[SoConPubbie]

What makes you think that the Biblical view is contradictory to a rational understanding of their condition? You've created a straw argument there. God condemns as sin the activity of homosexuality, not the fact that one is so tempted. He doesn't indicate what may trigger the desire.

Temptation comes from outside the heart. The Desire to sin is what Jesus came to conquer, not just the physical act.

Christ was tempted to sin, but he never desired the sin in any occasion.

For example:

Matthew 5:28:

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

So simply lusting after someone in your heart is committed the sin physically. This is what Christ came to save us from.

And you are correct, I have no desire to understand a homosexual. I understand their sin and I know the solution, Salvation through the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for our sins.

Jesus, at no time, spent time trying to "understand" why people were sinning, he acknowledged their sin, he rebuked their sin, and then he pointed them to the solution to their sin, the Gospel.

[william clark]

My primary point is that when you simply say “Homosexuality is a choice,” you may well be just referring to the behavior, but the homosexual hears you telling him that he has consciously chosen to feel that way, which is almost never the case. Consequently, he is unlikely to want to listen to you share the gospel with him, which he so desperately needs to hear.

So while I’d be right there with you denying that they were “born that way,” I regard it as the unbiblical form of judgment to tell them that they have consciously chosen the inner confusion and torment that is homosexuality. They may choose to sin as their means of responding to it, but we don’t make a remedy attractive when we first tell someone that their symptoms are imaginary.