This discussion is placed here simply to examine what the enemy has us bickering about in order to get our eyes off the real problem – HIM! The one side says that nature is the cause of such things as sexual preference, depression and just about any other predisposition (pun intended) one can think of. In other words, there are those that would say, “You’re born that way”.

The nature position folks say, “You are the way you are because it is in your genes.”
If you are a certain way because it is inborn, then the implication is change becomes impossible. After all one cannot change his or her gene make-up. If your DNA say you are homosexual, then there is absolutely nothing one can do, to change that, no more than one could change their height or skin color. You could submit yourself to shock therapy, S/R therapy, Psychotherapy, and even deliverance still change becomes impossible.

Change becomes dangerous. If someone is a certain way by DNA makeup, and one applies pressure for that individual to change, and then they are unsuccessful because they cannot change, the result is likely to be low self-esteem and clinical depression.

There was a study done that showed scientist could change the sexual activity of a worm. If a scientist can do that in a worm, can't a demon do that inside a human - they have admited they do it. (I have heard demons during deliverance admit to causing sexual stimulation to the same gender).

If a person is not BORN with a mental disorder, then what about how one is raised?

What about Nurture? Nurture is how one is raised.

There are many thoughts on this issue of nurture as the cause of homosexual orientation. The absent unaffirming father or male figure is one that I have read about and seems to make sense Certainly a child is affected by how he is raised. If a child – male or female feels unaffirmed by his or her own father and perceives rejection (whether real or projected onto the father) this can cause “psychological damage”. I prefer to use the term “a wounded spirit.

I once read a pamphlet by a famous pastor. His pamphlet was on how to avoid producing a homosexual. It basically said a son should sweat and a father should not show too much affection toward his son as that could cause homosexuality! Of course no Biblical or even scientific studies were referenced. I content sweat is fine it will help eliminate toxins but a guy can sweat all he wants that does not prevent a demon from entering! A father withholding affection from a son because the father is afraid it may cause homosexuality is the most idiotic belief – just the opposite is true! I have interviewed many persons who struggle with homosexual attraction and not one has ever said to me, “I am pretty sure I am this way because my Dad was always hugging me and giving me pats on the back”. However, over and over again I hear in almost all cases “I did not feel affirmed by my dad.” Thus a feeling of rejection develops producing a feeling of being different and not secure as a male or female. The child longs for affirmation from peers for their sexual identity, resulting in same sex desires.

Sexual abuse has been cited as a possible cause of homosexual attraction. I have spoken to people who have been sexually abused by the same gender and they are not homosexual. Yet I have spoken to abuse victims that did become homosexual. I hesitate in what I am about to say for two reasons: I don’t want to belittle abuse victims and secondly these are my observations only – very unscientific. Those that forgive and released their abuser developed normally. Those that became bitter did not. I know that is a “ouch” and I am not sure that is always the case – it is simply my observations of the particular persons that I talked to.  

NURTURE OR DEVIL REINFORCES WITH NURTURE?

 In this section I ask the reader to consider if homosexual orientation and other mental disorders are caused by nurture or if the devil takes advantage of nurture to gain entry and to even make us believe that how we were treated was the cause.

If the enemy can use feelings of rejection to convince us because of rejection we have these strange and unnatural desires then the focus is once again off from him – the real cause!

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Can’t the enemy do this? Can’t the enemy get you to say and feel “but now that you mentioned nurture”? Is not that how the enemy always works, by questioning you? Can’t he use how we are raised to get us to focus on the negative instilling a victim mentality within us rather than targeting him? It is time we expose the enemy for what he really is – a deceiver, a liar, and a destroyer.

A person feels rejected by their Dad. The devil say’s “See, you are different, your dad recognizes that you are different, he secretly knows that really you are a homosexual.” Thus nurture is reinforced by the enemy- nurture wasn’t the cause, he was.

This discussion is only a hypothesis. I am simply suggesting we ask this question and consider the possibility. We are so busy with our nature vs. nurture quibbling and totally ignore the demonic.

We cannot “cure” spiritual problems through non-spiritual methods.