Indeed, we see this with Sodom and Gomorrah. The men burned with
lust. But what I'm talking about is
love for one another playing itself out in a wholesome way - not simply burning for lust as one man burns with lust for a woman and rapes her, commits adultery or fornication for sheer pleasure. Certainly this does not conform to the Law of Love. But the selfless love a long-time homosexual couple has for each other does not violate this Law of Love, does it?
Are you saying we are to obey Christ's Law of Love as well as another law which denies love in homosexual couples? That would be a paradox, wouldn't it? What is this other law we are to obey? And how many different laws are there? The old law, the moral law, the Law of Love? And which commands fall into which laws?
I'd like it if you thought about my underlined question and gave me a reasonable answer from the Scriptures. Otherwise I won't be able to see any point in addressing any more of your objections to homosexuality. But also feel free to tackle some of my others. I'm sure the Spirit will lead you to the truth, brother.
Matthew 18:9 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast
it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.
You see, if this love they have for each other causes them to sin, Jesus says to cast it away. If they loved God more than theirselves then they should love that person as God provides them too, as a brother and not a mate.
The flesh loves alot of things that God hates, a born again believer is imparted with God's Spirit to love that which God loves. God gave man woman, and woman man. God did not give man man.
God plainly describes that kind of love between two men unnatural. That it was not His intention, not HIS WILL for two men to love each other like that.
Matthew 5:48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
This verse implies imitating the Father. Many verses say, love what is good, hate what is evil. Now if God calls it evil for a man to burn with lust for another man, then we should not do it. We can also say that God does not condone it, no matter how long they have been together.
1cor 7: 1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me:
It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
God has a given way that people can share sexual desire and this kind of attraction/love. It is His way though, we are also not permitted to love a married woman like that. It is not meant by God.
If this doesn't seem fair to you, this is a command of Jesus.
Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him
deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
Here is a law to follow.
Luke 14:26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
or...
John 12: 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
So we can call it the Law of forsaking your life and all its desire's(notice in Luke that can even include things which aren't against the Law) and following God Law, which followed has its reward in heaven.