“In a conversation about homosexuality a few years ago, a Catholic priest made a powerful observation. “Do you realize Heaven is full of gay saints?” he said. His point: The homosexual condition exists; the exercise is sinful. Those honoring God’s law carry an especially heavy cross through life, and for that they are rewarded with paradise.”
I watched the first episode and I agree, the show is horrible. That said, that quote is so much nonsense. No sinner has ever been “rewarded with paradise” for keeping God’s law. He misunderstands the New Testament. He needs to separate the descriptive from the prescriptive.
God’s people will, by the power of the Holy Spirit, seek to keep God’s law because they are new creatures brought from death to life in Christ. They don’t earn paradise because they keep God’s law regarding homosexuality or any other sin. Jesus, by His perfect life and atoning bloody death on the cross, earned paradise for them. Avoidng homosexuality and other sins is a description of their new lives in Christ.
God demands perfection. It’s not possible for a sinner to keep God’s law perfectly. However, Christ Jesus kept it perfectly and His perfection, His righteousness, is imputed to those who trust in Him alone. My sin was imputed to Christ and His perfection has been imputed to me. That’s the great exchange. The most lopsided unfair trade deal in history.
Hey!
I got one; TOO!
I hear there are a lot still available.