IS
SAME SEX MARRIAGE BIBLICAL?
You
do not have to be what some call being a “fanatical Christian” to
notice the rise in the news of today on the subject of same sex
marriage and homosexuality or gay rights. So what is going on in the
world today? Why is does the world call it discrimination when a
person does not share the same opinions about same sex marriage or
the homosexual lifestyle? What happened to our constitutional right
to freedom of speech? Why is it”politically incorrect to speak out
opposing homosexuality and same sex marriage?
It
seems that even in some churches that Homosexuality is becoming more
and more excepted. And even if you type in a the question such as “Is
sodomy a sin?” in order to get a “BIBLICAL” understanding of
what is going on in the world today of what seems to be a society
having an attitude of anything goes when it comes to sexual pleasure
you will find many websites that use verses from the Bible to falsely
teach that sodomy or anal sex between a heterosexual man and a woman
is Biblical, but I assure all of my readers, who are seeking the
TRUTH, that these kinds of websites are the BLIND leading the blind
down the broad road that leads to destruction and the wrath of
Almighty God by trying to excuse their own sin.
Now
the purpose of this study in God's word is to give LIGHT and
understanding to those who are seeking the TRUTH. The very title of
this study is asking the question of whether or not that marriage
between two people of the SAME sex is BIBLICAL and is NOT dealing
with whether or not that marriage between two or more people of the
same sex is “LEGAL” in the eyes of MAN. This study is not about
whether a person has the right to CHOOSE whatever lifestyle they want
to live because even Almighty God has given us ALL a free will to
choose how we want to live. No this study in God's word addresses
only the issues that affect YOU in the the eyes of your creator
Almighty God, who while he gave us all free will to choose, he
desires greatly that we all choose HIS will for our life so that we
can obtain eternal life in the world to come. Please read Deuteronomy
30:14-20 which clearly teaches us that God has given us all a free
will to choose what ever life we want to live, but depending upon
which life we choose will either lead us to eternal life or eternal
destruction. And throughout God's word he is crying out to all
humanity to choose LIFE.
“But
the word is very nigh unto you, in your mouth, and in your heart,
that you may do it.
15.
See (or
understand that),
I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
16.
In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in
his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his
judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God
shall bless you in the land whither you go to possess it.
17. BUT
IF your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shalt be
drawn away,
and worship other gods, and serve them; (in
other words, if you choose to turn away and reject this word of God
imploring you to examine your heart to see if you are living a life
pleasing to God and you are drawn away by the deception of the enemy
to continue living in sin and serve the pleasures of sin, THEN God
says that...)
18. I
denounce unto you this day, that you shall SURELY PERISH,
and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither you
pass over Jordan to go to possess it.
19.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have
set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose
life, that both you and your seed may live:
20.
That you may love the LORD your God, and that you may obey his voice,
and that you may cleave unto him: for he is your life, and the length
of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore
unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
So
please do not misunderstand what my intention of study in God's word
is written to be. My heart is for your GOOD. Now at times you some
things you read my ruffle your feathers so to speak, but if you think
of it this way you should certainly be able to understand my heart
toward you. Think about a good parent whose child has gotten into the
wrong crowd and is now using and selling drugs and the child sees
nothing wrong with his or her actions. It has just become a “job”
to them, and they do NOT consider the CONSEQUENCES if they get caught
by the LAW. Now you on the other hand are very concerned about not
only what will happen to them when they get caught, but also the harm
that they are bringing upon themselves right now. So you try and WARN
them of the CONSEQUENCES that they are facing and that it is only a
matter of time before that day of reckoning comes knocking at their
door.
My
point is this, if you choose to live a life that is not according to
God's will, then according to God's word you will NOT receive eternal
life in the world to come, but will rather suffer the wrath of
Almighty God's judgment and be destroyed in the eternal lake of fire
on the day of judgment. And I assure you that if you are living a
life as a homosexual, then according to the word of Almighty God your
creator you are headed down the path that leads to eternal
destruction. But at the same time I also assure you that if you
repent of your sins and call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
to forgive you of your sins and help you live a life that is pleasing
to Almighty God that the Holy Spirit of God will lead and guide you
into all truth and help you stay in the way the leads to eternal life
in the world to come.
