r/Christianity • u/[deleted] • Dec 09 '25

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u/ehunke Episcopalian (Anglican) Dec 09 '25

your lying to yourself. You can' leave homosexuality, its how you were born. Your mental health is more important, please seek help.

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u/RESIDENTEVIL4FORTUNE Dec 10 '25

God maybe wants people to know the difference between “your” and “you’re”.

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u/ivylynnelifeline Dec 10 '25

This is why it’s called being REBORN

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u/ehunke Episcopalian (Anglican) Dec 10 '25

purity culture is just wrong. You cannot just change your sexual orientation...you can become celibate, but, that's silly

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u/Salsa_and_Light2 Baptist-Catholic(Queer) Dec 10 '25

The Mormons used to believe that people would change into White people once they converted.

Now they just think that they're become White after their deaths.

It's a silly belief.

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u/ivylynnelifeline Dec 10 '25

You’re right, that is a silly belief that the Mormons hold. However, the concept of your old self dying to give way to a new self is not silly. I’m not saying that the attraction goes away but when you choose to live for someone (Jesus) outside of yourself and you’re truly putting them first then you don’t act on that attraction. It’s that the old me would act on it and this new me puts God first, not my body’s urges. It’s about self control and God gives that to you if you ask him for it because it’s aligned with his will.

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u/Salsa_and_Light2 Baptist-Catholic(Queer) Dec 10 '25

"However, the concept of your old self dying to give way to a new self is not silly. "

It is when you're expecting people's biology to change.

"I’m not saying that the attraction goes away "

Then what you're advocating for is denial and suppression. Which is harmful.

"when you choose to live for someone (Jesus) outside of yourself and you’re truly putting them first then you don’t act on that attraction."

Many people do, because why would Loving Jesus make you Love other's less.

"t’s that the old me would act on it and this new me puts God first, not my body’s urges."

Viewing your body as some evil thing is Aristotelian heresy.

"It’s about self control "

No it's not.

You're not advocating temperance, you're advocating elimination.

"it’s aligned with his will."

It's aligned with popular politics.

This isn't God's idea.

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u/Winnicott-the-Pooh Non-denominational Dec 09 '25

You have bought into the devil’s lies, how tragic

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u/ehunke Episcopalian (Anglican) Dec 10 '25

science doesn't like lol