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The
Homosexualization of America
"So what's wrong with being gay,
anyway? It's my sexual preference. What difference does it make? Didn't God
make us the way we are?"
So many have struggled with homosexual desires
that today there's a growing confusion as to whether or not its wrong, and
whether a person can really be free from it all.
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Where do we
look for answers?
There are a lot of "experts" who
seem to come up with a new "answer" every day, but in order to get the
unchanging truth, we need to look into the Manufacturer's Manual - the Bible.
God has made each one of us in a special way, "custom designed"
really. In fact, He holds the only patent on the human race. So if anyone knows
how we're supposed to work the best ... He does! And to show us the right way
to live, He has given us the Bible - the most printed and read book in the
world.
To keep us from destroying ourselves and each other, God set up
certain laws. It's because He really cares about us that He did this. God isn't
some kind of kill-joy trying to prevent anyone from having any fun, rather, His
laws are to enable us to get the maximum out of life. His rules aren't a bunch
of arbitrary "does and don'ts" either. They all make total sense. God wants us
to be filled with real happiness, and through the Bible He shows us the way to
life, and the way to death.
Just about everyone recognizes the fact
that murder is wrong. We don't think it's wrong because there's a law against
it, rather, we made laws because it was wrong. If you said, "Hey, I don't like
this law of gravity. It's too confining. I want to be free..." and proceeded to
step out of a 10th. floor window-you'd end up destroying yourself (and maybe
someone else too!). The law of gravity only recognizes reality. In the same
way, the laws of principles that God has given us in the Bible only show us the
way things really are.
America as a whole is decidedly ignorant of even
the most basic truths of the Scriptures. Tom Hanks' comments at the 1994
Academy Awards are a perfect example. On the verge of tears, he paid tribute to
those homosexuals who have died of AIDS, declaring them to be now "angels in
heaven," affirming their position of security in the arms of a loving and
beneficent God. When active, practicing homosexuals die, do they indeed go into
the hands of a loving God who will transform them into angels? I'm afraid Mr.
Hanks is getting his theology more from the TV series Highway To Heaven, rather
than from the inspired Scriptures.
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Did God make
some homosexual?
God makes it clear
that He never intended men and women to be homosexual, and He also makes it
clear that those who practice these things cannot be at peace with Him or even
at peace with themselves. Homosexuality is not an alternative lifestyle, rather
it is sin. He told us a long time ago...
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Don't fool yourselves. Those who live immoral lives, who are
idol worshipers, adulterers, or homosexuals - will have no share in His
kingdom. [1 Cor. 6:9-10 LB] |
And again He warns
us...
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The penalty for homosexual acts is death to both parties.
[Lev.20:13 LB] |
Because of God's great love
towards us, He has given us these warnings for our own good and they must be
obeyed even as we must obey the laws of the land or be punished.
God
has clearly spoken against the sin of homosexuality because it is contrary to
His design for human reproduction and to protect people from disease. Man
refuses God's Word because it's not what he wants to hear and as a result
tragically reaps the consequences.
I find it amazing how children
understand God better than most intellectuals and scholars do. One child
recently asked "If men are married to men, how can they make babies?" It seems
as though homosexuals forget that they are here alive as a result of sex
between a man and a woman!
Jesus said that He came to bring us life.
Remember, He's the One who designed you. He promises us that if we walk with
Him, following His good directions and commands, we'll have real happiness and
there will be peace in our hearts. But He also promises that if we think we
know better, and push away from Him to follow our selfishness, the exact
opposite will happen to us. The tremendous spread of
disease among homosexuals and immoral straights would not exist if we
listened to the instructions of God, which are for our own protection, good and
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Reimaging God
in our image
The view is being
advanced that God should concur with whatever we decide makes us feel good. The
Gay religious leaders imply this, without exception, in their articles,
interviews and pleadings. This is their concept of God; that He is really our
servant, and He should condone and concur with whatever way of life we decide
makes us feel good. God, in their view, functions as a YES-MAN. Instead of
telling us what is best and right, we figure that out to suit our own desires,
then He is expected to accept us.
The same Scriptures that condemn
homosexuality and premarital heterosexuality also tell us to accept those who
are in violation of these ordinances. Jesus was more compassionate toward the
woman caught in the very act of intercourse - a capital offense in those days -
than He was the hypocrites in the church. This is our model and our mandate.
Even though we may never attempt to hurt or ridicule the individual homosexual,
we should be in sharp disagreement with the more radical elements of the
movement. The effort to redefine the family, quality for adoption, promote the
homosexual lifestyle in the schools, etc., are objectives with which we
disagree. And we should oppose them when the issues are raised. That does not
make us hatemongers.
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