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

Originally Posted by Chan

What you're missing here is that engaging in the intimate relationship itself is also homosexual sin because it is the choice to embrace and act on your underlying unnatural same-sex attraction. Further, attempting to mate (having a marriage-like relationship) with someone of one's own sex is a rejection of God's created design for male and female.

If I was in a relationship I would not be trying to mate with them. I would simply be responding to my God-given desire for companionship and would be responding based on the attraction I was born with. It's quite simple.

Originally Posted by Chan

Look at the context of Acts 15, though. The issue there was whether the Gentiles had to keep what is often referred to today as the "ceremonial" Law of Moses, i.e. the various rituals and ordinances. It is not referring to God's moral law. Do you really think the Church is exempt from such laws of God as the laws against idolatry, taking the Lord's name in vain, making for ourselves a graven image, stealing, bearing false witness, murder, adultery, covetousness, etc.? Do you think the Church is exempt from such laws of God as the law against a man having sex with his daugther?

I'm sorry but I don't think I'm up to debating the ceremonial/moral law issue. I think I've made it pretty clear that this distinction is a man-made intellectual one and is not based on Scripture. Paul never distinguished between ceremonial/moral law in regards to us no longer being under the law.

Originally Posted by Chan

Jesus said that whoever even looks at someone lustfully has already committed adultery with that person in his heart. It doesn't matter that you're celibate in outward behavior, it matters that you are in rebellion against God's created design for you by your choice to embrace your homosexual attraction and "accept" that attraction as if it was normal, natural or otherwise acceptable to God.

If a heterosexual is "celibate in outward behavior" but is looking upon someone of the opposite sex lustfully, are they too rebelling against God? You aren't assuming the homosexual's are less capable of fleeing lustful thoughts than are heterosexuals, are you?