Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bgsuvax!kutz@cis.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth J. Kutz) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Homosexuality Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 90 07:45:21 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Lines: 32 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) writes: > It is possible to read Paul's > discussion of homosexuality diagnostically, saying that that is the > kind of thing that happens when a society starts denying God. It is > possible that a person can be no more responsible for his or her > homosexuality than someone with a birth defect. Then why are there exhortations in Scripture which say "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman. That is detestable"? This is clearly telling the reader that he is RESPONSIBLE for the CHOICE he makes about who he has sex with. > Besides this, we follow one who ``came not to condemn the world, but > that the world might be saved.'' If we are so interested in > condemning, are we really following him? Probably not. So when does "identifying sin" stop and "condemning" start? So often, when someone *identifies* sin as sin, people assume the person doing the identifying (identifying sin and turning a sinner from the error of his ways *is* scriptural - James 5:20) must be self-righteously condemning the sinner. It becomes so easy for one to label another who does the best he can to identify sin in order "to cover over a multitude of sins" a self-righteous Pharisee. Oftentimes, in so doing, the labeler is guilty of his own charge. -- Kenneth J. Kutz Internet kutz@andy.bgsu.edu Systems Programmer BITNET KUTZ@ANDY University Computer Services UUCP ...!osu-cis!bgsuvax!kutz Bowling Green State Univ. US Mail 238 Math Science, BG OH 43403