My father put up a post on his blog this summer about how Ray Boltz was announcing that he was gay. His reasoning like so many professing "Christian" homosexuals is that God made him have these desires. If God did not want him to be gay why would he have these desires. To so many college students this is such an obvious and convincing argument. Yet, I have lustful desires toward women. Hate to say it. Don't enjoy it but the simple fact is that my eyes are not pure. And if any guy says his eyes are pure I would love to meet him and hear his secret. It is a constant battle, one that (according to all old dudes that I have talked to)* will haunt me and pressure me until I am called home. Yipee for me. Anyway Ravi had this to say about Christians who do their own thing and make it look like they are doing God's thing:
"I have met people who have justified adultery by saying God led them into this relationship. I have seen men who have left their wife and children and said God has led them into this other relationship. A man commits adultery thats bad. A man who commits adultery and then justifies it that is worse. Matthew Arnold said 'Hypocrisy is that kind of a sin which even vice will pay a compliment to virtue"
*A pastor once said in his sermon that Dr. Gary Smalley said he realized that he was a lustful person and fought it and now no longer has one lustful thought. Imagine that.
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Beware those who say they "never have one lustful thought." Brings to mind the biblical admonition, "Let him who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall."
Got to love Ravi!
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