The Normalization and Legalization of Sin of Homosexuality does not make it not a sin.Just like abortion is sin and has been legalized . Just as lying is sin but is not normally considered criminal, homosexuality is also a sin, which even when legalized or criminalized remains a sin.
A person may have a homosexual orientation, but it is not the orientation which is the sin, but the act itself when done or even longed after or the allowing of the desire for homosexuality to lead to it's action. Now when it comes to two people of the same sex marrying, it is not permitted by God but by particular states. Well, if the states permit it, the people who accept it are free to marry, but trying to obtaining religious sanction from a religion which opposes it or trying to change the teaching of the religion to fit thier sexual orientation is wrong. If they want to follow a particular religion, they can follow it. If they want to reject a particular religion, they can. But they cannot alter it to fit their sexual orientation nor can they force the pastor or priest to conduct a homosexual marriage. He is free to follow his conscience.
Christians are to love and accept homosexuals, even if do not agree with their homosexual promiscuity, just like you have heterosexually promiscuous friends, lying friends and Christians themselves may have some pet sins or habitual sins in which you are struggling. It is their country which has given them the right to practise it or to even marry in a homosexual way. As Christians let us focus on presenting Christ to everyone, homosexual or not and let God convict them and transform them in accordance with his word and power.
This does not mean we accept homosexual acts as normal or NOT sin anymore. We may have habitual sins, but we still consider them sins; we try to avoid them and when we end up falling sometimes, we seek God's forgiveness and not his sanction exactly because we still consider them as sins.
But when it comes to homosexuality, what a homosexual is claiming is not repentance but sanction. He is not willing to accept it is a sin as sin, therefore is at odds with God. All he has to do is accept it as sin and then repent and ask God to forgive him and he will be forgiven for Christ's sake. Then God will deliver him and keep him from committing homosexual acts even if he has the desire or the temptation. Even if he falls, and if he seeks forgiveness, Jesus will forgive him and give him clean conscience so that he can learn not to commit that sin again. Most of the time it is a process of learning to resist a particular sin, in this case homosexuality, which God graciously will teach. Some cases sudden immediate deliverances so happen. God decides how he wants to go about delivering someone. Sure it is a hard discipline to start with like any discipline. But with God's grace any person including a homosexual can be transformed. God loves the homosexual too, even if he hates that particular sin.
Homosexual marriage, the big fuzz nowadays is a state sanctioned marriage, not a religion sanctioned one. Homosexuals are free in countries where they are allowed to marry to have civil union. Let them have it. It is definitely a mistake on the state's part to have allowed it, but they will answer for it, for God will surely judge them.
I still wonder why anyone would label themselves as homosexual. It is a private individual choice, a private sin at worst. But homosexual marriage is the consequence of passage of society in secular mode. When the Roman empire was pagan, homosexuality was normal; so was pedophilia ;so was temple prostitution; so was slavery. When Christianity came it changed, for the better. All the above mentioned were criminalized to protect the weak and innocent, especially children from being exploited. Even when Roman Catholic priests were charged with sexual abuse, they did not sanction it or make it part of the Catholic faith. It was an error, a sin which went unchecked and the Catholic church accepted it.
Homosexual were homosexuals, especially in private, but they want to come out now and make it look decent and accepted. Well, that is not at all surprising with the de-christianization of Western society. I use de-christianization rather than secularization because America was founded as Christian nation and only the monotheistic religions forbid homosexuality, not Hinduism or Buddhism. Islamic states will even behead homosexuals if they were in accordance with Sharia law. A Hindu or Buddhist society may still allow homosexual marriage and consider it part of their religion, just like the Greeks and Romans did.
A person may have a homosexual orientation, but it is not the orientation which is the sin, but the act itself when done or even longed after or the allowing of the desire for homosexuality to lead to it's action. Now when it comes to two people of the same sex marrying, it is not permitted by God but by particular states. Well, if the states permit it, the people who accept it are free to marry, but trying to obtaining religious sanction from a religion which opposes it or trying to change the teaching of the religion to fit thier sexual orientation is wrong. If they want to follow a particular religion, they can follow it. If they want to reject a particular religion, they can. But they cannot alter it to fit their sexual orientation nor can they force the pastor or priest to conduct a homosexual marriage. He is free to follow his conscience.
Christians are to love and accept homosexuals, even if do not agree with their homosexual promiscuity, just like you have heterosexually promiscuous friends, lying friends and Christians themselves may have some pet sins or habitual sins in which you are struggling. It is their country which has given them the right to practise it or to even marry in a homosexual way. As Christians let us focus on presenting Christ to everyone, homosexual or not and let God convict them and transform them in accordance with his word and power.
This does not mean we accept homosexual acts as normal or NOT sin anymore. We may have habitual sins, but we still consider them sins; we try to avoid them and when we end up falling sometimes, we seek God's forgiveness and not his sanction exactly because we still consider them as sins.
But when it comes to homosexuality, what a homosexual is claiming is not repentance but sanction. He is not willing to accept it is a sin as sin, therefore is at odds with God. All he has to do is accept it as sin and then repent and ask God to forgive him and he will be forgiven for Christ's sake. Then God will deliver him and keep him from committing homosexual acts even if he has the desire or the temptation. Even if he falls, and if he seeks forgiveness, Jesus will forgive him and give him clean conscience so that he can learn not to commit that sin again. Most of the time it is a process of learning to resist a particular sin, in this case homosexuality, which God graciously will teach. Some cases sudden immediate deliverances so happen. God decides how he wants to go about delivering someone. Sure it is a hard discipline to start with like any discipline. But with God's grace any person including a homosexual can be transformed. God loves the homosexual too, even if he hates that particular sin.
Homosexual marriage, the big fuzz nowadays is a state sanctioned marriage, not a religion sanctioned one. Homosexuals are free in countries where they are allowed to marry to have civil union. Let them have it. It is definitely a mistake on the state's part to have allowed it, but they will answer for it, for God will surely judge them.
I still wonder why anyone would label themselves as homosexual. It is a private individual choice, a private sin at worst. But homosexual marriage is the consequence of passage of society in secular mode. When the Roman empire was pagan, homosexuality was normal; so was pedophilia ;so was temple prostitution; so was slavery. When Christianity came it changed, for the better. All the above mentioned were criminalized to protect the weak and innocent, especially children from being exploited. Even when Roman Catholic priests were charged with sexual abuse, they did not sanction it or make it part of the Catholic faith. It was an error, a sin which went unchecked and the Catholic church accepted it.
Homosexual were homosexuals, especially in private, but they want to come out now and make it look decent and accepted. Well, that is not at all surprising with the de-christianization of Western society. I use de-christianization rather than secularization because America was founded as Christian nation and only the monotheistic religions forbid homosexuality, not Hinduism or Buddhism. Islamic states will even behead homosexuals if they were in accordance with Sharia law. A Hindu or Buddhist society may still allow homosexual marriage and consider it part of their religion, just like the Greeks and Romans did.
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