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Originally Posted by RLC12345678
I agree that God does not approve of homosexuality. But God also view all sins the same. Being gay is no worse than me drinking or cussing or talking about someone behind their back or lusting over a hot man. God looks down on all of these sins. But that is why he sent Jesus to the Earth...to save us all from our sins. Everything you posted, Marilyn, confirms that God does not approve of homosexuality. But I believe that God hates homosexuality, no the homosexual himself. In John 3:16 it says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son and those who believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." I interpret this to mean that even though we sin, if we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, then we will go to Heaven. This includes gays, lesbians, homosexuals, ect. This is the way I interpret God's Word, but ultimately, only God knows who will make it into Heaven. Therefore, we should live the best life we can since only God knows for sure who will make it in.  |
God does consider sexual immorality on a different level from other sin.
1 Corinthians 6:17-19, "But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him
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Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?"
If a person has accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior then he is joined with the Lord and is one spirit with Him. That person's body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and should be treated as such.
We are the children of a loving and forgiving God, but he calls us to repentance. Once we are His, we need to turn away from practices such as homosexuality. I won't quote all of Romans 6, but if you would like to read that chapter, I think you will see that we are not to knowingly continue to blatently sin.
This said, we all will fall short. God knows this. If you look at mankind throughout the Bible, we continue to do wrong no matter how many chances he gives us. Christ was the ultimate sacrifice and he bore our sins on the cross. We have an obligation to turn away from practices that we know are sin. We should not continue in sin so that grace may abound.
I truly believe part of what is wrong with our society is the attitude that we are all okay. We are not all okay. Just because we call upon the Lord and believe in Jesus, that does not mean we are okay. He expects obedience.
Matthew 5:19-21, "Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."
Please understand that the things that I've written concerning sin and repentance may see harsh, but I do not mean them to be. We need to take our Christianity very seriously. We are admonished to study or be diligent to show ourselve approved unto the Lord. 2 Tmothy 2:15. We have been entrusted with the gospel and we are to speak as pleases God, not men. 1 Thessolonians 2:4.
I'll end with 2 Timothy 2: 24-26, "And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will."
May you find the peace that surpasses all understanding and please realize that I am writing this because I care. I'm not trying to argue, but trying in my own feeble way to state the truth in love.