Now it's true that the thought-life is in God's view. There is a difference between having temptations, and grasping a temptation mentally, clinging to it, pursuing it, nurturing it, accepting it....
So if "gay" "priests" who don't act on impulses they otherwise embrace, accept, and wallow in are OK, how about those also embracing thoughts of rape, murder, child molesting, theft, other things God condemns?
Doesn't make sense at any level.
Dan
I agree with you. I've never heard a 'gay' proponent argue that they resist and turn away from homosexual thinking or homosexual acts in their seeking fellowhip with God on His terms, but I have seen many homosexuals who sense they lack a sincere fellowship with God, remain enslaved to sin, and attempt to fabricate any counterfeit relationship to God that might creep upon them. To that end, I understand the entire 'glbf' agenda in 'Christianity' as an attempt to create a counterfeit religion based upon what they see as right in their own eyes without God's work. Hence their efforts are good for nothingness from a divine perspective.
Is it just me or has reality changed?
I always seemed to remember the word 'homosexual' or 'Sodomite' being used in those verses, yet whenever I do a word search for those terms in Internet concordances, they never seem to hit, but now the Scripture has been changed on the net to read something like, 'those who defile themselves with mankind'.
I must have tripped into another parallel universe again,....Kurt Vonnegut would be jealous...