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Originally Posted by awareness
And your fantastic post too. Ya got me laughing again Trapped.
I'll tell this story, in a nutshell. In the c. in Ft. Lauderdale Fl a brother and I would meet once a week to study Jessie Penn-Lewis, and her teachings on the cross. That was the times when my questions about Lee were boiling up to the surface.
Eventually I left, or was booted - excommunicated -- from the church. Six months or so afterwards, that brother I was meeting with, in a separate room from wife and kids, came out that he was gay ; telling everyone, including his wife and three kids, his parents, and many in the LC, that he was gay. I was shocked.
But I already loved the brother so we stayed friends. I spent a good decade picking his brain as to what made him gay. It's wasn't a choice. I didn't know it at the time but he was reading about the cross in hopes that it would crucify his gayness away ... and that he was at that time literally beating his head against a cement wall, trying to get it out. He told me that when he came out he finally felt free ; free to be who he really was ... finally.
Clearly it wasn't a choice for him.
But we know why it's got to be a choice. Because in the Bible God judges it ; and God can't judge someone for how He makes them. So for those that consider the Bible to be the inerrant inspired word of God, God condemns homosexuality, so it's got to be a choice. They're wrong, it's not.
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Well I'm glad this sorta got back on track, so let me jump in here again and say something . . . regarding being a choice or not being a choice - I don't think anyone knows for sure how this thing works!
The things that might be listed which causes homosexuality could include:
> Choice
> Genes and/or hormones
> Some other predisposition
> Deceiving spirits
> God's plan
> Some combination of above
Are there other potential causes that could be listed?