Comments on: Formerly Known as Ex-Gay? http://www.theuneditedlife.com/2007/07/12/formerly-known-as-ex-gay/ There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ~ Robert A. Heinlein Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:49:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: WebMonk http://www.theuneditedlife.com/2007/07/12/formerly-known-as-ex-gay/comment-page-1/#comment-372 WebMonk Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:18:12 +0000 http://www.theuneditedlife.com/2007/07/12/formerly-known-as-ex-gay/#comment-372 I think that some of the arguments that the "Christians cannot be gay and vice versa" groups make are based on a really legalistic standard of Christianity - if you are _really_ a Christian then you can't have certain sins in your life. Just fill in the blank: alcoholism, drugs, homosexuality, promiscuity. If you have any of these in your life, you must not be a Christian. It starts getting even nastier sometimes - if you drink at all, have sex outside of marriage, or smoke, then you are, at BEST, a really bad Christian. Homosexuality gets filed in there too. Groups can, unfortunately, go the other way too by saying those things are no problem and there is no reason to change any of them. "As long as you're looking for God, it doesn't matter about alcoholism, drugs, promiscuity, homosexuality, smoking, etc." Neither is Biblically sound, and both do great damage to the Body. It's possible, and properly Christian, to hold that sin is real and wrong, and it should not be shrugged off as unimportant in life, while at the same time sharing, witnessing, and welcoming people to Christ. But that takes work: holding to the Bible's standards, extending grace and mercy, not demanding perfection, encouraging improvement, working with very complicated situation, and realizing that one's own moral standard is not the rule with which to measure others. I think that some of the arguments that the “Christians cannot be gay and vice versa” groups make are based on a really legalistic standard of Christianity – if you are _really_ a Christian then you can’t have certain sins in your life.

Just fill in the blank: alcoholism, drugs, homosexuality, promiscuity. If you have any of these in your life, you must not be a Christian. It starts getting even nastier sometimes – if you drink at all, have sex outside of marriage, or smoke, then you are, at BEST, a really bad Christian. Homosexuality gets filed in there too.

Groups can, unfortunately, go the other way too by saying those things are no problem and there is no reason to change any of them. “As long as you’re looking for God, it doesn’t matter about alcoholism, drugs, promiscuity, homosexuality, smoking, etc.”

Neither is Biblically sound, and both do great damage to the Body. It’s possible, and properly Christian, to hold that sin is real and wrong, and it should not be shrugged off as unimportant in life, while at the same time sharing, witnessing, and welcoming people to Christ.

But that takes work: holding to the Bible’s standards, extending grace and mercy, not demanding perfection, encouraging improvement, working with very complicated situation, and realizing that one’s own moral standard is not the rule with which to measure others.

]]> By: Becky O http://www.theuneditedlife.com/2007/07/12/formerly-known-as-ex-gay/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Becky O Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:45:42 +0000 http://www.theuneditedlife.com/2007/07/12/formerly-known-as-ex-gay/#comment-195 Hey- I followed the link from Eric's site to yours. Good questions...woud love to dialogue with you on them. Check out Erics post on Becky O So Cal weekend to find out more about me:) I do have myspace too... Becky O Hey-

I followed the link from Eric’s site to yours. Good questions…woud love to dialogue with you on them.

Check out Erics post on Becky O So Cal weekend to find out more about me:)

I do have myspace too…

Becky O

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