Because THAT is not a BIBLICAL truth. That's what you and the church want to be the BIBLICAL truth. But it's just YOUR truth.
You deny these verses declare homosexual behavior to be sinful?
Leviticus 18, NASB
22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Leviticus 20
13, "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them."
1 Corinthians 6
9 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,
10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
Romans 1
26 "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."
I don't know of anyone in the church who just stopped sinning once they came to faith in Christ.
That's not the same argument, and is irrelevant as well. Though we continue to sin, we must repent. So must they. I will say I do not consider homosexual behavior to be any greater a sin than adultery, or other "major" sins. None are more serious. But all demand repentance, and refusing to repent, continuing willfully in sin, is not acceptable to God.
People have and deal with strongholds that do not just disappear when they come to faith in Christ.
Nonetheless, eventually the strongholds must be pulled down. Homosexuals glory in their sin rather than consider it a stronghold they cannot overcome.
If you're hooked on crack on Tuesday and come to faith in Christ on Wednesday, that doesn't necessarily mean that you will not struggle with that crack addiction on Thursday.
No, but it does mean you acknowledge the sin and find help for it through counseling, treatment and support groups. Most homosexuals do not want to admit the behavior is sin, much less find help to abandon the lifestyle, or at least find help to be abstinent.
You and so many in the church are so concerned with being right about the issue that you keep forgetting that these are people.
And you forget they are people
in sin who must repent.
Where has God in His word ever said that people cannot still struggle with their past sin after being saved?
Struggling is not their issue. Denial is their issue. Denial of sin is folly.
They refer to you as hate mongers because they don't hear anything of love coming from you ...
That may be true from some, but not from all. They prefer to call all who say they are continuing in sin "haters" because most do not want to abandon their sin.
... because you and so many in the church don't think they can still struggle with their sin after God saves them.
I know they will continue to struggle. But they must admit it is a sin before they can "struggle." Otherwise, they are just revelers in a sinful lifestyle believing their salvation keeps them from punishment. It does in the eternal,
if they are truly repentant. But flaunting their sin in this life and claiming it is not sin is denial of God's truth, and bears its own penalty. You cannot deny the work of the Holy Spirit and be saved.
Paul says in Scripture:
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. Romans 7:15-20
Yes he does. But Paul understood he was a sinner. Most who engage in homosexual do not make that acknowledgment, and therefore are either carnal in nature, or not saved at all. There is punishment for both types of people, and you know that.
PEOPLE will still struggle with sin until God returns and gives us all our new glorified bodies.
To paraphrase Inigo Montoya from "The Princess Bride," "You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means." You insist they struggle. They do not struggle, mostly. They deny. Huge difference.
if you are still encased in sinful flesh, you STILL have the capacity to sin the same sins you did before you were saved.
But eventually the Holy Spirit will convict me of my sin and my strongholds and I will seek His help in pulling them down. Yet again, I must point out, if they deny what they do is sin, they do not have the Holy Spirit in them, or they are quenching Him and preventing Him from doing His convicting worth. It will not go well for them in either case.