The Bible forbids gay sex. But an earlier versn of the text permted .
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- LEVIC 18:22 – HOMOSEXUALY THE 21ST CENTURYPOSTED UNTEGORIZED ON OCTOBER 29THLEVIC 18:22: HOMOSEXUALY THE 21ST CENTURYBY BENJAM COPPLE LEVIC 18:22 READS LIKE THIS: “THOU SHALT NOT LIE WH MANKD, AS WH WOMANKD: IS ABOMATN” (KJV). NO TWELVE WORDS HAVE EVER BEEN AS MISUNRSTOOD OR MISED AS THE. TRADNALLY ED AS THE FOUNDATN FOR THE BIBLIL STANCE AGAST HOMOSEXUALY, THIS VERSE HAS BEEN ED TO JTIFY VLENT HATRED TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS, BUT ALSO TO JTIFY HATRED TOWARDS THOSE WHO TAKE A STAND AGAST HOMOSEXUALY. TODAY THIS VERSE IS CED WH CREASG EQUENCY AS A HURRINE OF POLIL AND SOCIAL ACTN SUPPORTG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BUFFETS OUR WORLD. AS THE LGBTQ MUNY AND S SUPPORTERS PH AGAST SOME OF OUR UNTRY’S MOST SACRED STUTNS, CHRISTIANS ARE BEG FORCED TO GO BACK AND STRICTLY FE THEIR STANCE ON THOSE STUTNS, ORR TO WEATHER THE OFFENSIVE THAT IS BEG BROUGHT AGAST THEM.THIS OFFENSIVE IS PECIALLY STRONG FOR THOSE WHO ARE WALKG THE LLEGE MP ACROSS THE NATN. SPECIAL TERT GROUPS KNOW THAT LLEG WIELD TREMENDO FLUENCE ON THE NEXT GENERATN OF AMERINS, SO THEY H THE PLAC HARD WH THEIR AGENDAS.THE LGBTQ MUNY IS NO EXCEPTN. COLLEGE CLASS ARE RIFE WH MATERIAL URGG STUNTS TO ACCEPT HOMOSEXUALY, BISEXUALY, AND GENR REFN AS NORMAL AND HEALTHY. CAMP FOMS ARE FULL OF DIVIDUALS PROCLAIMG THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF ANY SEXUAL PREFERENCE, AND NOUNCG ANYONE WHO WOULD DISAGREE AS A “BIGOT” OR “HOMOPHOBE.” FOR A CHRISTIAN STUNT WHO BELIEV THE BIBLIL POSN OF SEXUALY, THE LLEGE MP N APPEAR STIFLG AND HOSTILE. AN EXPLIC VERSE LIKE LEVIC 18:22 N PROVI SECURY THE FACE OF OPPOSN, IF UNRSTOOD RRECTLY; THE QUTN THAT NEEDS TO BE ASKED IS WHAT DO LEVIC 18:22 MEAN FOR TODAY?THE FIRST THG TO UNRSTAND ABOUT LEVIC 18:22 IS THAT IS A MANDMENT. GOD MAND HIS PEOPLE TO AVOID HOMOSEXUALY ALL S FORMS: “THOU SHALT NOT LIE WH MANKD, AS WH WOMANKD.” THIS MANDMENT IS LE WH ALL THE OTHER “THOU-SHALTS” AND “THOU-SHALT-NOTS” THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. THERE IS NOTHG TO SUGGT THAT GOD TEEMS THIS MANDMENT ANY LOWER THAN HIS FIRST TEN.J SHOWED THAT THE FIRST TEN MANDMENTS ARE NOT HERENTLY ANY MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHERS WHEN HE PLACED THE MANDMENT, “THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF,” (LEV. 19:18) BEFORE NE OF THE OTHERS, SEND ONLY TO THE FIRST MANDMENT, “THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WH ALL THY HEART, AND WH ALL THY SOUL, AND WH ALL THY MD, AND WH ALL THY STRENGTH” (MARK 12:28-31). THE SEND HALF OF LEVIC 18:22 LLS HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR “AN ABOMATN.” AN ABOMATN IS SOMETHG THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST. TH, LEVIC 18:22 CLEARLY STAT GOD’S FEELGS ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR: SHOULD NOT EXIST.FOR SUCH A STRAIGHTFORWARD