“Homosexuals aren’t ‘born that way’.
They had to ‘EARN their REPROBATE MIND’ by refusing God ~ not once, ~ not twice, ~ but THREE times!”
Powerful message and great post. However, I do want to draw your attention to the fact that homosexuality is distinguished in Romans 1 from reprobation. This demonstrates that homosexual lust and activity is NOT the ultimate perversion called a “reprobate mind” in the KJV.
Some theologians debate whether anyone can ever recover from reprobation. My opinion is that it can and has happened, but is exceedingly rare.
One thing is clear though. Societies down through history that came to accept homosexuality as normative were ultimately destroyed because of it. And America is now at this stage. In fact, most of the world, for the first time in history, is at this stage or nearly to it. So the world is about to face the judgment Christ said matched the perversions that occurred in the days of Noah and of Sodom.
This perversion is manifest when there is an attempt to enter into sexual relations with angels. (This happened in the days of Noah and of Sodom, and represents the extreme nature of the homosexual or otherwise perverted sexuality of the people during those times.)
Matthew 12:31-32 — “Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in the age to come.
Even homosexuals have reason to repent...if they have not blasphemed the Holy Spirit.
I hate homosexuality as much as any sin, but, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is...the end of the line.
This a note of consideration for inclusion into everyone’s prayers and studying to show yourselves to be approved.
We all have only one shot at this. Except those that have blasphemed the Holy Spirit.
The Biblical “reprobate mind” represents the point of no return, they cannot repent because they cannot see that what they’re doing is wrong therefore they cannot be ashamed, i.e. they’re shameless. Attempts to make such behaviors acceptable to Christians by torturing scripture into meaning what it has never meant, all in the spirit of “inclusiveness” and acceptance is therefore wrong. Don’t be afraid of being seen as a fool in the eyes of the world, fads and fashions come and go and the direction in all of modern history with few exceptions has been away from Godliness. The world of my entire lifetime has been one long slide of society, from one form of sexual permissiveness to the next and seeking to offload the negative repercussions upon those who tried to put a halt to it. Where does this familiar-sounding behavior appear in the Bible? In prophecy, blaspheming the Lord because of their grievous sores, etc. We’re getting close to the culmination of those prophecies, imho.