ideally
Submitted by F.O.D. on December 02 2000 22:45:13
In reply to Just thinking.... submitted by Once a Boy on December 02 2000 15:18:54
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I guess part of the complication in thinking about these things is the distinction between the ideal and the practical. As you rightly said, in practice we all sin in any number of different ways, and God can deal with that and live with that (or more correctly, die with that). But that doesn't make the sin good To make the comparison with heterosexual marriage, for instance, I think it's right to say heterosexual marriage, as an institution in the ideal, is good (although this statement does have to be qualified with Paul's recommendations in favour of celibacy). God can make good of us even in our sin, but that still leaves the question open, is a gay relationship in and of itself good, in the same way that a heterosexual marriage is good. It's a matter of balancing the glorious freedom that grace offers us, with the desire to do and be that which is innately good. Fod |
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