On another thread, Mill said:
"Millennium wrote:
You have a point...So, thinking your gay and not acting on it still makes you gay? Or does one have to actually perform the act... I can think I'm a smoker, but until I light one up, I am not..."
That made me think of something we've not really debated here ---
the concept of whether God gets mad at you when you DO something wrong, or even when you THINK it.
Granted -- Mills' example of smoking above isn't something that God probably cares about.
So let's frame it in the concept that Mill was responding to --- Gay or lesbian -
Can we also assume for the purposes of this thread that God DOES consider being homosexual a sin?
I know we don't all agree on that --- but it's a whole separate topic.
So ---- if a "reformed" homosexual is NOT actively doing physical sexual acts with someone of their own gender--
but they are THINKING about it --
Are they still instantly committing a SIN in God's eyes?
Or is God only all about the action in this case?
If a gay person is SUCCEEDING at NOT actually doing the deed with someone --- but they find themselves looking at someone of their own gender,
and they think "I want that person"
Did they just commit a SIN and totally reverse their entire "forgiveness"
How do those concepts apply to things like WANTING to kill your neighbor, sleep with his wife, steal his car ??
but you don't DO it ?
What's the difference between these questions if a person is a regular Christian church attender, praying every day and reading the Bible?
Or someone who just tries to be a nicer person, but hasn't done that whole break down in tears at the front of the church and "accept Jesus" in front of everyone?
What's the diff for those two kinds of people when they DO something versus just THINKING about it?