What a way to change the subject. You said they had no choice. I said they had a choice. Human beings are born with the ability to choose whether to believe God or act on their sinful “feelings.” But you refuse to recognize that having a feeling does not make you a homosexual. Turning your back on God to act on homosexual feelings makes you a homosexual.
As I said before, it does not matter whether you think you are hard-wired to act a certain way or not. You can still choose not to act that way. And if you are so far gone that you are sure you can’t choose any other way, seeking the Lord who is there to provide a way through the temptation can help you through. No sinners’ feelings are greater than God’s Word!
Using false examples does not help your case at all. Having a deformity is not a sin. Having autism and Leukemia is not a sin. Just like being black is not a sin. Having instinctual attractions is not a sin. Acting on sinful instinctual attractions is a sin which is why being a homosexual is sinful and completely against God.
I once heard it explained this way. You can’t keep a bird from flying around your head, but you don’t have to let it land and build its nest. Homosexuals have chosen to act against God. Not only have they chosen to let that bird land and build a nest, they parade around with the nest on their head, full of pride, like wearing a brand new Easter bonnet.
People can be born with various defects. But, the Bible says homosexuals have been given over to reprobate minds. It does not say they were born with reprobate minds. They have a choice. Follow God and His Word or follow the sinful “instinctual attraction.” It is the same choice every sinner has. We agree that sinners can choose. But for some reason you refuse to believe homosexual sinners have that choice.
As for being sinful people forgiven by God, we who have been born again into the body of Christ know that sin is wrong. Those who self identify as homosexuals, willfully choose to sin, glorify that sin and glorify those who commit those sinful acts. They have chosen a different path, a path away from God. Those who choose to do whatever they please have made their choice. It is most definitely a decision on their part.
I know some people who actually say that gay feelings are a choice (my parents for one)and I’m sorry but I thought that’s what you also meant. Then essentially we agree, one cannot choose who they have feelings for but they can choose not to act on those feelings:)