GOD ON HOMOSEXUALITY

GOD ON HOMOSEXUALITY

   God has been in the news lately, in case you missed it:  On Friday, July 26, 2013  retired archbishop of South Africa, Desmond Tutu,  stated "I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this." 

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He made this statement during the United Nations' launch of its gay-rights program in Cape Town.  I don't know why the United Nations is launching a program in Cape Town, South Africa, but there it is.  Coming to a town in America soon.

   Also, the new Pope, Pope Francis

was questioned of how he would respond to learning that a cleric in his ranks was gay, though not sexually active.  He responded, "Who am I to judge a gay person of goodwill who seeks the Lord?"  You can't marginalize these people."  Then, he was quoted as saying, Pope John Paul II "definitively ...closed the door" to women priests.           WHAT?!?

  I praise my God that He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.  I am sorry that humans don't necessarily agree with Him and would rather burn in Hell than spend eternity with my Holy God, who cannot look upon sin, whether fornication, adultery, homosexuality, murder, covetousness, or what ever!  My God does not blow as the political wind.  He is constant and I praise Him for it.

   So, let's look in His Word and see what He has to say about homosexuality:

   1) picking up the creation story in Genesis 2:20b  But for Adam no suitable helper was found. (21) So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, He took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.  (22) Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man.  (23) The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."  (24) That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. (NIV)

   2)  If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination:  they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.  Leviticus 20:13 (KJV)

   3) The Pharisees asked Jesus:  "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away."  (5) But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. (6) But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' (7) 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, (8) and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.  (9) What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."  Mark 10: 4-9

   The Genesis record, Leviticus, Mark, no where in the Bible does God, Jesus, the Prophets, nor the Apostles speak about the homosexual lifestyle in favorable terms.  In fact, "it is an abomination".  Synonyms of abomination are:  outrage, disgrace, scandal, eyesore, atrocity, horror.  One might say that God is not pleased with the act of homosexuality, nor does He promote it as He promotes marriage (one man, one woman). 

   So my point is that those who allegedly are in position of authority in a church which claims to worship The One True God should try reading The Bible before experiencing diarrhea of the mouth and showing everyone their ignorance.

   Let me close with this word of encouragement:  The penalty of sin is death, but know that when you accept the gift of salvation, that Jesus has paid the price of your sin.  The Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 6: 9 - 11:  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Be not deceived:  neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, (10) Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.  (11) AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU:  BUT ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the Name of The Lord Jesus, and by The Spirit of our God.  (King James Version, Public Domain)  HALLELUJAH! and AMEN!

   Do you know how to obtain this blessed assurance of having all of your sins washed away?  Click this link:   https://omaswisdom.blogspot.com/p/path-to-salvation.html



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