Does the Bible Teach That a Christian Can Be a Practicing Homosexual?

There are a couple places in scripture that maybe I'd go first. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 says "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 those who practice homosexuality nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."

A couple of things from that passage that I think we need to see. First of all, is that people who live in an unrepented life from sin, any sin, that they don't have the hope of inheriting the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is maybe another way to refer to what we would call Heaven - this place where God is where we will be with him forever. The scriptures seem very very clear here - that somebody who has an unrepentant heart towards sin, that they don't have the hope of Heaven. Another thing that we see here is that not everybody struggles in the same way. There's a whole list of sins here, and most of them there I've been tempted by in some way. I think anybody who's honest would say the same thing. But I think we need to see here that not everybody struggles with the same thing which, particularly in this conversation, one that is very sensitive, should lead us toward humility and compassion towards people who maybe are tempted in a way that we aren't.

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