Do you believe it’s possible to “pray the gay away”?
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Romans 1: 21 - 32 (21) For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. (22) Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools (23) and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
(24) Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. (25) They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
(26) Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. (27) In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
(28) Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. (29) They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, (30) slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; (31) they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. (32) Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
echoing a post below, the huge amount of irony the church praying away gay, while in the back room the priest is showing altar boys what it’s like.
the church and religion in general, are solely responsible on a global scale over 1000’s years, for interfering in sexual matters and making things so bad people are killed, commit suicide or murder others..
easy examples are, the Catholic Church, Ireland, Muslim countries in Africa
They should stick to the non judgmental thing and be nice.
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Praying will do you no good if there is not a change in your heart. God has no obligation to answer a non believer's prayer unless it is the prayer of acceptance of Jesus as your savior. But it also involves repentance and not many gays want to change their life style. Jesus cannot save them if they choose to reject the Son of God's sacrifice for your forgiveness of sins. No one can get into Heaven on their own merits. Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." A person must repent (change their ways) in order to be saved. So gays, or anyone else, can be saved if they are willing to repent and follow God.
Nope, you can believe anything you want but it doesn't make it so. You have to follow rules and meet the requirements which is part of the deal. A gift doesn't do a person any good if they don't accept / receive it.
Well, the Bible calls it an abomination. Since God is the final judge on Judgement Day when your life will be reviewed for all to see and all can see if you were right or wrong, I would lean towards what God says seeing as He wrote the laws for His creation.
This thought is pure evil. So, let me put like this, if you are religious and gay, and you pray to god to be 'cured' and made heterosexual - the reason that won't work for you can't be because god doesn't care if you are gay or not - it's because god shouldn't answer your prayers because you are not religious enough. Wow - you are a sicko. If you can not see that is the logic of the devil, then I might just have to pray for you.
@kingofthellamas Maybe you need to read more comprehensively and stop reading too much into it. Fact * without repentance there is no remission of sin* Anyone can ask God to save them but if they don't stop killing people or fornicating they haven't repented. God knows what is in your heart no matter what words you speak.
Daniele the expression 'to read comprehensively' refers to reading broadly, not with the intent to understand a specific passage of text more, but I think that is what you are meaning. That would also appear to be incongruent with reading too much into anything (taking a range of interpretations would rather be the point of more comprehensive reading, no?) Further, the Bible has text in it, not facts. A fact would need to be something that can be independently observed and recognized without dispute, everything this else is conjecture. Lastly, you have doubled down on my point not refuted it - you can't be cured because god knows what is in your heart, so god will always ignore if you are gay inside. That is sick and evil Daniele.
What? Done that already thanks Best bit “I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth” Exodus 9:14 What an a-hole.
@kingofthellamas The Old Testament God was judging people. When Jesus died on the cross in the New Testament He was a God of forgiveness. Why do A holes keep looking at the Old Testament?
Firstly I'm not an a hole, I'm just not religious. But to answer your question, I don't see how you can in one breath offer the Bible up as having facts in it, but then in the next decide to ignore certain passages (or facts as you had called them). How do you know which are the right passages and which are not? If some passages are to be ignored, how many, and why not all of them?
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I know homosexuals who gave up their lifestyle and reoriented their affections to coincide with traditional majority relationships but it was based on a consistent and multi causal series of social and environmental triggers as well as a series of pluralistic and circumstantially sensitive self initiated efforts too and each person deals with their sexuality in a different way - I do not believe I’m qualified to address the full spectrum of sexual preferences in a spiritual context but I share the opinion that God prefers heterosexuality but still cares about the health and safety of most homosexuals.
While you can give up on the lifestyle, you cannot simply change your sexual orientation. I believe conversation therapy is nothing but brainwashing and gaslighting the person into thinking they're inhuman. That their homosexuality is a sin. They use god as a weapon to try and convince homosexuals. They guilt trap the subjects and they live their entire lives trying to seek redemption from the "sins" they've committed. Also no offence to you but you sound like a somebody who believes in the earth being flat and discards the theory of evolution.