VERSE, IS SURPRISG HOW MANY PEOPLE TRY TO EXPLA AWAY AS SIMPLY A REGULATN UNR THE LAW OF MOS, OR AN OLD LE THAT CHRISTIANS ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO OBEY. WHILE IS TE THAT THE ATH AND RURRECTN OF J MA THE OLR LAW OF MOS NO LONGER NECSARY, THERE IS A DISTCT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE REGULATNS OF THE LAW, AND THE MORAL UPON WHICH WAS BUILT. THE APOSTLE PL REFERRED TO THE TWO THGS AS THE “LETTER” AND “SPIR” OF THE LAW (ROMANS 2:27, 7:6, II COR. 3:6). THE LETTER OF THE LAW REFERS TO THE REGULATNS THAT NO LONGER HAVE TO BE FOLLOWED BEE THEIR PURPOSE WAS FULFILLED BY J, BUT THE SPIR OF THE LAW – WHAT’S RIGHT AND WHAT’S WRONG – REFERS TO A MORAL BASIS UPON WHICH GOD OPERAT AND DO NOT CHANGE.PL SPENT MUCH OF HIS TIME EXPLAG THIS NCEPT TO THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH. IN GALATIANS 3:24 HE LLS THE LAW A “SCHOOLMASTER” OR TEACHER, TO BRG PEOPLE TO CHRIST, SO THAT THEY N THEN BE JTIFIED BY FAH. THE LAW WAS TEND TO TEACH RIGHT OM WRONG SO THAT FAH J WOULD NOT BE VOID BY SFUL ACTNS. IF J HAD DIED FOR EVERYONE’S SS, YET NEVER FED WHAT S WAS, HIS ATH WOULD HAVE BEEN MEANGLS BEE NO ONE WOULD KNOW HOW TO STOP SNG. PL FURTHER CLARIFI THIS THE THIRD CHAPTER OF ROMANS. HE WR “THEREFORE WE NCLU THAT A MAN IS JTIFIED BY FAH WHOUT THE EDS OF THE LAW… DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAH? GOD FORBID: YEA, WE TABLISH THE LAW” (EMPHASIS ADD).TE FAH J CHRIST, WHICH CLUS FAH THE REMPTIVE POWER OF HIS BLOOD AS APPLIED THROUGH WATER BAPTISM, TABLISH THE SPIR OF THE LAW, MAKG THE EDS OF THE LAW NO LONGER NECSARY. BY APPLYG THE NCEPTS TO LEVIC 18:22, IS OBV THAT THE SPIR OF THIS REGULATN IS THAT GOD DO NOT WANT HIS PEOPLE TO PRACTICE HOMOSEXUALY; THE ED OF THIS LAW, AS OUTLED LEVIC 20:13, IS THAT ANYONE WHO PRACTIC HOMOSEXUALY IS TO BE PUT TO ATH. THE SACRIFICE OF J MEANS THAT HOMOSEXUALS NO LONGER MT TO BE PUT TO ATH, BEE THE REMPTIVE POWER OF HIS BLOOD MEANS THAT THEIR S N BE WASHED AWAY.PL MONSTRAT HIS UNRSTANDG OF THIS I CORTHIANS 6:9, WHERE HE NMNS HOMOSEXUALY, AMONG OTHER SS, BUT THEN, VERSE ELEVEN, WR, “AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU: BUT YE ARE WASHED, BUT YE ARE SANCTIFIED, BUT YE ARE JTIFIED THE NAME OF THE LORD J, AND BY THE SPIR OF GOD.” HIS MEANG IS CLEAR: GOD SAV OM THE S OF HOMOSEXUALY, BUT HIS MORAL MAND AGAST IS STILL EFFECT.THIS SWORD CUTS BOTH WAYS. IF WE AS CHRISTIANS ARE NO LONGER BOUND BY THE LETTER OF THE LAW, WE ARE ALSO NO LONGER ABLE TO E THE LAW TO JUDGE. LEVIC 20:13 GIV THE ATH PENALTY AS PUNISHMENT FOR THE S OF HOMOSEXUALY. BUT THE SACRIFICE OF J PAID THE PRICE FOR OUR SS, LIFTG OUT OM UNR THE LAW AND MAKG SUCH PUNISHMENTS NO LONGER NECSARY. THEREFORE, NO HUMAN BEG HAS THE MORAL THORY TO JUDGE OR PUNISH ANYONE ELSE FOR THE S OF HOMOSEXUALY, EXCEPT J CHRIST. THIS MEANS THAT THE HATEFUL AND VLENT ACTS THAT HAVE BEEN MTED AGAST HOMOSEXUALS ARE WRONG, AND THE DIVIDUALS THAT PERPETRATE THEM ARE TWISTG THE WORD OF GOD TO F