Emily Thomes, a former lesbian is presently a Christian speaker and a blogger. Her first romantic relationship with another girl began when she was 15 years old.
She says that she came out to other people, and reasoned that God would be accepting of her relationship.
"God being love meant God was nice and God was chill with what you were cool with," she said of her thinking at the time.
"By 18 and 19 and 20, I was super wild and in serial relationships with women," Thomes reveals.
She adds that she ended up getting engaged to a woman who had two children when she entered nursing school.
At 22, however, she got invited to a Bible study.
"I expected them to bring up my lifestyle really early, and use that as justification for not coming back, so I agreed to go," Thomes recalled.
Different women in that circle were talking about different experiences they had. I have nothing like that, and it bugged me. I could not stop thinking, 'what if all of that's true?'" she wondered.
"'Are you sure this is who you are?' I couldn't stop questioning. I need to feel OK. Because I don't feel OK anymore."
Thomes then began researching Bible verses online.
"Those who practice homosexuality, which was me, and also drunkards and a bunch of other things that I would've been, I realized that I was in the 'will I enter the Kingdom of God?' lineup and it scared me really really bad," she explained.
"And then I read verse 11," she said in reference to 1 Corinthians 6:11. "And it says, 'And such were some of you, but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified.'"
The now former lesbian says that she realized there were other people in her situation, and that they became changed and saved.
"I could hold on to my sin and reject God, or I could turn to Him. All the debt that I'd wracked up living like I lived didn't have to be mine if I could trust Him. So that was it," Thomes continued.
"I knew what I wasn't going to do, because it was right there, it was black and white. I'd twisted those Scriptures before, I'd argued them down, I'd say 'judge not' to them like that mattered, and then that day it was like my eyes were really opened. I was amazed at the grace He'd shown me."
She insisted that people who claim they were "born this way" need grace as much as she does."It's not gay to straight. It's lost to saved. God calls us not to heterosexuality but holiness," she declared.
Here are some of the positive and negative comments she got when her story was shared online:
"So many people, no matter their lifestyle, believe as you did before, 'If God is love, then He's chill with whatever I do and whomever I love.' Even many churches preach this! I'm so proud of you for speaking against that lie," wrote a user.
Another User argued, however, that what Thomes said is "enough to push gay children over the edge to suicide."
"If God changed her, why didn't the prayers of my daughter count? So so wrong. I'm willing to bet good money that she is on the bisexual spectrum, or else she is really doing an injustice being in a relationship with that young man," he wrote about her husband.
"Let me tell anyone who is gay and watching this video that God created you just exactly as you are and 'He saw that it was good.' You are loved and precious."
*To justify the gay lifestyle, they claim homosexuality is in the DNA, it's is biological, they are born that way, that's how God created us, it's not our fault we are like this. But God's stand on homosexuality is clear and His Word isn't changing for no man. Truth.
God can't say homosexuality is wrong in the Bible and still create man with a gay-gene! Is that not conflicting? Homosexuality is purely a part of man's fallen/sinful nature and it was for this reason Jesus came, to save us from our sins and return us back to glory. Remember the Scripture 'Christ in you is the hope of glory?'
If you are gay and reading this please do not try to justify your homosexual lifestyle. But rather see it the way God sees it, as filthy and wrong. Until you begin to see it that way, your deliverance won't come.
Ask Jesus to help and please don't give up because it's tough. Even the devil has no intention to give you up without a fight. Take a cue from Thomes. Look at God's Word.
Like she said, "God calls us not to heterosexuality but holiness." Simply choose holiness.
And please, rather than sit around throwing judgment at homosexuals, let's love them. By so doing we are showing them what true love really is by just loving them with God's love. Tell them the truth in love. Love can change anything. It changed Thomes. If those women in that Bible study group had started condemning her rather love her, definitely she wouldn't have gone back. But the love she felt made her go back again and again until she saved.
