God Created Man in His Own Image

I want to comment on a previous statement made by Blogger Brian a few days ago:

“If you are truly a Christian you will abandon this hateful website, and help those around you who are in need, as opposed to complaining about people just because God happened to make them homosexual.”

We view homosexuality as being not only sinful, but harmful. We could not anymore condone it than we could condone pedophilia, eating disorders, or cutting (people have a disorder that causes them to want to cut themselves). These, like homosexuality and the like are destructive behaviors that lead to sickness and death. If you really care about someone who is doing something destructive themselves, then you will do all you can stop them from doing it. God’s wrath is upon such people and we want them to be free of God’s wrath. GOD DOES NOT MAKE PEOPLE HOMOSEXUAL ANYMORE THAN HE MAKES A PERSON PEDOPHILIC, ANOREXIC, BULIMIC , OR A CUTTER. I heard a news story about people who have strange desires to cut off their limbs. Did God give these people these desires? First of all, all of these things are choices even if people have the tendency to do these things. Secondly, God does not give people these tendencies. It is a sin for a man to look at woman (other than his wife) with lust (to fantasize about having sex with her). I have an inherent tendency in my physical body to do this, but that does not mean that it is an acceptable or healthy behavior. In fact, if I were to really follow my tendencies, I would go ahead and try to convince the woman to have adultery with me. But this, just like homosexuality, would be an abomination to God. These tendencies come from what the Bible calls “the flesh”. Our flesh is corrupted because of sin (Read Romans 1). Sin causes more temptation to sin and it causes sickness and death and its degrading. When God created Adam, he did not have any sinful tendencies in his physical flesh. Adam did sin because Satan tempted him audibly. That got the ball rolling and here we are. But Jesus came to break this cycle.

My church’s former minister once admitted, in front of the whole congregation, that he a problem with homosexuality. He said that he was molested as a young boy. ONE’S SINFUL TENDENCIES ARE NOT ALWAYS CAUSED BY ONE’S OWN SINS, BUT CAN BE CAUSED BY THE SINS OF OTHERS. This cannot be used as an excuse—it is still a choice. The congregation was willing to forgive him and help him. He continued to pastor our church for a couple more years, and then stepped down to head up a ministry to help people overcome addictions. This ministry helps people overcome alcohol, drug, sex, and overeating addictions and helps people with anger management problems. The philosophy of the ministry team is that there aren’t “those people” and “normal people”, but rather, we all struggle with sinful tendencies and everyone needs prayer, encouragement, and knowing the love of Christ to overcome them.

This philosophy is different from that of Exodus International, which tries to change the sexual preference of homosexuals. The goal should be to overcome the temptations of homosexuality, not to gain a heterosexual bent.

The news media are out to get people to believe that sex is necessary. Homosexuals must have homosexual sex. Teenagers must have sex, and so forth. They talk as if you would die without it. The same ideas are being pushed in public schools. It simply isn’t true. Marriage is not necessary for salvation. I struggle with lusting after women and I am ashamed of this, but I am almost 35 years old and I am still a virgin! The reason why it seems so hard to prevent teens from having sex is that most parents, even most who call themselves Christian, allow their kids to look at sexually explicit things and put themselves into compromising situations. They allow their teens to dress inappropriately. They want to please their kids rather than disciplining them. Kids are shown pornography in schools in the name of sex education. The people who are pushing the idea that sex is necessary (therefore we must pass out free condoms to twelve-year olds) are the very people who are giving them temptation to have sex. Hypocrites!

If you want to know what the difference is between the mean-spirited bigots that you may presume that we are and what we really are, read my next article (I will post it soon).