It never ceases to amaze me that people will attempt to use the argument of predilection to defend or excuse homosexual behavior. ALL sin is a predilection, this does not mean the one who murders was born with the innate desire to kill someone. There are psychological reasons why behavioral patterns surface but this does not mean they are prenatal. Even if we concede for just a moment to possibility that sin, whether it be homosexuality or whatever strikes ones fancy, is a prenatal condition for which the individual has not control. This neither validates the desire not excuses the behavior. Temptation toward sin, in this case homosexuality, is not the fault of a prenatal predilection nor can it be blamed on God. All temptation comes from Satan. "Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one." James 1:3. Anytime one surrenders to temptation, even if that desire is a prenatal predilection, it is sin and bears the condemnation of God. Scripture is given to us so that we will know the difference between evil behavior and good behavior. Which one we choose can have eternal consequences.
Your debate toward me is flawed because I never said these people were born this way, because I do not and will not ever believe that. For no baby or toddler is sitting in their crib having lustful thoughts of what gender of person they are sexually attracted to. So I do not agree with those who say they are born this way.
However with that being said and you only given the first part of that whole passage in James 1, you must keep reading on.
If a person with homosexual feelings never give into those lustful feelings and stay out of a homosexual relationship and do not have homosexual activity then they are not living in sin and therefore will get eternal life if their faith is in Christ.
This goes for any one of us oldhermit, if you continue the rest of your life with the thought that you want to kill somebody but you never give into that wrongful thinking it is not going to cost you your salvation. For you are not living in sin as thoughts are not sins. Lustful feelings are sins but if you or anybody else who has lustful feelings learns to and never gives into those feelings than they are not obeying the flesh.
Once again I am not excusing the behavior of homosexuality, but what we all must learn is it is those who continue to give into and obey those lustful feelings that will not get eternal life.
Those who have them but never give into them and learn to abstain from them will get eternal life.
We can not just go and write people off because of the sin they are currently in, for if that be the case then you might as well as write everybody off when it comes to salvation. If a person continues their life as a habitual liar will end up in the lake of fire as well as those of homosexuality who continue to give into this sinful lifestyle. The key is continuing in those sinful lifestyle !!!