Gay Pastor's(xupc)recent Letter to the UPCI ! ! !

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

I was born with a mindset to sin at will. God made me that way, but I cannot sin freely and blame it on how God made me. I have a choice...to sin, or not to sin.

There are people who are born with a propensity to things like alcoholism, but they have a choice.....to drink, or not to drink.

You might have been born with an attraction to the same sex, but you have a choice.....to give in to that, or refrain from it.

First of all, the OT only refers to homosexual sex. So, if we are still under that part of the OT Law, then sexual acts are all that need to be refrained from. Following your line of thought that the homosexual can be born with with an attraction to the same sex but can refrain from sexually acting on it, one would have to allow for two men who are in love with each other to live together, sleep in the same bed, kiss, hold hands, and basically spend the rest of their lives together as life-long companions as long as they do not have sex.

Also, God created all his creatures with a desire for companionship. That is why he initially created the animals. However, man did not find a help meat in the animals so God created a help meat out of man's own flesh and blood. It is a God-given desire to have life-time companionship. It is not a God-given desire to be an alcoholic. You are comparing apples and oranges when comparing alcoholism to homosexuality. Understand, homosexuality is nothing more and nothing less than human companionship. It is not even about sex as much as it is about intimacy and relationship.