[Gamecock]

Posting from my smart phone, sorry that I couldn't format as indicated in the article.

The author is a teaching elder in the PCA.

[cuban leaf]

I’m sure most teenaged boys have struggled with wanting to have sex with everything that wears a skirt. And I mean REALLY struggled.

Therefore, it’s ok. Time to rutt like wild animals since, after all, you struggled with the issue.

[realcleanguy]

I struggled once with wanting to beat up a manager I once worked for. I resisted, and it was the right thing. An action like that would have put me in jail without a job.

[Ramonne]

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

[Junk Silver]

Reading this makes me wish that someone had thought to record the experiences of Moses and the Prophets, and to write down the things that Jesus said while he was alive.

If only there were some sort of authoritative book that could help people deal with such “struggles”.

[ShadowAce]

I didn’t arrive at my own conclusions easily...

and here's the clause that indicates she is so terribly wrong.

[GBA]

Human beings have the uncanny ability to rationalize ANY want, act, deed, desire or behavior if they want it badly enough and anything and any possibility can be rationalized in the "right" wrong moment.

Doesn't make it okay and won't make the resulting damage and problems go away, none the less, history is full of examples of people rationalizing and doing even the most heinous behaviors.

There is one being who delights in our "rationality" and uses it to his great advantage and pleasure and our downfall.

Freewill comes with a warning label, but unfortunately it's often read while looking at the "after" picture.

[afsnco]

She’s just another apostate false prophetess. Anybody who follows after her are the people described here:

2Ti 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

[metmom]

It really doesn’t matter how much she has struggled with the issue of homosexuality. If her conclusion is contrary to the word of God, then it is wrong, and it is a sinful position to espouse. God doesn’t care that we struggle with something before denying His word. He is not interested in our sleepless nights as we contemplate heading off into sin. It doesn’t matter how many people we consulted in our plunge into depravity. If we don’t consult with God, and His word, and accept it for what it says, then we are nothing more than those wicked people Paul describes in Romans 1:18-33, who have the wrath of God being poured out onto them.

Sin is sin.

The only struggle in the whole matter should have been picking up the Bible and opening it.

[Alex Murphy]

That is how shallow we have become in the church these days. We think if someone really gives something a lot of thought, then it must be correct. It must be right. Especially if the person has contacted others who have the position she is moving toward in order to come to that conclusion. Did she actually speak to anyone who holds to what Scripture says about homosexuality? Probably not. After all, we are led to believe that she already had this position, and now that she is evolving in her thought, she sees it for the archaic narrow belief that the world has proclaimed it to be.

PFL

[Pollster1]

I have struggled with this issue too. I have read the Greek New Testament (both a Greek Orthodox Bible and my favorite Textus Receptus older manuscript) carefully, word by word and sentence by sentence, where appropriate looking at the cultural context, and similarly for the Hebrew/Aramaic. My conclusion is not a shock to most people. I decided that God knew what He was saying when his followers were inspired to write scripture, and His word means exactly what it clearly says.

[opus86]

Any struggles over this issue are simply attempts to ignore or explain away what the Scripture makes plain. And if we decide to ignore the Bible on matters of human sexuality then why waste your time with it, or Christianity, at all? What other biblical commands might we decide to ignore? These pro-gay “evangelicals” make zero sense and their charade makes me sick.

[ReformationFan]

“It really doesn’t matter how much she has struggled with the issue of homosexuality. If her conclusion is contrary to the word of God, then it is wrong, and it is a sinful position to espouse. God doesn’t care that we struggle with something before denying His word. He is not interested in our sleepless nights as we contemplate heading off into sin. It doesn’t matter how many people we consulted in our plunge into depravity. If we don’t consult with God, and His word, and accept it for what it says, then we are nothing more than those wicked people Paul describes in Romans 1:18-33, who have the wrath of God being poured out onto them. Remember, if we choose to plunge into sin, God will let us. In the process, we will become more and more sinful because HE gives the sinner, especially those who have the truth but deny it and suppress it, over to more and more sin.”

Exactly.