Now
before we actual begin this study in God's word that clearly teaches
us that homosexual relationships are an abomination in the eyes of
God and is without a doubt SIN let us begin by defining a few terms
so that we are all on the same page so to speak. The word
“HETEROSEXUAL” as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as
being characterized as an attraction between the OPPOSITE sex as in a
male being attracted sexually only to a female and a female being
attracted sexually only to a male.
And
the term “HOMOSEXUAL” is just the opposite of the word
heterosexual and is defined as being number 1. A sexual desire for
others of one's own sex as in a male having sexual desire for another
male or a female having sexual desires for another female. And number
2. the actual sexual activity with another of the SAME sex.
Also
there is a term used by those in the world called “BI-SEXUAL”,
which is defined as one being attracted to both the male and female.
The
term “SODOMY” as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary is
any ANAL copulation between one male with another male or any anal
copulation between those of the opposite sex. In other words, any
form of any anal copulation or penetration of the anal region by any
means for sexual pleasure is
by definition what the term “SODOMY” means. This includes the use
of man made devices termed as sexual “TOYS” or any part of the
human anatomy, such as one's own finger or hand.
Now
the word “SODOMY” is derived from the word “SODOM”, which is
a city that is spoken of in the Holy Bible that was DESTROYED by
Almighty God by fire and brimstone raining down from heaven because
of the sinful acts of homosexuality and anal sex. You can read the
following account given in the Holy Bible found in Genesis 19:1-29,
that clearly teaches us that Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding
cities were destroyed because of the WICKEDNESS or EVIL. Now you may
feel that you were born with your sexual preferences and say that
homosexuality is not wicked or evil, but in the eyes of God any and
every sin is considered to be wickedness or evil. Now I agree that to
most people living in sin including some Christians living in sin do
not like to be called wicked or their actions to be called evil, but
again this is what God's word teaches us what sin truly is in God's
eyes. Please keep in mind that this study in God's word is for your
GOOD and always remember that God is likened to a GOOD parent who
wants only to see GOOD happen to us. Here is Genesis 19:1-29 from the
New Century Version.
“The
two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting near the
city gate. When he saw them, he got up and went to them and bowed
face down on the ground.
2.
Lot said, "Sirs, please come to my house and spend the night.
There you can wash your feet, and then tomorrow you may continue your
journey." The angels answered, "No, we will spend the night
in the city's public square."
3.
But Lot begged them to come, so they agreed and went to his house.
Then Lot prepared a meal for them. He baked bread without yeast, and
they ate it.
4.
Before bedtime, men
both young and old and
from every part of Sodom surrounded Lot's house.
5.
They called to Lot, "Where
are the two men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we
can have sexual relations with them."
6.
Lot went outside to them, closing the door behind him.
7
He said, "No, my brothers! Do not do this EVIL THING. (In
other word,s Lot is warning these men to NOT have sexual relations
with these two men that are staying at Lot's house and calls this
type of sexual relations of men having sex with other men an EVIL
THING)
8.
Look! I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. I will
give them to you, and you may do anything you want with them. But
please don't do anything to these men. They have come to my house,
and I must protect them. (Here
is this verse we see that Lot understands that this type of
homosexual sexual relations between men is so EVIL that Lot offers
his very own virgin daughters to these men to have sex with them so
that they would NOT have sex with these men staying at his house.)"
9.
The men around the house answered, "Move out of the way!"
Then they said to each other, "This
man Lot came to our city as a stranger, and now he wants to tell us
what to do!" (again
none of us really like being told that our behavior or actions are
wrong, but the word of God living in me must cry out to warn
whosoever will listen to the gospel of Jesus Christ to repent of your
sins and turn to God who will teach you how to walk free from the
bondage of sin.) They
said to Lot, "We will do worse things to you than to them."
They started pushing him back and were ready to break down the door.
10.
But the two men staying with Lot opened the door, pulled him back
inside the house, and then closed the door.
11.
They struck those outside the door with blindness, so the men, both
young and old, could not find the door.
12.
The two men said to Lot, "Do you have any other relatives in
this city? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or any other
relatives? If you do, tell them to leave now,
13.
because we are about to destroy this city. The Lord has heard of all
the evil that is here, so he has sent us to destroy it."
14.
So Lot went out and said to his future sons-in-law who were pledged
to marry his daughters, "Hurry and leave this city! The
Lord is about to destroy it!" But they thought Lot was
joking. (This
study that is written to WARN you of God's coming judgment is NO
JOKING matter. Jesus WARNED us that just as God DESTROYED all the
wicked in Sodom and Gomorrah so likewise will he once again destroy
the wicked of today.)
