But the thread began with the question of how such people “reconcile themselves” to the passage from Romans, and we should pray they do so in the honest way I proposed.
“Reconciling homosexual behavior with Christianity” is different from reconciling themselves to St. Paul’s teaching, and necessarily involves dishonesty.
I guess what I am responding to is the notion that a homosexual can be a Christian. A Christian, so defined, has rejected homosexuality. And all other sins.
I do understand that a Christian can be tempted, and occasionally fall, but not live in a sin nor be unrepentant.
The verse below seems to say a Christian is no longer a homosexual, or idolater, or adulterer, or extortionist, etc.
1st cor 6: 9-12
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such WERE some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
emphasis mine on the WERE.