Testimony of Healing June 18, 2007 Issue

MOVING FROM SEXUAL TO SPIRITUAL IDENTITY

NAME WITHHELD

When I was just out of college and living on my own, I started wondering if maybe I was gay or bisexual. Although these practices are commonly accepted today, I wasn't comfortable with the thoughts that were coming to me and wanted to be free of them.

Much is said these days about religious or psychological practices that seek to change someone's identity from homosexual to heterosexual, but I wanted a deeper understanding of my innate spirituality, of an identity based on being Godlike rather than a sexual being swaying one way or another.

In the Bible's book of Genesis there are two differing accounts of the creation of man. The first one describes man as made in the image and likeness of God—"male and female created he [God] them" (1:27). In the second chapter, man is created of the dust of the ground—in a literal sense man is worldly, made up of the stuff of the world. One dictionary definition of sensual is "worldly," and worldly also means carnal, fleshly, or prone to physicality.

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