Some people are just born liking others of the same gender. They are just not interested in the opposite sex. And who are we to tell them that what they are feeling is wrong and they should undergo Conversion Therapy? What if undergoing Conversion Therapy makes them even more depressed because they just do not want to be heterosexual? I am not a homosexual, I have a boyfriend whom I adored and loved deeply. That being said, I hate it when people are forced to do things that they do not want to. We should respect other peoples' choices and decisions and not just cuss them out as demons or non-believers or sinners just because they choose to have a different lifestyle than ours.
They have to want to be delivered from those demons. If they have no desire, then nothing is going to work, and God will not force a person to change and want to get healed. Those who got delivered from it did get healed and they live very productive lives and eventually got married and families of their own. There needs to be power in prayer. That is important. That is the same with everything else and spiritual warfare.
First of all, it is wrong. If kids can call out and see it is wrong, what makes anybody think this is normal? It's demonic. And it goes against what God designed. But people have a choice. So they choose what they want to do. Can't force them. You can only tell them. God knows what is going on and what is wrong. But if they don't want to be delivered from it, then that was their choice. I have seen and heard of people who got delivered from that homosexual spirit. It accompanies the spirit of witchcraft, rebellion, and pervserions. That came from people who had practiced witchcraft and open doors to the spirits and they get into your genetics. Witchcraft participates in homosexual acts to transfer spirits. I know even more because I have family who are homosexual and from their genetic line somebody in the family participated in homosexual acts and witchcraft. It is a demon. They try to attach to you as children. That's why you do not want to accept things you don't know. It's demons trying to convince people it's normal when it's not. It's demons.
If those feelings or anything abnormal feels forced, it's a demon and you need to rebuke them before they try to attach. Plenty of people are ill infromed about spiritual warfare and demons. They think it's pretend, a game or made up and not real and it is. It is dangerous to be ignorant.
That's why I pay attention to what I feel and sense around a person, listen to their vocal cords, and body language, because oftentimes it's the demon speaking through them laced on their vocals and reveal themselves. Same with people with lust spirts. It's ugly. And it's very nasty.
Never liked that guy the first time I saw him. Still got that movie. Now, you're making me want to watch it again. Been years since I watched The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And trust me when I say. My comment has nothing to do with him. He just wanted to play God. God is in control. But homosexuality is a sin. If the word says so, who has the right to tell God what to do? His ways are not our ways. I don't want to see homosexuals go to hell, but they make their choices if they don't want to repent. I cannot be around that nor in agreement or else I too suffer the same fate. Again, people have a choice. It is not pretty being tortured by those demons.
I didn't make the rules. God did. God said he is not having that up in heaven and it's not welcomed along with liars, fornicators, extortioners, should I pull up the scriptures? It is said at least 3x.
Can a man and another man make a baby? No. Can another woman and another woman make a marriage? No.
There is no BLOOD spilled. So God cannot honor it. As a pastor who passed away said, "two men, cannot make a marriage, two women cannot make a marriage. The only way you can make a marriage is to cut a convernant. When a man lays with a woman and his penis enters in her, blood is spilled. That is a covenant."
That is why as a woman, I am closed meant to be open by a man. A man cannot enter in another man. Did you get to go to the backside? Talk about "back-wards." Like my grandmother would say, your walking backward thinking you're going forward. So no matter what people do, God cannot honor it anyway. There is no blood spilled because men don't have vaginas, and women don't have penises. This why the only sex they can get is sex toys, masturbating each other, or having anal and oral sex unless they sleep with the opposite sex. That's the only way. Which is sexual perversions, to begin with, so so-called "straight people" ain't exempt either.