15.
At dawn the next morning, the angels begged Lot to hurry. They said,
"Go! Take your wife and your two daughters with you so you will
not be destroyed when the city is punished."
16.
But Lot delayed. So the two men took the hands of Lot, his wife, and
his two daughters and led them safely out of the city. So the Lord
was merciful to Lot and his family.
17.
After they brought them out of the city, one of the men said, "Run
for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Run
to the mountains, or you will be destroyed."
18.
But Lot said to one of them, "Sir, please don't force me to go
so far!
19.
You have been merciful and kind to me and have saved my life. But I
can't run to the mountains. The disaster will catch me, and I will
die.
20.
Look, that little town over there is not too far away. Let me run
there. It's really just a little town, and I'll be safe there."
21.
The angel said to Lot, "Very well, I will allow you to do this
also. I will not destroy that town.
22.
But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are
safely in that town." (That town is named Zoar, because it is
little.)
23.
The sun had already come up when Lot entered Zoar.
24.
The Lord sent a rain of burning sulfur down from the sky on Sodom and
Gomorrah
25.
and destroyed those cities. He also destroyed the whole Jordan
Valley, everyone living in the cities, and even all the plants.
26.
At that point Lot's wife looked back. When she did, she became a
pillar of salt. (Now
some interpret Lot's wife LOOKING BACK to those Christians who look
back desiring their old lifestyle of sin and wanting to turn back to
living that way once again. Yes there is no doubt that we all deal
with the temptations of some parts of our old lifestyle when we once
lived in sin, but the danger comes when we continually dwell on these
thoughts that we run the risk of falling back into sin. This is why
we are warned not to look back, as in desiring to return to our old
lifestyle of sin.)
27.
Early the next morning, Abraham got up and went to the place where he
had stood before the Lord.
28.
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the Jordan Valley
and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
29.
God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what
Abraham had asked. So God saved Lot's life, but he destroyed the city
where Lot had lived.”
Again
Jesus prophesied and WARNED not only us as Christians but also the
entire world that in the last days before his coming again to the
earth that the world would be like it was in the DAYS of Noah just
before Almighty God sent a flood to destroy the wicked from the
earth. And Jesus went on to say that the world would be like it was
in the DAYS of Lot or SODOM and Gomorrah just before Almighty God
rained down fire and brimstone to destroy the wicked in these and the
surrounding cities. In other words, Jesus was saying that just as
HOMOSEXUALITY grew worse and worse in the days of Lot and Sodom an
dthe wicked were destroyed for their wicked sexual sins so also shall
it be in the last day right before I come again to execute the
judgment of wrath of Almighty gd upon the wicked and to save the
righteous and those who repent of their sins and call upon the name
of the Lord. Please read Luke 17:16-33, which clearly teaches us that
Almighty God will spare only the righteous and those that call upon
the name of the Lord, but will destroy ALL the unrepentant of their
sins with his wrath of consuming fire.
“And
as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be ALSO in the days of the
Son of man.
They
did eat, they drank (in
other words, they “partied and got drunk” as a way of life),
they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that
Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed
them all. (in
other words, the ignored the preaching and warnings of Noah and
continued in their sins right up to the time that the flood sent as
a judgment from Almighty God destroyed ALL the wicked.)
28.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank,
they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
29.
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and
brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31.
In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in
the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in
the field, let him likewise not return back.
32. Remember
Lot's wife. (
Again some interpret this verse to mean that Lot's wife did not what
to leave Sodom and kept looking back at what she was giving up by
leaving the lifestyle that she desired and was turned into a pillar
of salt or LOST her life because she would not let go and trust God.)
33.
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever
shall lose his life shall preserve it.”
Verse
33 agrees with this interpretation about Lot's wife LOOKING BACK when
we understand that one way to view verse 33 is to see that it is
teaching us that if we lose or let go of the fleshly desires that the
enemy has deceived us into believing are our own desires and place
our trust in God and his word, then we shall preserve or save our
lives through his Son Jesus Christ. But if we seek to save or keep
living in our old lifestyle of sin, then we will lose our reward of
eternal life in the world to come. This pertains to all sin and not
just to the sin of living a homosexual lifestyle. But first a person
must come to the knowledge of the truth that what they are doing is
SIN in the eyes of Almighty God their creator. It is like the old
saying goes that no one can help and alcoholic until the alcoholic
himself comes to the place that he or she knows that they need HELP
to be set free from the bondage or addiction of alcohol.
