[OneVike]

When you say that Homosexuality is an unforgivable sin, even after you are shown that Jesus, God Himself, said that all sins are forgivable except blasphemy of the holy Spirit, you are calling God a liar.

Thus you sin by accusing him of not being truthful.

What do you call it when a person claims God is not telling the truth?

I call it a sin.

One which you need to repent of.

So, for your sake, I will keep you in my prayers, with the hopes that you will see the error of your way by confessing to God that you are wrong and He is right.

[Yosemitest]

Where in your wildest imagination do you get the absurd twisted idea that Homosexuality is a forgivable sin? Earlier you MISQUOTED the Bible, twisting it into something you wanted, but was NOT there. In Comment #54 you SAD that 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 stated:

" Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor ldolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminant (passive partner..r.f.), nor homosexuals (active partner..r.f.), nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers shall inherit the kingdom of God"

Yet when I checked the Bible, it does NOT say that.
Here's what I found in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10:

" Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived:
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners,
shall inherit the kingdom of God. "

Where do you get the word "HOMOSEXUALS" from?

And what is this "(passive partner..r.f.)" and "(active partner..r.f.)" garbage?
Let's examine the word "effeminate" from the "Online Etymological Dictionary":

effeminate (adj.)

early 15c., from Latin effeminatus "womanish, effeminate," past participle of effeminare "make a woman of," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + femina "woman" (see feminine). Rarely used without reproach. Related: Effeminately.

I don't read ANYTHING about "passive partner".
Is that something you just dreamed up, out of your twisted mind?

" ... nor abusers of themselves with mankind ... " Let's take a look at what the Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete) says about Verses 9-11 of 1 Corinthians chapter 6.

Verses 9-11 Here he takes occasion to warn them against many heinous evils, to which they had been formerly addicted.
I. He puts it to them as a plain truth,
of which they could not be ignorant,
that such sinners should not inherit the kingdom of God.
The meanest among them must know thus much,
that the unrighteous SHALL NOT inherit the kingdom of God (v. 9),
SHALL NOT BE OWNED AS TRUE MEMBERS OF HIS CHURCH ON EARTH,
NOR ADMITTED AS GLORIOUS MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH IN HEAVEN.
All unrighteousness is sin;
and all reigning sin,
nay, every actual sin committed deliberately, and not repented of, SHUTS OUT of the kingdom of heaven.

He specifies several sorts of sins:
against the first and second commandments, as idolaters;
against the seventh, as adulterers, fornicators, effeminate, and Sodomites;
against the eighth, as thieves and extortioners,
that by force or fraud wrong their neighbours;
against the ninth, as revilers;
and against the tenth, as covetous and drunkards,
as those who are in a fair way to break all the rest.
Those who knew any thing of religion must know that heaven could NEVER BE INTENDED FOR THESE.
The scum of the earth are NO WAYS FIT TO FILL THE HEAVENLY MANSIONS.
THOSE WHO DO THE DEVIL'S WORK CAN NEVER RECEIVE GOD'S WAGES,
at least no other than DEATH,
the JUST wages of sin,
Rom. 6:23 .

II. Yet he warns them against DECEIVING THEMSELVES:
Be not deceived.
Those who cannot but know the fore-mentioned truth
are but too apt not to attend to it.
Men are very much inclined to flatter themselves
that God is such a one as themselves,
and that they may live in sin
and yet die in Christ,
may lead the life of the DEVIL'S children
and yet go to heaven with the children of God.
But this is all a gross cheat.
Note, It is very much the concern of mankind
that they do not cheat themselves in the matters of their souls.
We cannot hope to SOW to the FLESH
and yet REAP everlasting life.

III. He puts them IN MIND OF WHAT A CHANGE THE GOSPEL AND GRACE OF GOD HAD MADE IN THEM:
Such were some of you (v. 11),
such notorious sinners as he HAD BEEN reckoning up.
The Greek word is tauta —such things WERE some of you, very monsters rather than men.

Note, Some that are eminently good after their conversion have been as remarkably wicked before.
Quantum mutatus ab illo!
How glorious a change does grace make!
It changes the vilest of men into saints and the children of God.
Such were some of you, but you are NOT what you were.
You are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified in the name of Christ, and by the Spirit of our God.

Note, The wickedness of men BEFORE conversion is no bar to their regeneration and reconciliation to God.
The blood of Christ, and the washing of regeneration, can purge away ALL guilt and defilement.
Here is a rhetorical change of the natural order:
You are sanctified, you are justified.
Sanctification is mentioned BEFORE justification:
and yet the name of Christ,
by which we are justified,
is placed BEFORE the Spirit of God,
by whom we are sanctified.
Our justification is owing to the MERIT of Christ;
our sanctification to the OPERATION of the Spirit:
but both go together.

Note, None are cleansed from the GULT of sin, and reconciled to God through Christ,
but those who are ALSO sanctified by his Spirit.
All who are made righteous in the sight of God
are made holy by the grace of God.

Well, did you notice that it is past tense, the behavior of the sins?
That means they are NO LONGER " "effeminate, ... abusers of themselves with mankind," !

So are you DECEIVING YOURSELF?
Remember reading from above: (?)

Yet he warns them against DECEIVING THEMSELVES:
Be NOT deceived.
Those who cannot but know the fore-mentioned truth
are but too apt not to attend to it.
Men are very much inclined to flatter themselves
that God is such a one as themselves,
and that they may live in sin
and yet die in Christ,
may lead the life of the DEVIL'S children
and yet go to heaven with the children of God.
But this is all a gross cheat.
Note, It is very much the concern of mankind
that they do not cheat themselves in the matters of their souls.

What about "active partner" ?
Did you dream that up, too?

Oh, nevermind.
I've wasted too much time with you already.
And it obvious that you're just not listening.
Do not feel obliged to respond.