Many Biblical passages are not 100% clear cut and do not have unanimous interpretations among Christians. It bothers me when I see people here say, "the Bible says XYZ. If you don't interpret it my way, you are not a Christian". This is not only extremely prideful and narrow-minded, it is also against the forum rules. Calling a self-identified Christian's faith into question is prohibited, and has happened many times in this thread. Homosexuality is not in the creed, and a position on it is not foundational to whether one is a Christian or not.
None of the other laws are in the creed either, so are you dismissing the other laws as well now, such as 'do not murder' or 'do not covet'? Sexual immorality was one of the first things the apostles told the Gentiles to look out for. Sin is not based on the impact on the person sinning, but on the impact on those around them, including God. Romans 1 isn't the only NT passage on this, you know:
"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." (1 Cor 6:9-1)
So that means we agree that if you dont repent then you cant be Christian?
As I stated earlier, anyone can be a Christian, including prostitutes, murderers and thieves. However, one is to assume that the entire meaning of repentance is to confess your error and to move away from making the errors once more. I'm not saying that at some stage we will be able to make no errors (though this does in fact happen when we are resurrected with new bodies; however, I'm talking about our present lives), but being Christian doesn't necessarily get you off the hook when it comes to sin. We have been only saved by the death of Christ through faith, but both Jesus, and the apostles, and those before them, all know that we in repentance are to turn away from our wrongs.
"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Eph 2:10)
"What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace." (Rom 6:1-14)
"What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Rom 6:15-23)
