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Originally Posted by votivesoul
Natural that a man should want to rape his sister? Natural that a son would bed his father's concubines on the rooftop of the royal palace for every eye in Jerusalem to see after usurping the throne? Natural that a young man would fornicate with his stepmom? Natural that a man would commit incest and impregnate his own mother?
Just because it is natural and normative for men to be attracted to women, and vice versa, does not mean that all forms of attraction between the sexes are natural.
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Perhaps I wasn't clear. The examples you gave were perverted. It's perversion which caused Amnon to rape Tamar. It was perversion which caused Lot's daughters to have sex with him. It was perversion which caused incest in the Bible. I would agree perversion is not natural.
I should have separated the issue, instead of combining in the same sentence.
It is natural for a man to be attracted to a woman.
It is not natural for a man to be attracted to a man. Period. It doesn't matter if he holds the attraction inside and doesn't act on it. It is unnatural according to the Bible and it is sin.
You cannot equate the natural attraction between a man and woman to that of the same sex.
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Originally Posted by votivesoul
There won't be a different line into hell for unrepentant, but no less, "lesser" heterosexual sinners. That's just not the case anywhere in Holy Scripture. Anyone involved in any kind of sexual lust and sin will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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Agreed. Lust is sin. Any man/woman who lusts after another man/woman is in sin. Our disagreement in that you believe it's okay for a man to be attracted to another man. It is not. The bible is clearly against it. It's sin, regardless of whether the homosexual acts on his attraction or not.
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