this is an excellent, excellent article and deals with some larger topics than the point of entry.
this concept, in fact, is sort of the whole of the Christian life:
“I immediately took that thought captive and crushed it by the power of the Spirit. I don’t think I sinned. Rather, I think I glorified God by triumphing in a moment of temptation.”
The author’s distinguishing between natural, fallen desires/thoughts/sins and unnatural, fallen desires/thoughts/sins is also a very good study on the fall of man, and creation itself.
this is a very good article and I encourage all to read it carefully. it’s about much more than the title.
This is an excellent article. As I’ve written here at other times, I lived as a lesbian myself many years ago. I agree with this author on a lot and posted a reply about that here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3428640/posts?page=67#67
Another thought I’ve had is that possibly, in the context of the world in ancient times, where marriage wasn’t primarily for romance, as it is today, but much more for the sake of providing the best life one could make, with as much relief from pain and discomfort as possible, that what we recognize as same-sex attraction wasn’t such a trouble to people in marriages, and in the church, it might have been a gift or even *the* gift that allowed one to live a celibate life. In that time and place, it might more have meant a decreased attraction to the opposite sex, and same-sex relationships would not only have been unthinkable, but not have been as desirable as they seem to be today, either. The early church paid a high toll in terms of persecution, and the devotion of many if not most of those Christians would seem to have made it unlikely that they would sin in any sort of way.
On the matter if an attraction is a sin or not, too, taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ can involve our interpretation of the thought. I have thought that same-sex attraction is a form of misusing fellowship and friendship, just as adultery misuses marriage.