Re: Same-sex relationships "God gave them up to dishonorable passions"

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:06:36 +0100, Peter Beale put finger to keyboard
and typed:

Mark Goodge wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:22:09 +0100, Frederick Williams put finger to
keyboard and typed:
...
What if, just as one cannot (I suppose) choose what one desires, one
cannot choose to control ones response to the desiring?

Then you are ill, and to be pitied rather than condemned.

Was Paul ill? "The good that I would, I do not, and the evil that I
would not, that I do."

I don't think Paul was talking about a physical inability to control
the actions of his body. Nor was he seeking to excuse his own sin on
the basis that "I can't stop myself doing it", or trying to claim that
a compulsive action cannot be sinful. Rather, he was taking
responsibility for his actions, even the sinful ones compelled by his
fallen nature, in the knowledge that this would rightly earn him
condemnation were it not for the grace of Christ.

Mark
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