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“Men and women are defined according to their design, not their impulses, feelings, or desires. We are who God says we are; we are not who we feel we are. The men and women Paul wrote about (Romans 1) denied this. They did what was right in their own eyes, rejecting God’s design, and it led to them turning their sexuality upside down and being consumed by their sin.”

“Jesus’s teaching on adultery of the heart teaches us that evil desire, the lust of the flesh, is sin.”

“God has forbidden same-sex attraction by creating opposite-sex attraction in the pre-fall garden of Eden when He made Eve for Adam and not another Adam for Adam.”

“Recognizing an evil desire within us is not just a temptation as some say. The beginning of the lust of the flesh is sin, for if it’s a sin to do evil, it’s a sin to desire evil.”