(October 8, 2010 at 1:48 pm)theophilus Wrote: All of us are tempted in different ways and being attracted to others of the same sex is just on manifestation of a condition that everyone experiences.
So being attracted to a person of the same sex is the same as a straight person being attracted to a straight person? And as long as they don't act on the temptation, they have not sinned? It's almost as if gay people were uniquely selected to have a specific and additional "condition" placed on them that makes them doubly susceptible to sin: first, they have to deal with sexual temptations like everyone, but secondly, the fruition of that temptation itself is sinful. Thus, believers talk a lot about "overcoming" homosexuality, as on this site, and that it's an "identity problem." As a part of the site says, "God did create me to be heterosexual, and through Jesus Christ my heterosexuality is restored." I suppose that's why this Idarwin and many others have so many painful experiences of trying to right what they have known about themselves since a young age and what they learn in church. How contemptible.
(October 8, 2010 at 1:48 pm)theophilus Wrote: Here is a good place to learn about homosexuality from a Biblical perspective:
http://www.exodusinternational.org/
"Learning" would be an overstatement. Reading about how believers attempt so many doctrinal acrobatic tricks to try to right what we know from science might be more accurate.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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