There Was One Thief On The Cross So No Truly Penitent Will Despair. But, There Was Only One So No Sodomite Would Presume

Dear Sarah:

That video you sent about some fag or other repenting has serious issues.

There are three points that stick out to me. 1. For a “gay” person to truly repent (which is not self-willed – repentance is given of God), it carries with it the notion that they want to quit that sin. “Gays” are defined by conduct. So if a “gay” truly repents, he or she is no longer “gay.” No semantic trick is meant, but it is an important distinction. A “gay” person has to acknowledge that their conduct, including their desires, are sinful. Most “gays” get to a state of a seared conscience, where they refuse to consider their lifestyle as sinful, and rather become gripped by defensive pride. 2. Doctrinally speaking, anyone who has not hit the grave has hope of salvation. We have many scriptural examples of people who lived lives of sin, shame and stiff-necked disobedience, only to have their hearts turned by the King, but 3. that the sin of homosexuality is described in vivid detail, along with others (but underscored above other sins) as being a result of rejecting The Lord in Romans 1. In the text, it is reasoned by the Holy Spirit that ‘for this cause’ God gave them ‘up’ three ways: to Uncleanness, to Vile Affections, and to a Reprobate Mind (which means the inability to think straight concerning the moral realm). If the only known power in the universe that can lead a sinner to Christ [John 6:44: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day”] has given a person up 3 WAYS, then the prospects are not looking too rosy, in a mainline sense. Those descriptions and that reasoning is there to show us a thing, as is Genesis 19, Judges 19-21 and Jude. We also know, however, that nothing is impossible for The Lord. One of the impressions I was left with in this story is that there is, at the least, an authentic confession that there is no room for homosexuality in Christianity. They are oil and water. It is a soul-damning, nation-destroying sin, and anyone who tries to shoehorn such a sin into some flavor of ‘Christianity’ causes their neighbors to sin.

I also think that, many times, bold, plain words about sin, ala Ezekiel 16:2 and Isaiah 58:1 are perceived as ‘less than loving’ by those who want to invalidate those solid, Bible messages by vilifying the messengers. But consider the scripture:

And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. – Jude 22,23

We always have the thief on the cross…but there was only one for a reason. :) The overwhelming majority of ‘gays’ either become steeped in pride (Jer. 6:15 type behavior) and have their consciences seared with a hot iron, or end up being overcome with guilt but are without grace, and so end up in a mode of self-loathing and self-destruction.

Thanks for writing.

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