THEIR OWN SFUL VIEWS.THE BIBLE HAS MANY HARSH JUDGEMENTS FOR THOSE SORTS OF PEOPLE (JU 1:4-8, II PETER 3:16). TO TAKE THE PLACE OF J – THE ONLY ONE WORTHY TO JUDGE THE SS OF THE WORLD – IS VERY DANGERO, FOR AS THE SCRIPTUR SAY, “HE IS A JEALO GOD,” AND WILL SHARE HIS POWER AND THORY WH NO ONE (EX. 34:14). EVEN AS HEIRS TO HIS KGDOM, CHRISTIANS HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE OR PUNISH ANYONE, REGARDLS OF THE S.FURTHERMORE, J STUTED A HIGHER MANDMENT WHEN HE SAID, “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. THERE IS NO OTHER MANDMENT GREATER THAN THE.” J LLED TO LOVE EVERYONE – SATS, SNERS, LIARS, CHEATER, MURRERS, AND HOMOSEXUALS. LOVG THE SNER DON’T MEAN THAT WE HAVE TO LOVE THE S. IN FACT, ONE OF THE PURPOS OF THE CHURCH IS TO JUDGE S, AND TO POT OUT SO OTHERS N SEE AND AVOID . BUT WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO JUDGE THE SNER – THE WORD OF GOD ALREADY DO THAT. WHEN PEOPLE PERSECUTE HOMOSEXUALS, AND ATTEMPT TO PUNISH THEM THROUGH UNKDNS, HATRED, OR VLENCE, THEY BREAK GOD’S LAW JT AS MUCH AS ANY SNER. PL SAID THAT THE WAG OF ALL S IS ATH (ROMANS 6:23), AND THAT ALL HAVE SNED (ROMANS 3:23), MEANG EVERYONE SERV ATH. BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD WE DO NOT HAVE TO DIE, AND N REPENT OF OUR SS TO GA ETERNAL LIFE.HOWEVER, ’S HARD TO PUT THIS PRCIPLE OF LOVE TO PRACTICE, PECIALLY WHEN THOSE ON THE OTHER SI ARE SO AGGRSIVE. THOUGH WE SHOULD BE KD TO EVERYONE, ’S GETTG HARR AND HARR TO STAND UP FOR THE BIBLIL FN OF SEXUALY. CHRISTIANS ARE AAID OF BEG SUED, OR OF LOSG THEIR JOBS, OR OF BEG RIDICULED BY THEIR PEERS. YET SUPPORTERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY ARE BEG CREASGLY BOLR PROMOTG THEIR AGENDAS. IT PERMEAT OUR TN, MEDIA, AND ENTERTAMENT. ONE OF THE GAY MUNY’S BIGGT ADVOT IS BRISH ACTOR SIR IAN MCKELLEN, AN OPENLY GAY MAN WHO HAS PORTRAYED SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST INIC CHARACTERS ON FILM AND ON STAGE. IN AN TERVIEW WH TIME MAGAZE HE SAID THAT WHEN HE STAYS HOTELS, HE RIPS THE PAG THAT NTA LEVIC 18:22 OUT OF THE BEDSI BIBLE.* CLEARLY, MCKELLEN AND OTHERS LIKE HIM ARE NOT SHY ABOUT STANDG FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE.SO, THEN WHAT ARE WE TO DO? WE MT NTUE TO STAND FOR WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, NO MATTER THE ST, AND WE MT NTUE TO RIST THE RISE OF WHAT THE BIBLE LLS S. DTERONOMY 7:26 SAYS NOT EVEN TO ALLOW AN ABOMATN TO YOUR HOE. BUT WE MT REMEMBER THAT THE S IS AN ABOMATN, NOT THE SNER. WE MT NTUE TO SHOW THE LOVE OF J TO ALL HIS CHILDREN, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, OR WHAT SHAPE THEY ARE . LET’S NTUE TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL TO EVERYONE WHO WILL LISTEN, AND PRAY THAT THEY WILL HEAR , TURN OM THEIR WAYS AND SEEK THE FACE OF GOD. LET’S NTUE TO BE TE CHRISTIANS, THIS WORLD, BUT NOT OF . *LBE, BELDA. “10 QUTNS FOR IAN MCKELLEN.” TIME, VOL. 180, ISSUE 26 (2012): P. 62. NEWT ROURC OBEDIENCE IS NOT CONVENIENT
