Naomi25
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I suppose we must agree to disagree on God's leading here. Only time (when Christ returns) will tell...and I pray he does not ask you why you let your friends continue in opposition to him.
You know...most Christians don't really want to see people condemned. I know homosexual people too. I know plenty of unsaved people who are just plain, decent folks...more decent than some Christians I know. I would like, in my human nature, to believe all will be saved. That "love conquers". But the bible is quite clear that our...wishes, don't line up with Gods. That our 'love' is not God's love. We can't really see until we grasp the magnitude of sin against a holy God, and that to be all loving, he also has to be all judging. To let sin stand, he could not be all loving. Not a single one of us (be it a sin of pride, a sin of greed, or theft, or murder, or lust, or gluttony, or lies or homosexuality) could stand before this God. That's the reason we have to be covered by Christ. It's the only way. No matter the sin, it's always in Christ. But how we, after standing at the foot of the cross, then turn around on his extended mercy, and continue on in the behavior he died for? How can we not fight, tooth and nail against our sin? For everything that he gave...isn't it worth it?
I know you don't agree with me, I know you don't see it. But I ask that you set aside your notion that all I say and do is from hate or fear. Well...perhaps fear...I fear for them. I fear for you. But if I hated them, then I would say nothing.
You know...most Christians don't really want to see people condemned. I know homosexual people too. I know plenty of unsaved people who are just plain, decent folks...more decent than some Christians I know. I would like, in my human nature, to believe all will be saved. That "love conquers". But the bible is quite clear that our...wishes, don't line up with Gods. That our 'love' is not God's love. We can't really see until we grasp the magnitude of sin against a holy God, and that to be all loving, he also has to be all judging. To let sin stand, he could not be all loving. Not a single one of us (be it a sin of pride, a sin of greed, or theft, or murder, or lust, or gluttony, or lies or homosexuality) could stand before this God. That's the reason we have to be covered by Christ. It's the only way. No matter the sin, it's always in Christ. But how we, after standing at the foot of the cross, then turn around on his extended mercy, and continue on in the behavior he died for? How can we not fight, tooth and nail against our sin? For everything that he gave...isn't it worth it?
I know you don't agree with me, I know you don't see it. But I ask that you set aside your notion that all I say and do is from hate or fear. Well...perhaps fear...I fear for them. I fear for you. But if I hated them, then I would say nothing.