I cannot justify anything that is sinful.
Unlike Chely’s dad, just because my wife or my children are involved doesn’t make it right.
Sin has crept in and, by our nature, we are unholy.
David said, “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.” Ps 51:5
It wasn’t the act of conception that was sinful; it was the product of that conception.
David inherited his sin nature from his parents.
James later said, “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.” James 1:13-15
This is the copout that is being used today; I was born this way or God made me this way.
I’ll agree that if you are an alcoholic, a murderer, a liar, or a homosexual, you were born that way in the sense you were born with a sinful nature.
God did not create you to be these things.
His Son would not have died for sin if sinfulness did not need to be dealt with.
If it needed to be dealt with by Him, then it needs to be dealt with by you.
Chely’s says that she struggled every day over being a lesbian and now that she has revealed it everyone is suppose to hug and kiss her and say, “It’s okay!”
When mankind goes against the holiness of God by equating it with the sinfulness of man, we fulfill what Paul said in Romans and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man. Rom 1:23
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; Rom 1:24-28
Each person struggles in the fight of sin; to do good or evil. Left to itself, evil would win.
God’s grace is sufficient to forgive all of us our sin through the redemptive blood of Jesus.
We are not called to sin but to sin no more.
That is the struggle that you and I face.
Paul also addressed this; I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. Rom 7:14-20
Did he find a solution?
Yes, he did; There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Rom 8:1