- FAH & RELIGN: HOW TO UNTER ANTI-GAY RELIG ARGUMENTS
- LEVIC RISG: THE ORIG OF UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY LAW
LEVIC 18:22 – HOMOSEXUALY THE 21ST CENTURYPOSTED UNTEGORIZED ON OCTOBER 29THLEVIC 18:22: HOMOSEXUALY THE 21ST CENTURYBY BENJAM COPPLE LEVIC 18:22 READS LIKE THIS: “THOU SHALT NOT LIE WH MANKD, AS WH WOMANKD: IS ABOMATN” (KJV). NO TWELVE WORDS HAVE EVER BEEN AS MISUNRSTOOD OR MISED AS THE. TRADNALLY ED AS THE FOUNDATN FOR THE BIBLIL STANCE AGAST HOMOSEXUALY, THIS VERSE HAS BEEN ED TO JTIFY VLENT HATRED TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS, BUT ALSO TO JTIFY HATRED TOWARDS THOSE WHO TAKE A STAND AGAST HOMOSEXUALY. TODAY THIS VERSE IS CED WH CREASG EQUENCY AS A HURRINE OF POLIL AND SOCIAL ACTN SUPPORTG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BUFFETS OUR WORLD. AS THE LGBTQ MUNY AND S SUPPORTERS PH AGAST SOME OF OUR UNTRY’S MOST SACRED STUTNS, CHRISTIANS ARE BEG FORCED TO GO BACK AND STRICTLY FE THEIR STANCE ON THOSE STUTNS, ORR TO WEATHER THE OFFENSIVE THAT IS BEG BROUGHT AGAST THEM.THIS OFFENSIVE IS PECIALLY STRONG FOR THOSE WHO ARE WALKG THE LLEGE MP ACROSS THE NATN. SPECIAL TERT GROUPS KNOW THAT LLEG WIELD TREMENDO FLUENCE ON THE NEXT GENERATN OF AMERINS, SO THEY H THE PLAC HARD WH THEIR AGENDAS.THE LGBTQ MUNY IS NO EXCEPTN. COLLEGE CLASS ARE RIFE WH MATERIAL URGG STUNTS TO ACCEPT HOMOSEXUALY, BISEXUALY, AND GENR REFN AS NORMAL AND HEALTHY. CAMP FOMS ARE FULL OF DIVIDUALS PROCLAIMG THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF ANY SEXUAL PREFERENCE, AND NOUNCG ANYONE WHO WOULD DISAGREE AS A “BIGOT” OR “HOMOPHOBE.” FOR A CHRISTIAN STUNT WHO BELIEV THE BIBLIL POSN OF SEXUALY, THE LLEGE MP N APPEAR STIFLG AND HOSTILE. AN EXPLIC VERSE LIKE LEVIC 18:22 N PROVI SECURY THE FACE OF OPPOSN, IF UNRSTOOD RRECTLY; THE QUTN THAT NEEDS TO BE ASKED IS WHAT DO LEVIC 18:22 MEAN FOR TODAY?THE FIRST THG TO UNRSTAND ABOUT LEVIC 18:22 IS THAT IS A MANDMENT. GOD MAND HIS PEOPLE TO AVOID HOMOSEXUALY ALL S FORMS: “THOU SHALT NOT LIE WH MANKD, AS WH WOMANKD.” THIS MANDMENT IS LE WH ALL THE OTHER “THOU-SHALTS” AND “THOU-SHALT-NOTS” THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. THERE IS NOTHG TO SUGGT THAT GOD TEEMS THIS MANDMENT ANY LOWER THAN HIS FIRST TEN.J SHOWED THAT THE FIRST TEN MANDMENTS ARE NOT HERENTLY ANY MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHERS WHEN HE PLACED THE MANDMENT, “THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF,” (LEV. 19:18) BEFORE NE OF THE OTHERS, SEND ONLY TO THE FIRST MANDMENT, “THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WH ALL THY HEART, AND WH ALL THY SOUL, AND WH ALL THY MD, AND WH ALL THY STRENGTH” (MARK 12:28-31). THE SEND HALF OF LEVIC 18:22 LLS HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR “AN ABOMATN.” AN ABOMATN IS SOMETHG THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST. TH, LEVIC 18:22 CLEARLY STAT GOD’S FEELGS ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR: SHOULD NOT EXIST.FOR