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I am working with a lesbian lady and I also know her partner. I have witnessed to her partner once before and they are both very young...the partner is also very very sick with Anorexia which I believe is yet another attack from the enemy and follows years of different methods of attack, each more severe than the last. This lady openly admits to the fact that when she sought refuge in a church and was prayed over theses evil spirits left her only to return each time she left. Because of her lesbianism she has since shunned the church and neither of them will have anything to do with Jesus or the church.
Now, God has given me a heart for these young ladies and I love them as I would my very own daughters. I especially like the one I work with as she is a lot of fun and we get on so well. I have also tried to witness to this one but she is even more negative towards what I say regarding the Bible....
Which really brings me to my main question...God says in His word that "man should not lie with a man as with a woman" or words to that effect...but does it say anywhere in the Bible that He sees Lesbianism in the same way? We assume He does but in fact does He, or do we simply assume He means the same for both sex's.
Please, I respectfully ask that simple opinions, Biblical points and scripture be used in reply. Please let's not shout anyone down or call people names because they see things a little differently than yourselves. I just want to reach these young ladies and bring them to Christ but I don't want to do it at the expense of what God means and wants....so I ask that we all respect others on this thread. Thank you.
Now, God has given me a heart for these young ladies and I love them as I would my very own daughters. I especially like the one I work with as she is a lot of fun and we get on so well. I have also tried to witness to this one but she is even more negative towards what I say regarding the Bible....
Which really brings me to my main question...God says in His word that "man should not lie with a man as with a woman" or words to that effect...but does it say anywhere in the Bible that He sees Lesbianism in the same way? We assume He does but in fact does He, or do we simply assume He means the same for both sex's.
Please, I respectfully ask that simple opinions, Biblical points and scripture be used in reply. Please let's not shout anyone down or call people names because they see things a little differently than yourselves. I just want to reach these young ladies and bring them to Christ but I don't want to do it at the expense of what God means and wants....so I ask that we all respect others on this thread. Thank you.
-- If I cannot have the body I covet, than I will control the body I have.
-- If I cannot control how men see me, I can control removing them from my needs/wants.
-- If I cannot live rightly, I will choose how wrongly I will live.
-- If I am not worthy, than I will degrade myself more.
At least they're not being deluded into thinking good manners is morality. They get they're in terrible shape more than most.
And yet, they try hard to appear normal so as not to be shunned even more than they already feel they are shunned. They work hard at denying who they are.
They see the depravity. They know they desperately need to be accepted as the sinners they are, but they need a way out of that too.
And what do they get from most Christians? "That's wrong! That's disgusting! You're disgusting! Change yourself!"
They're need is real. They need a way out, and we don't offer them the Way out! The Way that accepts us right smack in the middle of our sins, and yet changes us to something wholey better than controlling ourselves and failing. We can acknowledge that we have no control. We have less control than even we think we have, but that's okay, because the Lord is sovereign! He is fully in control. And when he loves us? He works in us something good, and far away from what we could never control. We are no longer degraded. We're upgraded through him.
You have the advantage. You've befriended someone who is already aware of her fallenness, (twice now), and has given up hope. Introduce her to her hope! Introduce them to their hope! A hope that is worthy of sustaining us and changing us to his good.
Isn't that what links us all as humans?