All can be well if you try.
Submitted by Comfort on October 17 2000 16:30:20
In reply to well submitted by Tempest on October 17 2000 14:07:24
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That's the argument I see here all the time, "Heterosexuals" lust, so there is nothing wrong with me lusting after boys. I am not saying it is "abnormal" to gawk at young boys and lust after their bodies - I am just saying it is wrong. Just like it is wrong to lust after women's bodies. And then to come in to this forum and encourage others to feed that lust - Why would you do that? And I do not mean to condemn - just to cause you to think - I used to do it too. I would go into those chat rooms to and encourage the teen boys to talk about masturbating, etc. It was wrong for me to encourage them in that way. Do you think encouraging yourself to dwell on thoughts of 'pretty young boys' is really healthy and will cause you to draw closer to the Lord? I understand that the purpose of this forum is to encourage people to share their struggles and find support. But have you read the reviews that this place gets in Christian media? And after interchanges like the one posted here, why would you wonder at all why those reviews are not favorable? If this forum can be a place where people can discuss their struggles with a view toward healing, supporting and encouraging in holiness and righteousness, forgiveness and restoration, that is one thing. But if it is just another 'gawk at the boys site', really, why is it even labeled 'Christian' - just get it over with and go straight to the porn sites and stop fooling yourself about trying to do what Jesus wants - a Christian is, after all, a "follower of Christ," or at least he is supposed to be. There is healing for what you all insist calling here a "boylover." You can experience, by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, deliverance from wrong attraction to boys. I refuse to call myself a 'Boylover.' I have lusted after boys - that is sin. I have molested boys - that is sin. I have masturbated thinking about boys - that is sin (and even if you don't think it is sin, remember the verse, "all things are permissible, but not all things are good for you"). I have encouraged boys to be very close to me emotionally without sexual sin. That was unhealthy for me and took me further from healing of my sexual desires, and the boy would not have died without my influence. But there is freedom. You can give up the childish pastimes of lusting after boys. I am doing my best to do that now - and because of the grace and mercy of God, I have experience great success! I don't want to condemn you guys, I just want to encourage you - if you give up this business of giving in to thinking about boys and enjoying boys so much, you will experience great freedom and release! There is more to life than a boy with his shirt off! And I admit that I have lusted after that just as much as the next guy in this forum, but there comes a "time to put away childish things." The boy whose "mentor" I was, and who I stopped seeing in the effort to heal, I just saw again after several months - and he was doing fine without me. I encourage you all to grow up, and move on toward greater healing! God loves you, wants you to be free, and will do it if you cooperate! Blessings all! |
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