SUCH A STRAIGHTFORWARD VERSE, IS SURPRISG HOW MANY PEOPLE TRY TO EXPLA AWAY AS SIMPLY A REGULATN UNR THE LAW OF MOS, OR AN OLD LE THAT CHRISTIANS ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO OBEY. WHILE IS TE THAT THE ATH AND RURRECTN OF J MA THE OLR LAW OF MOS NO LONGER NECSARY, THERE IS A DISTCT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE REGULATNS OF THE LAW, AND THE MORAL UPON WHICH WAS BUILT. THE APOSTLE PL REFERRED TO THE TWO THGS AS THE “LETTER” AND “SPIR” OF THE LAW (ROMANS 2:27, 7:6, II COR. 3:6). THE LETTER OF THE LAW REFERS TO THE REGULATNS THAT NO LONGER HAVE TO BE FOLLOWED BEE THEIR PURPOSE WAS FULFILLED BY J, BUT THE SPIR OF THE LAW – WHAT’S RIGHT AND WHAT’S WRONG – REFERS TO A MORAL BASIS UPON WHICH GOD OPERAT AND DO NOT CHANGE.PL SPENT MUCH OF HIS TIME EXPLAG THIS NCEPT TO THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH. IN GALATIANS 3:24 HE LLS THE LAW A “SCHOOLMASTER” OR TEACHER, TO BRG PEOPLE TO CHRIST, SO THAT THEY N THEN BE JTIFIED BY FAH. THE LAW WAS TEND TO TEACH RIGHT OM WRONG SO THAT FAH J WOULD NOT BE VOID BY SFUL ACTNS. IF J HAD DIED FOR EVERYONE’S SS, YET NEVER FED WHAT S WAS, HIS ATH WOULD HAVE BEEN MEANGLS BEE NO ONE WOULD KNOW HOW TO STOP SNG. PL FURTHER CLARIFI THIS THE THIRD CHAPTER OF ROMANS. HE WR “THEREFORE WE NCLU THAT A MAN IS JTIFIED BY FAH WHOUT THE EDS OF THE LAW… DO WE THEN MAKE VOID THE LAW THROUGH FAH? GOD FORBID: YEA, WE TABLISH THE LAW” (EMPHASIS ADD).TE FAH J CHRIST, WHICH CLUS FAH THE REMPTIVE POWER OF HIS BLOOD AS APPLIED THROUGH WATER BAPTISM, TABLISH THE SPIR OF THE LAW, MAKG THE EDS OF THE LAW NO LONGER NECSARY. BY APPLYG THE NCEPTS TO LEVIC 18:22, IS OBV THAT THE SPIR OF THIS REGULATN IS THAT GOD DO NOT WANT HIS PEOPLE TO PRACTICE HOMOSEXUALY; THE ED OF THIS LAW, AS OUTLED LEVIC 20:13, IS THAT ANYONE WHO PRACTIC HOMOSEXUALY IS TO BE PUT TO ATH. THE SACRIFICE OF J MEANS THAT HOMOSEXUALS NO LONGER MT TO BE PUT TO ATH, BEE THE REMPTIVE POWER OF HIS BLOOD MEANS THAT THEIR S N BE WASHED AWAY.PL MONSTRAT HIS UNRSTANDG OF THIS I CORTHIANS 6:9, WHERE HE NMNS HOMOSEXUALY, AMONG OTHER SS, BUT THEN, VERSE ELEVEN, WR, “AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU: BUT YE ARE WASHED, BUT YE ARE SANCTIFIED, BUT YE ARE JTIFIED THE NAME OF THE LORD J, AND BY THE SPIR OF GOD.” HIS MEANG IS CLEAR: GOD SAV OM THE S OF HOMOSEXUALY, BUT HIS MORAL MAND AGAST IS STILL EFFECT.THIS SWORD CUTS BOTH WAYS. IF WE AS CHRISTIANS ARE NO LONGER BOUND BY THE LETTER OF THE LAW, WE ARE ALSO NO LONGER ABLE TO E THE LAW TO JUDGE. LEVIC 20:13 GIV THE ATH PENALTY AS PUNISHMENT FOR THE S OF HOMOSEXUALY. BUT THE SACRIFICE OF J PAID THE PRICE FOR OUR SS, LIFTG OUT OM UNR THE LAW AND MAKG SUCH PUNISHMENTS NO LONGER NECSARY. THEREFORE, NO HUMAN BEG HAS THE MORAL THORY TO JUDGE OR PUNISH ANYONE ELSE FOR THE S OF HOMOSEXUALY, EXCEPT J CHRIST. THIS MEANS THAT THE HATEFUL AND VLENT ACTS THAT HAVE BEEN MTED AGAST HOMOSEXUALS ARE WRONG, AND THE DIVIDUALS THAT PERPETRATE THEM ARE TWISTG THE WORD OF GOD