Homosexuality Is An Affront to The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob

[GracePeace]

I have noticed he deleted a lot of his posts. I believe he is making an effort.

All right. Thanks.

 

[Waiting on him]

Romans 1:26-28 (NKJV)
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.27 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.28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

This is not even speaking of homosexuality.

 

[GracePeace]

This is not even speaking of homosexuality.

1 Corinthians 6 denounces homosexuality, in your view, though, right?

 

[Waiting on him]

1 Corinthians 6 denounces homosexuality, in your view, though, right?

You should probably edit this.

 

[Waiting on him]

It would be impossible for there to be any implication of the love of God in me, to petition a man to perform sexual favors for me.

 

[Waiting on him]

Impossible!

 

[Waiting on him]

1 Corinthians 6 denounces homosexuality, in your view, though, right?

What it denounces is the heart of any man that would harm his neighbor.

 

[GracePeace]

What it denounces is the heart of any man that would harm his neighbor.

So, it doesn't explicitly denounce homosexuality?

 

[GracePeace]

You should probably edit this.

Why?

 

[Waiting on him]

So, it doesn't explicitly denounce homosexuality?

No.

 

[GracePeace]

It would be impossible for there to be any implication of the love of God in me, to petition a man to perform sexual favors for me.

1. The first question is whether homosexuality is a sin at all--then, based on that, the question is whether we can say that a Christian could and/or should be told to repent of it.

2. Based on what are you saying a Christian could never err and commit an abomination like homosexuality? In 1 Corinthians 5, a man in the Church was intimate with his father's wife--and the rest of the Church was proud and boasted about it! Both of those are disgusting acts!

 

[GracePeace]

No.

So, when it says "homosexuality" that is not explicit?

 

[Waiting on him]

Why?

Maybe reread the whole chapter and pray over what God is trying to convey to the individuals there at Corinth?

 

[Waiting on him]

1. The first question is whether homosexuality is a sin at all--then, based on that, the question is whether we can say that a Christian could and/or should be told to repent of it.

2. Based on what are you saying a Christian could never err and commit an abomination like homosexuality? In 1 Corinthians 5, a man in the Church was intimate with his father's wife--and the rest of the Church was proud and boasted about it! Both of those are disgusting acts!

But what is Paul saying is worse than the act the young man committed?

 

[Waiting on him]

So, when it says "homosexuality" that is not explicit?

What is being suggested here in my opinion if it matters is a man keeping a you boy as a slave for sexual acts.

 

[GracePeace]

Maybe reread the whole chapter and pray over what God is trying to convey to the individuals there at Corinth?

This thread focuses on homosexuality as a sin because it has become a hot button topic in our culture and confusion has arisen around it. I don't need to address other things like stealing or drunkenness because the sinfulness of those acts is almost universally accepted in the Church. What we need to clear up as a service to the Church is the confusion around the sin of homosexuality.

YOU are precisely the type of person I authored this thread for. I'm glad you came out of the wood work.

 

[GracePeace]

But what is Paul saying is worse than the act the young man committed?

Don't move the goalposts : you argued that a Christian could never commit homosexuality.
1 Corinthians 5 proves otherwise.

 

[Waiting on him]

Don't move the goalposts : you argued that a Christian could never commit homosexuality.
1 Corinthians 5 proves otherwise.

My goal is what is really at the heart of the chapter.

 

[GracePeace]

What is being suggested here in my opinion if it matters is a man keeping a you boy as a slave for sexual acts.

Ah, OK.

That's where you're wrong.

In the Septuagint, when Torah condemns homosexual acts, it uses the same terms (but Paul puts them together and coins the new term "arsenokoitēs").

The Jews got the hint : according to them, homosexuality wasn't even suspected among them in the days of Jesus.

 

[GracePeace]

My goal is what is really at the heart of the chapter.

MY goal (I authored the OP) is to root out deception on the issue--and here you are, right where I want you, in a discussion that will clear the issue up for you.