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To: Grainne who wrote (13418)	4/6/1998 6:50:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

My Dear Christine, You said: <<Why is it seemingly threatening if homosexuality is genetic?>> The fact is that would not be threatening at all if it were true. I don't believe it is, though. If we could say that all sin is genetic (some now say violent criminals have an abnormality in their brains which predisposes them to commit violent crimes) we would be off the hook so to speak because we could not help how we are. But we can help how we are and we are not engineered for failure. We are trapped in "this body of sin" which is the conduit for sin to enslave us. In that respect it could be said to be a genetic problem. The sin has access through our bodies. We either obey the impulses to sin or we refuse. The body has no predisposition to any particular sin though, it is trained to sin or not sin by it's owner. It can come to like a particular sin through practicing that sin and in the end be a slave to it. Take alcohol which is very addictive. The body is not born an alcoholic but after being drunk for a period of time the body craves the alcohol. After a while it is addicted to that sin. So with any sin that a person starts practicing and then becomes a slave to. The addiction could be determined by science to be genetic but we are all genetically capable of being a slave to sin, any sin. The potential is there but the choice is also. To sin or not. What sin do you like and practice and eventually become enslaved to? It's a choice all the way along the line. After the slavery (addiction) is firmly entrenched then some want excuses to explain it. There are none, the person is a slave to sin. God first explained sin to Cain in Gen. 4:7 "If you do well, will your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and it's desire is for you, but you must master it." We all must master sin or it will be master over us. God says we are to strive against sin, don't be a slave to sin but a slave to righteousness. Bob