The danger of justifying sin

For those of us that would call ourselves "Christian" we must reconcile ourselves to sin. Now I understand that there are "Christians" that do not believe in the "inerrancy of Scripture." The problem with that is that if Scripture is not inerrant, we are left with no solid truths or guidelines for our lives. We are free to pick and to choose those things from God's Word which best match up with our own thinking. There are consequences to this line of reasoning as pointed out in the book of Judges, which points to the problems when "Every man did what was right in his own eyes."

If, in doing what is right in our own eyes, we do not reconcile ourselves to sin we will "get caught around the next corner," as Oswald Chamers pointed out. If we decide that what God has said is a sin is, instead, a natural innocent act, we deny what God Himself has said. And, by extension, call into question everything that God has said. You see the trap here? If God did not say to Moses, for example that " man lying with man" or woman lying with woman  " was "detestable in His sight," then should we believe God when he spoke the Ten Commandments to that very same Moses?

I frequently here gay people say, "I was born this way." And indeed they are absolutely correct. According to Scripture Romans 3:10 confirms, that we are all born into sin.

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Yet God does not judge my sin as greater or lesser than the sin of another.

So what then is the Christian to do? First, we are told in Matthew 10:3 not to judge others, but to use discernment. We are also not called to shun them, for Christians are called to follow the example of Jesus. Mark 2:17 records these words: "Jesus said to them, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners.

Our call is to "Love one another as I have loved you...by this others will know that you are my disciples."

If we, as Christians are to spread the gospel, we must do so in its entirety. We must call sin, "sin", and we must do so in love, while leaving judgment to God.