I have a couple of questions for you regarding your comments.

When you say:

Don’t forget… that which we act out in our minds and hearts… it is the same as having committed the sin. that is the big problem I have with the attitude of ‘it’s ok to struggle/be homosexual and a Christian as long as you don’t ACT on it.’

I’m not sure if I agree with you on this. Is it really true that “that which we act out in our minds and hearts… it is the same as having committed the sin?” First, are you specifically speaking about lust? If you are, then I agree on grounds of Jesus’s word from his Sermon on the Mount: “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matt. 5:28).

But I am inclined to think that this can’t particularly be generalized to all sin. For instance, if there is something very valuable in plain view that you could take without anyone noticing, and you imagine what would happen if you took it, by your comment, this would be equivalent to having done the theft. But (at least in this case) these are not the same thing. Imagining the theft is the temptation to steal, which is not at all the act of stealing.

Could you provide a reference to your comment that “The Bible tells us if we imagine it, we have acted it” that is more general than lust?

Is sexual sin really the only sin we are told to flee from? Check out 1 Timothy 6:11 and Mark 9:43-47 (which isn’t explicitly flight, but it is the same idea).

Though I think you are right in saying that sexual sin is different–in 1 Corinthians 6:18, Paul writes that “Every other sin [besides sexual immorality] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.”

You also write

As for homosexual Christians, I do not believe they can exist. Christians struggling with homosexuality, on the other hand, they do exist. Let me explain.

I think I may just be uncomfortable with the semantics of your comment that “as for homosexual Christians, I do not believe they can exist.” That’s kind of like saying that “Christians that lie don’t exist, but Christians that struggle with lying do,” or “proud Christians don’t exist, but Christians that struggle with pride do.”

As far as your explanation of this comment goes, I think you’re on to something, specifically regarding identity. It is certainly the case that as Christians, we should find our identity in Christ alone, not according to a lifestyle or sexual orientation. But again, this could boil down to the difference between saying that “I’m a Christian and a sinner” and “I’m a Christian who struggles with sin.” I think those statements are just semantically different.

Just to reiterate what all of you have said, I think it is very important to recognize homosexuality as a sin, but not necessarily a sin of greater magnitude than others. A friend of mine came out to me last semester, and asked me what I thought of it. When I shared that I believe that it’s a sin that she struggles with just as I struggle with other sins, she voiced that she had never heard anything like that. She later titled me as the best Christian she had ever met because I did not judge her or accuse her of anything, nor did I think of her as below me, but simply as a fellow sinner.

Good testimony of God’s active grace.