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To: RnMomof7
It is by faith ye are saved not by works lest any man boast...

According to that statement, then, the following would hold true:

"I am a former Catholic who was recently saved through the Grace of Jesus Christ. All my life I knew I was a homosexual. The Catholic Church told me that I had to refrain from what I was in order to be saved! I never knew that my good works meant nothing! To think, I would have spent my entire life struggling not to engage in homosexual activity, just to wind up in Hell! I now realize that Salvation is through the finished work of Christ ALONE, and not from good works. I am now living as an active homosexual in the freedom of Jesus Christ!"

47 posted on 06/23/2002 3:32:33 AM PDT by NYer
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To: NYer
HE SAID he was saved...the Bible tells us clearly that a tree is known by its fruit..

Can a homosexual be saved ..YES..we are all sinners.

Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Jesus did not come for the righteous

We only think that somehow weare more worthy than someone else but the truth is

Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

The problem is we measure ourselves against each other instead of against a Holy God

Rom 3:10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Luk 5:32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Jesus died to save sinners, homosexuals are sinners..just as i am a sinner.

What I would expect of a Homosexual would be that God would replace his heart and turn his heart from that sin..I would expect to see fruit that are worthy of repentance..true repentance means turning from your sin..

So to make a long story short if someone tells me they are saved but there is an unchanged heart...could be that HE SAYS it...that does not make it so!

Have a blessed Sunday

49 posted on 06/23/2002 5:22:02 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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