doesn't that mean everyone in the world. Anyone who repents and asks forgiveness of sins and believes on the name of Jesus shall be saved. How much clearer can the Bible be? Do we fall?- you bet we do. Do we go through periods where we don't show our fruits so that someone might not know we are Christians? Yep that happens too. So if you as a Christian whoever you are think that because you are a Christian, that you are without sin, then you need to redirect your thinking. God gave his all - and I do mean his ALL. When my son died, I new then, that there was no one, no not one person on this earth that I loved good enough to let me child die for - But God did. So anyone and I mean ANYONE can come to know Christ regardless of who they are, what they've done or what they are doing now. God can reach a long way into someone's heart and bring them to their knees and to him - even a homosexual.
