as one who must be obedient to Scripture. And so, I must counter his argument with conviction and urgency. I am concerned for him, and for the thousands who struggle as he does. The church has often failed people with same-sex attractions, and failed them horribly. We must not fail them now by forfeiting the only message that leads to salvation, holiness, and faithfulness. That is the real question before us.
despite the protestations (and rightly so) from evangeclicals, mr vines will look you straight (more or less) in the eye and say he is being true to scripture, whether you agree with him or not..
aaaaah, the reformation and sole scriptura continue to bare fruit down to this very day....
That is a lie! The Church has done the only responsible thing and denounced homosexual activity as the disordered acts that they are. It has consistently stated that these people have a disordered and disturbed mental process that causes them the unhealthy desire to act out sexually with a member of the same sex.
There is no equivocation in scripture or even any civil society in all of history that even thought of justifying same sex attraction through any form of legal contract prior to this century.
This is hardly enlightenment.