Taboo topic? Really?

I've been systematically going through a lot of my convictions lately and this next one has been on my heart and mind for a couple days so i thought it would be best to write about it now.

This topic is homosexuality. I know this can be a sensitive topic for some so i've prayed before this hoping that God will give me the words to say and to keep my thoughts in line with what he has taught us in His Word. Let me also clarify that I love homosexuals just like I love any other people. It is not my place to judge but God's but it's also my job as someone who firmly believes the Bible to not run when conflict or sensitive topics arise but to stand strong and lean on Christ and his Word.

I feel like the first thing i have to cover in this whole topic is the idea it seems like a lot of Christians have. Homosexuality is not to be placed on a pedestal. Homosexuality is in line with and no worse than: Adultery, fornication, masturbation, bestiality. Leviticus 18 is pretty much one comprehensive list of all the acts that fall under these. To think that somehow homosexual sin is any worse than any other sexual sin is foolish.

The fact that it's on the same level however doesn't lessen the severity of sexual sin. Just like every other sexual sin if you continue in it without repentance and without an attempt to control your desires you're in a dangerous place. Anyone who sins without repentance is in a dangerous place regardless of the sin. 1 Corinthians 6:15-20 is the essential passage on sexual sin regardless of gender and occasion. It's a big quote but nonetheless a necessary one,

"Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joinedd to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."

We are NOT our own. As Christians we are the Lords and we are to honor Him by resisting and putting away our sinful desires. Sexual sin is the only sin where it places the emphasis on the fact that we are sinning against our own bodies.

There is often an argument. "Well they're just born that way. They can't help it, they're good people just confused" Psalm 51:5 says,

"Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me."

Every person struggles with sin. We are all born into sin. We need the salvation of Christ to cleanse us. We need to fight and be repentant of our sins no matter what it is. Some struggle certain sins more than others. Especially in todays society sexuality, being who you are, and loving freely is such a huge emphasis that Christians often take the ideas of society to be ideas of the Bible. The Bible should form the society, the society should not form the Bible.

I'll end this with 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

"Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."