Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:37:13 AM
If sexual practice is genetically determined, then is there any morality in preferring one sexual behavior over another? ‘Would there remain any moral basis for outlawing any form of sexual behavior?’ [Mike Adams]
This question goes much deeper in that it brings into question the moral order of the universe. Can the eternal I AM define sin as the transgression of His Law? Will the objections of men prevent God from the eternal punishment of the unrepentant transgressors? Will the blood of Christ be eternally and perfectly effectual in the redemption of His people?
The Bible brings the charge of deliberateness against man’s sin. Just as “the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith”, so also “the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.” This wrath is revealed against men who “hold down the truth in unrighteousness”. Sin is deliberate.
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind”. Fallen men refuse to have God in their knowledge because they do not approve of God. Here again is the charge of deliberateness…
“Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them”.
These three statements from Romans 1 reveal the essential nature of sin and especially the element of deliberateness. How far removed they are from that other picture of man which represents him as a victim of another man’s sin or as creatures bound by their genetics! How far removed from the idea that says that sin is due merely to lack of education! The fact is that sin is altogether and entirely something active and militant, and it is at the very heart of man. [from Martyn Lloyd-Jones]
What free will?
How can men be bound genetically to certain behaviors and still have a free will? Are men predestined to certain behaviors? This is a strange belief for those who despise the Bible for its doctrines of election and predestination.
Men are free only to act according to their nature, but are without strength to change their nature. So free will in its normal use that men are in control of their own destiny is a myth…
http://valiantfortruth.blogtownhall.com/2010/05/08/myth_of_free_will.thtml
Men sin because that is their nature. Grace and grace alone is sufficient to change the heart and break the bondage of sin. The free will of man is recovered only through the power of the gospel. Apart from grace the natural man is ‘held captive by the evil one to do his will’ [2 Timothy 2:26].