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To: Burkean

Seeing homosex as a particularly perverse manifestation of idolatry is not new. In Romans 1 the Holy Spirit is the one who focuses on that, showing that as idolatry replaces the true and living God with a false god, so souls left the God-designed and ordained sexual mate for one that was unnatural.

Heterosexual relations are wrong when outside a valid marriage, whereas homoeroticism, like idolatry, is unconditionally wrong.

While all sin is sin, and one sin will damn you, the ultimate one being rejecting Christ, when a person or calls of persons insists a practice is not a sin, then that error it must be dealt with.


33 posted on 06/13/2009 2:07:10 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( "O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD." (Jer 22:29))
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To: daniel1212
Let me see if I understand what you wrote: sex outside marriage (boy-girl) is the same as homosexual sex (boy-boy, girl-girl)?

I'm not certain I follow the theory that homosexual relations are idolatry, whereas heterosexual relations outside marriage are apparently not.

36 posted on 06/13/2009 4:31:55 PM PDT by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: daniel1212

I don’t consider heterosexual relations to be comparable to homoeroticism. The first is an action, the second is a state. I think there is a big difference between the two—it’s like comparing killing somebody with being intensely angry with somebody.


37 posted on 06/13/2009 4:53:43 PM PDT by Burkean
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