Are Some People Born Homosexuals?

I came across the below article in my edit, yet never published, folder (at least I hope this has never been published). It seemed very interesting to me, at least worthy of mulling over in my brain again. I originally wrote this about 2 years ago. I may have some comments/retractions after I really think about it (now 2+ years later).

It's been a while....

I was talking with a friend yesterday and she encouraged me to delve back into this blog thing. I realize it's been nearly 2 years. I've just been in a different stage of my life ever since my dad passed away. I've felt this blog thing was an arrogant, prideful and childish way to express myself. I suppose it is to an extent, but I believe God has given me an aptitude for writing and expressing myself. I pray my writing bathed more in humility and love.

There have been many times I've wanted to ask his advise on matters of my life or simply just miss his presence in my life. It's surprising to me how much I've been impacted by one man's death. As I just wrote that I thought of another man's death 2000 years ago... If my dad's death has impacted me so deeply, how deeply should I be impacted by the death of Jesus Christ??? I'm sure I'll be exploring this question for the rest of my life. I'm beginning to see more and more situations, circumstances and trials are almost analogies for sin and our relationships with God.

Anyway, here's the actual post:

"I went out to dinner with some coworkers a few weeks ago. During the myriad of various meaningless conversations one person piped in with the following comment: “You can’t tell me they’re not born gay." No one would actually willingly choose that lifestyle and all of the obvious negatives associated with it.

So then the question is: are people born gay? Yes.

Ever since Adam and Eve decided to willingly disobey a simple command from God versus love and trust Him enough to know what’s best, we’ve all been born with the same disease of sin, the same notion that we know what’s best for us and the same disease which lies to us and tells us how to best address the emptiness inside us, apart from God. We all want to kick God off His throne and sit in his place because we believe, deep down, we know better.

So often we choose to address the emptiness in our hearts with things which bring death (sex outside of marriage, homosexuality, drugs, etc…) instead of life. The confusion comes in that the sin feels like life and what God wants feels more like death and the flesh will fight to the bitter end for what it perceives as life and against that which is death. I mean you feel more alive when you choose sin right? Why else would you choose it? It satisfies the flesh, but in reality brings us all that much closer to death.

Choice. This brings up another core question: Is sin a choice, since we are born with it? This is where I’m not sure. From reading the Bible it seems the answer is most definitely yes and no. Sin is a choice when we know the law and choose against it. However, sin isn’t a choice since no man (other than Jesus Christ) has, or ever will live a sinless life. We wouldn’t need Jesus if we didn’t have sin. Jesus bought us forgiveness of sins, not perfection in the flesh and yet the offer is out there for us to pursue holiness, for us to grope after God in our blindness. It’s in this pursuit that He condescends to us and begins the process of restoring and cleaning our flesh. It’s in the resurrection that our flesh is finally perfected, cleansed and sinless and yet He can make us clean today. (John 13) Otherwise how could we ever enter His presence?

It is these same questions which perplex me with regards to free will versus election. Both seem to exist side by side, but yet this doesn’t seem possible to me, so I know I don’t fully understand. In fact, with this same reasoning, how could God condescend to us (through Jesus) while we were yet in our sins and dead in our transgressions? Yet He did. So His love and promises trump the influence of our sins and the sweet smelling fragrance of a pure offering completely overcomes the very stench of our sins.

So are people born with sin? Yes. However, we willing choose to throw away the gifts and personalities which He gave us to serve Him. We willing take the easy destructive course. It’s not just homosexuals who make this decision, it’s all of us. Imagine if the fornicator, instead of acting on their sinful impulses waited patiently for God’s will in their lives and the beauty and joy which comes from this in marriage? Imagine if the adulterer was also patient and devoted themselves to being content with what God has given them? Imagine their joy when they set their eyes on the Lord to allow Him to teach them more about Himself and of dying to self, through the covenant of marriage. Imagine if the homosexual, instead of acting on their sinful impulses, rejected sins claim over their lives and chose instead to show the love of God through a dedicated life of service to Jesus Christ, our one true love? Perhaps instead of debasing themselves and giving into sin they were meant to be holy priests, never to defile themselves with women or, in perversion, men? (1 Corinthians 7:25-40)"