Why doesn't God heal homosexuals?

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Or pedophiles. Sometimes they seem to pray so hard, but the feelings/temptations never go away. I’ve heard miraculous cures of cancer, genetic disorders etc. but just not this one. Why?

Or perhaps I missed a miraculous cure somewhere?

I understand that a lot of people with other diseases never get cured. But atleast they have hope. Hope to continue praying. But it seems like this one is a dark tunnel that ends only in death.
 
Take your question to it’s logical conclusion; why allow any suffering or hardship? The first humans asked questions about God’s logic (Genesis 4:5) and frankly God tells them to do one. Ultimately you can’t say you believe in a supernatural being and then try and interpret them totally in human logical terms.

Homosexuality is complex and we are learning more about it all the time, it’ll be interesting to see what research uncovers. Paedophiles are less complex in my opinion and it is clearly a mental illness that develops after birth.

We probably know as much about psychology now as people generally knew about biology in the time of Jesus. There’s an issue with the science surrounding homosexuality in that it’s often biased and people run experiements to prove a political point, not run it and see what the data shows - but how else does it get funded.

Until then i say we treat homosexuals with compassion. If homosexual acts were their only sin then they’d be doing better than me. I think there are types of paedophiles we need to be respectful to, some undergo chemical castration (voluntarily) and keep themselves away from temptation. Remember that in any sample there’s a distribution of behaviours, most paedophiles are just predators though. We obviously can’t accommodate predators in normal society.
 
Apart from the suffering. I was just wondering why I haven’t come across a miraculous healing for homosexuality, such that it gives hope to people who have it. I’m not asking why God allows it.

Do you think its perhaps because its normal? Meaning just like a person has sexual temptations, and its illogical to want to stop them, maybe homosexuality is a temptation afterall? Maybe that’s why there’s no miraculous cure?

Sorry if the question wasn’t straightforward!
 
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Apart from the suffering. I was just wondering why I haven’t come across a miraculous healing for homosexuality, such that it gives hope to people who have it. I’m not asking why God allows it.

Do you think its perhaps because its normal? Meaning just like a person has sexual temptations, and its illogical to want to stop them, maybe homosexuality is a temptation afterall? Maybe that’s why there’s no miraculous cure?

Sorry if the question wasn’t straightforward!
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It is not normal. The Church teaches that it is gravely disordered.
 
Well for a start, if it was possible then it would be very hard to get funding for the necessary research to develop it.

True homosexuality is actually pretty rare. Most ‘homosexuals’ are actually bisexuals who get shunned out of other communities until they find a home in the LGBT community. An unspoken truth is that the LGBT community is not actually very accommodating to the ‘B’ of it’s members. So many people are in that actually B become G, because they frankly get brainwashed once they are in that community.
 
Normal meaning common. No temptation is normal. We are supposed to be like Mother Mary but original sin twisted us.
 
All religion is about highlighting differences and creating division. ‘My religion is better than yours’, ‘I’m more favoured than you’. If there were no homosexuals then some other group would be singled out, e.g. those with disabilities or even flat noses (Lev. 21). God would have to turn us all into perfect clones of each other which would mean the end of male/female and Creation as we know it to remove all division and that isn’t going to happen so why change anything?
 
God will heal all illness and disease - but not in this world. You say, “But it seems like this one is a dark tunnel that ends only in death.” That’s not so bad! This life, in this fallen world, is by design difficult (but not entirely without consolations and joy) and temporary.

God allows every man trials as He chooses, some very heavy ones, and through every one He is able to work good, blessings exceeding the suffering that comes with the trial. For our part, we must trust Him with the trial, in and through the trial, believing that He is good and the worker of good, always.

Persons who struggle with same-sex attraction, in other words, can be sure that if they remain faithful to the universal call to chastity - to holiness - to celibacy or to sexual purity according to His design for marriage - but if they remain faithful, He will faithfully bless them and reward them in His eternal happiness, in glory.

