It's pretty simple
Submitted by Reason Filled on 2002-09-28 19:04:34, Saturday
In reply to I respect your oppinion too Reason Filled but... submitted by footsy on 2002-09-28 18:23:31, Saturday
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Adam fell from grace. We are born sinners. Our worldy bodies desire that which is not spiritually healthy for us. God DID give us a sexual desire. Satan perverted it. Why can you not believe that it is possible that Satan has people deceived into thinking that what they are doing is not a sin? He even helped them rationalize it out in their heads, in order to justify, to themselves, their sins. Let me quote you some scripture in a modern translated text: Romans 7:14 We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not spiritual since sin rules me as if I were its slave. 7:15 I do not understand the things I do. I do not do what I want to do, and I do the things I hate. 7:16 And if I do not want to do the hated things I do, that means I agree that the law is good. 7:17 But I am not really the one who is doing these hated things; it is sin living in me that does them. 7:18 Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me -- I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is earthly and sinful. I want to do the things that are good, but I do not do them. 7:19 I do not do the good things I want to do, but I do the bad things I do not want to do. 7:20 So if I do things I do not want to do, then I am not the one doing them. It is sin living in me that does those things. 7:21 So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me. 7:22 In my mind, I am happy with God's law. 7:23 But I see another law working in my body, which makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and it makes me its prisoner. 7:24 What a miserable man I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death? 7:25 I thank God for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God's law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin. You see, our worldy bodies will ALWAYS be in a spiritual battle with our spirits. It will try to tell our spirit, that a sin is not really a sin. But, you see, here is the thing. My main concern is that you are saved, and have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior. The way you choose to live, is between you and God. If you can, as a born again Christian, live a homosexual lifestyle and still be in perfect standing with God in your heart(which I do not believe you can), then that is all that matters. Sin isn't about us going around telling others how to live their lives. Sin is something that effects our personal relationship with God. It brings us away from Him. If you can do, whatever it is you want, and suffer nothing, in your relationship with Him, then you are not sinning. |
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