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Originally Posted by brad2723
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?
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Well, you weren't born homosexual since no one is born sexually/romantically attracted to another. Homosexual sin is when you choose to embrace and/or act on your unnatural attraction that developed during childhood. One is saved from one's sins (meaning that sin no longer has power over the person) when one repents of his sins and puts his trust in Christ (see
Romans 6). This doesn't mean you become morally perfect but it does mean you are no longer a slave to sin.
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God absolutely does not change but the way in which He interacts with man certainly does change.
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Agreed.
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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.
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I disagree. God's standard has always been moral perfection. However, God has also always accepted faith and accounted that faith as righteousness. In the Old Testament, He did this looking forward to the cross. In the New Testament, He does it looking back to the cross.
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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.
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The only reason God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac was to test his faith. Remember what Abraham said to Isaac when Isaac asked Abraham where the lamb was for the sacrifice. Abraham said that God would provide the sacrifice.
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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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I don't think anyone here argued that God requires any abomination of us. In fact, I think everyone here would agree that God does not want us to engage in any abomination. But in the Old Testament there were two kinds of abominations: 1) things that were ceremonially unclean and; 2) things that were morally detestable. But let's leave the whole abomination thing aside for a moment. It doesn't change the Biblical truth that homosexual behavior (including the thoughts) is sin and that homosexual attraction is contrary to God's created design for male and female. All of these various side issues about abominations and the like are really irrelevant. What matters is: 1) that you have an unnatural sexual/romantic attraction that needs to be healed and; 2) as long as you continue to embrace and/or act on the attraction, you are still committing homosexual sin and will not inherit the kingdom of God until you repent of your sin (meaning to agree with God about your sin, be genuinely sorry that your sin has offended and angered God, and to forsake that sin).