Please tell me how you can be a "homosexual" in your mind and not be a sinner? The idea that behavior is the sin is not correct. Jesus said thoughts were just as bad.
I'm a sinner in my mind on occasion - I break some commandments in my mind all the time. I don't act on it. Do you think God can't distinguish between a passing thought and an action?
I think what he was saying is that a person can struggle with desires for un-God-ly affection for another person of the same gender. The Scriptures clearly differentiate between temptation and sin. YES, I do agree wholeheartedly that a person can most certainly sin with his thoughts and desires. However, my advice is to be careful that you don't become the hypocritical judge who fails to see the plank in his own eye. Examine yourself first--look to see where you fall short and are in need of God's grace, too.
Can you claim to know if such thoughts are at their root voluntary or involuntary?
"Please tell me how you can be a "homosexual" in your mind and not be a sinner? The idea that behavior is the sin is not correct. Jesus said thoughts were just as bad."
I thought the Christian view is that everyone's a sinner, and that we shouldn't cast stones?
Forgive me if I misunderstood, since I'm not a Christian.