Tried With Fire

First, you do what you want to do, even though you "know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die." and only then do you "give approval to those who practice them" (Rom. 1:32).  You start to see yourself as either special or as hopeless, and thus the normal boundaries don't seem to apply. It might be that you are involved in certain patterns right now and that you would, if asked, be able to tell me exactly why these are morally and ethically wrong. It's not that you are deficient in cognitive ability to diagnose the situation.  It's instead that you slowly grow to believe that your situation is exceptional ("I am a god"), and thus you find all kinds of reasons why this technically isn't theft or envy or hatred or fornication or abuse of power or whatever ("I am able to discern good and evil"). Or you believe that you are powerless before what you want ("I am an animal") and therefore escape ...

Dr. Russell Moore on what is and isn't the gospel: “If we are telling our children the way in which you learn the Bible is to learn to look at characters and to emulate them; to learn how to get along with one another, “Jesus had friends, you have friends,” “Noah took care of pets, you take care of pets,” “the apostle shared, you share,” you are creating and training up an army of Protestant liberals who will die and go to hell with signed   True Love Waits   cards.” HT:  Jared Moore