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To: vladimir998
So do we. You are the one obfuscating. You called homosexuality a sin. Wouldn’t it be homosexual sex that is the sin? Homosexual attraction is a disorder. The sin is acting on the impulses not experiencing the impulses themselves.
This clear example of you now knowing what you’re talking about only highlights that original ignorance all the more.

This is an example of scriptural ignorance.

Calling homosexual "attraction" not a sin but a disorder, begins the error . Sin is sin

Christ says it is not necessary to ACT on the impulse for it to be sin. Just the thought or the attraction is the sin

Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

The root of sin is in our heart.. God looks at and judges the heart.

Homosexual "attraction " is an abomination before God, not just a "disorder"

20 posted on 11/20/2010 2:52:24 PM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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To: RnMomof7; vladimir998

The letter of the law. The spirit of the law. If a person is so spiritually blind that he argues the intent, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of hope that he will ever see any truth. It isn’t just what is in your book of don’ts, it’s what in your heart. That cannot be hidden from God.


21 posted on 11/20/2010 3:00:35 PM PST by smvoice (Defending the Indefensible: The Pride of a Pawn.)
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To: RnMomof7
Lust is an internal act of the will, and is a sin.

Sexual temptation is not willed, and is not a sin.

Homosexual attraction is a temptation.

Homosexual lust (an internal assent to the temptation) is a sin.

Do you see this distinction?

23 posted on 11/20/2010 3:43:02 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin' " . --- Yogi Berra)
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To: RnMomof7

You wrote:

“Calling homosexual “attraction” not a sin but a disorder, begins the error . Sin is sin”

Sin is sin. A feeling is not a sin, but a feeling. Sin normally REQUIRES action. I have no idea if you’re a man or woman so let’s just say you see someone of the opposite sex who you find very atractive. Is that attraction sinful? No, it is, in itself, perfectly healthy and normal. You can act on it in a sinful way, however. If a homosexual man or woman sees a person they find attractive - even of the same sex - it doesn’t mean they have committed a sin. Acting on it however would be sinful.

If your boss ruins your day and you have the sudden desire to wring his neck, that is not sinful. To nuture that feeling, however, or to act on it by strinking him, would be sinful.

“Christ says it is not necessary to ACT on the impulse for it to be sin. Just the thought or the attraction is the sin”

No. That is not what Christ said. It is amazing to me how the supposed “Bible Only” people are so bad at seeing what the Bible actually says. Look at the very verse you posted:
“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

“TO LUST AFTER HER.” In other words, it is not a man merely noting that a woman is attractive. That is normal and there’s nothing wrong with that. It is looking on a woman with LUST, looking on her TO LUST AFTER HER that is the sin. And in that specific reference it would be adultery in the heart. Again, why can’t Protestants actually read?

“The root of sin is in our heart.. God looks at and judges the heart.”

Exactly. And if a person feels something that is improper, but doesn’t nurture that feeling and doesn’t act on it, no sin has been committed. I know a woman who suffers from same sex attraction. She chose Christ over a woman she believed she was in love with. She still suffers the attraction, but she refuses to act sinfully.

“Homosexual “attraction “ is an abomination before God, not just a “disorder””

I’ll condemn the sin and love the sinner. A feeling in itself is not a sin.


24 posted on 11/20/2010 3:48:15 PM PST by vladimir998 (This is when the anti-Catholics start to lie to cover up how they got it all wrong.)
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