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Isn't it God's will for me to obey his laws and believe in his son? Well, I did have a problem with lust. But recently gave up porn, which was str8 porn. I understand God wants me to obey him and not lust. But having strong gay desires is still sin? So just not acting on it isn't enough? Wow God has a lot of strict rules. It seems like I will never be good enough to avoid hell.
So you obey God outwardly but you are unwilling for
Him to change your lust for men into unselfish love
because you are unwilling to give up your homosexuality to God.
If you trully want to please God in your heart more than in outward appearances,
you would be asking God to cause you to hate your sin
and you would give Him permission to do whatever it takes, even unto
the death of your old sinful nature, to destroy this stronghold in your life.
We are to be transformed and conformed into the full measure
and staure of Jesus Christ. This is God's word to us as believers.
Does Jesus lust after men sexually...NO
We are not talking about salvation, we are talking about living
our lives for God in Christ and growing more like Christ each
and every day.
If this causes us pain and suffering, it is only because we fight against
God's will as we refuse to allow Him to bring about the transformation He desires.
To say that we should be content to remain in our sin as we
are already saved, is to pervert God's plan for our lives
as His represenatives to those who need to see Christ in us.
This forum is for giving Godly advice, not our own best practices.
So all that you seem to lack is the faith to believe that God canI am giving up my lust for men. Lust causes jealousy, anger, covetuousness, hatred, bitterness, unsatisfied life, etc. Why would an olympic runner who has to give up chocolate, go to a chocolate factory, only to crave chocolate and then later get bitter because she can't have chocolate. I do hate the sin. It's not pleasant lusting after people you can't have. So I am choosing to walk away from lust. And I am choosing to only have female friends.
We cannot avoid hell by our own actions. It is rejection of the Savior that sends one to hell.
The only wait to avoid hell is through the Savior. He is the one who died for us on the cross in our place. We cannot earn salvation in any way, shape or form.
Wow. Very blunt. I wish it was that easy for me. I have been that way since I was very little.
So all that you seem to lack is the faith to believe that God can
totally change your heart from one that desires men as a sexual
partner to one that would find God's good design in men being
attracted to women for the purpose of marriage and procreation.
Do you believe God can change your heart if you offer it to Him
unconditionally or do you insist that God is powerless and
it is impossible for the creator to change the heart of His created being?
The Bible is filled with examples of God changing the hearts of men or do you
believe that you are a lost cause.
I'm straightforward but I don't mean to be unkind.
You know, I didn't say the process of change would be easy. Being more like Christ is not easy for anyone. But this is the primary goal God has for every single one of His children - even the male ones who have been "girly" from a young age. So, you don't get to opt out or work in half measures in being like your Saviour because you've been the way you are for a long time. None of us get to use that sort of excuse for continuing as we are.
Selah.
Don't be afraid of God because He loves you and I knowI believe God can totally change me. To be perfectly I am afraid of what might happen if God changes me completely. Having gay desires isn't the only problems that I have. I am sociably anxious. I am very unfriendly to people. I am very scared of being hurt so I treat people like dirt before they hurt me. I am comfortable treating people like dirt and ignoring them when they say hi. I want my gay desires to be gone, but I am comfortable in my hate towards people. I know the Bible says if you don't have love you don't have eternal life, which I think is unfair. I have to put myself out there only to get hurt. I know God can change me. I just want him to change what I don't like. What if he fills me up with love towards other people? That idea is scary.
A good read that helped me out is Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray.Thank you. I will surrender to his will everyday.
My mannerism is very girly. But I don't wear female clothing. As I have said before, I have gay desires. But I refuse that lifestyle because I know God hates it. But I am still effeminate. The Bible says that the effeminate will not inherit the kingdom of God. This terriffies me. I can't make myself be manly. The way I carry myself, the way I sit, the way I talk is very feminate. When I call a phone company or any of business, they always call me mam. Am I not going to inherit the kingdom of God?
I would do a search with an online concordance on the actual, Greek, meaning for the English word "effeminate" that it has been translated into. I strongly suspect you will find it no way means feminine gestures and mannerisms. A lot gets lost in translation from Greek to English (and from Hebrew, which is what the "New" Testament was originally translated from by the Church "fathers".)
You didn't sign up for effeminate ways. You seem to not even want them at all. Good for you that you have not acted on your gay impulses. That is something to be very proud of. I know, from earlier posts you made, that you have had the opportunity, but you have not gone that way.
Sometimes people have hormonal imbalances. As I think I have said before. our waters are polluted with estrogen from women's birth control pills being urinated into the water supply, from industrial pollutants that act as estrogenic agents and so on, from some food additives, etc. etc. We live in a very toxic world.
Praying for you to be strong, and free, in Messiah.
You won't be damned for that. You're rejecting homosexual temptation, good for you. The temptation isn't what makes you sinful (Jesus was tempted with renouncing God, testing God, embracing greed, and worshiping Satan in the desert - yet he never sinned). It's saying "yes" to the temptation that counts against you, and this goes for any sin.My mannerism is very girly. But I don't wear female clothing. As I have said before, I have gay desires. But I refuse that lifestyle because I know God hates it. But I am still effeminate. The Bible says that the effeminate will not inherit the kingdom of God. This terriffies me. I can't make myself be manly. The way I carry myself, the way I sit, the way I talk is very feminate. When I call a phone company or any of business, they always call me mam. Am I not going to inherit the kingdom of God?
My mannerism is very girly. But I don't wear female clothing. As I have said before, I have gay desires. But I refuse that lifestyle because I know God hates it. But I am still effeminate. The Bible says that the effeminate will not inherit the kingdom of God. This terriffies me. I can't make myself be manly. The way I carry myself, the way I sit, the way I talk is very feminate. When I call a phone company or any of business, they always call me mam. Am I not going to inherit the kingdom of God?
You won't be damned for that. You're rejecting homosexual temptation, good for you. The temptation isn't what makes you sinful (Jesus was tempted with renouncing God, testing God, embracing greed, and worshiping Satan in the desert - yet he never sinned). It's saying "yes" to the temptation that counts against you, and this goes for any sin.
My mannerism is very girly. But I don't wear female clothing. As I have said before, I have gay desires. But I refuse that lifestyle because I know God hates it. But I am still effeminate. The Bible says that the effeminate will not inherit the kingdom of God. This terriffies me. I can't make myself be manly. The way I carry myself, the way I sit, the way I talk is very feminate. When I call a phone company or any of business, they always call me mam. Am I not going to inherit the kingdom of God?
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