And they, for their part, will be working with their faithfulness, with Christ, having their own personal part in His Cross of salvation.
Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;
Rev 21:3 and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them;
Rev 21:4 he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.”
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Technically there were instances of people who claimed that their ssa faded after prayer, like many other things (eg people with porn addictions etc)
 
Does it seem odd that your appeal to normal corresponds with a rise in gender conditions which may well correlate with the rise in pollution by hormonal birth control drugs?
Who would pay to suppress these results from valid fact finding? Do you believe the relationship between the rise in breast cancer rates and abortion is anecdotal, or why is it not prominent in pink ribbon concerns?
Perhaps the CEOs who take fat bonuses after failing a corporation but surviving by government bail-outs could explain why we need socialized medicine to make sure such unhappy results never make people unnecessarily anguished about such things.
Remember your reproductive rights come before the rights of “non-person” embryos. You know, those “clumps of cells.”
So sad that Humanae Vitae contained empty rhetoric by dinosaur brained religious types and no truth at all, right?
http://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-v...ments/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae.html
 
mkoopman said:
Does it seem odd that your appeal to normal corresponds with a rise in gender conditions which may well correlate with the rise in pollution by hormonal birth control drugs?
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This claim would be more plausible if there was also a rise in androgynous looking people. In fact, however, the transgender phenomenon seems to be much more about culture than biology. If you simply talk to people, you will see that sex differences are just as pronounced as they have ever been.
 
“Why doesn’t God heal homosexuals?”

This is a tremendously important question. I don’t know the answer. Now, mind you, I do think God heals a lot of pains associated with homosexuality, and we cannot overlook that. But God rarely causes the temptation to go away for good. This makes homosexuality have more in common with other sinful temptations (like the temptation to steal or lie) and far less in common with physical ailments.

I would say that God rarely heals people with personality disorders or things like bipolar disorder, though, which gives me some pause. Maybe we should be asking this question for a broader set of conditions.
 
He tries to and wants to but He will not do injury to free will.

He tries to heal, correct, reconcile all who desire to live outside of His divine plan.

Adulteries, embezzlers, neglectful parents, prideful people, vain people, comfort-seeking people.
 
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Edward_H said:
He tries to and wants to but He will not do injury to free will.

He tries to heal, correct, reconcile all who desire to live outside of His divine plan.

Adulteries, embezzlers, neglectful parents, prideful people, vain people, comfort-seeking people.
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Homosexuality is a set of attractions/temptations, not a sin. Do you claim that everyone attracted to the same sex is like that because of their own free will?
 
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If homosexual acts were their only sin then they’d be doing better than me. I think there are types of paedophiles we need to be respectful to, some undergo chemical castration (voluntarily) and keep themselves away from temptation. Remember that in any sample there’s a distribution of behaviours, most paedophiles are just predators though.
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Why would you think that most people attracted to children are predators? I would guess that most of them feel shame for their own feelings, and would never talk to anyone about them, and never act on them. You would never know they exist. Thus the only pedophiles you hear about are those who hurt children.
 
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Prodigal_Son said:
Homosexuality is a set of attractions/temptations, not a sin. Do you claim that everyone attracted to the same sex is like that because of their own free will?
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Actually same sex attraction is not a sin, albeit disordered. However, homosexuality (sexual relationships by same sexes) is a sin.
 
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thistle said:
Actually same sex attraction is not a sin, albeit disordered. However, homosexuality (sexual relationships by same sexes) is a sin.
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Homosexuality does not mean “sexual relationships by same sexes”. I repeat that homosexuality is not a sin. Consult the Catechism on homosexuality, which it clearly states not to be sinful.
 
Not that aves are close enough to mammals nor certainly sapiens to be a strong indicator. But ducks will take on turkey behaviors without any physical assertion of turkey physiology. But speculation is a dead duck, even a century later or more.
A duck in the trunk of a century is worth two Pakistani Imam in the bed of a river. Praise God for the nuclear family.
 
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