Here’s the deal. Same-sex attraction is really no different than a slew of other temptations that are a normal part of human life. We all are tempted to sin. We all sin. A homosexual is no worse a sinner than a fornicator, a liar, an addict, or a thief.
It’s foolish to look down on homosexuals when one’s own life is full of sin. Fornication, for example, is rampant even in our churches. Yet, a fornicator is no worse than a sodomite from a sin perspective.
According to the Bible, there is only one way to erase sin. We have to believe in Christ and repent of our sins. If someone is truly sorry for what they’ve done, then they’ll try not to repeat the sin. We may fall short from time to time. We’ll certainly be tempted, and the temptation usually come in the same way where we were once weak. Nevertheless, a person who has repented and had their sins erased will no longer be slaves to sin.
The problem with homosexuality is not same-sex attraction itself. The problem with homosexuality is denying it’s wrong, refusing to repent, and giving in to the temptation. Churches who say it’s OK to be an unrepentent homosexual are apostate. They are evil, worse than those who are ignorant of the true, and I’d hate to be in their shoes when they stand before Christ.
So that pretty much sums it up. Repent and make peace with God.
Actually, a careful study of scripture shows there are degrees of sin as people fall deeper and deeper into depravity. Homosexuality is just about at the end of the scale. So what we're seeing should alarm us. It's not that the sin of homosexuality is any worst than lying. But it's worst in the sense that we are falling farther away from God.
Lying is like taking a canary into a coal mine and it just sits there quietly. Homosexuality is like having the canary drop over dead. It should be a sign to us that things are not good and God's wrath isn't far behind.
“It’s foolish to look down on homosexuals when one’s own life is full of sin.”
What a great post - thank you.
My wife and I went to an Exodus regional conference a year or so ago - we wanted to learn about (and from) those affected by homosexuality so our church would be better prepared to minister to the coming tsunami of sexual sin issues in the church.
I have been involved in a host of healing ministries over the years - but I’ve never fellowshipped with believers that had such a huge gratitude for what thier saviour has done for them - I was awestruck - and would recommend any serious Chrsitian to attend one.
Well said. Homosexuality is more subjectively repulsive to most people than is fornication, but sexual sin is sexual sin.
“The problem with homosexuality is denying it’s wrong, refusing to repent, and giving in to the temptation. Churches who say it’s OK to be an unrepentent homosexual are apostate. They are evil, worse than those who are ignorant of the true, and I’d hate to be in their shoes when they stand before Christ.”
I recently got banned from a christian chat room and one of the reasons they complained to me that I used use the word “gay” instead of “homosexual”. They also thought gay marriage was okay in the church. They said “we should love them as Jesus did”. Yea I don’t recall that Jesus who held to Hebrew customs would have gone for gay marriage. /sarc. There was just no telling these so called christians what the bible said on homosexuality because they thought it was just all old testament law. For the record, this site was a mixture of all christans mostly non denomiational.