Thank you for your honesty. I believe you, but there may be some on this thread that don't.
Why is that we hear great testimonies about how God delivered them from attraction to the same sex, yet four years later we find them back in the lifestyle. Did the deliverance not stick? Were they ever TRULY delivered?
I have absolutely 0% attraction to my same sex, so I can't fathom if the church or society asked me to change my attraction. I think it would be impossible. God would have to perform a miracle on the level of parting the Red sea!! Just sayin!
Hmm, reversionism is common under stress, so...and you experimented in HS, dont lie!
Hmm, reversionism is common under stress, so...and you experimented in HS, dont lie!
"Reversionism" or "compromise" are not always a bad thing. And....No! I will admit that I experimented by inhaling a joint one time after college just to see what the fuss was all about! The next thing I knew, I was naked sitting in a tree singing Beatles tunes! J/K of course!
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I do. But I have never personally known of anyone who has. I know that I have not been delivered even though I have fervently asked to be free of this desire.
We will never be completely delivered from what tempts us until we are with the Lord
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There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
We will never be completely delivered from what tempts us until we are with the Lord
I agree that we will always have temptations to sin as the devil tries to trip us up but we can be delivered from the battle and view the temptation as abhorent (a loathsome thing). In other words though the devil may still offer temptation God can remove the desire so that i do not want what is offered.
This is possible for any sin.
I agree that we will always have temptations to sin as the devil tries to trip us up but we can be delivered from the battle and view the temptation as abhorent (a loathsome thing). In other words though the devil may still offer temptation God can remove the desire so that i do not want what is offered.
This is possible for any sin.
I disagree. If you don't want something, it isn't a temptation at all. By its very definition, a temptation must actually tempt you.
I Corinthians 10:13 says that with temptation, God will make a way to escape, that "ye may be able to bear it." That's not the same as saying you won't be tempted. There's a way out of every temptation, but tempted we will be.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Not everyone will finish to the end. Some people are quitters and others are not.
1Ti 6:11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
1Ti 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Through Christ we can manage our flesh, but our flesh will never disappear or change until the resurrection
__________________ Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
Is it God's intention that people who like to steal never own things that don't belong to them? What if they aren't able to get a good job and they're poor all their life? Is it okay to steal then?
It seems to me that living a single life, if one can't have a scripturally permissible sexual relationship, is a biblically acceptable and even suggested solution.
Amen, and let's be honest, this is not about love, it is about sex. To be (possibly) brutally honest, it can be easier to have sex with the familiar, the same sex, from a psychological standpoint, than the opposite.
You start life as a circle of one; yourself. Parents are servants. As you start school, the opposite sex has 'cooties.' It is not until puberty that ones psychological circle widens to include the opp sex--or not.
Hybrid Mode
