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Perhaps be even more "Beware" of those who seek to sort the net, though they lack unction to do so.

I fully intended to avoid this abominable thread. It, like Satan's discussion with Eve, is founded on a premise which is full of guile. None the less for my friend's sake, I will venture a post.

Wide has it right, homosexuality is an abomination in the eyes of God of which there is certain and inescapable judgment set aside for all those having taken part. A point of emphasis made in Scripture which is beyond doubt and of crystal clarity. The state of mind of the homosexual is one of reprobation, they are at that point irretrievably doomed to eternity without God.

We messengers are afforded as part and parcel to our charter on this earth two things. First, as Wide pointed out we know them by their fruits. Second we are to warn them of their error. As I have pointed out, any society finding itself embroiled in homosexuality, stands at the threshold of judgment. But, more particularly to the Christian, whose goal it is at the minimum to escape without these folk's blood on our hands, we must then warn them. Please explain to us how any Christian could make such a judgment, if he had not the power to make the discernment between what is sin and what is not? That unction thing, I really like that word BTW, is misapplied in your analysis. Because we are His workmen, we are under His orders, and we have therefore the spiritual discernment required.

There is nothing in Scripture which suggests that those at the net sorting are not worthy to so do. Matthew 13:45-48 (KJV)
45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

I mean, James and John may not have had a Harvard education, but they knew the difference between sea bass and sea snakes, right? The difference is easy to see for all except those who are willfully ignorant. And it is just as easy to judge the fruits of the wicked as it is to see the difference between snakes and bass. I did see however, Proverbs 12:12 (KJV)
12 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Case closed.