What I'm wondering is how that justifies the sin of homosexuality in any way? You're just so soft you can't tell anyone they are wrong, again EXCEPT Christians, man that is getting a bit suspicious, if you don't like discussing these things then why come here to read and comment? What not start a "sing kumbaya together" thread and stop judging Christians for standing on His word. All this argument does is point the finger somewhere else and not deal with the issue we were discussing. If you want to talk about gossip in the church then make a thread about it, but this on is about whether there can be a practicing homosexual Christian, and how saying it's okay can mislead people. If I say that homosexuality is a sin, and you answer "but people gossip all the time" it has NOTHING AT ALL to do with what I said. What was your point again? Remember this OP was about Homosexuality not gossip.
If I say that homosexuality is a sin, and you answer "but people gossip all the time" it has NOTHING AT ALL to do with what I said.
You obviously have me wrong Jimbone as I say that homosexuality is definitely a sin just like malice and envy and slandering of others in the body of Christ as well as everything else on the works of the flesh.
Here is a quote of mine when asked about this sinning.
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Personally I don't support gay marriage. I have 2 friends of mine that got "married"...they were not Christian to my knowledge altho one was an altar boy in a Catholic church...what ever that means in real life.
I don't for a second think it's my "duty" to tell unbelieving homosexuals how they are supposed to live. They don't need to change their behavior...they need to hear the gospel.
For the "believers" that say it's ok to lead a gay lifestyle I would say that they have a "confused" identity and I would teach them the gospel as well. It's obvious by what they are doing that they don't know what happened to them when they came to Christ. I think the elders in their lives need to sit down with them and teach them the grace of Christ and in some cases to reprove them in this error.
This needs to be done under the direction of the Holy Spirit as He knows exactly what to do with each person individually. Sometimes people are caught up in sin and don't know how to address it and thus out of frustration they make "excuses" for it because of all their confusion.
These need to be taught the truth of who they are in Christ - others may need to be " delivered over to satan for the destruction of the flesh"...this needs to be done by a "spiritual elder"...and seems to be a very rare case in the N.T.
The true grace of the gospel of Christ "teaches" us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live godly in this present age. The final answer to me is to preach Jesus to them.
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