Sedaka wrote:
but you feel prefectly fine damning people to hell who cant choose not to feel these feelings...... (im talking about people who really are homosexual/bi.... you clearly are straight.... those yes EVERYONE has a little feeling either way... im not saying they dont) like... what if it were the other way around... and you were damned to hell unless you were FORCED (as you describe your homosexual attraction) to participate in homosexual sex the rest of your life??????
Firstly, please calm down.
Secondly, you're missing my connection to the analogous sinful area I DO struggle with: the doctrine "no sex outside of marriage". My point was that my gland-induced desire to do every woman from here to California does not damn me, even though none of them is my wife. Glands can't see marital boundaries, and God, more than anyone else, knows that. But He says that I HAVE TO CHOOSE between my GLANDS and my GOD. My glands tell me to live Mr. Heffner's dream. God, in my spirit, tells me to "
deny myself, and follow" Him (Matt 16:24). Is God crazy? No. He's simply smarter than our glands. You use your brain not to do every impulse that you get, right? Well, God is the brain of the body of our morality.
Sedaka wrote:
you say that they much CHOOSE to be straight (or at least choose to act that way)
that's BS
that's the same as saying POOF! be NT (or try to act NT) or go to hell...
Again, a man being attracted to men is not a sin, just like it's not a sin that I'm attracted to women to whom I'm not married. The sin is the anti-biblical pursuit of EITHER ONE of those things. Being a Christian is
about sacrifice. In this life, that's the whole point. Sacrifice your time and energy to help others, and sacrifice to God by submitting your own will to His -- voluntarily.
What you're rejecting is specifically God's authority to tell us to u-turn from some of our bodily desires. It's the authority you have a problem with. Kids,
by nature, do stupid things. When their parents correct them, it's often utterly illogical to the child. So who's opinion should win, the parents', or the child's? (Please don't evade this question.)
Sedaka wrote:
Now you see why a fundamental heart change is necessary.
God's message of salvation is that WE CAN'T believe that certain urges should be redirected UNLESS we formally make Him the LORD of our lives. That means supreme master. I'm fully willing to do that, and be His servant.
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Christianity is different than Judaism only in people's minds -- not in the Bible.
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