Every
person struggles with their own personal sin so to speak. In other
words, some people struggle with the addiction of alcohol or drugs,
while other people cannot understand how anyone desires these harmful
vices. Other people fight against pornography or things like adultery
while others wonder why anyone would want to jeopardize their
relationship with their spouse by indulging in such things. The point
that I want to make is that no matter what your personal sin may be
the fight against it is just as real and difficult to fight to you.
So this study is NOT about condemning you because of your sin, but
rather to bring the LIGHT of God's word to you so that “the
word is very nigh unto you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that
you may do it.”as
Deuteronomy 30 teaches us. In other words, this study in God's word
is written for the purpose of helping you obtain eternal life in the
world to come and to keep you from living a life that will lead to
your destruction on the day of judgment.
So
then, if you are one that has already reached the point where you
yourself KNOW deep inside of you that what you are doing is wrong in
the eyes of Almighty God and you truly want to be set free from the
things you do, but no matter how hard you have tried in the past you
just cannot seem to break free, then please read the study that I
have entitled “HO TO LIVE YOUR LIFE FREE FROM SIN!” Now it may be
that you are still not convinced that homosexuality is wrong in any
way. If this is this case then I implore you to please keep reading.
You may even be a Christians who has unknowingly been deceived by the
enemy to believe that you were BORN a homosexual and that this is who
you are so therefore HOW could just loving someone is a sexual way
possibly be wrong.
First
of all I want you to understand that complacency to speak out against
sin of any kind has crept into many of the churches in the world
today even to the point and that this complacency has lead some to
search out for themselves verses in the Bible that some are now using
to try and EXCUSE sin. And it just so happens that homosexuality is
one of these sins that is becoming more and more accepted even by
some Christians in the world today. So some of the blame is to be
placed upon us as Christians who have for whatever reason made the
choice to become complacent and not warn others of the consequences
of their sin.
In
fact as I said before there are some websites and even churches that
use verses from the Bible to try and prove that homosexuality is not
a sin. There are even some church denominations have ordained men and
women to be pastors in their denomination. And this acceptance of sin
not being sin has caused some confusion among some to indulge in sin
when they most likely would not have done if the church was preaching
the TRUTH. So then, just because a person, a website or even an
entire church denomination uses verses from the Bible to TRY and
teach that homosexuality is NOT a sin does NOT mean that it is the
TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God. So again I assure you that
these teachers making the claim that homosexuality is not a sin
are FALSE teachers
and they are BLIND to the TRUTH of God's word. They have taken verses
OUT of CONTEXT in order to twist them to say what they want them to
say so that they can excuse their own sin of committing homosexual
acts of man having sex with men and woman having sex with women..
Please
read Romans 1:16-32, which CLEARLY and without a doubt teaches us
that all of mankind is without excuse and cannot claim that he of she
did not know God's will for their life o the day of judgment. And
more specifically that no one can say that homosexuality is NOT sin
in the eyes of Almighty God.
“For
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for (or
BECAUSE) it
is the POWER of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the
Jew first, and also to the Greek. (You
see my dear brothers and sister in our Lord Jesus Christ we should
not be timid or ashamed to speak out the truth of the gospel of Jesus
Christ to warn others of sin, because it is the very hearing of the
truth of God's word's that will bring LIGHT to the sinner that is
able to save all those who will listen and obey this wonderful good
news from God).
17.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith:
as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
18.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness; (We
as Christians must WARN thos living in sin of the wrath of God that
is coming upon all who do NOT repent of their sins to live a life
pleasing to God.)
19.
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God
has showed it unto them.
20.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are
clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his
eternal power and Godhead; so that they are WITHOUT EXCUSE: (But
even when the gospel has not been preached to them they still have NO
EXCUSE to deny the very existence of God who is teaching us all right
from wrong through of conscience.)
21.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and
their foolish heart was darkened.
22.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23.
And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and
creeping things.
24.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of
their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for
even their women did change the natural use into that which is
against nature:
27. And
likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned
in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is
unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error
which was meet.
