Why are some people Gay?

’Gay’ is another word for homosexual and I will not ask another person for their opinion because there are so many theories and it would take too long. This is my opinion.

I believe that when a child is conceived by a female ’egg’ being fertilised by a male sperm (can only be seen under a microscope) there begins a process of creating a new life. This, some say, is a miracle and I fully agree. All those DNA bits and genes decide your hair colour, skin colour, your face, your height and feet size and so on…and the child is 50% Mum and 50% Dad. Grandmas and Grandads think they are beautiful. How do I know? I have eight ’Grandies’ and four ’Great Grandies’ so that’s how I know!

Millions, maybe it is billions of chromosomes, genes and DNA (look those up in a dictionary for yourself) must be joined together perfectly over nine months inside the woman’s body. Errors can happen in that very, very complicated process and various poisons, can damage the process. Handicapped, disabled and imperfect babies are then born and I guess that a homosexual person can be the result of an error in a very complicated process.

I saw a Chinese guy on TV who was half a metre taller than everyone else. He was two-and-a-half metres tall! I think the ’height genes’ forgot to stop multiplying so he got to be very tall. Not too good going through doors. DUCK YOUR BLOOMIN’ HEAD! Others are born with Down’s syndrome, spina bifida, cerebral palsy and quite a few other abnormalities. Homosexuality, I believe, is another minor error.

I have seen a few lambs that are born with both male and female body parts. They are known as hermaphrodites. A few humans are that way too and that makes for a very difficult life for them. Even God claimed that He made imperfect babies. Yes!! Way back in the Bible Moses was told by God to: ’…go and tell the Pharaoh of Egypt to let my people go.’ They were there in slavery. Moses did not want to confront the Pharaoh and claimed that he had a speech impediment: ’ Moses replied, “I have never been a good speaker. I wasn’t one before you spoke to me, and I am not one now. I am slow at speaking, and I can never think of what to say.” But the Lord answered.“Who makes people able to speak or makes them deaf or unable to speak. Who gives then sight or makes them blind? Don’t you know it is I who does these things? Now go! When you speak I will be with you and give you words to say.’” ( Exodus chapter 4 verses 10 to 12). God got quite annoyed with Moses later, read it in verses 13 to 17) It all finished up, OK. I have never heard a preacher explain that passage of scripture about birth defects – it is pretty hard to understand.

I believe that the process of bringing a new life (a baby) into the world is so highly complicated, with so many millions of perfectly correct connections to be made between genes, chromosones, DNA and all that, it is so marvellous, that it should be called ’A miracle’. Errors do happen.

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How did the devil get turned into the devil?

Because he got very proud and ambitious and did not want to be No. 3 or 4 in heaven but rather No.1.

The Bible says there was war in heaven and Lucifer (another name The Devil) was thrown out of heaven, down to the earth and he took many evil angels with him. They are now the ’Evil spirits’ of this world. Maybe a better plan would have been to send him to Mars or Jupiter! (Er, that’s my own idea-it’s not in the Bible).

In heaven, you know how we don’t get older but does God?

No, I do not believe that God gets old like we do here on earth.

There are many big words to describe God. He is immortal, (deathless, lives forever) invisible, omnipresent (everywhere at once), omniscient (knows everything), and omnipotent (all powerful).

Jesus said : ’God is spirit (not a spirit) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.’

King David wrote: ’From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.’

He always was – and always will be – God. The unchangeable God.

Great question and many think on it.

I don’t know the answer exactly but I’ll try:

Jesus said to His disciples not long before he was going to die: ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house (heaven) are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if go and prepare for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.’ (John 14: 1-3). And He did not just mean the 12 disciples. Not at all; Jesus meant the true believers, and you and I are included in that lot.

Jesus once said in answer to as question about marriage in heaven: “When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, they will be like the angels in heaven.” (Mark 12:25 NIV)

The Bible also says: ‘Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for those who love him.’ (i.e. much better than we can possibly imagine)

Because love is the main theme of the whole Bible I cannot imagine God saying to good people, as we might say here on earth: ‘No, you cannot be near that one – we have rules here, you know. You stay over there with that lot, and you stay with that lot.’ I am fully convinced that true love will not be separated by silly rules.

On the other hand I would not like to be living with the woman I married without a big change. We just would not get along together. God is love and He cares for us all very much.

Q.112. ‘Has God tongue kissed – does he approve it?’

Q.113. ‘Where do babies come from?’

Q.114. ‘Does God approve of sex before marriage?’

Q.115. ‘Is it a sin to have sex at this age? ...

Like 13 and up because my friend had it?’

Q.116. ‘Does God like sex? (used to).

