According to some scientists, homosexuality seems to be a predisposed gene. They also say that sociopaths have genes that make them behave that way. I watched something recently that showed that scientists can actually look at your DNA and see whether or not you will be Democrat or Republican.
So...the outcome of this seems to be: There can't be sin because it's just predisposed genes that we call sin. If we are born a certain way, then how is that sin? Why would God hold us to it if it's not even our fault.
But I think this is skirting a very important issue. That point being that sin IS genetic. We inherited the code problems the second Adam and Eve ate the fruit. It should be no surprise to us if there are certain sins that may be embedded into our persons so far that it's even coded into our DNA.
This means one of two things: (1) we either have to fight infinitely hard to change our very natures or (2) accept that Someone has already fought infinitely hard against our sin and follow Him in newness of life.
I Corinthians 15: 21 So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man. 22 Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. 23 But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back. (NLT)
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It's so weird but I read an excerpt from article today that said something along these same lines - here is the exerpt courtesy of Patrol
"The widespread desire to find a biological basis for homosexuality seems to me very misconceived. It will inevitably lead to claims that gays are developmentally defective at the prenatal level. I myself believe (as I argued in "No Law in the Arena" in "Vamps & Tramps") that everyone is born with a potential for bisexual responsiveness and that exclusive homosexuality is an adaptation to specific social conditions. When a gay adult claims to have been gay since early childhood, what he or she is actually remembering is the sense of being different for some reason, which in boys often registers as shyness or super-sensitivity, leading to a failure to bond with bumptious peers. This disjunction, with all its painfully stifled longings, becomes overt homosexuality much later on. But retrospective psychohistory is out these days, and the only game in town is pin the tail on the oppressor."
really good article, lisa! the point i was making was that even if we could find a gene for these things, it shouldn't even be surprising since since it's in our natures, it might as well be in our dna.
but i like what the article says about feeling different and not getting along with your peer gender. i think that's an interesting point.
i also like the line: "the only game in town is pin the tail on the oppressor."
So much of what we hear in the supposed scientific news, though, is not really very scientific. How many times do we hear of a study that shows one thing, only to have another study later on that shows just the opposite? Coffee is good for you. No, wait, coffee is bad for you. Vestigial organs have no purpose. No, wait, yes they do. Etc.
Granted, our very genetic structure was damaged by the fall; hence we have cancer, genetic deformities, proclivities toward heart defects, and the like. I don't think, however, that we can blame any sin on the physical weaknesses resulting from the fall. In that respect, the damage we suffered at the fall is spiritual "genetic" corruption, not physical "genetic" damage. I do believe we have specific proclivities to sin inherited from our parents, but it is not something we can combat by genetic tinkering. We may someday find a way to alter some genetic defects and conquer cancer, etc., but it will in no wise relate to any improvement in our fallen nature. I think one of the reasons these flash-in-the-pan studies come out is that the scientific community is trying to find a naturalistic cause and perhaps even cure for things that are spiritual in nature. An exercise in futility.
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