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God didn’t create anything He abhorred. Sin, including sodomy, entered the world through man’s disobedience to His command, and brought death of the body and soul with it. Now notice the difference- sodomy isn’t homosexuality. The temptation is not the sin, the practice is. God also abhors fornication, adultery, lying, drunkenness, rioting and too much more to list here (see 1 Corinthians 6:9-11). In Matthew 5:28 Christ says that to even look at a woman in order to lust after her is adultery (pornography, for example). Your character Bud practices so many destructive things that God could take him to task for. But hypocrisy? I didn’t see Bud claiming Christian righteousness (which a true believer attributes to God alone and not themselves). Hebrews 12:6 reminds us this-that God corrects those he has received as His own. If Bud claimed to believe in God and do His will, God would’ve reminded him of Matthew 5:45-48; that he is not to despise even the enemies of God. Again, God hates sin because it destroys His beloved creation (Romans 8:18-25), of which Bud is a part. He’d want Bud to come away from all sin, not simply bigotry and hypocrisy.

I’ve met guys like Bud in my life, and one of the most jarring things I had to understand was that anyone could be him. Not just including me, especially me. God’s grace is all that stands between us and hell, in our own hearts and the world to come. And the reality of judgement, which can be mitigated by accepting Christ, is a lot more frightening than inoperable cancer, which falls on the just and the unjust alike

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