Unconditional love and the church's approach to homosexuality

A bully isn't necessarily sinning.

Not sure why you even put that one in there.

No...it is not acceptable and they must be admonished for not keeping God's commandments. That's called judging righteously.
God's word has no space or place for PC. Those who do it are the ones referred in scriptures as the ones Christ will...spew the out of His mouth.....

Jesus is Jesus..He does not change...He would approach such as He did while on this earth...straight forward with determination to get their attention. We as ambassadors for Christ must do as we witness for Him while on this earth..

So...you are saying God's is a ......bully .....for having commandments? You are applying earthly norms to God's spiritual world of standards. Suggest you study scriptures.

Ok. But they unmarried, living together and not feeling convicted enough to change. Are we being hypocritical as a church being more accepting of one sin over another?

Remember...God forgives sin. Did the subject seek and receive forgiveness before passing? Judgement of Him would not be appropriate...because we do not know.

Not a church which keeps God's commandments.
Admittedly, a challenge to find ...today.

We just left a church which adopted new standards of acceptance...in violation of God's word. We are reminded the Bible has no word on man's denominations....come out of her God warns.

And I have read and heard the same story over and over and over. People who claim they are no longer gay, but then admit they are still attracted to the same sex. I begged God for years to take my own sexuality away. But just like Becket Cook and every other testimony I've read, God doesn't do that for us and every singlr person carries the heaviest burden of guilt over their attraction.

So why are we put on this earth if we have no hope? Is God that cruel that he allows us to become something we don't want to be, abandons during this life and then casts us into the lake of fire with disgust at the end of it?

1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Remember you are the one who cast the ...stupid stone...not me.

I automatically forgive when trespassed, as occurred here.

I included it to try and cover someone who physically or emotionally abuses others. It might not be the perfect word to use, but Scripture speaks about prayer not being answered due to treating others wrongly.

What? I’m afraid you missed the context of who can sin. Please read it again, slowly.

em·pa·thy
/ˈempəTHē/
noun

• 1.the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Really? No I do not share those feelings and will not understand sinfulness ( acceptance is inferred here).

You wish to apply PC where the Bible does not allow it. That is new age religion stuff and must be rejected.

Not really interested in understanding homosexuality but the gospel of Jesus Christ. I understand you may be struggling; we all struggle. The way to overcome is by His blood and His word. If you decide you want to talk God's word, bro, look me up.

"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret."—Ephesians 5:11-12.

That is quite clearly not what he was asking.

There are three levels to this:

1) sinful temptation that is completely resisted
2) temptation + action + repentance
3) temptation + action + endorsing and justifying sinful behaviour

There is no place in the kingdom of heaven for 3).

Agreed to a point.

The heterosexual adulterer is allowed to choose a life of monogamy to a husband or wife. The homosexual adulterer is told that they cannot have a sex life at all. Sex when done properly comes from deep and loving affection toward the person you love. But we're told we are not allowed to love because our love leads to sex. The one thing a married Christian cannot possibly understand is the crushing loneliness we feel. Rejected by not only the church, but by all of society we are fooled into believing that we are inadequate in every way.

Plus for those of us raised in the faith (there are plenty of us) biblical teaching means gay people are forced into being denied love and affection. We don't get a say in who we are and then we get told, 'well now you gotta be alone or God gets mad at you.' I'm not asking for sympathy or understanding on this point, I'm just shedding light on the plain, bare naked truth. And for many of us, that cross is too great to bear. We're marginalised in our own congregation, given an impossible list of 'must do's' in order to stay right with God and the minute we fall under the weight of our burden we are cast out like demons and left to wander the earth alone.

And all of this propagates the hedonistic free sex lifestyle that Becket Cook renounced - that is what he actually turned his back on. He chose to become chaste, because like me he has zero sexual attraction to women, his baseline sexual attraction to men still remains. And myself personally, I was never really into promiscuity either. I turned my back on the 'gay lifestyle' many years ago. I found sex in the absence of love to be little more than a bodily function and the feeling of deep loneliness would come straight back afterward, with a new friend shame. Shame from knowing that I had been weak and fallen yet again.

*Please be aware that I am not seeking attention or sympathy in any response I give. I am sharing personal stories and viewpoints from the gay community so that you all may learn. It's not as black and white as you all think. And I would also add that my own personal viewpoint on gay marriage is that it is wrong. Like you, I believe in the scriptural definition of it. *

My brother in law is an unrepentant alcoholic and definitely level three. He drinks, he gets into fights, he abuses my sister and he never even says sorry. Ever.

Gay marriage is also level three. I get that. Most gay people would disagree with me, but I believe that marriage is a special vow and should be reserved for heterosexual couples as is prescribed in scripture.

Level 1 one for Gay people is pretty much impossible. I'm not going to incriminate Becket Cook personally, because I don't know him, but I have met many like him and they all fall eventually. Then they become level 2 and then either fall to level three or reach to attain level 1 again.