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Hi, at that time, I'd never met another homosexual, that I knew of.This is so sad.
Loneliness may cause a nervous breakdown, it is not caused by chastity - it's caused by remoteness from supportive friends and from God. My guess is that you were hanging out with other homosexuals and the temptation got too great. God is faithful not to tempt us with more than we can bear, but we must be faithful to remove ourselves from temptation, just like Joseph did with Potipher's wife. He is a great lesson to all of us who are choosing to live chastely!
Yes, with 3 nervous breakdowns you can consider it a history of depression. Still under treatment.I was going to ask if you had a history of depression. I had three nervous breakdowns myself (before I came to Christ), and I'm not a homosexual, although I was living a life of chastity at the time. BTW, I'm not *assuming* you had a nervous breakdown for any reason at all- I just wondered if perhaps you (like me) had a history of depression or anxiety.
And no, I would never wish a NB on anybody. They're all shades of awful, aren't they?
I've somehow never thought that temptation was a happy situation, but that's just me.
Of course, it's happy when I've risen above it! Jesus said that the woman who was taken in adultery had her sins forgiven and best of all - to go and sin no more. Sex outside of marriage is a sin. It is NOT IMPOSSIBLE to conquer temptation. With God, all things are possible - and I'm the evidence of that promise!
But both Jesus and Paul were Jews and homosexual sexual activity was not permitted to them by God. Not that it's permitted to anyone - but Christianity is a divine outcome of Judaism.
I totally agree with you - so you needed to get out with great groups of people and into a super church - not out of the closet, so to speak!
My Leviticus 11 doesn't have anything about dogs and cats. In fact, I need to check my notes, but somewhere I actually read that food WAS thrown to the dogs (no, not Jezebel's body
). It surprised me as I had never noticed it before!Leviticus 11:26-28:
The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean. And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even. And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
I just read all of Leviticus 11 for clarification. True, cats and dogs are unclean to eat. Also, one should not touch their dead bodies. However, the Scripture does not say they cannot be kept as pets--just don't eat them or touch their dead bodies. (If you do touch their dead bodies, however, that just means you are unclean until the evening.)
I think you're twisting the words and the plain meaning of Scripture...
My Leviticus 11 doesn't have anything about dogs and cats. In fact, I need to check my notes, but somewhere I actually read that food WAS thrown to the dogs (no, not Jezebel's body
I was being facetious. Hence, the
In that case, I apologize. I've been seriously accused of twisting Scripture on other boards (e.g., the Catholic thread in Apolgetics), so it's rather a sensitive issue for me, considering the grave nature of the charge.
The closest I came was last summer when (in a two-month period), my father had a stroke and ended up in a rehab hospital; my stepmother died of a sudden heart attack; my step sister had a near-fatal stroke; my stepbrother had his 4th, 5th, and 6th DWIs (which my family decided my partner and I should bail him out since we had bought a house and therefore we had to be flush with money (!) -- and no, we didn't bail him out of jail!); my uncle and aunt in the same family on my mother's side of the family died within one month of each other; my other uncle was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer; and I picked up a serious staph infection from the rehab hospital (where I was trying to help the other patients in addition to my father).
I didn't get "the full-fledged breakdown" but it was a two months I wouldn't care to go through again any time soon, nor was the six months' emotional recovery from that much fun, either!
"Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln - how was the play?" That pretty much describes last summer.