28.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
convenient; (in
other words, they ignored their conscience because this knowledge of
God from right and wrong made them feel guilty of their action they
reasoned away these thoughts in their mind over and over until God
let them do what the devil deceived them into believing ways their
own desire.)
29.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit,
malignity; whisperers,
30.
Backbiters, haters of God, spiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of
evil things, disobedient to parents,
31.
Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful:
32.
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things
are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them
that do them.”
Now
those Christians who read the King James Bible know and understand
that verses 26 and 27 are speaking of the sin of committing
homosexual acts where men are having sex with other men and women are
having sex with other women, but for those of you who may have
trouble understanding the King James Version of the Bible here is
Romans 1 :18-28 from the New Century Version.
“God's
anger is shown from heaven against all the evil and wrong things
people do. By their own evil lives they hide the truth.
19.
God shows his anger because some knowledge of him has been made clear
to them. Yes, God has shown himself to them.
20.
There are things about him that people cannot see -- his eternal
power and all the things that make him God. But since the beginning
of the world those things have been easy to understand by what God
has made. So
people have NO EXCUSE for the bad things they do.
21.
They knew God, but they did not give glory to God or thank him. Their
thinking became useless. Their foolish minds were filled with
darkness.
22.
They said they were wise, but they became fools.
23.
They traded the glory of God who lives forever for the worship of
idols made to look like earthly people, birds, animals, and snakes.
24.
Because they did these things, God left them and let them go their
sinful way, wanting only to do evil. As a result, they became full of
sexual sin, using their bodies wrongly with each other.
25.
They traded the truth of God for a lie. They worshiped and served
what had been created instead of the God who created those things,
who should be praised forever. Amen.
26. Because
people did those things, God left them and let them do the shameful
things they wanted to do. Women stopped having natural sex and
started having sex with other women.
27. In
the same way, men stopped having natural sex and began wanting each
other. Men did shameful things with other men, and in their bodies
they received the punishment for those wrongs.
People
did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So
God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking
and to do things they should not do.”
This
passage of scripture leaves NO DOUBT to anyone seeking the TRUTH of
God's word that homosexual relationships are UNATURAL sexual
relationships that are sinful in the eyes of Almighty God our creator
and if those who are committing such sexual acts do not repent of
their sins and turn their lives over to Jesus Christ to live godly
lives they they shall perish in the eternal fire on the day of
judgment. The word of truth is very clear in teaching us that no
ungodliness shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. You see just
because and alcoholic does Not what to see or admit to the fact that
they have become a slave so to speak to alcohol does not take away
from the fact that they are indeed causing harm to themselves and the
ones around them who love them. Now for the sake of making a closer
comparison to God's word let us for the moment assume that to be an
alcoholic and a drunkard was ILLEGAL by our man made laws and was
punishable by death. If this were actually the case would not more
people who knew those who were indulging in alcohol do all that they
could do in order to HELP those people get free alcohol even though
the one's using alcohol saw absolutely nothing wrong with what they
were doing in their own eyes? Absolutely you would! So please
understand the INTENTION of what I am writing to you and that it is
to your GOOD.
Now
as I briefly mentioned earlier that some may say something like, “How
can God judge me of being a sinner if I was BORN as a homosexual?”,
but I assure you that no one is BORN to be a homosexual. This is a
lie from the enemy Satan the devil. Yes I understand that here are
some Christians who do in fact teach that all of mankind are BORN as
SINNERS and that we all have inherited a SINFUL NATURE because of the
original sin of Adam,but I assure you that these teachings are FALSE
and can be easily proven to be so when the WHOLE word of God is kept
I view. Please read the studies called “THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY”
and “THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN” for a deeper
understanding that none of mankind is BORN as a sinner. I
But
for now if you are honest with yourself any sin that you have
committed or may yet be thinking of committing always starts out in
the beginning by you resisted those sins in your mind. In other
words, your conscience, or those thoughts in your mind kept over and
over trying to get you NOT to do what another voice or thought in
your mind kept persistently trying to get you to do. You see, it was
you making the choice to keep on listening to the WRONG voice over
time that you came to enjoy listening MORE and more to the voice of
the enemy until this voice finally convinced you that what you were
thinking about doing would not be doing anything wrong. This is the
way that the devil deceives us into disobeying God's law that is
written in our CONSCIENCE even when a person has not yet come to be a
Christian. This is why God's word tells us that none of us have any
excuse for the sins that we have committed and that we all are guilty
before God. Please read Romans 2:14,15, which teaches us that even
while we were yet sinners we all still had aconscience that
we wrestled with thoughts in our heads that were coming from the
enemy Satan the devil. You see we ALL have a conscience even though
is seems that some people who have been corrupted by evil n longer
seem to have a conscience. They still do have a conscience, but they
have not obeyed if for so long that God gave them over to do whatever
they choose to do. Now I pearsonally believe that these people can be
reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ, but at the same time I also
realize that our time is short and therefore some of us are going to
be faced with some hard choices of how much time should we spend on
those who have so hardened their own hearts that God had no choice
but to turn them over to a reprobate mind so that they would become
even more hardened toward God even to the point of denying the very
existence of God.
