re homosexuality issues in christianity dan schaertel dps nasa kodak com wrote in article geneva rutgers edu loisc microsoft com lois christiansen writes you might visit some congregations of christians who happen to be homosexuals that are spirit filled believers not mcc rs before you go lumping us all together with troy perry gee i think there are some real criminals robbers muderers drug addicts who appear to be fun loving caring people too so what s your point is it ok just because the people are nice the point is not about being nice nice is not a christian virtue the point is that the gifts and fruits of the spirit by their fruits you shall know them mt are manifested by and among prayerful spirit filled gay christians it was the manifestation of the spirit among the gentiles that convinced peter acts that his prejudice against them based on scripture i might add was not in accordance with god s intentions i think the old saying hate the sin and not the sinner is appropriate here many who belive homosexuality is wrong probably don t hate the people i don t i don t hate my kids when they do wrong either but i tell them what is right and if they lie or don t admit they are wrong or just don t make an effort to improve or repent they get punished i think this is quite appropriate you may want to be careful about how you think satan is working here maybe he is trying to destroy our sense of right and wrong through feel goodism maybe he is trying to convince you that you know more than god kind of like the adam and eve story read it and compare it to today s mentality you may be suprised of course the whole issue is one of discernment it may be that satan is trying to convince us that we know more than god or it may be that god is trying as god did with peter to teach us something we don t know that god shows no partiality but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him acts revdak netcom com
