I wasn't inferring that you or anybody was casting stones, so sorry if you thought I was. I was just trying to look at it in the way I think Jesus would.
I read about that child and am appalled that his parents seemed to be promoting this unnatural desire to be a girl. And as you say children are being confused at an early age and in later life I feel sure he might have regrets. And I am appalled that schools must now teach our primary school children that same sex relationships are normal. I don't believe they are. I started a thread called Deliverance which described how group of people celebrated their deliverance from homosexuality.
I do think it is sinful but then so is lying, or hating or pride. All deserving of death. We had a chance to repent and took it and like the woman caught in adultery these sinners who practice unnatural acts also deserve the chance of forgiveness. And in order to get them to that point it isn't any good pointing the finger, rather we need to be opening our arms and showing them God's love as we hopefully would do with any other sinner.
Hi Pearl, I believe that JohnPaul's seemingly hard stance stems from the fact that rarely, in the course of modern history, has ever such an overtly deviant and Biblically denounced sin, become either, in a complacent or militant manner, accepted as normal, or embraced as an act of love. It's all over the media as acceptable, on the TV shows, in the videos, in the advertisements, in the schools. And thus, is posing a greater threat than other sins that, at least currently, are still kept underground and hidden.
I, equally, find it utterly disgusting to watch people, whom I may have had some admiration for, embrace and support this defiant, deviant, perverted and shameful act...
...you know, to me, this is part of the mystery and wisdom of God. For, it's times like these that separate the boys from the men. Had it not been for this epidemic of inclusion, we may not have seen who the real fools are, as in, not necessarily those who practice it, but those who do not denounce it, ...who prior to this, may have appeared as having somewhat sound judgement?