Posted on 05/08/2016 6:09:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WOW!!! I LIKE that.
People often say to themselves that they would like to kill another person. But it is not the thought, but the emotion behind it that leads us astray.
This is why the abstract, the seven deadly sins, is a very useful tool, because it identifies the real villain behind the scenes. Not in the sense of “The devil made me do it”, but in recognizing the impulses within and countering them.
In the author’s case, the sin behind the thought is, of course, lust. Lust is always there, because it is a part of us. But how we overcome lust, so that we do not act on it, or let it harm us within, is the real battle.
Importantly, the king of the sins is vanity. Not as easy to understand as the others, vanity is the arrogant belief in what you think, feel and do.
The Democrat party, at their last convention, rejected God three times. This was because vanity is their primary sin, and from it, they admire and honor the other sins, to the point where the seven deadly sins are part of their party platform.
In what way did they do that? I didn't follow it.
oh cut the crap. Words are used here like they mean what the author wants them to mean. “attraction”. Attraction is just a force. A physiological response to stimulus.Attraction is present to some degree when any male views any female he regads as sexy, beautiful etc. But unless the man ACTS upon that attraction, ie fantasizing or actually pursuing that girl THERE IS NOTHING! The thing about gay attraction is that it is INDULGED IN IN SOME WAY TO A DEGREE THAT IT BECOMES OBSESSION. Obsession is where the deviance starts. Due to its un natural nature homosexuality must always lead to obsession.
Is My Same-Sex Attraction a Sin?
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.’
How does one guy look at another guy and think about having sex with them ????
It’s a revolting idea.
It is a sin in the same way that lustful thoughts are adultery or anger is murder. Every human is a sexual sinner of some sort.
Fortunately, there is a way to be washed clean as if those sins (past, present, AND future) never existed. That’s the real headline.
A keeper, worth sharing.
Thanks for posting.
Satan knows your name but calls you by your sin God knows your sin but calls you by your name.
WOW!!! I LIKE that.
It is a variation of “hate the sin and love the sinner” which sounds good to our ears but is a quote from Ghandi. It has an essence of truth to it but is not something to hang our hat on.
Regarding many homosexuals and other sinners when you say hate the sin and love the sinner, it has no meaning for them. They ARE THE SIN.
I may be wrong but I think God does call us by our sins if he loves us so we will repent.
The unbidden and un-encouraged thought is a temptation.
Consent is sin.
Rejection of the thought is a moral victory unstained by blame.
Christ was tempted in every way that we are, yet without sin.
Not for a woman.
Therefore it is presumable that gays look at guys like women look at guys. And lesbians look at women the way you do. Its repulsive to you because you're not gay.
Sin or not, it is disgusting.
“Satan knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.”
—That’s a good one!—
I concur Tax-chick and will be adding it to my toolbox. I want to act upon it as well, and for the most part have learned to “love the sinner and hate the sin.”
Opposite attraction is not a sin... If it is... It would be sinful to get married and act on it...
“Be fruitful and multiply” oh and by the way... To do so would be sinful... Have fun
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.
But "opposite attraction" is not a sin. It is a natural, normal, healthy, God-given part of our sexual design.
What's a sin, is entertaining unlawful sexual desire, a.k.a. deliberately fantasizing, a.k.a. intentionally indulging impure thoughts, a.k.a. "Looking at a woman to lust after her."
That's quite different than spontaneous "opposite attraction."
I’m attracted to Trumps wife but I will not act on it in any way. It is the action and not the attraction that is the sin.
But wasn't Jesus tempted in every way we are, but without sin?
Attraction is a physiological, involuntary response.
If that is a sin, blame God, not the individual.
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