NickyChris
11-25-2007, 02:32 PM
Hello to all of you... I haven't read any threads here yet.
I might as well say something about myself I guess. I'm not really used to introductions being that I don't register to very many forums.
I think I first learned what homosexuality was when I was about... eleven years old. I didn't understand it and interpreted homosexuality as gross and wrong. I was also taught that it was sinful to be homosexual, and for a very long time... up until about mid-to-late 2006 and early 2007 I believed that wholeheartedly. :P
As time went by though, I began to question. Eventually, I released myself from being homophobic, and then grew on to became anti-homophobia, but was still in a mindset that homosexuality was wrong but that we should love them anyway, because God loves them.
I couldn't get out of my mind that being homosexual was a sin... until oh about... 45 minutes ago, when I decided, finally, to do some actual looking up about what the Bible really says about homosexuality... I mean, I DID do some research before... but virtually got no where. I only got more confused, and didn't come across anything or anyone that said differently about God and homosexuality.
Today though I first looked in a wiki article which made me think a little. But then I looked at that other article that Mel White wrote... yeah, pretty much all of my questions were answered. O_o It made so much sense it was... just, wow.
I think my life might be forever changed after that... after those 45 minutes of reading. My entire perspective is different now. Most people go through their whole lives not knowing even that much about the Bible. I'm thankful to have learned this at 16... I'll definitely teach my children the very words of Mel White... If I ever have a gay or lesbian child, I will never ever, God as my witness, teach them to be ashamed of their orientation... or to try to hide it, or change it. I'm really... I can't really put into words my gratitude for this site... :P Like, really. I can finally let go of all of my unsureness now.
There are also a lot of other things, not just homophobia, that I've been taking into consideration, and changing my mindset about within this past year... I've really been looking at God, the Bible, and my own Christianity through a different light since the beginning of 2007.
Well um, anyway... sorry for my rambling. I just wanted to express how I felt about this.
Er... looking forward to posting more I suppose? :P
I might as well say something about myself I guess. I'm not really used to introductions being that I don't register to very many forums.
I think I first learned what homosexuality was when I was about... eleven years old. I didn't understand it and interpreted homosexuality as gross and wrong. I was also taught that it was sinful to be homosexual, and for a very long time... up until about mid-to-late 2006 and early 2007 I believed that wholeheartedly. :P
As time went by though, I began to question. Eventually, I released myself from being homophobic, and then grew on to became anti-homophobia, but was still in a mindset that homosexuality was wrong but that we should love them anyway, because God loves them.
I couldn't get out of my mind that being homosexual was a sin... until oh about... 45 minutes ago, when I decided, finally, to do some actual looking up about what the Bible really says about homosexuality... I mean, I DID do some research before... but virtually got no where. I only got more confused, and didn't come across anything or anyone that said differently about God and homosexuality.
Today though I first looked in a wiki article which made me think a little. But then I looked at that other article that Mel White wrote... yeah, pretty much all of my questions were answered. O_o It made so much sense it was... just, wow.
I think my life might be forever changed after that... after those 45 minutes of reading. My entire perspective is different now. Most people go through their whole lives not knowing even that much about the Bible. I'm thankful to have learned this at 16... I'll definitely teach my children the very words of Mel White... If I ever have a gay or lesbian child, I will never ever, God as my witness, teach them to be ashamed of their orientation... or to try to hide it, or change it. I'm really... I can't really put into words my gratitude for this site... :P Like, really. I can finally let go of all of my unsureness now.
There are also a lot of other things, not just homophobia, that I've been taking into consideration, and changing my mindset about within this past year... I've really been looking at God, the Bible, and my own Christianity through a different light since the beginning of 2007.
Well um, anyway... sorry for my rambling. I just wanted to express how I felt about this.
Er... looking forward to posting more I suppose? :P