The Line in the Sand: Why the Bible Condemns Behavior, Not Biology.

A message to the Counterfeit….

There is a dividing line—subtle to the religious, obvious to the discerning—between what a person is and what a person chooses to do. That line, when erased, becomes a weapon. A misused gospel. A perverted form of holiness that no longer saves but slaughters. And for generations, this line has been blurred to justify cruelty, judgment, and systemic exile of those who never chose their nature but were born into it.

The Bible never condemns you for being born with something you didn’t choose. It condemns rebellion—actions, responses, the willful direction of your soul against the one who created it. And ironically, the very people who scream “sin” the loudest often forget this: they were born into a greater sin—an innate sin—that predates their morality, trumps their behavior, and renders their piety meaningless apart from transformation.

The truth is this: you don’t sin and then become condemned. You were born condemned, and from that state, you sin.

You Were Never Condemned for Being Born Different

Same-sex attraction. Left-handedness. Skin tone. Disability. Height. Temperament. None of these are moral issues. They’re biological realities—traits God Himself wove into the human condition. And yet, the modern Church has taken what is inborn and treated it as if it were chosen. They’ve blurred the line between orientation and rebellion, making enemies out of those who were simply born with a different composition of atoms and affections.

Let’s be very clear: the Bible never condemns a person for being born same-sex attracted. Romans 1 condemns idolaters who reject God and exchange His truth for lies—not people who were born gay and still seek to know God. 1 Timothy 1 condemns lawless behaviors, not biological identities. 1 Corinthians 6 lists actions, not orientations. And in every case, the context is behavior—exploitative, selfish, rebellious behavior—not someone’s innate condition.

There is not a single verse that punishes a person for simply existing differently.

You Were, However, Born in Sin

Now here’s the sting that cuts both ways. While the Church has been busy spotlighting same-sex attraction and other differences as “abominations,” it has forgotten its own condition. Because the truth is: every single human being was born under the curse of Adam. This is not poetic. It is a death sentence.

You weren’t born neutral and then messed up. You were born spiritually stillborn—disconnected from the breath of God, separated from His presence, infected by an inherited blood condition that manifests as sin, rebellion, and spiritual decay.

Psalm 51:5 says, “Behold, I was brought forth in guilt, and in sin my mother conceived me.”

Your entire existence—before your first lie, before your first lust, before your first selfish act—was already corrupted. That’s why Romans 5:12 says, “just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all mankind, because all sinned.”

You were born into death. And no act of righteousness, no moral checklist, no avoidance of visible sin can undo that condition. The problem is not what you’ve done. The problem is what you are—until Christ recreates you.

You Can’t Be Condemned and Condemning

And this is where the hypocrisy reaches its boiling point.

How can someone who was born spiritually infected, dead in their trespasses, void of righteousness, turn and weaponize the Bible against another human for simply being born with a different design? How can a corpse judge the features of another corpse? How can a drowning man mock the way another is sinking?

It’s not only absurd. It’s damning.

Imagine a group of prisoners, all on death row for crimes committed generations before they were born. They wake up in their cells with the sentence already written in their blood. One prisoner—covered in filth, coughing from the rot in his lungs—crawls over to another inmate whose disease looks different, and starts screaming, “You disgust me! Look at you! You deserve this!” All while forgetting he’s coughing up the same death.

That’s what it’s like to be born condemned and still find time to condemn others. It’s not just stupid. It’s suicidal. Because your finger-pointing doesn’t cleanse your condition—it just makes you blind to it. And that blindness is what keeps you bound.

You don’t get to be both a patient and the judge. You’re either on the table with the rest of us, or you’re pretending you never needed surgery. And the ones who pretend they don’t need it? They die quietly. Proud. Religious. Untouched—and unredeemed.

Romans 2:1 says, “You who pass judgment on someone else, for whatever you judge about another, you are condemning yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.”

To be born condemned and turn around to condemn another is not just hypocrisy—it’s blasphemy. Because it insults the very cross that had to carry your unchosen condition. And it nullifies the gospel by pretending that you were clean before you acted, when in truth, you were unclean by nature.

God Judges the Heart—and He Knows the Difference

God knows the difference between the fire He gave you and the arson you commit with it.

Same-sex attraction is not arson. Left-handedness is not rebellion. Skin tone is not idolatry. God gave men fire. The sin is in setting someone else’s house ablaze—not in holding a match.

Scripture draws this line over and over again. James 1:14–15 says, “Each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin.”

Sin is born out of reaction, not presence. What you are tempted by isn’t the sin. What you do with it is.

Likewise, 1 Samuel 16:7 says, “God does not see as man sees, since man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

The Church looks at orientation, appearance, condition. God looks at motive, intention, and alignment.

Final Word: You Can’t Curse What God Never Condemned

You weren’t called to be the mouthpiece of condemnation. Especially not while you yourself were born condemned. The only difference between you and the one you judge is whether or not Christ has made you new.

Because behavior may reflect rebellion—but existence is not sin. Orientation is not rebellion. And unless the gospel you preach can reach the one born into difference, then it was never the gospel at all—it was just your preferences dressed up in scripture.

You cannot be born in sin and use your infected hands to build a scaffold for someone else.

Either you preach a cure for all—regardless of condition—or you die choking on the poison of your own hypocrisy.

And make no mistake:

It is not the ones you condemned that will hear, “Depart from Me.”

It is you—because you never knew Him.

Matthew 7:2 says, “For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.”

Keep your mouth closed. Tend your own infection. Let God be the one who heals—because He’s the only one who can see the line you trampled.