I don't believe God creates sinful people but we are all born with a human/sinful nature and are "by nature" the children of wrath (Ephesians 2:1-10)
In my opinion, the desires of the flesh is our old nature which we will live in until it is transformed at the resurrection where we will take on immortality and incorruption. We received a new nature at our new birth and became new creatures but we will still have a battle between our "old man" or "human nature" and our "new man" or spiritual nature." I think this battle is described in Romans chapters 6, 7, and 8 and in Galatians 5:16-26
sounds like a contradiction. God doesn't create homosexual people, but we are born with a sin nature that can be homosexual?
I think God made homosexual people... but did not make people homosexual.
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I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
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I think that what people are doing like putting chemicals in the food and water can cause changes in people that may make them feel homosexual or it may be just genetic.
Rom 13:13 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. Rom 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Albert Barnes:And make not provision - The word “provision” here is what is used to denote “provident care,” or preparation for future needs. It means that we should not make it an object to gratify our lusts, or study to do this by laying up anything beforehand with reference to this design.
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God didn't create homosexual people.
Surely, you understand the nature of sin.
But, it's been a while since you asked a provocative question.
Did God create liars, adulterers, thieves, murderers and *generally speaking* sinners?
And, if God didn't create them; who did?
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