(These five all go together – and from five different people. I do hope the writers are not ‘having a lend of me’, joking, or just being silly) I did not understand, or remember all I heard in Year Seven, so I’ll treat them as serious questions.)

All five questions are a part of having babies.

As God is ‘Spirit’ (Jesus said that) so He is not flesh and blood as we are and did not, and does not, have a wifeto kiss and hug.

Are you dear reader able to spot what is missing in the above five questions? Look hard – read them again. What is missing! All five questions are on sex…you are strongly attracted to, besotted with a person (in adults it’s called lust).

Love is missing. Yes, love is the missing part. God planned that sex (kissing, touching and all that), is to go with love…in marriage, but we know better – or do we?

Around 5-10 people a day in Australia suicide. Why? Heartbreak, lack of love? Mental illness and depression (some from sexual abuse) can cause the loveliest people to suicide. A lot of people have severe depression – sometimes brought on by sexual abuse as children. We have a lot to learn and remedy about that.

Kissing and ‘touching’ is the beginning of having sex and having sex makes babies inside a female’s body. Babies come from a woman’s body as a result of having sex. God does not approve of sex before marriage. Why? We humans don’t know how to be sensible about it: simple as that. The TV, radio, magazines, etc. promote lust and adultery and call it ‘Love’ but it’s not! It is sex but it ought be called ‘Fake love’. Love is essential to happiness! We all, from babies to adults need to learn how to give love and to receive love. Humans are not ‘complete’ people without genuine love.

I watch the TV show ‘Dr Phil’ often. He is very wise, very kind, but very practical. Many of the people on his programme have deep personal pain and problems…many, because they took the easy way to sex and ‘Happiness’ and ignored the fact that God intended love and sex to be enjoyed within marriage. Maybe nobody told ‘em that!! Once two people are sexually aroused it cannot be stopped. Alcohol makes sex happen much more than normal – your sexual feelings ‘take over’ and you ignore everything you may have been taught from your youth.

Animals, with a few exceptions, have sex once a year to make babies. Mostly the mother raises the offspring (except a few). Daddy emu sits on the eggs till they hatch and raises the chicks. Poor dad emu! Mostly the male runs off till next year (lions, leopards, bears, foxes, etc) until it is time to mate again. Humans can have sex often if they want to but we do seem to make a mess of it and often and fail to ‘connect the dots’ and understand this business of sex and wonder why we are unhappy. Love and care for the partner is forgotten.

I was watching ‘Dr Phil’ recently. He tried to show a 13 year old girl that dressing in a ‘sexy’ manner invited boys to look at her, and think about one thing…sex. Dr Phil then invited the girl to walk around the walkways with him among the audience and return to the stage. She managed that OK. Then he put a blindfold over her eyes and helped her to walk around again. She was lost and totally bewildered. ‘That’s what you are doing in the way you dress and behave. You cannot see where it will finish up.’ (Getting pregnant, being sorry and very lost and getting a disease was not even considered by the girl.)

Yes! God planned that love and sex go together and ordained them to be enjoyed within marriage – but we know better!

In our knowing better there is an awful lot of sorrow, heartache and divorce. Kids suffer the most in a divorce, often blaming themselves. Take a daily, or hourly check of the popular music you listen to…how many times is love mentioned? In 50% of the songs or more, or less of them? Everybody wants love…and needs to learn to give love. In the 1950s a popular song was Love and Marriage (‘...go together like a horse and carriage’ – and had a great melody too). Such things as councillors, chaplains and psychologists were almost unheard of then. Society was without a lot of the heartache we have now and suicide was almost unheard of. What’s wrong now?

Back to sex! This desire/hunger/urge in sex can be a very strong force and few can hold back from it once kissing and fondling begin to get serious. All morals simply fly out the window because neither of you can, or want to stop. It can be a lot of fun…but pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases are not thought about. It hurts a lot of kids!!

Very early in the Bible God said: ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh.’ (Genesis chapter 2 verse 24) God knew that we needed sex – and within marriage you can have plenty – with no risk of a getting a dose of STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). Some of them can kill you; and also make you sterile (unable to have babies). Jesus told of an example of wise and foolish people (and the moral can be applied to sex and marriage). ‘Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation upon the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practise is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the wind blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great crash.’ (Matthew chapter 7 verses 24-27).Around half of all of marriages fail. Mine did, so take care!

Finally, whatever you do, do not model your life on ‘Pop stars’ and ‘Soapies’. Very few of them, but especially the ‘plots’ and ‘happenings’ are good models of how not to live your life. I love to hear our local weather presenter Natalia Cooper say: ‘Congratulations to Bill and Mary, celebrating 60 years of marriage’ God bless ’em’ – I am sure they had some fights, but they hung in there because real love was there.

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