Aspen2,
Not necessarily the same thing. Lots of people claim to love their neighbour, but it depends on what one understands as love. With the love debate, the modern understanding of love is actually not love at all to God, but hated of God. This is particularly the case with sex. Sexual intercourse in the Bible is only for a man/woman union, if it is outside that it is not love but sin because God created man and woman for it. A loving relationship in the worldly thinking is often a sexual one of any kind.
Are you confused about my practice of loving my neighbor in Christ? Let me clear it up for you - I do not share Christ by having sex with my neighbor - instead, I serve my neighbor by meeting their basic needs and sharing my hope for redemption.
Intimate sexual relation yes, but that is not love to God if not within a man/woman union. To God it is just detestable and wicked suppression of the truth as you have seen from His word.
Really? You actually believe that homosexuals only experience intimacy through sexual relations? It might interest you to know that statistically, lesbian couples engage in the least amount of sex out of all forms of adult partnerships...
The fact is, homosexual relationships are more than simply the act of sex.
Well don’t you? Isn’t that what Christ commanded?
Ah....here is another example of your trademark.....cutting one of my sentences short and commenting on it out of context......how utterly meaningless.
But that is only love to non-believers, to believers ‘being intimate with other men as a man and wife’ is error, wicked suppression of the truth, and detestable to God.
Hmm....sort of like the state of the Fallen people who are engaged in the behavior? Why are you surprised? They need Jesus, not legislated morality.
When my two year old niece picks her nose and eats it, I am disgusted, but hardly surprised.