Why I cannot understand The fight.

I am growing a little concerned about the way some “Christians” are thinking.

Namely this is about the Homosexual lifestyle and thoughts.

I hear a lot of people, Christian and other, saying that we need to be accepting of Homosexuals. They say that they cannot help the way they were made. They say that everyone deserves love.

On the surface, I would agree, but first I have to ask, what do you mean by love?

The greeks had several different words for love. The ones we will face here in this article are Phileto and Eros. There is a third that we will get to later.
Anyway Phileto we all actually know; it is one half of the word used for a major city, Philadelphia. The city of Brotherly love. See but that is the thing that is the love that we seem to skew to something else.
To me there is a difference between love and lust! I love my children. I do not want to have sex with them. I love my aunts, my uncles, my siblings, my mother and my father. I Do NOT want to sleep with them.

I think the love people really are usually talking about is Eros. This love is really lust! A desire to sleep with to have sex with the object of that desire.
Here is the thing. When a Homosexual says “I can’t help it that is the way that I am.” Then what he/she is ultimately saying in that case is “I cannot control my sexual urges”.

Well wait a minute, isn’t that then an excuse that anyone can use? A rapist a child molester or a peeping tom? They just cannot control it!

WARNING WARNING VERY MATURE SUBJECT MATTER FOLLOWS!!!
DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED!
I have/had a strong sexual urge. Sometimes I think/have thought that if I could have sex three times a day, 7 days a week, that would not be enough.
When I was a young boy and first discovered masturbation I abused myself so much that within a week my abdomen HURT, because of the tightening of muscles I experienced every time I had an orgasm.
If I had not discovered a vibrator I would have rubbed off all the skin down there!
I could not control it! Or could I? If I would be honest I would have to say, “yes I could have controlled myself, I just didn’t want to because it felt so GOOOOODDDDD!!!!!.

But here is the thing, I CAN control my lust. And if I am going to follow Christ I have to control that.
God tells us that any extra marital sex is sinful.
If I have sex with a girl who is not my wife I am sinning, if I have sex with my girlfriend before we get married I am sinning. And if I choose to have sex with someone who is the same sex as me I am sinning.

I heard people complaining about Kirk Cameron lately because he made “homophobic” statements. The thing is that I think we all need to lay off. Those who want to pick on him for those views would complain about how he is a hypocrite if he lived his life the same as them while judging them but he doesn’t so the masses feel they have to pick on him for the views he has.
He is living his life by the standards he sees as important… so the question becomes, “Why are they so threatened by that?”

I have heard Christian pastors and lay-people claiming that God doesn’t speak out against Homosexuality. But wait what was the whole thing about Sodom and Gomorrah about?

Was it not a condemnation of the homosexual lifestyle? People who say God doesn’t speak against homosexuality will say “no, God was speaking out against Sin in General”, or “it was really about the sin of forcible rape.” Or something. The thing is that doesn’t fit! If it was about sin in general then why did the Lord have his angels save Lot? What about his family? Remember, after being saved Lot’s daughters deliberately got him drunk and slept with him. That is not the behavior of people who never sin!

And as for the forcible rape issue, Lot offered his daughters up as a kind of sacrifice… “ you can have my daughters who have never known any man!” That sounds to me like an acceptance of the idea of rape! Yet they still saved Lot. So the only point left to argue in there is the point that when the townsmen came to Lot’s home they specifically said, “send those men out here that we might have [sex] with them.”

Thus God said in that action, It is sinful to participate in a homosexual lifestyle.

Yeah I could use all the old excuses too. I could point at how David was a “man after God’s own heart.” And yet he was such a sinner that he.
(1) Commited adultery.
(2) Tried to cover up his sin through manipulation
(3) Deliberately Caused the death of the husband of the woman with whom he had sinned.

If David a man after God’s Heart was able to do all that and STILL be a man after God’s own heart then doesn’t it fit that I can do the same without penalty?
The answer, Of Course, is NO. God wants us to follow him and what made David a man after God’s own heart was that he repented of the actions and turned to the right way after the sin was pointed out to him.
Same for me and for anyone else who participates in sinful behavior.

So should we love Homosexuals? Yes.
Does that mean we HAVE to accept their choices as the only option? No.

They are not practicing LOVE as we would know it. This is not Phileto, this is not Agape. This is Eros and that is not love, that is lust, and in that way it is a sinful thing.

All that Christians are saying (or should be saying) is that I cannot just go out and rape whoever I want. I cannot have sex with just anyone because that is a sin. It does not matter what I think I can or cannot control.
So the same standards that I am held to/holding myself to, I am asking them to be held to.

IF you are going to call yourself a Christian, you cannot live for your lusts! You need to repent of your sinfulness and live for God. The word Christian literally means Like Christ. Are you being like Christ? Are you abstaining from sin? Or are you making excuses? Jesus never made excuses he lived a life pure and holy. End of story.