One of Satan’s tricks is to label the person as the sin. This is called “nominalization.” When you call a person “a homosexual,” it seems as if the action were what the person is. It gives the illusion that the person is the sin. This is very tricky. It’s the reason that Satan moves his followers to call names, since naming people makes the attacks harder to shake off. If I say, “What you just said is irrational because you have no way to show that your premise is true,” I haven’t attached “what you just said” to your person. What happens if I instead say, “You’re stupid for saying what you just said.” Now I have labeled you. I have attached an action to your person. The object is to make it harder for you the feeling that you are stupid and to project an illusory image into the minds of anyone listening. This is a tactic in many debates. That’s what happens when we talk about “homosexuals,” “gay people,” or any of the other labels. It’s a subtle trick of the enemy. The purpose is to cause the person to identify with the sin and to create the illusion that the person “can’t help it if they are what they are.” They are not the sin. They are doing the sin. Everyone has a sinful nature called “flesh,” but no one has to identify with the sinful nature or yield the members of their body to the sinful nature. “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.” Romans 6:13