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stay strong Jacob, I know you have it in you to do what is right in your heart.
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The General Mental Health Forum is now a Read Only Forum. As we had two large areas making it difficult for many to find, we decided to combine the Mental Health & the Recovery sections of the forum into Mental Health & Recovery as a whole. Physical Health still remains as it's own area within the entire Recovery area.
If you are having struggles, need support in a particular area that you aren't finding a specific recovery area forum, you may find the General Struggles forum a great place to post. Any any that is related to emotions, self-esteem, insomnia, anger, relationship dynamics due to mental health and recovery and other issues that don't fit better in another forum would be examples of topics that might go there.
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No, I don't struggle with homosexuality. I am very comfortable with who I am and I am not really that sexual of a person. Yes, I want to hold Steven, yes I want to hug him, yes I want to never let him go. But I would be completely happy never having sex with him. Maybe that is because I am so distraught that sex does not even interest me. I don't know. I could easily disolve any sexual identity if that was all it took to get him back.doofus125 said:Ok Jacob, I'm confused......please don't take offense to this but from what I was getting from your post is that you struggle with homosexuality to some degree or am I just way off base on that?
Jacob, if you want to talk about this know my door is open, I went through this and didn't even realize I had fallen in love with my friend until one day that I was close to him and looked into his eyes and almost kissed him. We are here to love you Jacob and encourage you.Whitehorse said:Jacob, homosexuality isn't just wanting to have sex with someone who is the same gender. It is a *kind* of love. You say you'd be *perfectly happy* not having sex with him. But if you have a healthy kind of love for him, there should be no physical component to it at all. But it sounds like a romantic attachment, because even if you don't want to have sex with him, the wording sounds very much like the *kind* of love people should have for the opposite sex. There are different kinds of love, whether or not they lead to sex. And if you're noticing his eyes and his voice and you want to hold him physically, maybe it's time to pray about this and see if maybe God might want you to separate from Steven for a while until this is worked out.
I know-it's hard to think of. But if it gets in the way of your relationship with God, that really needs to be first priority.
Peace and grace,
Whitehorse
Whitehorse said:Jacob, homosexuality isn't just wanting to have sex with someone who is the same gender. It is a *kind* of love. You say you'd be *perfectly happy* not having sex with him. But if you have a healthy kind of love for him, there should be no physical component to it at all. But it sounds like a romantic attachment, because even if you don't want to have sex with him, the wording sounds very much like the *kind* of love people should have for the opposite sex. There are different kinds of love, whether or not they lead to sex. And if you're noticing his eyes and his voice and you want to hold him physically, maybe it's time to pray about this and see if maybe God might want you to separate from Steven for a while until this is worked out.
I know-it's hard to think of. But if it gets in the way of your relationship with God, that really needs to be first priority.
Peace and grace,
Whitehorse
seebs said:If I may, could I humbly ask that people focus more on the guy who is acting in a Christ-like manner, and less on their personal beliefs about things he might do later that they don't think are good?
This is not a "support and condemnation" forum. It's a support forum.
seebs said:If I may, could I humbly ask that people focus more on the guy who is acting in a Christ-like manner, and less on their personal beliefs about things he might do later that they don't think are good?
This is not a "support and condemnation" forum. It's a support forum.
I'm sorry, but if you go to a Christian forum to ask for guidance you will most likely receive biblical answers that might not be confortable to you, but if they comply with God's word and it convicts you, then you are not being condemed, but you are receiving guidence.seebs said:If I may, could I humbly ask that people focus more on the guy who is acting in a Christ-like manner, and less on their personal beliefs about things he might do later that they don't think are good?
This is not a "support and condemnation" forum. It's a support forum.
Andre said:I'm sorry, but if you go to a Christian forum to ask for guidance you will most likely receive biblical answers that might not be confortable to you, but if they comply with God's word and it convicts you, then you are not being condemed, but you are receiving guidence.
Seebs, please forgive an unpolitically correct observation. Christ never claimed to 'fall in love at first sight' with another man like our friend here did. The Bible is clear in several areas in both the OT and NT about homosexuality being a no no. The idea that the homosexual nature of this thread should be off limits for discussion and concern on a Christian forum is asinine.seebs said:If I may, could I humbly ask that people focus more on the guy who is acting in a Christ-like manner, and less on their personal beliefs about things he might do later that they don't think are good?
This is not a "support and condemnation" forum. It's a support forum.
Jacob4Jesus said:Yes, but the Biblical answers had nothing to do with what my question or what the point of this thread was. And another thing about a Christian Forum or any other forum is to try and stay on topic.
*Iddie4him puts mod hat on for a minute to make a point.desi said:Seebs, please forgive an unpolitically correct observation. Christ never claimed to '.........fall in love at first sight' with another man like our friend here did. The Bible is clear in several areas in both the OT and NT about homosexuality being a no no. The idea that the homosexual nature of this thread should be off limits for discussion and concern on a Christian forum is asinine.