Official Papal Response to Media Malpractice
You wrote:
“Calling homosexual “attraction” not a sin but a disorder, begins the error . Sin is sin”
Sin is sin. A feeling is not a sin, but a feeling. Sin normally REQUIRES action. I have no idea if you’re a man or woman so let’s just say you see someone of the opposite sex who you find very atractive. Is that attraction sinful? No, it is, in itself, perfectly healthy and normal. You can act on it in a sinful way, however. If a homosexual man or woman sees a person they find attractive - even of the same sex - it doesn’t mean they have committed a sin. Acting on it however would be sinful.
If your boss ruins your day and you have the sudden desire to wring his neck, that is not sinful. To nuture that feeling, however, or to act on it by strinking him, would be sinful.
“Christ says it is not necessary to ACT on the impulse for it to be sin. Just the thought or the attraction is the sin”
No. That is not what Christ said. It is amazing to me how the supposed “Bible Only” people are so bad at seeing what the Bible actually says. Look at the very verse you posted:
“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
“TO LUST AFTER HER.” In other words, it is not a man merely noting that a woman is attractive. That is normal and there’s nothing wrong with that. It is looking on a woman with LUST, looking on her TO LUST AFTER HER that is the sin. And in that specific reference it would be adultery in the heart. Again, why can’t Protestants actually read?
“The root of sin is in our heart.. God looks at and judges the heart.”
Exactly. And if a person feels something that is improper, but doesn’t nurture that feeling and doesn’t act on it, no sin has been committed. I know a woman who suffers from same sex attraction. She chose Christ over a woman she believed she was in love with. She still suffers the attraction, but she refuses to act sinfully.
“Homosexual “attraction “ is an abomination before God, not just a “disorder””
I’ll condemn the sin and love the sinner. A feeling in itself is not a sin.
Indeed. I look at Bibi Netanyahu and I sigh and think, “What a fine man! I wish we had a head of state like that.” But I don’t want to have sex with Bibi. He has his own wife, children, grandchildren. I just like to look, occasionally, and think, “What a fine man. What a good grandfather he is!”
Excellent post Vlad - thank you. I learn a lot from reading your posts.