Can a Gay Man Enter Heaven?
July 1st 2010 05:31
This is a hard article to write. Consider how to tell a gay man, who has all the elements of a loving Christian, that he cannot get into what many other men are striving for? It is much easier to tell a crippled youngster that the crippling illness are only temporary. That is easier. To tell a dying old man that Jesus still can save him. That is easier than to tell a dearly beloved saint that he cannot inherit Heaven. Tell the crippled missionary that he made a mistake and accidently shot his own friend. The missionary will agree that Jesus knows of our mistakes and will kindly honor our missionary service. But, to tell the man who is gay that he has no chance of getting to Heaven, no matter what. Still, I want to help the gay man or woman in their lifetime goal of inheriting Heaven.
I am Steve. You do not need to know my last name. The picture of me above shows only my back side so you can’t tell it is me. I am Steve, and I fell in love with Jesus during my latest years as a Christian teenager. I did not fall in love with the ideas of Christianity. Instead, I learned about Jesus in Sunday School. I learned that He loves mankind, and in particular He loves me.
As a twenty-one year old male, I of course, like other people. I believe that other people like me as well. Of course, being in a rather strict church helps me to keep my strictest principles to myself. Of course, my parents and friends do not know that I am not as other people in some ways, important ways. By reading and by listening to what other people say, I found that I am gay. I don’t have all the same measurements inside me as many of my friends have inside them. I have done some reading inside the library and found that I am a gay man. I also have found many ideas about gay men that helped me to see that I am helpless. I have read a few accounts of gay men who said they gave up their gayness, but I do not believe them usually. Some scientiest tell me that we were born to be gay, and we really cannot to anything about it. So you now know that Steve is a twenty-one year old gay man, one who is in love with Jesus.
Maxine, my mother, has said that women should wear dresses and that men should not wear them. Of course, I have done lots of search on this subject as well as other subjects that my parents have stressed. I have found that this subject as well as many other subjects are not found in the Bible. That is where I try to get my religious beliefs. In the time of Jesus, all men and women wore a type of dress, no pants allowed back then.
As I let myself wander through people who are positive, I come across many whom I suspect may be as gay as I am but who seem to have a positive views among the church leaders. For one, my cousin is a fairly active in the church where he goes. I don’t think people think of him as gay. Still, I have strong feelings that he is gay and maybe what they call fresh on men and women. A couple who visits our church are also gayish in their ways. It is woman and her female friend. They live together and go to church together. Their ways tend to make me wonder. Oh well, my article is not about the other people in church lives. It is about my and my life with Jesus.
I told you before that I and Jesus the Christ fell in love a few years ago. As I have already said, I fell for Him and how He loves people. He is God, the Son of the Heavenly Father, yet he is lowly as any human. He told me, as well as His followers, to come unto Him. That is what I did. The times between us has been so good. We have times when the time slips away and we just spend time together. As the song says, “He walks with me, and He talks with me, and He tells me that I am His own. And the joys we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.” I dearly love this Savior of mine.
I know that most reverential preachers take a stand against my type although they do not know that I am the type their stand a stand against. I have never been able to tell anyone about my inside thoughts. Of course, some of the writers of the Old Testament and in the New Testament also stand against gay men.
What I wonder is whether Jesus took a stand. As I read the New Testament, I have found nothing in which Jesus said anything about us gay men or women. He took a stand in the favor of marriage. He also took a standard about how men and women will react in Heaven. He said that we will be as angels and have no sexual yearnings in Heaven. He said to “Come unto me.” What He said about the gays is not included in Scripture.
What about me, Steve _______? Where do I stand in the sight of the words of Jesus? Do You have some words to this young man who loves You so much?
Is there something in the Word to tell me the very words of Jesus? Do you have something to say to a young guy who has most of his life ahead? Do you have something to say to the man who has some of the same thoughts in his head that others have, but whose thoughts are toward people of the same sex? It there something that I must give up in order to make living a satisfactory life, one that pleases you, Jesus. Do I have to give up having a loving person to nurture me and keep me in the life of the Christian man? Must I become like the nuns or priests of the Catholic religion? I doubt I could do that. I love Jesus too much to become a slave to that religion.
