June 22nd

Kitty update! Wow that sounded extroardinarily gay, which is interesting because I'm going to state my own thoughts regarding "gay Christians" in this post.

I went over to pick up the kitten that I described in the first post to no avail. The current owner wants to hold on to it for about another week, which is understandable (is understandable a word?!) because it is not even 3 weeks old and it is quite important that it be with its siblings for a short while after birth. Can't wait though!!

So here goes as to my theories on the "certain damnation of gays!!!!" Only kidding obviously...

First let it be known that I am a Christian and I believe that scripture is innerrant, thus I deem it necessary to include Romans chapter 1 into these shananigans.

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

After honing my own exegesis of previous passage, I would contend that homosexuals (WHO DO NOT MERELY STRUGGLE WITH HOMOSEXUALITY, BUT RATHER MAINTAIN A HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE IN A SCRUPULOUS AND COMFORTABLE MANNER), in all likelyhood, do go to hell. WAIT! LET ME EXPLAIN! I do not say this because their sin is unforgiveable! I say this mainly because the previous passage seems to identify homosexuals with those described in verse 31; verse 31 providing the description of FAITHLESS. Now, I am hoping for feedback on this post, so please, tell me how one can be faithless, as described by scripture,(perhaps faithless that God can help them overcome their lusts) and receive salvation at the same time.

Sometimes, when one attempts to combine to passages, or verses of scripture the result is a pound of completely arbitrary and relative conceptions. A good illustration of this is the age old atheistic argument "God cannot be love, and a jealous God at the same time." Scripture says that 1. God is love, 2. God is a jealous God, and 3. Love is not jealous. To the untrained eye, the hypothesis that contends that the combination of these 3 verses disproves God (or at least the Christian God) seems logical, but when the exact contexts of points 2, and 3 are more closely examined one can note that the exact meanings of the word jealous in either passage are quite different. God is jealous of our attention, faith, and comradarie, to say that God is jealous of our traits, or possesions, or abilities, (which is what would be implied if the most common connotation of the word "jealous" was used) is utterly irrational, and actually quite laughable. This said, scripture (Phillipians) indicates that true Christians are in a constant state of perfection, and conformity to Christ. Not only this, but scripture also says that God refuses to furnish any temptation unto man that he is not capable of overcoming.

All this said, I believe that a homosexual can indeed be a Christian, if and only if he or she has affirmed his or her desires as sin, and is seeking Christs help to change.

If you disagree, please say so!