I can see that, NCLaw441.
I do make one important caveat, though. We cannot redefine sin as non-sin, thereby living by a new-age legalistic code. My Methodist conference has a bishop's treasurer who is an MSM (male sex male) homosexual and living in an open MSM homosexual relationship with another male. The conference does him a grave injustice letting him think that is just fine. It isn't fine. It is defined by God as sin...it is harmful, deadly, physically, socially, and spiritually.
It's one thing to struggle with sin acknowledged as sin, and entirely something different to simply say God is wrong and that what you're doing is just fine.
That to me is living by a redefined legal code and not living by faith in Jesus trusting in the grace of God to rid you of your sin.
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Outstanding point.
We ALL struggle with sin to varying degrees, but hopefully we can be honest enough to realize that it's sinful even if we are willfully engaging in it.
Moral relativism is, in my opinion, Satan's main force of evil in the western world today. Pope Benedict XVI condemned it as the "dictatorship of relativism" and that is certainly what we are seeing with the authoritarian imposition of things like same-sex "marriage" and other travesties that were unthinkable just a generation ago. C.S. Lewis stated it perfectly when he wrote, "If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all."
Unfortunately, relativism is even beginning to infiltrate the conservative movement through the writings of Ayn Rand (who DESPISED Lewis and Christianity in general) and we are in real danger of America falling into the same abyss that Europe has.
I certainly agree with you that sin is sin, and I believe that homosexual acts are sinful. But, I believe that because of my faith. I guess others may have differing faith, or none at all.