“How do homosexuals who profess Christianity .........”
Of course, you might just as well substitute the word ‘sinner’ for ‘homosexuals’ and ask the same question.
People are born with tendencies and weaknesses of widely varying type and magnitude. We ALL have temptations to overcome. We do not all have the same ones.
Whether it’s treating one’s body more as an all-night saloon and whore house rather than as a temple. Or a quickness to confrontation. Or a compulsion to truth-stretching. Or a reflexive covetousness for your neighbor’s spouse or earnings. Or a habit of ignoring one’s beam to focus on another’s mote.... when you find that you have NOT the same temptation as do some others, then a whisper of gratitude will find His ear clearer than a ballyhoo of attitude.
Many (not accusing you) seem to think that pointing out one’s own natural aversion to something which would be sin somehow tips their scale toward a more moral balance. Not possibly aware of whether their lack of that particular temptation is simply the result of His knowledge of their weakness.
No doubt it is not all who are tempted which end up participating in dirty homo sex - which clearly is sin. An abomination. But even those who fall to it are NOT guilty of the unforgivable sin.
Nobody who has ever been born of woman is condemned as yet. There is still hope for them. Remember your quote from Paul - that they are ‘worthy’ of death (condemnation). It is not possible that they are actually assigned to spiritual death at this point. And NOT Paul’s call to make, as he would confirm.
ALL who eventually come to Christ have debts only He can pay.
That being said, gays or anyone else who knowingly spreads false doctrine regarding God’s word and Christ’s role are accumulating debts MUCH deeper than those brought on by any personal lack of self control.
Such deception is Satan’s first documented tool. We sometimes forget that it is not always his most productive strategy to encourage individual believers to willing break God’s law. But rather to convince them that, collectively, they have democratically legitimate veto power over it.
It might take that old Devil years to scout and recruit the oversized team he can field quickly by stirring a crowd to vote for the golden calf and a return to heathen subservience. Ask Aaron. Or Hoffa.
To deceive the world requires a plan and a system, not merely an increase in his normal door to door heart knocking route.
AMEN to that. We all sin, and do it over and over sometimes, despite repentance. But to try to justify it seems to me to be akin to that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that you've heard about.