02-21-2011, 08:55 PM
(02-21-2011, 05:51 PM)Habitual_Ritual Wrote:(02-18-2011, 10:05 PM)Catholic Johnny Wrote:(02-18-2011, 10:02 PM)Melkite Wrote: Why can't someone 'be' a homosexual and also a Christian? Afterall, a sin isn't something you 'are,' it's something you do.
Did you read the OP? It isn't my opinion, its the clear teaching of the New Testament.
Its a bit like saying you can't be a horse and Christian (which is true) but that's only if you buy into the modern naturalistic anthropological definition of Homosexuality rather than accepting it is a highly disordered tendency to certain forms of sin which can of course be conquered.
My point exactly. To admit of the existence of homosexual persons is a capitulation to concupiscience and a rejection of the properties of the new birth.
If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus: To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind: And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth. Ephesians 4:21-24
And is most uncharitable to deprive such persons of the hope of full conversion, complete healing and the freedom that the Holy Spirit desires to bring them.