They told her the truth in love, their words convicted her until she saw how sinful her lifestyle is.
She says that she came out to other people, and reasoned that God would be accepting of her relationship.
"God being love meant God was nice and God was chill with what you were cool with," she said of her thinking at the time.
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"By 18 and 19 and 20, I was super wild and in serial relationships with women," Thomes reveals.
She adds that she ended up getting engaged to a woman who had two children when she entered nursing school.
At 22, however, she got invited to a Bible study.
"I expected them to bring up my lifestyle really early, and use that as justification for not coming back, so I agreed to go," Thomes recalled.
Different women in that circle were talking about different experiences they had. I have nothing like that, and it bugged me. I could not stop thinking, 'what if all of that's true?'" she wondered.
"'Are you sure this is who you are?' I couldn't stop questioning. I need to feel OK. Because I don't feel OK anymore."
Thomes then began researching Bible verses online.
"Those who practice homosexuality, which was me, and also drunkards and a bunch of other things that I would've been, I realized that I was in the 'will I enter the Kingdom of God?' lineup and it scared me really really bad," she explained.
"And then I read verse 11," she said in reference to 1 Corinthians 6:11. "And it says, 'And such were some of you, but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified.'"
The now former lesbian says that she realized there were other people in her situation, and that they became changed and saved.
"I could hold on to my sin and reject God, or I could turn to Him. All the debt that I'd wracked up living like I lived didn't have to be mine if I could trust Him. So that was it," Thomes continued.
"I knew what I wasn't going to do, because it was right there, it was black and white. I'd twisted those Scriptures before, I'd argued them down, I'd say 'judge not' to them like that mattered, and then that day it was like my eyes were really opened. I was amazed at the grace He'd shown me."
She insisted that people who claim they were "born this way" need grace as much as she does."It's not gay to straight. It's lost to saved. God calls us not to heterosexuality but holiness," she declared.
Here are some of the positive and negative comments she got when her story was shared online:
"So many people, no matter their lifestyle, believe as you did before, 'If God is love, then He's chill with whatever I do and whomever I love.' Even many churches preach this! I'm so proud of you for speaking against that lie," wrote a user.
Another User argued, however, that what Thomes said is "enough to push gay children over the edge to suicide."
"If God changed her, why didn't the prayers of my daughter count? So so wrong. I'm willing to bet good money that she is on the bisexual spectrum, or else she is really doing an injustice being in a relationship with that young man," he wrote about her husband.
"Let me tell anyone who is gay and watching this video that God created you just exactly as you are and 'He saw that it was good.' You are loved and precious."
*To justify the gay lifestyle, they claim homosexuality is in the DNA, it's is biological, they are born that way, that's how God created us, it's not our fault we are like this. But God's stand on homosexuality is clear and His Word isn't changing for no man. Truth.
God can't say homosexuality is wrong in the Bible and still create man with a gay-gene! Is that not conflicting? Homosexuality is purely a part of man's fallen/sinful nature and it was for this reason Jesus came, to save us from our sins and return us back to glory. Remember the Scripture 'Christ in you is the hope of glory?'
If you are gay and reading this please do not try to justify your homosexual lifestyle. But rather see it the way God sees it, as filthy and wrong. Until you begin to see it that way, your deliverance won't come.
Ask Jesus to help and please don't give up because it's tough. Even the devil has no intention to give you up without a fight. Take a cue from Thomes. Look at God's Word.
Like she said, "God calls us not to heterosexuality but holiness." Simply choose holiness.
And please, rather than sit around throwing judgment at homosexuals, let's love them. By so doing we are showing them what true love really is by just loving them with God's love. Tell them the truth in love. Love can change anything. It changed Thomes. If those women in that Bible study group had started condemning her rather love her, definitely she wouldn't have gone back. But the love she felt made her go back again and again until she saved.
They told her the truth in love, their words convicted her until she saw how sinful her lifestyle is.
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