Having you ever noticed a child throwing a temper tantrum when he or she doesn’t get something that they want? This is a natural reaction that must be overcome as the child matures. The reaction is natural…innate…the child was born with it.
As you know, the debate continues as to whether people are born gay, or is it a choice. The purpose of this article isn’t to debate that question, but to address this fact…
The truth is that we are all born with innate desires, feelings and proclivities that we did not ask for.
Many Christians reason to excuse some behaviors by saying, “I or they was or were born this way”.
This doesn’t mean that God made a mistake because the scripture clearly reminds us that we were all born in sin…
Psalm 51:5 (NKJV)
Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
We were all born with desires we didn’t ask for…that doesn’t make them ALL okay. Just because it comes naturally doesn’t make right. Some natural desires we must resist with the help of the Holy Spirit…
Fornication…
Adultery…
Homosexuality…
Gluttony…
Greed…
Jealousy…
Envy…
Wrath …
…ALL come from natural desires and they are ALL EQUALLY wrong.
Even David, a man after God’s own heart was born with an insatiable desire for women…but that did not make it right or acceptable to God. Those who read the bible know what that led to.
Some people are naturally more greedy, more lustful, more promiscuous, more selfish, more aggressive, more violent that others…does that make it okay? For those who wish to argue these are learned behaviors, some people have these behaviors modeled and ‘learn’ them, while others witnessed these behaviors and didn’t succumb to them.
Pedophiles don’t feel they ‘choose’ to be attracted to children…does that make it okay? No!
The desires of our flesh war against our spirit…and these vary from person to person.
Galatians 5:17 (NKJV)
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
It is only by walking in the Fruit of the Spirit can we overcome our fleshly desires that displease God.
Galatians 5:16 (NKJV)
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:22,23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
By the way, calling out something as sin is NOT judging. And, it’s not saying it’s any more wrong than another sin!
That’s why fasting is so powerful. It is a tool we can use to bring our flesh into subjection, overcome our weaknesses and prove to ourselves that our desires won’t rule us. It’s our tool to move those mountains in our lives.
Matthew 17: 20-21
20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting
Use this as post ammunition when someone presents to you the argument, “I was born this way, so it can’t be wrong”.
Just because it’s natural, doesn’t mean it’s okay.
BE BLESSTIFIED.
BE BLESSTIFIED! 
Wow !!, beautifully arranged, yes I’m going to refer this tool in the future, awesome word, Mr. Aldtric…All for Him…and yes Be Blesstified !!
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Ammo for the fight. Thanks again for stopping by.
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yes sir, also I just read your post On Mr Floyd, you are so right, he who is without sin throw the first stone, God saved me from a fornication…Praise the Lord for God grace, through Jesus Christ..Eph.2:8-9..Be Blesstified !!
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We are all works in progress.
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Amen Brother Al!!!
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Probably we also have the same inherent lust to rape. Animals are ‘hard-wired’ that way so we probably are as well. The core aspect of this is that we are selfish, no doubt about it. We want things our way and when we want it and the way we want it. Obviously, God offers another way. We have our way, the flesh and we have God’s. We simply have to choose which way we will live. The key word here on our behavior is ‘choice’.
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Exactly. It’s all about choice!
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You said, “We were all born with desires we didn’t ask for…that doesn’t make them ALL okay. Just because it comes naturally doesn’t make right. Some natural desires we must resist with the help of the Holy Spirit…
Fornication…
Adultery…
Homosexuality…
Gluttony…
Greed…
Jealousy…
Envy…
Wrath …
…ALL come from natural desires and they are ALL EQUALLY wrong.”
Matthew 19:12 says, “For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”
God created Eunuchs, also called hermaphrodites or intersex people, who are born with both male and female reproductive organs. Which relationship would be sinful for them? Are they supposed to be with a man or a woman? God created them that way so neither choice would be sinful. The Bible says that everything God created is good. This includes hermaphrodites.
1 Timothy 4:4 says, “For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,”
Gen 1:31 says, “And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good…”
In your post, you stated, “As you know, the debate continues as to whether people are born gay, or is it a choice. The purpose of this article isn’t to debate that question, but to address this fact…”
But that is, in fact, an especially important issue and to withdraw it from discussion is not logical. The only thing in the list above that is caused by genetics is homosexuality. In a 2019 issue of Science magazine, geneticist Andrea Ganna at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and colleagues, described the largest survey to date for genes associated with same-sex behavior. By analyzing the DNA of nearly half a million people from the U.S. and the U.K., they concluded that genes account for between 8% and 25% of same-sex behavior.
Biologists have documented homosexual behavior in more than 450 species, arguing that same-sex behavior is not an unnatural choice, and may in fact play a vital role within populations. Numerous studies have established that sex is not just male or female. Rather, it is a continuum that emerges from a person’s genetic makeup.
God created our genetic makeup and God said that everything he created was very good, therefore it is not logical to lump homosexuals in with people who have desires that God did not genetically cause and to then call a homosexuals desires sinful.
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