They want to do therapy on ex-gays now?
Homosexuality is an abomination according to the Bible (Leviticus 20:13).
Maybe the Southern Baptists need a new guy at the top, although it doesn’t matter since the SBC has no control over local members.
“California and New Jersey have passed laws banning conversion therapy for minors”
When it’s abortion, the liberals talk about a sacrosanct doctor-patient relationship. When it’s reparative therapy, they have the State come in between the doctor and patient and say, you can’t talk about that.
The Great Apostasy continues to swallow up churches.
Read Leviticus
Freepers should read the article. A lot of us have been concerned about this Russell Moore fellow who is chair of the SBC Religion-Ethics Committee in Nashville and has been on the job for ~ 1 year. Can’t say I disagree that same-sex attraction will just go away with therapy. Moore is calling on those afflicted to resist temptation and go celibate. He is also saying that parents should not abandon their teens who self-identify with same-sex attraction.
That is crazy, mischaracterized, and unhelpful. Someone needs to replace him. We have seen over and over that denominations weaken one small stupid step at a time.
The hyperbolic headline does not match the article.
Saying you don’t think that is a Christian idea is counter productive to your follow on thought:
“The Bible doesn’t promise us freedom from temptation,” Moore said. “The Bible promises us the power of the spirit to walk through temptation.”
Being a recovering alcoholic doesn’t mean that temptation isn’t still there.
It is for a good many, while others rid themselves of that former life, not wanting to relive the experience, on the one hand and on other seeing their lives as something greater, without it.
This douchebag is also pro-amnesty, and has aligned himself with the panoply of Soros sock puppets to fight for it. Baptists needs to force him out.
I think Moore is secretly “gay.”
My experience with temptation and prayer is that, in the early stages, prayer can be used to help overcome temptation. Over time, with continued prayer, the particular temptation itself can be greatly reduced, virtually to the point of mere nuisance. Occasional “flare-ups” can occur, if put in the wrong situation, but it is easier to overcome at that point.
The downside? Being human and sinful, there is the constant risk of substituting one temptation for another.
But the power of prayer in dealing with temptation cannot be overemphasized.