"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1

     The basic premise of the Bible is that God created the universe and everything in it. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) In addition to speaking the whole world into existence God also divided things, "God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night." (Genesis 1:3,4) God created the world, then He defined it, and in doing that He established basic laws. We call creation, and the laws God established "nature." What we see around us, what we experience is what God has made. When He created man, God made distinctions "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." (Genesis 1:27) God say's in the Bibles that there is a natural use, a purpose that is given to man and woman. 

     In Romans chapter one Paul speaks about two sins of definition in the context of creation; idolatry, and homosexuality. "Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man--and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things…  Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men…" 

    Idolatry is the sin of defining God as something He is not. Homosexuality is the sin of defining man as something he is not. The basis for Paul's two pronged attack on idolatry, and Homosexuality in Romans one is based on the creation account of Genesis 1:26, 27  "Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
  
 Often times the revulsion we feel towards the act of homosexuality drives our response to homosexuality. But rather then judge another person we should be turning them to God and teaching them that God made them, and so they need to look to God for their identity. The first sin at it's root was all about self definition. Adam and Eve sought to define themselves apart from God's clear law forbidding them to eat of the tree of "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Genesis 2:16, 17) Today, at it's root the sin of homosexuality is the sin of self definition.  

  The consequences of sin are hard, accordingly pity and sadness should be emotions we feel much more strongly for homosexuals then revulsion. As followers of Christ we should seek to manifest for them that which according to Romans 1:31 they do not have; "love," "forgiveness," and "mercy."

   

"For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;" Psalms 103:11

The fundamental truth of this verse is this: The distance that separates the Heavens from the earth is boundless, and so is God's mercy. 
The concept of comparing the Heavens high above the earth, and the character of God is not foreign to the Scriptures. 

"Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon." Isaiah 55:7
Why will He "abundantly pardon?"
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8

The things God does man will never be able to fathom. 
Gods ability to forgive is immeasurable in comparison to ours. 

 "As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him." Psalms 103:13
God's concern for us is a parental concern.

"For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes." Psalms 103:14 
God understands us in all of our sinfulness, and still forgives us. 

The point is this;
The more we look at ourselves the more dissatisfied we become.
But when God looks at us, He understands everything completely, and says "I still forgive you."  
That's the kind of God we have. We may not understand it, but we can still be thankful for it. 

God's forgiveness is rooted in His character, not His plan. God has a plan, and forgiveness is part of that plan for believers, but forgiveness does not come from the plan, it comes from God's character. The purpose of God's plan is to teach us His character.