Subject: Is homosexuality actually forbidden? |
Bible Note: Dear Benito, Romans 2 is discussing the guilt of the Jew in judging the gentile. Romans 1-3 is the universality of sin. It is not a passage seeking to admonish Christians to avoid hypocritical condemnation. I believe you can make your point elesewhere in Scripture, but not from Romans 2. Ours is a holy God. My sin is just as heinous as yours. The problem is not that we both sin, the problem is that God, the Creator, is infinitely holy and is deeply offended by our wickedness. Consequently, it is His final judgment of men that is really significant. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV) To construe that my argument is advocating a lack of compassion completely misses the point. We do no one any favors by diminishing the incredible danger they are in before the growing indignation of a perfectly holy God at the effrontery of man's sin. That is the purpose of the law, to show sin as being as black as it really is! Only when a man realizes that can the balm of the Gospel begin its work. In Him, Doc |