Let’s cut to the chase without any fluff or hedging. Homosexuality isn’t normal no matter how much anyone that thinks it is wants to slice, dice, and cut it. If that is hate speech, homophobic, and not tolerant, then so be it. We have reached a point in the nation when plain talk isn’t politically correct for fear of hurting the feelings of those who persist in attempting to ram their pernicious ways down our throats to force acceptance of them. In some areas they are succeeding because people won’t stand up for what they believe. The nation is caving in to a minority of the population that is only around 2 to 4% of the total citizenry.

The hue and cry comes assaulting our ears that quoting scripture is hateful. The religious apologists, who don’t wish be seen as intolerant, say that God loves the sinner but hates the sin. It is true that the death of Christ on the cross proves that statement to be true, and that his death was for everyone is true as well; but it does have a limit. God’s grace isn’t an open invitation to continue in sin. The invitation is to accept His salvation given freely in Christ, the other dimension of his love.

However, though God’s love is given freely and salvation is extended to show that love, his love isn’t an anything goes, do your thing, “I accept what you do,” and no matter what, you will go to heaven proposition. God expects those who accept his salvation to repent of their sins, turn to him, and live a new life in Christ in which the penitent believer makes every effort to not engage in conscious, deliberate behavior of the old life the scriptures call sin.

But God isn’t intolerant according to those who proclaim that the ideas expressed in the preceding paragraph are false and full of bigotry. God is intolerant of those who persist in engaging in sin and if that isn’t true, why did God ban Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden? God’s saving love stops at the point the individual turns away. He allows the individual to go on traveling the chosen path of destruction.

In order to prove that God loves everyone regardless of their sinful behavior, homosexuals demand that they be accepted into churches without any effort on their part to change the behavior. They have begun churches with homosexual clergy who demand that they be accepted as normal by Bible believing people. Jesus said, [Luke 13:3] I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. While that was said of a specific people at a specific time, the principle is true. Yet people will protest that isn’t the god they worship. They are correct; they worship the anything goes god that allows them to continue in sin with no consequences. It is a god of their own making and design.

If salvation isn’t of any importance, why go through the charade of belonging to a church? It appears that the homosexual contingent is attempting to bring respectability to their life by trying to convince all who oppose their sin that society’s belief about God is wrong. If that is one of their ideas, they will learn the folly of their ways when the final day of judgment arrives. God has already judged the world in Jesus who won’t save those who continue in sin.

The words of Peter are appropriate at this point: [2 Pet 3:9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

In Sorting It Out, the necessity of repentance applies to all who are living in sin. If that is intolerant and hateful, argue with God since it is plain in scripture that those who won’t repent will perish.  

© 03-12-2006 DEC