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NASB | James 2:1 My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 2:1 My fellow believers, do not practice your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of partiality [toward people--show no favoritism, no prejudice, no snobbery]. |
Subject: Homosexual are picked on in the church? |
Bible Note: Hi Journey me, You have claimed Brad holds the opinion that homosexuality is worse than some sins because he associated it with violent crimes. Brad's actual statement was "It is a sin just as is murder, rape or robbery." You have left out that he also associated it with robbery, which is not necessarily a violent crime. But mostly I want to address another matter that you have brought up, your claim that "you can be a 'gay Christian'". 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 So that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new! (18) And all things are from God, the One having reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and having given to us the ministry of reconciliation, When you are born again, you are a new being that didn't exist before. You have no connection to what you were before. Ephesians tells us that we have been created in righteousness and true holiness. That means total separation from anything sinful in thought, word, and deed. But I find this following passage especially meaningful to this sort of discussion: Ephesians 4:17-24 Therefore, I say this, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, (18) having been darkened in the intellect, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the hardness of their heart, (19) who, having cast off all feeling, gave themselves up to lust, to the working of all uncleanness with greediness. (20) But you have not so learned Christ, (21) if indeed you heard Him and were taught in Him, as the truth is in Jesus. (22) For you have put off the old man, as regards the former behavior, having been corrupted according to the deceitful lusts, (23) and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, (24) and to put on the new man, which according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness. No one is "born homosexual". All who are practicing such have been deceived by their lust, and have actually put off true feelings. This is not my opinion, this is what the Bible says. All such deeds belong to the "old man", which has been crucified with Christ, which is to be reckoned as already dead, and is to be put to death: Col 3:5 Then put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry; Even the "strong desire for sin" is sinful in and of itself, and is to be conquered within us, and CAN BE! :-) And again, I will say that I agree with you, all sin is sin, and any sin will separate a person from God forever. No sin is to be allowed a foothold. But also realize, while theft remains a problem in America, and lies are told every day, homosexuals have put THEMSELVES into the spotlight, in an effort to force a national acceptance and approval of their sinful lifestyle, and they should not be surprised to find that of the vast vast majority who reject and disapprove of their lifestyle there are many who say so. Its not the drunkards that are in our faces, its the SSAD's. And so if the Church, and others understand the self-destruction of homosexuality talk more about this sin then other sins, the homosexual community has brought that upon themselves. Jesus said "I came that they may have life and may have it abundantly." Not that we can be partly changed, but partly broken. Love in Christ, Mark |