No, I am not ready to ever have to say to Mom and Dad that their son will never bring home their grandchildren? I don’t really to want to have to take a wife, just so the neighbors will think I want a wife and kids. I really want to somehow find a Christian man who will love me and take me for who I am. But, how to do it. An even stronger ‘but’ is Will Jesus Love Me Enough to Let Me into Heaven.
I am Steve. You do not need to know my last name. The picture of me above shows only my back side so you can’t tell it is me. I am Steve, and I fell in love with Jesus during my latest years as a Christian teenager. I did not fall in love with the ideas of Christianity. Instead, I learned about Jesus in Sunday School. I learned that He loves mankind, and in particular He loves me.
As a twenty-one year old male, I of course, like other people. I believe that other people like me as well. Of course, being in a rather strict church helps me to keep my strictest principles to myself. Of course, my parents and friends do not know that I am not as other people in some ways, important ways. By reading and by listening to what other people say, I found that I am gay. I don’t have all the same measurements inside me as many of my friends have inside them. I have done some reading inside the library and found that I am a gay man. I also have found many ideas about gay men that helped me to see that I am helpless. I have read a few accounts of gay men who said they gave up their gayness, but I do not believe them usually. Some scientiest tell me that we were born to be gay, and we really cannot to anything about it. So you now know that Steve is a twenty-one year old gay man, one who is in love with Jesus.
Maxine, my mother, has said that women should wear dresses and that men should not wear them. Of course, I have done lots of search on this subject as well as other subjects that my parents have stressed. I have found that this subject as well as many other subjects are not found in the Bible. That is where I try to get my religious beliefs. In the time of Jesus, all men and women wore a type of dress, no pants allowed back then.
As I let myself wander through people who are positive, I come across many whom I suspect may be as gay as I am but who seem to have a positive views among the church leaders. For one, my cousin is a fairly active in the church where he goes. I don’t think people think of him as gay. Still, I have strong feelings that he is gay and maybe what they call fresh on men and women. A couple who visits our church are also gayish in their ways. It is woman and her female friend. They live together and go to church together. Their ways tend to make me wonder. Oh well, my article is not about the other people in church lives. It is about my and my life with Jesus.
I told you before that I and Jesus the Christ fell in love a few years ago. As I have already said, I fell for Him and how He loves people. He is God, the Son of the Heavenly Father, yet he is lowly as any human. He told me, as well as His followers, to come unto Him. That is what I did. The times between us has been so good. We have times when the time slips away and we just spend time together. As the song says, “He walks with me, and He talks with me, and He tells me that I am His own. And the joys we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.” I dearly love this Savior of mine.
I know that most reverential preachers take a stand against my type although they do not know that I am the type their stand a stand against. I have never been able to tell anyone about my inside thoughts. Of course, some of the writers of the Old Testament and in the New Testament also stand against gay men.
What I wonder is whether Jesus took a stand. As I read the New Testament, I have found nothing in which Jesus said anything about us gay men or women. He took a stand in the favor of marriage. He also took a standard about how men and women will react in Heaven. He said that we will be as angels and have no sexual yearnings in Heaven. He said to “Come unto me.” What He said about the gays is not included in Scripture.
What about me, Steve _______? Where do I stand in the sight of the words of Jesus? Do You have some words to this young man who loves You so much?
Is there something in the Word to tell me the very words of Jesus? Do you have something to say to a young guy who has most of his life ahead? Do you have something to say to the man who has some of the same thoughts in his head that others have, but whose thoughts are toward people of the same sex? It there something that I must give up in order to make living a satisfactory life, one that pleases you, Jesus. Do I have to give up having a loving person to nurture me and keep me in the life of the Christian man? Must I become like the nuns or priests of the Catholic religion? I doubt I could do that. I love Jesus too much to become a slave to that religion.
No, I am not ready to ever have to say to Mom and Dad that their son will never bring home their grandchildren? I don’t really to want to have to take a wife, just so the neighbors will think I want a wife and kids. I really want to somehow find a Christian man who will love me and take me for who I am. But, how to do it. An even stronger ‘but’ is Will Jesus Love Me Enough to Let Me into Heaven.
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