I feel for parents who have children who have decided to become homosexuals but that does not change the fact that God calls it an abomination. Where do you draw the line for your children’s chosen behavior?
Yep. Love the sinner but hate the sin...even if it is a blood relative.
We can still love them without condoning an entire lifestyle and lifetime dedicated to an abomination.
The concept of “judge not” has been conflated with “moral relativism” as a means of teaching Christians that we must “tolerate” all behavior.
“Judge not” is an instruction not to judge anyone’s relation to God and the state of their salvation. It has nothing to do with critiquing, evaluating, and yes, judging behavior. If it did not, Jesus would not have said, “Go forth and sin no more.” He would have said, “Hey, go out and live it up and do whatever you want, break those 10 commandments and all that you know to be wrong based upon Biblical teachings, because my sacrifice will forgive you.”
I don’t believe that the majority of sinful lifestyles are lived without some degree of conflict — save for those who are truly insane or who have given in completely to darkness.
Accepting sinful lifestyles to those who are conflicted about their lives, becomes a form of enabling and ushers them along that wrong road.
We are called to stand strong, love the sinner, hate the sin, and guide the sinner back onto the right road (which is the literal translation of the phrase “blessed are” from the Sermon on the Mount).
You love the sinner, hate the sin, encourage conversion therapy to fix the unnatural attraction and pray for support and guidance.
“Where do you draw the line for your children’s chosen behavior?”
It’s not a chosen behavior.
Same-sex attraction disorder is induced by trauma—the trauma of a molestation or seduction in the pre-adult years. This disorder manifests as a compulsion to engage in what Chesterton called “loathsome perversions.”
If your daughter developed PTSD from a rape, you’d get her treatment. If your son develops SSAD from a rape or seduction, you...don’t.
Double-plus ungood.