Many times I read about him, I can't but think that though he is gay and admits as much, it is something he earnestly struggles with. It is a temptation and he knows he succumbs to it, but he also know it is wrong. I suppose the same could be said of any person who believes in God but contends with temptation and often yields to it. Alcohol, pornography, gambling, drugs... I don't know what the homosexual temptation is like, but I believe it exists. Just as I know alcoholism exists but Lord willing I'll never know that temptation.
Maybe it's not so much perfectly abstaining from the temptation that's important as it is admitting weakness and asking God for the grace to overcome it. In His time, He does. I like to think Milo is such a person. We'll never know on this side of the veil, but I've little doubt that there will be many in Heaven who will surprise us... and be even more surprised at who is NOT there.
Nevertheless . . .
“He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true” (John 3:33).
God has not changed his standard or His Word . . . the saddest thing of all is that salvation is purely a free gift, but many have hardened their heart to the place where they refuse the cross and choose to manufacture their own road map to heaven.
This is what is meant by the broad road to destruction and the narrow road (Jesus only) to salvation.
A person that is saved through the only provision available is answered to in the verse mentioned earlier . . . “and such WERE some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
In summation:
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (II Corinthians 5:17).
In the subject of our conversation, or yourself for that matter, have either ‘become new?’