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To: SeekAndFind

It is only a sin if you act on it - in thought or deed.


2 posted on 05/08/2016 6:12:45 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive
IMO, yes ... because even the thought is "adultery WITH her ..."

(A little out of context, but describes my opinion)

3 posted on 05/08/2016 6:14:39 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof .... but they're true)
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To: FatherofFive

Read the article. It is worth the time to digest the totality of this man’s experience.


6 posted on 05/08/2016 6:20:29 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Stop Islam and save the world.)
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To: FatherofFive

Is My Same-Sex Attraction a Sin?


It appears the author concludes it is a sin. And he concludes who it is a sin against.

Once we truly understand something is a sin, we can repent and ask for forgiveness. But if we think it is just bad judgment, or the way we are made, it is NOT a SIN and we won’t repent.

‘There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent.’


25 posted on 05/08/2016 6:56:51 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: FatherofFive
I'm torn on this. The "attraction" is part of the process of sin.

Jas 1:14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.
Jas 1:15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

Aren't our "own desires" coupled with enticement the same as "attraction"?

The root of the problem is the DESIRE. We have to ask God to remove our desire. A bible based solution to remove desire:

1Ti 5:1 Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,
1Ti 5:2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

Look on men as brothers and fathers, women as sisters and mothers. Nobody in their right mind would say it's normal and natural to be sexually attracted to your sister, brother, mother or father even for a little bit. Because to entertain that desire at all leads to sin.

36 posted on 05/08/2016 8:20:46 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: FatherofFive

Right you are.


66 posted on 05/08/2016 3:30:50 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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