Re: Anyone can dig themselves a hole....
Submitted by hurting_guy on 2008-09-7 21:41:44, Sunday
In reply to Re: Anyone can dig themselves a hole.... submitted by bigcalv on 2008-09-7 02:47:32, Sunday
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Hi Bigcalv. While reading your reply I was extremely happy and equally angry. Happy because I agree 100% with everything you said; angry because one phrase echoed the church in the most grievous way. You said, "...I pray that you might repent..." The entire point is that many of those here have come here precisely because they do understand what you outlined above, and they agree with the truths of Scripture, but they are here because down in the foundation of their soul is a fundamental, intrinsic, inherent difference is their feelings and desires that they cannot change. If you've not read it, below is an exert from my previous posting: "God can do *anything* He pleases. He can change and heal your soul just as easily (read: instantly) as He healed the bodies of those He healed when He walked the earth over 2000 years ago. The disheartening mystery is why He chooses not to. You cannot change your attractions yourself. I can pretend that I like liver and onions. I can begin a program to "learn" to like them. I may even reach the point of being able to stomach them, but I will never like them. And even if I got close to liking them, the massive effort it took to arrive there would temper the joy. I can also pretend that I do NOT like chocolate. I can refuse to eat it ever again and verbally denounce it. But I will *always* crave it. And even if I binged on chocolate to the point of nausea and therefore never wanted it again, it would not create in me an equivalent desire for liver and onions. Only a sovereign move of God can change me." Very, very much of the advice here on CBLF smacks of "how to move from being a BL to being a eunich". That's not even the question being asked! The question being asked by many is, "How do I change my sexual desires so that I can enjoy them in this lifetime?" Your reply of "I pray you might repent" may as well have been phrased "Just flip the BL switch to OFF!" Again, the whole point is that some of us want to, but we can't! We can fight it, we can suppress it, we can "walk in faith" but we cannot have what we really want, which is to change it. Sometimes I wish the church would just come out and say to gays and others: "We simply do not know what to tell you. Our best guess is that its just your lot in life is to live a lifetime of war." |
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