Why do you THINK when a virgin is entered in for the first TIME, a little bit of blood from the hymen if she never used anything up there and is tight, is on your penis? That is the blood covenant, aka a CONTRACT. Think wisely where your "pen" is signing onto! So any so-called virgin who tells you that virgins don't bleed the first time is lying. 9/10x they stuck something up there to masturbate with. If if you are that careful a virgin is always tight. Breaking of the hymen doesn't always mean that she did or didn't have sex unless it is too far cut. The penis gets hard enough to tear it and you can see by her tearing. If it is torn she isn't a virgin. PERIOD. You can tell by how her "hole" is created.
1. Sin nature as animals also got affected with sin. 2. Scientist did something to them genetically, testing them, as they now dabble and take out hormones to make them like that 3. And or they isolated them and conditioned them to do that. Just like children, because animals have the minds of children and is susectable to oparent conditioning.
I think there was a video where a retired scientist admitted back in the early 2000s that they experienced on frogs and took out their hormones and used the same drugs for sex transition on them before giving it to people. Got to find that video. They were straight and then they became "gay". It doesn't surprise me what people do today. And people will believe anything without using any common sense. Why would you just believe everything they say?
You don't understand your intelligence is being mocked by these people are and are laughing, profiting, and destroying you while their gaining. This isn't anything new. Even back in ancient times, they had such technologies and many spirits entered into people who participated. It is spiritual and technology.
Unlike human beings, they are animals, they do not know of the things they do. Therefore only God knows what it is, and it is still an abomination to him. He decides if he wants them destroyed or not. We do not have the right to judge that.
These people who do this are sick. You do not understand what these scientists and pharmaceutical companies do all in the name of so-called science. They'll even experiment with children and people. You don't even see that those who transitioned are experiments without even fully knowing it. And they put those same hormones in our food, soap, in the air, perfumes, etc. You have no idea what you're touching or exposed to. That also included pornography and explicit mateirals. I know a lot more about this than you think.
It's not the same turmoil. You just don't like what I said about homosexuality being a sin. You don't like it, don't ask me. Ask God. Your not changing my mind about what I already know. Period.
No, it isn't. That's because, in your mind, your wrapped and have a complete distortion from reality because of a lack of love within yourself. Just because I don't agree with something, doesn't mean I hate the person. I hate what you people do. But not the person. So that is your problem. Not mine. There are people who are happy they aren't suffering through that, and those who want to be stuck in it. I cannot force people, but I will not lie to people.
And you downvoted the user who gave you Romans 1:21-32. A different version than KJV, but nonetheless the same answer you refuse to accept because the truth isn't in you. You literally reject the truth, so the is the price.
If you think that, then obviously you are not "gay". And don't know what they are suffering with, which is why they refuse to say something because ignorant people like yourself are dismissive of their struggles. You want to have them like that, many didn't ask for that, but they eventually make a choice. I can tell you haven't been around them much to know.
Gay people who are "happy" that way don't have a problem with people who don't agree with their lifestyle. I came from a state where homosexuality is very common and I can tell who is who.
Never heard the term: fake it till you make it? That's what many of them do. And many who go through this is teens, children, and young adults who are often very much confused because they have people trying to tell them who they are when they are either male or female. That's it. You cannot change your gender or sex, that is what you're born with. You think because I never have sex or refuse to lust after men that it makes me asexual or so-called lesbian? NO! I am a heterosexual woman who knows better not to hop in every man's pants and have respect for myself and other people. And anything that is not of God, I rebuke and it's not around me. Period. I do not have to accept things I don't want. So it is very much a choice and a decision. And people are not being taught this. It is literally a demon and a spirit some people are born with. Some are activated at birth, others aren't activated. It is in the bloodline and you obviously do not understand the serious ramifications of it that it does. It prevents you from trying to have love and companionship with the opposite sex and to will lie to you. Because it's a rejection spirit on top of that. That passes down in the bloodline if you do not deal with it. That person has to want to be delivered from it. But a person who is not experienced with casting out devils can cause a problem. You literally knowing nothing about how serious it goes. God knows about the souls of people. He knows who is struggling with sin and everybody struggles with something. You do not have to be based on what you feel like doing. Just because you feel like stealing does that mean you have to turn into a criminal? If you feel like raping does that MEAN you have to become a rapist? Sin is not what you feel. It's what you DO. And if you WILLINGLY do sin, and you don't want to repent from it, then yes, you may find yourself in hell if you're not careful. That goes for me and everyone else.
