A former lesbian who is now a Christian speaker and blogger has sparked an online debate after she shared how she left her “super wild” lifestyle of homosexuality and turned to Jesus Christ.
In a Facebook video for online evangelism website Anchored North, Emily Thomes shared that she first entered into a romantic relationship with a girl when she was 15. At that time, she reasoned that “God being love” would accept her lifestyle, and she became involved in “super wild” relationships with other women in the next couple of years after that, The Christian Post relayed.
When she was 22 and was engaged to a woman with two children, somebody invited Thomes to a Bible study. She expected the participants to call out her lifestyle and planned to use that reason for not coming back, but she ended up hearing other women’s experiences which she never had.
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She felt scared when she read that the Bible says those who practice homosexuality will not be able to enter God’s kingdom, but also realized after reading 1 Corinthians 6:11 that she could also be transformed if she stopped holding on to her sin and rejecting God.
“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,” Thomes said in the video. “It's not gay to straight. It's lost to saved. God calls us not to heterosexuality but