Committing homosexual acts may lead to God killing you.

"If God can do what He wants, He can strike down those who commit sin." Agreed. "God's mercy never ends unless you feel you can't be forgiven." God's mercy is not dependent on how I feel. How I feel changes day to day. God remains the same, as does His mercy. "This is why God strikes down those who sin, because they don't want forgiveness" When does that come into play? Can a 5 year old refuse forgiveness and get struck down? How about a 12 year old? What if a person wants it for a moment but then changes his mind, but then changes back again? It can't come simply down to "because they didn't want it". There's more to it than that. We have to take into account other factors like God's patience. Exodus does not prove that God is in the business of plagues. It just shows that He can do plagues. If he was in the business then why did Jesus tell his disciples off when they asked about raining fire from heaven on a town that refused him? Jesus always did his Father's will. And His Father's will was not raining down fire on any city that did wrong, or insulted him, or sinned. "But from time to time He will take out those who displease him and do not want forgiveness." You frame God like he's capricious. It's clear in the Bible that God will "take out" those who disobeyed Him or His law. A person could be on their way to judgement, when God decides it: either in the moment or later when He decides, but if the person turns to God he will forgive them. A person could commit homosexual acts but turn to God and not be "taken out". Don't let a person's sin get in the way of God's immense patience to that person come to know Him. Remember we're all sinners. "God asks for love in return. This is not a difficult task. But if not, you are sent to perish in Hell, possibly going there a bit early thanks to God's omnipotence." Is loving God and sin mutually exclusive? In many ways they are. But how does God deal with someone that loves Him, yet sins because he or she is stricken with an addiction that goes against His word? The person wants to stop, they love God and hate their sin, but their brain is screwed up so that no matter how hard they try they are pulled back to the sin that God hates. How does God deal with that person? In terms of the Sabbath: Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath (Matt 12:8). So I don't look to a day to obey, I just look to Jesus. Things like the Sabbath and Mary being sinless is all very interesting but they don't affect the tenet of salvation: that is grace through faith in Jesus Christ. "Know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified." (Galatians 2:16). We can find exceptions to the rule on anything: for example on topic of ignorance. You say its in their mind... unless of course their parents brain washed them into thinking its fine. Which is almost happening these days with the PC left. So ... exceptions to the rules but they can become a little far-fetched. Homosexual sex will always be a sin. Agreed. I think what you're getting at here is that if a person commits homosexual sex, and then he dies either the next day or the next decade, it'll be because of that act. It's like God is saying: "Ha, I got you!" The fact is we are all deserving of death because we're all sinners. I don't know if you know, but only sinners are going to Heaven. Because only sinners are getting saved. Jesus said "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5:32). Committing homosexual acts won't lead to God killing you. We're all going to get killed by God. We're lucky enough to have this time on Earth. It's not like we get that long here anyway. "Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." (James 4:14). Life is but a vapour. There's no sinful act that will hasten your final hour. God knows the number of hairs on your head, and he holds the universe in his hands. "He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." (Colossians 1:17). "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." You missed out the next part which says that their bloodguiltiness is upon them. It was a punishment to be carried out by the community at that time, not God. Can you give me an example of God striking down someone for disobeying this commandment, or even the sabbath? While you're looking for that let me point out that God gave the Jews the law to follow until Jesus showed up. God knew that they couldn't obey the law on stone, it had to be written on their hearts. It's no longer about whether you break this law or that law, it's about whether or not you have repented and asked Jesus into your heart. I believe someone that has in the past committed homosexual acts can be saved. I believe that a person in a homosexual lifestyle, can find Jesus and also be saved. Because it's not the sin. No sin is too great for Jesus to wash away. So will committing homosexual acts lead to God killing you. Absolutely not. We all die and trying to find a causality between someone dying and their sin is irrelevant. We all will die. And whether its now or later - it's still a vapour: here for a moment then gone. For a homosexual that's found Christ, they will be saved and protected by the blood of Christ - but will eventually die like everyone else. For a non-christian they're dead anyway. Hitler wasn't stuck down by God for his sin, and yet I'd argue that the killing of millions of God's original chosen people by Hitler was a worse sin than being a homosexual victim of a gun rampage. Which was carried out in the name of Allah btw, who to equate to the God of Christianity is almost blasphemy. If Hitler was so bad, why didn't God end his life with an "Allahu Akbar"? I'll tell you why, because God doesn't take people out. And you know what's ironic, Hitler took his own life. So He kills millions of Jews, God doesn't take him out, then he excuses himself with suicide. Yet you think that Katrina or mass murders could be from God? Those events are not evidence of God at work, but evidence of a fallen world where man has dominion over the earth not God. I think you'll find killing people isn't on God's agenda at the moment. Saving them is.