It is not for me to take perspective on. God makes the rules. If all those do not have a desire for God that is not for me to be pushing anything on other people. People have a choice. I'm responsible for my salvation. You are responsible for yours.
That is why noone will listen or should listen to you. They've had the desire. In damn tears to try and change for their family and God. You choosing to not understand them in the name of God puts you so much further from them. But its a comfort, knowing you're right so you won't have reason to cqre as much. I've heard of noone coming back from those places "cured". If they did they later admitted they had to act their way out of there. Which absolutely ridiculous. The fact exorcisms dont work is enough telling I would think. but no have to screw em up first.
I don't think you understand. When are you going to choose a fully understand God? What is a tap to do with me? I am only but one human beings. I cannot help people who don't want to be helped and neither can people try to help me with anything if I myself choose to do the same thing. You have to change for self and you have to change for God. You can't do that just for other people because other people will disappoint you. I don't know what is playing you but you're the one that's broken and you need help and you need healing. It has nothing to do with it will listen up for sure listen to me. They already rejected the things that God had wanted for them to do if that is the case. God knows the true desires of a person's heart. He knows that the things that we do. And he is not mocked. People have to make that decision. I care about a lot of people Souls but I'm not going to have myself to be dragged down into darkness along with them. If you have no faith then what you do is in vain. Nobody say anything about exorcisms. We are talking about Deliverance. Deliverance is not exorcisms. If you do not want to be saved if you don't want to be here if you don't want to be free from those demons if you don't acknowledge that you are a sinner if you don't acknowledge that you have demons that is causing you this promise you're not going to be free from it because you already made a contract with it. Many don't even know of these things. But if you're going to be scared of these things and you refusing to do something about it you're going to be stuck. So no it's not ridiculous. You have to choose who you want to serve. Because if you don't then that's already the choice that you made.
I don't know where you assume that people have to act. Nobody had to act us to do anything that means that they are on likely did not want to change. Or something is really holding them back and they need to be within the presence of somebody who has the power to do it. Then you go to a place where you can get that healing. But some of may take months for other two can take years, but you never give up and you don't have anybody tell you otherwise. You got to keep on moving forward until you get what you need. Depending on how deep that route goes sometimes it isn't something that could be happening one day. How desperate are you to change! You got to really ask yourself how far you going to go! Extenze all that deep, then that means it a lot that needs to be held at. That's all it means. And it can take a long while. But that does not mean you have to give up.
Noone I've spoken with affiliated with conversion camps has any good tales to tell. Its not supposed to be that hard. Talking from Bible terms. And scientifically if you repeat a lie long enough you can make yourself believe it in certainty. So how deep in insanity must we fall to make God happy?
You know why a lot of people end up with the problems they have? Because they don't believe in God. Because they don't want to. Because they don't want to deal with her. They don't want to sacrifice. They don't want to do the right thing. And yet very things that can very much be within your control. I ain't talked about conversion camps. The question is all these people that are doing these things saved? Do they have the real power of God in them? What is their intent? And then 10 is not for you to get saved, for you not to be born again, for you not to do what you got to be in God, then they're doing it for the devil. And people do not fully understand that because a lot of people have not been taught anything else different. We ain't talkin about science. Science can only tell you but so much but God is the one who's in control he has all the knowledge and the power and the glory. And the people that is operating through signs are only using it for their own benefit. Do anything that you want to say concerning science you better be extremely careful and what it is that you're believing in. Because they lie to you just to fit their own agendas. At least God he tells you the truth. The truth will set you free. If you don't like the truth then least admit it instead of conforming yourself to a lie and blame somebody else with it, when you're the one that made the decision to believe that.
