First off, thank you for being civilized while talking with us.

To begin with, I would like to say I know exactly where you are coming from. Actually, not to long ago I would have been in complete agreement with you. But not because it was what I believed, but what I had always been taught. Because of my attraction, I always knew either I was going to change and suddenly become attracted to women, or I was going to hell, OR something was wrong with what I was taught.

I was always taught homosexuals had made a choice to be the way they are. But something in my head told me that wasn't right. I assume you have been taught this too, that it is a choice. Let me assure you I never made a choice in whom I would be attracted. I DO make a choice not to be sexual with ANY child.

Why are people born blind, deaf, handicapped, deformed, or mentally retarded? It is because of the fall of man. When Adam and Eve made their decision to eat from the forbidden tree, evil came into the earth. So I ask you, could not this attraction be purely from evil, a scheme of Satan's to try and rip us apart, to keep us away from God. He is doing a really good job, and good people like you, who just don't understand, are actually helping him. Because when you tell people they cannot be attracted to a child and follow Jesus, and then the person can't change, they come to the conclusion either there is no God, or they can't live the chrsitian life. (I am not saying no one can change, some people can).

I think you are saying that when we choose to follow Jesus and give him everything and let him lead our lives, that we should change. I am confused on whether you think our whole attraction should change or not. But it seems like you think lust and attraction are the same thing. Dakota put it pretty nicely that they aren't the same.

When I chose to give Jesus everything and follow him, my lust did change. I am not perfect, but I control the lust now. Before I came to christ, I allowed the lust to fill my mind. So in that sense, I DID change. It blows me away when people think this lust is worse than the lust a man has for another woman, or a woman for a man, or man for man. The bible says not to lust towards a woman. If you want to get technical, it doesn't say not to lust after a child, haha, I'm kidding, it's still wrong.

Most everyone here will tell you they have asked for this attraction to be taken away, yet it hasn't gone anywhere.

2 Corinthians 12:7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Some people say the thorn in Paul's flesh was a deaf ear or something. But no one really knows. But what the thorn was is besides the point. This attraction of ours is indeed a weakness. And many of us have pleaded with the Lord for it to be taken away. I have found my answer to be the same as Paul's. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."

If you are telling me that I am not following Christ if I am attracted to boys, who are you to judge? And if you are telling me I am not following Christ because of my lust, then I suppose no one is following Christ. For everyone deals with lust in one way or another. And if a person doesn't, the chances are they have another something they deal with.

So I will boast in my weakness. And I delight in insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties. For when I am weak, I am strong.