It is only a sin if you act on it - in thought or deed.
The attraction itself? Maybe not.*Acting* on the attraction? YOU BETCHA!
I believe it was Milton who said, “We each have thoughts to shame the face of Hell.”
I think God loves you and your commitment to obey Him is pleasing to Him.
I once read....Satan knows your name but calls you by your sin
God knows your sin but calls you by your name.
We all struggle with the sin problem and sin is what can separate us from God if unconfessed. There doesn’t seem to be one sin worse to God than another but I believe some sins can hurt humans deeper and longer than others, ruin lives, break hearts etc. Stay close to God and He will direct your path.
I think same sex attraction is a sin whether one acts on it or not. When Jesus said that if a man looks at a woman lustfully (i.e. Opposite sex attraction) that he commits adultery in his heart. If opposite attraction is a sin, same sex attraction must be as well. I think Jesus’ point is that we sin all the time and are incapable of righteousness on our own.
It might be a sin if you don’t attempt to control such thoughts. It is definitely a sin if you act on them.
These apply to all people, not just those who are attracted to same sex.
That attraction proceeds from a fallen depraved heart. Of course it’s sinful.
Either in though, word, or deed, you’ve blown it. It’s why we need Yeshua in our lives.
As long as you don’t start dating Lindsay Graham I think God will forgive you.
Good article.
We are all sinners. We all struggle. We will never stop struggling.
My only beef might be that some folks think Same Sex Attraction is “special”. It isn’t. It’s just a boring old sin like all the others.
Temptation is not sin.
Acting on temptation is.
this is an excellent, excellent article and deals with some larger topics than the point of entry.
this concept, in fact, is sort of the whole of the Christian life:
“I immediately took that thought captive and crushed it by the power of the Spirit. I don’t think I sinned. Rather, I think I glorified God by triumphing in a moment of temptation.”
The author’s distinguishing between natural, fallen desires/thoughts/sins and unnatural, fallen desires/thoughts/sins is also a very good study on the fall of man, and creation itself.
this is a very good article and I encourage all to read it carefully. it’s about much more than the title.
One of the best articles I have read on the subject.
No, temptation is not sin. Just because one is tempted, does not mean they have sinned.
Only when they give into it have they sinned.
My heart goes out to those who struggle with that particular sin. I cannot imagine the guilt and condemnation associated with it.
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.
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.
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.
Sin or not, it is disgusting.
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.