TO F THEIR OWN SFUL VIEWS.THE BIBLE HAS MANY HARSH JUDGEMENTS FOR THOSE SORTS OF PEOPLE (JU 1:4-8, II PETER 3:16). TO TAKE THE PLACE OF J – THE ONLY ONE WORTHY TO JUDGE THE SS OF THE WORLD – IS VERY DANGERO, FOR AS THE SCRIPTUR SAY, “HE IS A JEALO GOD,” AND WILL SHARE HIS POWER AND THORY WH NO ONE (EX. 34:14). EVEN AS HEIRS TO HIS KGDOM, CHRISTIANS HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE OR PUNISH ANYONE, REGARDLS OF THE S.FURTHERMORE, J STUTED A HIGHER MANDMENT WHEN HE SAID, “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. THERE IS NO OTHER MANDMENT GREATER THAN THE.” J LLED TO LOVE EVERYONE – SATS, SNERS, LIARS, CHEATER, MURRERS, AND HOMOSEXUALS. LOVG THE SNER DON’T MEAN THAT WE HAVE TO LOVE THE S. IN FACT, ONE OF THE PURPOS OF THE CHURCH IS TO JUDGE S, AND TO POT OUT SO OTHERS N SEE AND AVOID . BUT WE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO JUDGE THE SNER – THE WORD OF GOD ALREADY DO THAT. WHEN PEOPLE PERSECUTE HOMOSEXUALS, AND ATTEMPT TO PUNISH THEM THROUGH UNKDNS, HATRED, OR VLENCE, THEY BREAK GOD’S LAW JT AS MUCH AS ANY SNER. PL SAID THAT THE WAG OF ALL S IS ATH (ROMANS 6:23), AND THAT ALL HAVE SNED (ROMANS 3:23), MEANG EVERYONE SERV ATH. BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD WE DO NOT HAVE TO DIE, AND N REPENT OF OUR SS TO GA ETERNAL LIFE.HOWEVER, ’S HARD TO PUT THIS PRCIPLE OF LOVE TO PRACTICE, PECIALLY WHEN THOSE ON THE OTHER SI ARE SO AGGRSIVE. THOUGH WE SHOULD BE KD TO EVERYONE, ’S GETTG HARR AND HARR TO STAND UP FOR THE BIBLIL FN OF SEXUALY. CHRISTIANS ARE AAID OF BEG SUED, OR OF LOSG THEIR JOBS, OR OF BEG RIDICULED BY THEIR PEERS. YET SUPPORTERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY ARE BEG CREASGLY BOLR PROMOTG THEIR AGENDAS. IT PERMEAT OUR TN, MEDIA, AND ENTERTAMENT. ONE OF THE GAY MUNY’S BIGGT ADVOT IS BRISH ACTOR SIR IAN MCKELLEN, AN OPENLY GAY MAN WHO HAS PORTRAYED SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST INIC CHARACTERS ON FILM AND ON STAGE. IN AN TERVIEW WH TIME MAGAZE HE SAID THAT WHEN HE STAYS HOTELS, HE RIPS THE PAG THAT NTA LEVIC 18:22 OUT OF THE BEDSI BIBLE.* CLEARLY, MCKELLEN AND OTHERS LIKE HIM ARE NOT SHY ABOUT STANDG FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE.SO, THEN WHAT ARE WE TO DO? WE MT NTUE TO STAND FOR WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, NO MATTER THE ST, AND WE MT NTUE TO RIST THE RISE OF WHAT THE BIBLE LLS S. DTERONOMY 7:26 SAYS NOT EVEN TO ALLOW AN ABOMATN TO YOUR HOE. BUT WE MT REMEMBER THAT THE S IS AN ABOMATN, NOT THE SNER. WE MT NTUE TO SHOW THE LOVE OF J TO ALL HIS CHILDREN, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, OR WHAT SHAPE THEY ARE . LET’S NTUE TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL TO EVERYONE WHO WILL LISTEN, AND PRAY THAT THEY WILL HEAR , TURN OM THEIR WAYS AND SEEK THE FACE OF GOD. LET’S NTUE TO BE TE CHRISTIANS, THIS WORLD, BUT NOT OF . *LBE, BELDA. “10 QUTNS FOR IAN MCKELLEN.” TIME, VOL. 180, ISSUE 26 (2012): P. 62. NEWT ROURC OBEDIENCE IS NOT CONVENIENT