Again
only God knows the heart of a person and it may bee that even though
it seems hopeless to us that person may be crying out for help on the
inside as they openly and boastfully proclaim that they are proud of
being a homosexual. The truth of the matter is that the release that
they felt when they gave into to the voice of the enemy that
deceiving them to believing that they were born to be gay and came
out openly and proclaimed themselves to be gay was the release from
that warring in their minds.
We
all at times want this war in our minds to STOP. That is to say that
our fleshly canal minds want the conviction of our actions to leave
us alone, but it truth our inner man never truly gives up, but rather
our flesh locks this voice away. You see, the choice some of us make
in order to get our conscience to shut up is just give into the
desire that only seems to be our own. We are deceived into thinking
that if we get away from God and his word and stop listening to other
that are telling us that we are sinning that this voice of conviction
will leave us alone for good and that this is truly what we want. We
all have reasoned away the guilt and conviction of our conscience at
times and have given into the temptation to sin. Yes, while giving
into sin on occasion is dangerous and should be avoided I am more so
focusing on the sins that some of us have reason in our minds that
are NOT sin in our own minds.
Now
some of you may be wondering if I myself am or ever was a homosexual
and the answer is no. However, this does not mean that I do not
understand what a homosexual is going through and how they came to
accept the lie of the enemy to proclaim that they are gay. You see,
even though I myself have never been tempted, deceived, or lied to by
the enemy that I am a homosexual I have none the less been tempted in
other areas. Again we as Christian have all gone through some
temptation from the enemy and most likely many of us have reasoned
away our conscience to that that which we knew deep inside was wrong
to do. And some of us continued to do these SAME sinful things over
and over until we came to a point where some of us tried to reason
that our actions was NOT a sin somehow.
I
myself fell into this trap or snare of the enemy in the area of
pornography. I share more about this addiction is some of my personal
testimony throughout the studies that I have written, but for now I
want those who have become convinced that your homosexual lifestyle
in not a sin to understand that any person can become convince that
any sin is not truly a sin. I was. And the sin that I was deceived
into believing was just my NATURE that I was BORN with was LUST. More
precisely I loved to have sex with my wife. Now some of you may be
thinking that loving to have sex with your own wife is not sin. And
yes you are correct except I let this love lead me back into the
pornography that I delved into when I was a youth and single. To make
a long story short I came to a place where I could no longer perform
and I used pornography to help me along rather than confront my wife
openly and honestly.
“For
when the Gentiles (the
heathen or sinners),
which have not the law (speaking
of the commandments of God), do
by NATURE the things contained in the law,
these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Which
show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience
also bearing witness, and their THOUGHTS the mean while accusing or
else excusing one another;)”
So
you see dear reader, we all have been born with a NATURE to do that
which is right in the eyes of Almighty God, and then over time the
enemy of God DECEIVED us into disobeying our CONSCIENCE that convicts
us of right and wrong. Then the more we obeyed this lying voice the
less and less our conscience bothered us. Eventual we became slaves
to the sins we were committing because they somehow seemed to become
our own desires and pleasures. In other words, we did not want to
retain God in our knowledge, because it reminded us that we were not
doing that which was pleasing in the eyes of God. We wanted to do our
own thing and had pleasure in doing them. Our thoughts EXCUSED our
actions. This pattern exist in no matter what your own personal sin
may have been or may yet be, but I assure you that the blood of Jesus
Christ has broken the power that the enemy once had over us. The
Bible teaches us that we have been made FREE from the bondage of sin
and that sin shall NOT have dominion over us who believe. Please read
the study called “HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE FREE FROM SIN” for a
deeper understand of how to overcome sin in your life.