Romans 3:21-26
"But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus."
And it is important to realize it is possible to turn away from any sin.
1 Corinthians 6:7-11
"Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated? No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! 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."
"Mr. Stearns quotes the prophet Ezekiel as saying that the great sin of the people of Sodom wasn’t so much that they were promiscuous or gay as that they were “arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.”If your "something to agree with on the editorial page of the New York Times" is NOT leftist pro-gay revisionist biblical interpretations you better clarify before the many FReepers better versed in the bible me enter the thread and demolish you verse by verse.
"Mr. Stearns quotes the prophet Ezekiel as saying that the great sin of the people of Sodom wasn’t so much that they were promiscuous or gay as that they were “arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.”If your "something to agree with on the editorial page of the New York Times" is NOT leftist pro-gay revisionist biblical interpretations you better clarify before the many FReepers better versed in the bible me enter the thread and demolish you verse by verse.
better versed in the bible me = better versed in the bible than me
It makes me crazy every time I see a psuedo-Christian talk about the “sin of Sodom” being “hospitality” or some such blather. The religious left’s constant denial of the illicit and ill-ordered nature of homosexual relations oft causes them to interpret scripture in some of the most contorted of means.
There is a reason sodomy is called sodomy.