What do you mean it doesn't say before my own intolerance? We are not called to tolerate sin. We are called to preach the the Gospel of Truth and say what needs to be said. You want to talk about blaming me will guess what the word of God also says that you hated him long before you hated me. I do not have to accept things that I do not agree with and I will not accept anything that is not of God. That ain't shifting blame that speaking truth you cannot handle within yourselves. You lie to yourself and you left yourself into reprobate. If hell is what you choose you're not dragging me down there with you.
Loving individual does not mean you have to be in an agreement with what they do. Because if you don't tell the truth and you don't love the person you show that you hate your own brother.
I'll tell you one thing for sure. I've already you are so cool standing together then why are there gays fighting other gays? Why having so much disagreement and he's going to be coming together? A kingdom cannot divided amongst itself. If other gays don't even like a lot of you people it now makes me really wonder what's going on in those places.
Like the poisonous propaganda you won't be trying to sell me with your garbage? You live your life, I'm going to live my life. Simple as that. Leave people alone.
Praying the gay away and hoping god heard you and decides to miraculously take the gayness away is an interesting thought. But I don’t think it’s that common. I think a lot of people who decide to ‘switch off’ their homosexuality is because that was their decision and they’ve decided it’s what’s best for them. There’s a lot of factors that may make someone want to live a traditional lifestyle. But I don’t believe in praying the gay away.
You would have to believe there was something wrong with being gay and be religious to believe it can be prayed away. It's almost part of normal behaviour anyway, u see various animals of same gender having fun, and archaeologists have found evidence of homosexuality dating back thousands of years. I say if it doesn't hurt anyone then there's nothing wrong with it, regardless of wether I like it or am interested.
Complicated. Sexual desires are not as simple as they seem. The desire isn't just going to go away, but there are lots of things you can do with it, depending on the person in question. It should be remembered that the primary purpose of prayer should be to acquire information, except when it's simply to express gratitude. The information in this case is how to deal with this temptation, just like any other, which will vary from person to person.
Being gay is not new. It's as old as tress. The same is true for religion and their conversion therapies.
If this was possible, there would be a documented cure, respected in medical fields by now. Or some nuggets of evidence that warrant scientific exploration.
There is none of this. There is however, a lot of nut jobs.
I believe its pssible if your willing to let it go. It has to be you wanting it to go away. Just like porn addictions or any other sex life style.
Its an heart issue. Its between you and God. Not family or friends wishing it go away. Its nice if they support you and pray for you. But doing it spitefully is not the answer. No one can force you to believe or do anything.
No it is not possible. That would be saying people choose to be gay and they can just choose not to be. And I don't believe that to be true. If conversion therapy works, as others have said why doesn't it work on pedophile priests 🤷🏼♀️
Anyone who actually believes you can, is pretty stupid. I'm not even going to bother pointing out everything wrong with that kind of mindset because it should be pretty fuckin obvious.
@Still-alive Yeah, I'm guessing a lot of them are also religious freaks, who have been brainwashed into thinking it's 'evil' and all that. Still though, why are so many people so insistent on ignoring logic?
I tried, at the insistence of our dog, to pray the feline away from our cat. She still meows, chases mice and scratches the furniture. So I do not believe it works at all based on my experience.
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Of COURSE you can't "pray the gay away." That's just SILLY! But you SHOULD be able to realize that you're not gay at all! You were just born in the WRONG BODY! So what you should do is embrace TRANS and change your sex! Then you won't be gay anymore because as we ALL know, TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN and TRANS MEN ARE MEN. So you aren't gay at all, just in the wrong body.
And if you insist on staying in the wrong body and being gay, that just makes you a TRANSPHOBE!
It can be changed, yes, but I doubt mere prayer will do so. Our minds are extremely flexible, and if you wanted to, I'm sure you could become straight if you were gay or vice versa
LOL. I swear I didn't see this until I just posted my question and it appeared right next to this one with almost the same exact cartoon. Different video, though!
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Depends how much gay we're talking.
Like stains, if it's low, and you catch it quick, then you can erase it before it sets in. After that you're better off burning it, and starting again.
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