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Hi. I'm not a homosexual, but I have a question for those who are Christian and are practicing homosexuals. I have a brother-in-law who is gay and he is practicing, but he doesn't like to talk about it so I'm trying to find someone who can answer some questions for me or at least point me in the right direction so I can find answers. Please do not be offended by these questions. They are genuine and I am interested in knowing how the Christian gay community would answer.
Actually, there's a very good chance that these practicing homosexuals are not Christian at all. When a so-called Christian embraces what he/she knows to be wrong, with no desire to repent and to seek God's forgiveness, they are an apostate. They've turned their back on what they once embraced as truth and have instead embraced the world's "truth". Basically, they were better off when they didn't know Christ, because at least then they didn't know better. But now that they do know better, they've committed a grave sin and have once again fallen down in worship of the world's "gods". In this case, the world's "god" is sexual immorality.
I'm not saying this to sound cruel or bigoted. I'm just sharing what I believe to be the truth. Read the Bible. It's all there.
apostasy - from the Greek
apostasia: "withdrawal or defection".
The defiant, deliberate, and unrepentant falling away from Christianity by someone who once was a member of the faith.
1 Timothy 4:1-2 (NIV)
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 (NIV)
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
Hebrews 6:4-8 (NIV)
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NIV)
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.
Hebrews 10:26-29 (NIV)
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
2 Peter 2:20-22 (NIV)
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud."
In other words, as one website says: "Those Who
Know Better Must Then
Do Better."
www.keyway.ca/htm2000/20000513.htm