Whatever the Lord has made or set up, the Devil seems to wish to offer an alternative. Sometimes the alternative looks pretty good, almost divine. You’ve got to pay close attention.
The Sabbath, an alternative. Good vs evil. Heterosexuality vs homosexuality. Wholesome activity, destructive activity. Activity to build others up, activity to tear others down. Earning an income, ripping other people’s income away.
When I think of whether something is right or not, I try to use this concept as a tool. I think of what ‘should’ be right here, and does this conform to that.
Homosexuality does not conform. It is an alternative.
God in His infinite wisdom set the pattern for us in the Garden of Eden. A man, a woman.
If you watch part of a homosexual parade (I think it would be very hard to watch the whole thing), you notice that everything is focused on sex. It isn’t focused on love for one another.
Large emblems of genitalia are prominent. It seems to tell what the movement is all about, at least for the participants. It’s also about shock value, and demonstrating behaviors to the public they truly wish to offend and insult.
I believe some homosexuals are as disgusted with these outward displays as we are. It makes a bad impression for them all.
I have friends who are homosexuals. They are decent people otherwise. I don’t hate them. I think what they are doing is wrong, but in the end God will judge them like he’ll judge me.
I am a sinner like everyone else. He may see some of my sins to be worse than theirs. I think most of us fit in somewhere close to that. It’s a sad thing to think though.
Good point. If a heterosexual parade mimicked the manner of displays and behavior of sodomite parades then it would be censured even by the left.
I have friends who are homosexuals. They are decent people otherwise. I don’t hate them. I think what they are doing is wrong, but in the end God will judge them like he’ll judge me.
There are different kinds of sins. There are those which pertain to things which are a result of desires of the flesh, such as drinking, smoking, overeating, fornication, etc., and there are those of the heart such as idolatry, blasphemy, heart, dishonesty, slander, maliciousness, covetousness, premeditated violence, etc.
You can have a man which has a degree of weakness for drinking (like Grant and Churchill) or the like, and who may commit sins of passion (as David), yet who overall have integrity, trustworthy character, sacrificial commitment and loyalty, and may excel in certain abilities.
Then you have a man who may have not the former kind of sins, but they are conniving, deceitful, and or backbiting, selfish, envious souls who dishonestly insidiously work to destroy others and what is right in God's eyes.
Such are what much characterizes the liberalism you see in the MSM and such as sites as salon.com. And such homosexual activists who follow (consciously or not) the marketing strateg y of Harvard-trained (homosexual) psychologists [47] Marshall Kirk (1957 - 2005) and Hunter Madsen in After the Ball.
And which victimization scheme and homophobic intimidation tactics i think are quite common among active homosexuals, esp. males. And as they are also usually driven by lust and are quite promiscuous, despite the well established typical deleterious effects of this, and must engage in a greater degree of suppression of conscience, then i think this usually is concomitant with the latter manner of sins.
However, there are exceptions, for those there is more hope of conversion to the Lord Jesus.