So, my wife and I were debating the other day that when we are blessed with our children, would we would do if one of our children was homosexual.
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I wasn't born bisexual or gay in any form so I have NO clue what it's like. I do however know what it's like to be born not "normal" and what it's like to be shunned by a majority of society. It sucks.
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Usually when I'm confronted with a sin I try to not keep doing it. If I encouraged my homosexual child to be happy in a homosexual relationship they wouldn't really be trying to stop the sin they're committing and how would that effect their souls or their Christian faith?
The answer to this question for everybody is the same answer that everybody has to masturbation.
Masturbation is a sin. The lustful thoughts that accompany it are adultery.
Some people teach, contrary to what YHWH and Jesus actually said, that all sin is the same. That is not true. John tells us clearly that there are mortal sins. Adultery - and therefore the lustful thoughts that accompany masturbation - are as mortal a sin as sodomy.
To be clear, God said that the sodomy - that men who lay with other men as women - is the sin. We can assume, from the adulterousness of lustful thoughts that lustful thoughts towards the same sex are equally a sin.
Equally.
So, how do you deal with yourself regarding your own adultery, you masturbators?
Masturbators are all adulterers, and they are all at exactly the same level of sin as homosexual sodomites: deadly.
So, what do you do if your child masturbates?
What do you do to yourself for being a masturbator?
You shrug your shoulders and figure God will forgive. Because your other choices are to compound your own adultery with a lie (that masturbation isn't adulterous), and with a hypocrisy (that adultery in the form of masturbation is forgiveable, but some other mortal sin is not), or to walk away from Christianity because it's unworkable.
The answer is that you love your homosexual child the same way you love your masturbating child and your masturbating spouse and your masturbating self. You're all - all humans - are guilty of mortal sin that you cannot resist. So stop pretending that homosexuality is worse than masturbation. Masturbation is adultery. If God doesn't forgive it, everybody is going to Hell.
Homosexuality is as uncontrollable as masturbation - in fact, it's just a form of masturbation, when you get right down to it. It's just another version of the same mortal sin.
So treat it as what it is: masturbation.
How do masturbators deal with each other. Look around at every human being you have ever met: they are all adulterers, because they are all masturbators. Which means that if God doesn't forgive, they're all damned. That's all.
Homosexuality is no different from adultery, and masturbation is adultery. So, how do you treat masturbation?
You ignore it. What other choice do you have? Be a liar and a hypocrite? Stop? Sure. Tell a teenager, or a twenty something, or a single, "chaste", "celibate" thirty-something to stop masturbating because that makes him an adulterer and doomed to hell.
And see to it that you yourself keep that commandment.
What? You can't?
Exactly.
You deal with your own mortal sin of masturbation, and the way you deal with it is to throw up your hands and say "God will forgive". And you leave it up to him. You don't judge other masturbators, and if somebody came and seriously started preaching hellfire for masturbators, you'd know the guy was a flaming hypocrite. You'd know FOR SURE. And you'd be right too.
Which is why nobody preaches that. And if they do, they are silenced by asking the direct question: Before God and men, do you swear that YOU have never masturbated, and that you don't touch?
If he lies, he throws himself into hell for the lie, along with the hypocrisy, and of course the masturbation itself.
Do you really believe that God damns all masturbators? Really? Then we're all doomed anyway, so chuck Christianity.
Or is it that belief in Christ will save you from hell for that sin - even though you don't stop it.
Well, then belief in Christ will do the same for boys who touch with other boys, won't it?
This is why the letter of the law kills and the spirit gives life.
Now the truth: most people don't like homosexuality. It's abnormal and they find it creepy and weird and disgusting. Others don't care. Religious people have a tendency to take whatever they don't like and say that God hates that too, and to beat the drum. And maybe it's true too, maybe God does hate that.
But God said that only if you are without sin do you dare cast the first stone. You are a masturbator. Which means you are an adulterer. Do you deny it? Adulterers and homosexuals are the same thing: mortal sinners. Don't pretend that homosexuality is worse before God. It is not. Since you are an adulterer, who are you to judge the homosexual? If you do, you damn yourself.
For Christ said, very clearly, and in parable form also, that you are to forgive others' sins against you OR ELSE God will NOT forgive you your sins against him.
The homosexual, like the adulterer, has committed no sin against you. His homosexuality, like your masturbation, are between him and God. You have no role in it, and if you judge it, you expose yourself to judgment for your own adulterous masturbation. To the lake of fire with both of you.
The proper Christian answer to homosexuality is the same answer as it is to masturbation. You should treat homosexuality the same way. It is not worse than male-female fornication. It is not worse than adultery. And it is not worse than masturbation, because masturbation is adultery.
In other words, it is not something that you have to worry about. Do you worry about masturbation? No, you don't. You're familiar with it and you don't think you're damned, do you?
Do you.
So assume that God has the homosexuality issue well in hand also, and stop thinking that it's up to you to judge.
If you must judge, then accept that you're going to Hell as a hypocrite and an unforgiving adulterer, because it's what you are.
That's the answer. Christian hypocrites will now scream in response. And in so doing they are condemned for their own adultery, for every one who screams in anger is himself a masturbator, a serial masturbator, filled with lustful thoughts, and therefore an adulterer - and in his hatred of homosexuals, a hypocritical, judgmental adulterer who damns himself by thrusting away God's forgiveness of his own deadly sexual sins out of his desire to judge others for theirs.
Homosexuality and adultery and fornication and masturbation - all exactly the same. It's why all are sinners. And it's why you don't judge it. Leave it to God and forgive each other, or burn in hell yourself for eternity, because if you do not forgive, God will not forgive you. Jesus said so, that's the law, and that's the truth.
