Posted on 05/26/2015 7:08:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Q&A.
Christian Apologist Ravi Zacharias responds to an audience's question:
Can a Sincere Christian be a "Practicing Homosexual"
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO OF HIS REPONSE
Read the Bible.
No.
Enough already.
NOT going to waste my time watching this guy respond on video when the answer is simple. NO!
No. Next question.
Someone who defines themselves by the very sin they commit cannot be a Christian.
Not if they are doing so unrepentantly. We all struggle with vice and temptations to sin, and sometimes we stumble. But you can’t do this sort of thing and claim that it is not a sin while still claiming to be Christian.
Thank you.
what a terrific way of saying no
How much practice do they want?
No. Practicing homosexuality is sinful. We are instructed not to sin. To deliberately participate is sin.
No, No and No. Did I say No? Read Romans 1:18-32 among other verses. Leviticus 18:22: Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
They practice a lot, but they still get it wrong every time.
Um.....NO.
Well said.
It is one thing to be flawed (as we ALL are) know what your flaws are, and wish to change, even seeking help.
But it is quite another thing altogether to encourage others to see your behavior as normal and justified, and to feel no obligation whatsoever to alter your behavior.
Same applies for conservatives voting for liberals but that doesn’t stop them either. Nor do they accept the truth of it.
That’s a good link to send on to my pastor.
“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.”
—Romans 1:26-27 (NKJV)
So that would be a “NO.”
Hell no!
the answer is EFFING NO!
No more so than a practicing adulterer.
No more so than a practicing thief.
No more so than a practicing murderer.
No more so than an embezzler.
No more than about a billion other things that would be considered "sins."
The reality is, Jesus didn't condemn homosexuality by name in the Bible. Neither did he condemn a myriad of other sins (mortal and otherwise) by name in the Bible either. So what do we have to use here? What has Jesus given us as the proper response to ALL Sin, including homosexuality?
The most appropriate response here quite frankly, is Jesus' response to the woman at the well:
Jesus told her, "Go, call your husband and come back" (John 4:16). Not an odd request, since women couldn't converse alone with a man in a public place. But Jesus' request was more about uncovering truth than about following society's rules.
When she confessed, "I have no husband" (John 4:17), Jesus affirmed her answer, then gently exposed her sin: "The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband" (John 4:18).
Five marriages didn't make her a sinner. Due to warfare, famine, disease, and injury, men in those days dropped like flies. A widow became either a beggar, a prostitute, or another man's wife. Each time, this Samaritan woman had chosen the best option.
But sharing her bed with a sixth man who wasn't her husband? That was a sin.
Did she fess up? Nope. She changed the subject.
Finally, the woman at the well did her best to shut Jesus down. "When [the Messiah] comes, he will explain everything to us" (John 4:25).
How stunned she must have been at Jesus' revelation: "I who speak to you am he" (John 4:26). The next moment, the arrival of his followers confirmed his identity and gave the woman time to process the truth: The Anointed One had come!
Jesus commanded her to "go and sin no more."
Overjoyed, she left her water jar and went back into town to urge her neighbors, "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" (John 4:29).
Much like any sin that our Father in Heaven finds offensive whether it's homosexuality, murder, adultery, thievery, gluttony, and any other sin we can think of, they are all equally abhorrent to our Father. That's why Jesus came to pay with his flesh and blood, a perfect flesh and blood for all of our sins.
"Go and sin no more" is for ALL of us, no matter what our sins.
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