CadyandZoe
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It might be helpful to draw a distinction between a feeling and a practice. Homosexuality, from the Biblical perspective, is NOT a feeling but a practice. As someone has said here, we can't help what we feel, but in my opinion, we CAN help what we do about it.Can a Person be Born Homosexual?
The very short answer to this, from the Holy Bible, is a resounding, NO!
Regardless of what so-called “science” may say, about some people who are born with a “homosexual gene”, the irrefutable evidence in the Infallible, Inerrant and Perfect Word of God, the Holy Bible, is very clear on this important subject.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for any human being, who is Created in the Image of Almighty God, though fallen, to be “born” as a homosexual.
In the first place, we read in Romans chapter 1, where Paul, writing under the Inspiration of God the Holy Spirit, says:
“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due” (verses 26-27)
In this passage, we have the use of the Greek adjective, “physikós”, which is translated as “natural”. Here it has the literal root use of, “inborn”, which here means, “inherited from parents or possessed from birth”, as part of the humans DNA. God has made sure, that each and every person who is born, has from the time of conception, inbuilt in their DNA, the natural desire for the opposite sex.
In the second place, we also have the very clear Testimony of passages in the Holy Bible, where homosexuality is regarded as, and condemned as SIN.
‘You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination’. Leviticus 18:22
‘If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them’. Leviticus 20:13
‘For this reason God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error’. Romans 1:26-27
‘Or 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 persons 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
‘The law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral, persons who practise homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine’.1 Timothy. 1:9-10
If humans can be “born” as homosexuals, then God, Who is The Righteous Judge, would not have said in His Infallible Word, that homosexuality is “SIN”. Because, if a person can indeed be “born” homosexual, as from their birth, then it is something that is outside of their control, and they cannot have a real “choice” in this.
The Word of God is clear, that homosexuality is SINFUL, and therefore not as part of the humans DNA, from their Creation in their mothers womb.
“Science” is perverting what the Holy Bible Teaches on this subject, to justify the SINFUL lives of those who CHOOSE to be homosexual, which is clearly against what God says.
A man isn't required to sleep with another man. The man can abstain. He can admit to himself, I have these feelings, but for the sake of my soul, I choose not to sleep with a man. In the mean time, he can ask himself, "from where do these feelings come?"
Science has give us an answer, which I believe is faulty. A group of scientists dissected the brains of known homosexuals and found a difference between the brain of a heterosexual person and a homosexual person. Scientists, then, concluded that homosexuality is an inherited trait and for that reason, laws against homosexuality must be rescinded.
In my view, science drew the wrong conclusion from their studies. The brain chemistry and structure of a homosexual brain was the result, not the cause of his homosexuality. The brain of a homosexual changes as the result of his practice. Human beings aren't born with a fully developed brain that never changes. No, rather, human beings are born with a brain that constantly changes as human beings learn new things. As a homosexual gains more experience in his homosexuality, his brain changes in response to his experience.
No one is born with homosexual tendencies. We are hardwired to love our father and mother. Homosexual feelings are not the result of brain chemistry; they are the result of natural affections for father and mother damaged by early childhood trauma.