In response to Ray Still’s column:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ray and many others would have us believe that if we do something with love and sincerity that it is acceptable to God, in particular homosexual marriage. Therefore, we must accept it. There is fallacy in this thinking.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
First, a couple of statements of understanding. I believe we are all children of God, and as such we are entitled to respect on that basis. Secondly, I do not deny that same-gender attraction exists.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n If we follow Mr. Still’s logic, then incest, fornication and adultery are acceptable to God because the persons committing the act believe they are doing it with sincerity. (Not in all cases and rarely with incest, but I would guess there are cases where both parties are consenting.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n That we all have sexual attractions, whether it be heterosexual or homosexual, we violate God’s laws when we act on those feelings and use the procreative powers given us outside the boundaries God has declared. No number of court decisions overrule God.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n This leads to two more fallacies. Sometimes we feel enlightened and seek to justify our actions by attributing to God that he has finally seen things correctly because we wish it and that because God loves us, he accepts our actions (not us, as the person, but our actions) even as they violate his commandments. This cannot be. How can God be God if he changes? How can I have faith in a God that may change his mind tomorrow?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n To the sinner Christ said, “Go and sin no more.” This applies to us no matter what our sexual orientation. Yes, God loves us but we might do well to try and orient ourselves to him rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2013 Adam Self<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In response to Ray Still’s column: Ray and many others would have us believe that if we do something with love and sincerity that it is acceptable to God, in particular homosexual marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}