Re: this is how i feel and nothing will change that
Submitted by Oliver on 2002-11-9 23:17:51, Saturday
In reply to this is how i feel and nothing will change that submitted by boylover75 on 2002-11-9 00:31:59, Saturday
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Dear boylover75, I agree with what everyone else here has said. I don't want to repeat anything, but I think you'll find a common message in all our responses to you. This is what I believe. Disagree if you wish, but I would be amiss if I didn't share with you the truth of the Bible. they truly, emotionally love each other and REALLY REALLY care for each other-then there is nothing wrong with sex as a way of showing their love for each other. Genesis accounts the bond of man and woman before sin entered the world. This was God's origional design and what he intended. God wanted to have a very close relationship with his creation. The best way that we could experience and understand that closeness with eachother is sexual contact, creating a small child so that we would understand God's love for us as His children. Thus bonding and being united in one flesh was favorable for a life long realtionship with one partner, the woman God created to be the helper of man. When sin entered the world, everything about God's origional design was broken including his origional intent for sex. i also think that the man should teach the boy about God above and leading a good Christian life. Part of teaching a boy about the Christain life is understanding that life too. God's origional design may be broken because of sin, but if we are restored to righteousness believeing in what Christ did for us, we need to live as restored beings, we need to accept God's live for us, and you can't understand that love or be able to effectively give it to others without reading God's love letter, the Bible. Think of it as Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. Sex with a boy is: 1. Not according to God's origional design 2. Not teaching him about God and the Christain life 3. Not worth the risk of both of you having your life ruined whether you agree with the first 2 or not. It only takes once, and sin will find you out eventually. I am personally struggling with this myself, which brings us to: i also feel that there is nothing wrong with looking at pictures and enjoying them sexually as long as i know in my heart that when and i i meet the right boy, i will truly love and care for him and as long as i never forget God and stray away from Him. If you are looking at pictures lustfully, you ARE straying away from God, and you are forgetting what he said in Matthew 5:28, and please don't tell me that this just refers to women. If you are going to make comparisons between heterosexuality and BL, as you did in your response to Forgiven, interpret this verse to refer to you and boys just as it would a heterosexual and woman. If you are found out because you have sex with a boy, no doubt it would bring great discouragement in both your lives. More harm can come than not, and if sex outside of mairrage to a lifelong partner is sinful (many verses on that), you would be not only sinning yourself, but causing the child to sin too. Not one of the favorite verses around here, but where applicable, Luke 17:2 does say: "It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin." Of that there can be no arguement. but nothing you say will change the way i feel about this. Of course, nothing will change how I feel either. Feelings are fleshly responses over which we have little control. There are many things in the Bible I wish weren't there. However, if I truely believe in God and what Christ did, I have to accept the Bible as a road map when I get lost or don't understand something, or feel a ceratin way but need guidance because the outcome of my feelings could lead to sin or other consequences. I'm not challenging your beliefs because I think I will change your mind, but because I am bound by scripture to point out what is right and wrong as I understand it. Going on with Luke 17:3..."If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him." You are my brother, and I hope you will continue to read, realize, and remember that God's love is greater than your love will ever be for a boy. You believe in God and He believes in you. We are only His messengers; ultimately He will change your mind, not us. So, of your last point, I at least agree that I won't change how you feel. I'll pray that God does that instead. Blessings, Oliver |
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