Pope Lie: 'God made you gay. God loves you like that'

A victim of clerical sexual abuse has said that Pope Francis told him that God made him gay and that his sexuality "does not matter."

God is immutably good and incapable of evil. God does NOT create sin - God didn't create the sin of homosexuality!

Juan Carlos Cruz, a survivor of sexual abuse, spent three days with Pope Francis at the Vatican in April, in which he discussed his sexuality and the abuse he suffered at the hands of a Chilean priest.

THE BIG LIE - SATAN'S LIE

Describing his encounter with the Pope to CNN, Cruz said: "You know Juan Carlos, that does not matter. God made you like this. God loves you like this. The Pope loves you like this and you should love yourself and not worry about what people say."

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

The Bible identifies homosexuality as a sin. Homosexual sin is condemned. People can repent of that sin and trust in Christ. This is what the Bible says. The Pope is going against the teaching of the Bible. But he goes further. 

The Pope is stating that God created homosexuals, and therefore approves and celebrates the lifestyle of homosexuals. Yet the scripture clearly points out that the God of the Bible is a holy God who is unable to tolerate, even behold the grave sin of homosexuality.  God is unable to create sin as it violates his attributes. 

God is immutably good and incapable of evil. 

The Pope's words would amount to a significant departure from the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, which considers homosexuality "objectively disordered" and contrary to God's law. In fact, they are blasphemy statements that directly contradict scripture. The Bible is clear. The Pope is gravely and dangerously wrong.

Vatican spokesman Greg Burke told CNN on Monday: "We do not normally comment on the Pope's private conversations." Fernando Karadima, the man who abused Cruz, was found guilty of abuse by the Vatican in 2011.

While God controls and restrains human sinfulness, He is not responsible for the actions of wicked people. His sovereign government over everything is maintained, but He is not responsible for sin—fallen men are responsible for their actions. We are endowed with freedom to act according to our nature. 

Because our nature is fallen, depraved, and sinful, apart from the grace of God we freely sin. When God hardens the hearts of people like Pharaoh He is not compelling them to act contrary to anything within themselves. Mankind will continue to sin freely as long as God permits it.

Calvin wrote, “1 grant [that] thieves and murderers and other evildoers are the instruments of divine providence, and the Lord Himself uses these to carry out the judgments that He has determined.… Yet I deny that they can derive from this any excuse for their evil deeds.… Since the matter and guilt of evil repose in a wicked man, what reason is there to think that God contracts any defilement, if He uses his services for His own purpose?” God used wicked men for His purposes in the account of Joseph when his brothers sold him into slavery. Joseph told his brothers later that what they meant for evil, God meant for good. He understood that God’s hand directed His circumstances, not his brothers: “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God” (Gen. 45:8). 

God permits sin in order to bring about His sovereign will.

Because of our depravity, apart from God’s grace, we act only in rebellion and are responsible for our sins. “When tempted, no one should say, ‘God is tempting me.’ For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin” (James 1:13–15 niv). 

God is immutably good and incapable of evil. God allows evil for the working of all things together for good (Rom. 8:28).