justsavedvince
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I have a friend who thinks that homosexuality is biological, that it is not a choice, and i was trying to explain to her that the view is false. I told her what the bible said, but she said she doesn't believe everything in the bible. She said she knows 4 gay people who don't know why they are gay, have tried to be straight, and come up short. But we all know that at in their lives the were quick to rush into evil, lacked self control, and didn't put all their trust in God to save them from homosexuality. I told her that also the main reasons people become gay are from either physical/sexual abuse, the way their parents raised them (whether they were neglected or loved, taught the right principles), or the environment they were exposed to growing up. She didn't buy it and she said nothing i say will change her view. She said that one of her friends was not abused, and grew up in a good home with 'religious' parents. But assumming his parents were close to GOd, their priorities could still get mixed up and they may have not payed as much attention to him as needed... not all Christian parents are going to be perfect or even good parents, we all make mistakes. I asked her this, "if all of those gay friends you have were to come to you one day and say, 'I realize now why i became this way! for so long i thought i was born that way but i realize that it's because ... blah blah blah,' whatever the reason may be... would you then have a change of heart on the situation, since you said that you have friends who have tried to become straight and couldnt and "KNEW" that they were born like that"? I thought i covered all of the bases on that on, but she still denied it... which confuses me, because that would then mean she didnt trust her friend's testimony. She then said that she didn't trust everything in the bible because it was written by humans, and maybe the author of the books speaking out against homosexuality just hated gay people. She's in complete denial and doesn't understand that not all nice people are Christians. She goes more by what's considered good to her standards, not the Word of God. We agreed that we'd talk about it again sometime since we were both on the spot and weren't expecting it to come up, and i really want to expose truth to her. I'm already asking God to give me the right words to say and the courage to be bold... Do any of you have any other suggestions that I can work with for next time?
