Prayer can cure cancer, leprosy, depression, addiction, and a thousand other medical and psychological problems, but it’s no match for political correctness? From just reading the Bible, I would not have guessed at that limitation.
It can be cured by arresting fags who solicit youngsters...whether in church, sport camps, boy scouts...They need to be segregated OUT...not promoted.
Being “Born Again” is key—just like the Scriptures indicate.
he’s giving up. Next thing we will hear is he is back in the gay life
Rarely do we completely conquer our struggles with sin. Many of us fight within ourselves for years. Anger, lust, gluttony, pride, everyone has inner battles.
Prayer is a powerful and necessary tool. So is staying in the word. Accountability, etc.
The apostle Paul wrestled with something (never stated what it was exactly), and prayed Jesus would "cure" him - Jesus just replied that His strength is made perfect in (our) weakness (whatever that particular weakness might be.) (2 Corinthians 12:7-9)
Alan Chambers praises God for releasing him from the bondage of homosexuality, although it may still remain as a "thorn in his side".
Perhaps Exodus is just trying to make sure they don't mislead someone into thinking that if they just pray hard enough they will be "cured".
Could Jesus do that? Sure, He can do anything - but His ways are way beyong our understanding.
And for someone that may think Alan's particular "thing" is worse than whatever "thing" they may struggle with, (heroin, pornography, gossip, etc.) remember: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (not just "homos").
Electroshock therapy is used successfully in China.
Unfortunately, this is now the state of affairs: Only ONE view is acceptable regarding homosexuality: It is to be embraced and celebrated.
Any attempt to “cure” or counsel is deemed abusive. The Senate Bill preparing to pass in CA states that no therapist may discourage a minor from homosexual identity. The New Civil Rights in America group has called PFOX (a group which offers hope for change to young gays) a group of “child predators”.
This article was full of overreach. All he did was compare homosexuality to other vices, by saying that homosexual urges cannot be eliminated entirely, but must be a struggled against.
Think alcoholism. Is an alcoholic ever cured? Most would say “no”, even after decades of abstinence.
So all he really said is that temptation cannot be “cured” with prayer, but only resisted with prayer. Is that so wrong?
But those opposed to even trying jump all over this to say things he didn’t say. He didn’t renounce trying to resist homosexual urges through prayer. But they want to pretend he said that.
That's the key message. A homosexual person will (probably)always live with homosexual temptation, just like everybody else lives with whatever their particular temptation is. And when I say "lives with," I mean "struggles with."
Yet homosexual persons, like all the rest of us, can overcome objectively bad behavior.
I may be an alcoholic. It may be a lifelong temptation, but I can learn to abstain from alcohol.
I may be a scolder, with a sharp tongue and a short temper. But I can learn to abstain from assailing people verbally.
I may be an emotional eater, a glutton. But I can learn to abstain from overeating.
Homosexuality is in some ways like every other wayward drive. You recognize that it's a problem area, you don't justify it, you don't indulge it. With God's help, you gain insight into your weaknesses, you cultivate habits of virtue, you confess your faults, you avoid "near occasions of sin", you resist temptation,.
You strive to live with a pure mind and love with a pure heart.
This applies to everybody, not just the 1-3% who have the homosexual label.