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Christianity, Homosexuality, and Gay Marriage – What Do We Do With the Bible?
One of the wonderful things about America is that we have gotten to be smarter than God (hope you recognize satire when you read it). We are now wiser than he is, we know better than he doeshow to love our fellowman and what is inherently right, and we no longer need his word as any kindof a guide to life. God if you will just take a seat over here to our left behind us and let us handlethis we will take care of it. Yes, maybe you had it right once but you have grown old and we are young and our intellects are sharp and it is a new day.We are so arrogant that sometimes it is hard to believe. Maybe we ought to call this the Age ofArrogance. We would prefer to call it something like the Age of Enlightenment but if memoryserves me correct that appellation has already been taken. Oh, well, maybe we can find anotherthat will flatter us just as well.The subject of this little piece is Christianity, homosexuality, and gay marriage and what we aregoing to do with what the Bible has to say about it all. There is really no need to discuss it for it isbecoming more obvious what we are going to do with it every day. We are going to use the Bible asa football and give it a big swift kick, one so hard that it will get it so far away from us we willnever have to see it again. At least when one kicks a football he can go get it again and bring itback but it is not quite so easy getting the Bible back after you kick it away. There has to be adesire to go get it and with the Bible the desire, once it is kicked away, is seldom if ever found toretrieve it.We now have, I believe it is as of the time I am writing this (May 2009), 5 states that have gaymarriage as law. I think most of us feel certain that number will continue to grow and if thelegislatures do not make it law the courts will legislate for them (and for us). Does this mean wewill be another Sodom and Gomorrah? God will decide that. What it does mean is that we approveof the homosexual life.When Lot settled in the area of Sodom the Bible says, “the men of Sodom were wicked, greatsinners against the Lord.” (Gen. 13:13 ESV) We know, because we are told, that Sodom would havebeen spared destruction had God been able to find as few as 10 righteous men there (Gen. 18:32).He could not do it.Well, what was their sin? No one doubts it was sexual immorality for that is the only sin we readabout in connection with Sodom. When the two angels came to Lot’s house the Bible says, “the menof the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded thehouse. And they called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us,that we may know them.’” (Gen. 19:4-5 ESV)Yes, other sins were involved here (had they gotten their way) aside from homosexuality –fornication and rape to name two – but there is no doubt that homosexuality was one of the sexualsins. It is obvious that the men of this city practiced homosexuality. God made Sodom and
 
Gomorrah an example for us. “If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes hecondemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.”(2 Peter 2:6 ESV) As was said earlier “the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners.” (Gen. 13:13ESV) We know what their ungodliness consisted of. The Bible speaks of God rescuing “righteousLot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked.” (2 Peter 2:7 ESV)When the law of Moses came many years later God still had not changed his mind with regards tothe sin of homosexuality. “If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committedan abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.” (Lev. 20:13 ESV)Well, how about today? Paul says, “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit thekingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, norswindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Cor. 6:9 ESV)Yes, I know there are today some churches that consider themselves to be Christian that acceptpracticing homosexuals into full fellowship and some who have even elevated the same to positionsof authority within the church. Can we say these churches are faithful to the Bible? Can we saythey believe the Bible? They are in effect saying a practicing homosexual can inherit the kingdomof God and thus claim to know more about it than the Holy Spirit himself as he spoke through Paul.In 1 Tim. 1 Paul talks about some who wanted to be teachers of law and he says this, “the law is notlaid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for theunholy and profane” and then lists among others “men who practice homosexuality.” (1 Tim. 1:9-10ESV) He wraps up this section by saying “and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, inaccordance with the glorious gospel.” (1 Tim. 1:10-11 ESV) Thus homosexuality is lawlessness,disobedience, ungodliness, unholy, profane, and contrary to sound doctrine in accordance with thegospel.In Rom. 1 Paul speaks of history, of years gone by, and says of those who did not honor God as Godbut went off into idolatry that, “God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to thedishonoring of their bodies among themselves.” (Rom. 1:24 ESV) He goes on, “For this reason Godgave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those thatare contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and wereconsumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving inthemselves the due penalty for their error.” (Rom. 1:26-27 ESV)I would like to ask a question here. God’s stand against homosexuality could not be any clearer.When one takes a stand for gay marriage it is obvious he is taking a stand for, in favor of,homosexuality. How would you like to be that man in the Day of Judgment? Now understand I amspeaking of every legislator who votes in favor of such, every judge that gives his blessing to it,every person who knowingly votes into office those who favor the same. Is no one to be held
 
accountable? Yes, I think even us lowly voters will be held accountable for the way we vote when weknow ahead what is likely to be the position taken by the candidate once he/she is in office. It isnot just the practicing homosexuals who will be held accountable but any who support those whohave helped to promote it.“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness,who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, andshrewd in their own sight!” (Isa. 5:20-21 ESV)Does that not describe what is going on in our country today? We are wise in our own eyes, lovingand tolerant, in allowing what God disallows. We are sweeter than he is, kinder, more gracious, moreloving. We will call darkness light and that will make it so.Does no one in this country fear God?Let someone say that God will punish this country for its evil and he is ostracized. Why? Becausewe consider ourselves godly, too good for punishment, not deserving, all the while we spit in theface of God’s own word.Perhaps you have learned this already, you probably have. Words no longer have any meaning. Wemake them mean whatever we want them to. It is now 2009. It has been approximately 2,000 years since Christ was on earth. In that 2,000 year period of time who would ever in their wildestimagination thought of marriage as a union of a homosexual couple? The answer is absolutely no oneuntil just recently. The consensus through history was that homosexual unions were sin. Now it isblessed matrimony.I wonder what the response of my grandparents who have now been gone approximately 50 yearswould have been in my youth had I asked them if they had heard that Johnnie and Dick weregetting married? They would have looked on me with bewilderment thinking my mother and dadneeded to take me aside and have a little talk. What we have now was unknown, unheard of, beyondanyone’s imagination just a few decades ago.Jesus said, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male andfemale, and said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife,and they shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh.” (Matt. 19:4-6 ESV) Iam too stupid to know so I need someone to tell me who is the wife in these homosexual marriages?Can you have a marriage without a wife (I guess today you can have anything you want)? While youare answering that one maybe you can tell me why God made them male and female in the beginningversus male and male or female and female?I would also be very interested if you could give me one example from the Bible of a same sexmarriage. If you could that would be one of the greatest discoveries of the twenty first centuryrivaling anything science might come up with.
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