OneNewsNow has an article on a new study about programs that help homosexuals get out of the lifestyle.
The study was conducted by psychology professors Stanton L. Jones of Wheaton College and Mark A. Yarhouse of Regent University. It's called "Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation."
The results were impressive: 38 percent of the participants in the Exodus program had either embraced "chastity with a reduction in prominence of homosexual desire" or experienced "a diminishing of homosexual attraction and an increase in heterosexual attraction with a resulting satisfactory heterosexual adjustment." According to press reports, another 29 percent had had only partial success in leaving the homosexual lifestyle but were committed to continuing their efforts.
Compare the success rates of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. Some studies indicate the success rate is less than 25% at a year and less than 10% at 5 years. I'd say Exodus is having pretty good success.
And alcoholics and drug addicts don't usually have practically all of the elites in culture telling them over and over again that their destructive behavior is normal, natural and healthy--which would further undermine their chances of recovery.
God repeatedly condemns homosexual behavior in the Old and New Testaments; it turns His design for human sexuality upside down. God wouldn't have created people a certain way, only to condemn them for acting that way.
In fact, the Bible makes it clear that people can leave the homosexual lifestyle and be restored to obedience to God:
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)
The politically correct in our culture are only perpetuating the slavery of homosexuals to this addictive sin when they tell them it's "natural" and that it's impossible to break this habit.
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Educated people will recognize this brainwashing for what it is - I suggest you read this one also!
http://www.alternet.org/story/70491/
A Christian Lesbian who is very happy with who she is!
Misled people recognize that living a lifestyle at odds with nature and with God's design, which is also unhealthy for a variety of reasons, is a sad way to live.
Plenty of people are "happy" with drug, alcohol, gambling and other addictions...until the cost of living that way piles up and overcomes them.
There's hope for those who are tired of living this way; that's what this report shows.
Anyone think about the hypocracy of this?!? The church is full of homosexuals, some of whom rape and molest children yet they call themselves "holy" and "god fearing." What gives them the right condemn any good-spirited person who happens also to be homosexual?
No human being has the right to "condemn any good-spirited person who happens also to be homosexual." All human beings sin.
But the Word of God, found in the Bible, condemns homosexual behavior. God himself says it's wrong, and he's someone you cannot successfully argue with.
The church is full of homosexuals, some of whom rape and molest children yet they call themselves "holy" and "god fearing.But the Word of God, found in the Bible, condemns homosexual behavior. God himself says it's wrong, and he's someone you cannot successfully argue with.
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jake cruise
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