padib said:
If I may, and I will be careful in my response so as to be devoid of any bigotry, free of blame. If there is anything wrong in the redaction of my post, be it impoliteness, rudeness, disrespect or intolerance towards other views, I will leave it up to you to demonstrate.
To explain.
Everyone is born a certain way different than another. We know from the development of an infant in the womb, that hormonal development can cause higher or lower levels of sexual hormones in the infant's development. These levels later dictate sexual orientation in the person. This is a given.
For regular cases, please allow me to exclude for the time being hermaphrodites, I'll assume the individual to be either male or female, with the reproductive system respective to their sex.
Given a male that developed with a lower level of testosterone, said male could have a sexual desire towards the same sex, biologically speaking. That desire would be within his body.
If a person born with that feature would want to honor God, and what is written in the bible, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_homosexuality#Passages_from_the_New_Testament), he would look to abstain from said desire. Assuming for a moment that this individual also has desire for the opposite sex, but to a lesser degree, this person's battle to honor God would be to find biological ways to increase their level of desire for the opposite sex, by ways of personal development, diet, sport, and other external factors.
For the following segment of my explanation, I ask that you be open, rather very open, it will be a difficult challenge (kindly understand what I mean). I will ask you to swith viewpoints for a brief moment.
Assuming this for a brief moment, assume that homosexuality is a sin, something that displeases God. Let me walk you through this briefly as a mental exercise. If homosexuality is a sin, then it can be likened to, for a simple example, for all things other than self-harm: substance abuse. I want to liken it to this because it is something that both you and I, no matter our position, strongly disagree with. A specific example being alcoholism.
Science has shown that alcoholism is something that can be passed down genetically. For the person suffering from this condition, yet desires to please God, it will be their battle to work against their biological pre-disposition, by the power of will, but especially the power of prayer.
You can reset your position now, thanks for walking with me through it I know it is hard for you, as you mentioned earlier. The reason I wanted to walk you through it is to demonstrate that, though God creates all of us different, with different tendencies to different things, good or bad, it is also possible by the power of will and prayer to go against tendencies that would be considered a sin in the eyes of God.
Sincerely, I just want to help and be constructive. If I'm not, I fail for myself. Please let me know where I do.
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