Two letters to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette Voices Section in September 2006, demonstrate the poor knowledge of the Bible and the life that God intends for his believers to live. One writer said that the Episcopal Bishop who accepted homosexual relationships set a good example in not judging others for their beliefs and lifestyles. She further said that a true follower of Jesus showing love doesn’t judge. Has the writer ever read the Bible and studied what Jesus had to say about accepting sin and lives that weren’t in conformance with God? That the bishop sets an example to follow is true, but it isn’t the way of Christ and will lead to destruction.

The other writer made an astounding revelation when she wrote that the idea of homosexual blessings is not a perversion of sin. She went on to say that it would be a big step to a better world to be accepted for who you are. Then the most astounding sentence of all: To actually believe that openly homosexual people are not Christians is an offensive assumption. The lady needs to read the Bible about the old life and the new way in Christ.

Both writers wrote of love and showed a complete lack of understanding of the Greek meaning of the word. Their notion is that love encompasses and allows homosexual behavior. Paul gives lie to that in the following verses: [2 Corinthians 5:14] For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: [2 Cor 5:15] And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. [2 Cor 5:16] Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. [2 Cor 5:17] Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. Please explain how allowing homosexual behavior is constraining love for Christ: how it is not living for self and not after the flesh: and how is it different from the old way of life and is purportedly new?

The hue and cry in our society is for homosexual marriage. Even those who say they are believers in God think it okay as do the writers of the two letters. Those who claim to be believers must by necessity of that belief have to accept that God is the giver of all things, including marriage. In Genesis we find the following: [Gen 2:24] Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. From the very beginning of creation God gave us marriage of one man and one woman. How then can marriage which is a man and a woman include homosexual liaisons given God’s pattern and plan for life?

Proponents of same sex marriage claim that Jesus didn’t say anything against homosexual marriages but they are wrong. He said plenty in the context of the Law. He said: [Mat 5:17] Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Whatever the law said to do he did; whatever it prohibited he didn’t do. In that context of fulfillment he said of marriage when the Pharisees questioned him: [Mat 19:3] The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? [Mat 19:4] And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, [Mat 19:5] And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? [Mat 19:6] Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. For those who believe in homosexual marriage, please explain how the words of Jesus include the sinful relationships of male and female homosexuals.

Indeed, God’s word speaks of love and each one should love but it doesn’t included perversion which isn’t the love of the Bible as seen in the words of Jesus and the Apostles.

The two writers are wrong and In Sorting It Out, no pronouncement by anyone, including so called bishops, can change the fact that Word of God teaches that homosexual relationships are sin and remain to this day and beyond, exceedingly sinful.

© 09-10-2006 DEC