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Originally Posted by HappyPastor2
Brad, New Testament grace is not a license to live any way that you would like to simply because of grace. Jesus died to save us FROM our sins, not IN our sins. You think that something that was once an abomination to God (who does not change) would no longer be an abomination to Him?
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If Christ died to save us FROM our sins, and if my being born a homosexual is a sin, then why hasn't Christ saved me FROM my sin?
God absolutely does not change but the way in which He interacts with man certainly does change. God's requirements of man have changed in every recorded dispensation. God is a relational God and responds and changes according to His relationship with His creation. Look at Abraham and Isaac. First God required that Isaac be sacrificed but when Abraham showed that he trusted and feared God Isaac was no longer required as the sacrifice. What if Abraham had not feared God? Isaac would have been sacrificed. This shows that God does interact with his creation and may not change in His own character but certainly changes in regards to His relationship with his children.
As far as abominations are concerned, I think I've made it pretty clear in previous posts that nobody in this dispensation of Grace abstains from all of the OT abominations. It has been argued that only certain abominations from the OT Law are required of us today yet nowhere does the NT writings divide the Law into categories; some being eternal and some not. The modern 21st Century church is going to eventually have to confess that it is only following part of the Law and make a decision to embrace all of it or discard all of it.
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