* anti gay leviticus *
Dershowz is a biblil 21, ChaseNo text has had a greater fluence on attus toward gay people than the biblil book of Levic, which prohibs sex between men. Once the new gloss were add to the text, the prohibns Levic agast ct no longer outlawed any same-sex uplgs; only heterosexual pairs were a later edor of Levic opposed homosexual terurse, you might wonr, wouldn’t have ma more sense for him (and was probably a him) to leave the origal bans on homosexual ct tact? For example, a sign clarg an office to be closed on Sundays suggts that the office is open on all other days of the, apply this prciple to Levic 18: A law clarg that homosexual ct is prohibed uld reasonably be taken to dite that non-ctuo homosexual terurse is permted.
By the same token, ’s not necsary to stipulate that sex between two specific men is forbidn if a tegoril prohibn agast sex between men is already on the seems that wh the later troductn Levic of a law banng all male homosexual terurse, beme expedient to brg the earlier material up-to-date by dog away wh two now-superfluo junctns agast homosexual ct — junctns that ma sense when sex between men was otherwise edor’s cisn to ntralize old laws by wrg new gloss, stead of letg the laws altogether, is serendipo: He left behd jt enough clu for his handiwork to be n only image how different the history of civilizatn might have been had the earlier versn of Levic 18’s laws entered the biblil non.
Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah. Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex.
FAH & RELIGN: HOW TO UNTER ANTI-GAY RELIG ARGUMENTS
Timothy Shirley served as senr pastor of Virgia-Highland Baptist Church Atlanta, Ga., 1999 when the Geia Baptist Conventn voted overwhelmgly to expel his church and Oakhurst Baptist Church of Detur, Ga., for not nmng homosexualy. It marked the first such expulsns the nventn’s 177-year history and followed mov by the nventn to alter s nstutn to prohib and exclu ngregatns that “affirm, approve or endorse homosexual behavr. It mak no more sense to nmn Christians who are gay as practisg abomatn than do Christians who sport tattoos, wear mixed fibr, or eat ham and chee sandwich.
However, he argu that as this would be the most acceptable ntext for male-male terurse, banng cultic prostutn would be to ban all homosexual practice. When people say, “The Bible nmns homosexualy throughout the Bible, both the Old and New Ttaments, ” God the Righteo Judge would throw the se of the accers out of urt. Levic 18:22: Homosexualy the 21st Centuryby Benjam CoppleLevic 18:22 reads like this: “Thou shalt not lie wh mankd, as wh womankd: is abomatn” (KJV).
Tradnally ed as the foundatn for the biblil stance agast homosexualy, this verse has been ed to jtify vlent hatred towards homosexuals, but also to jtify hatred towards those who take a stand agast homosexualy.
LEVIC RISG: THE ORIG OF UGANDA’S ANTI-GAY LAW
Camp foms are full of dividuals proclaimg their acceptance of any sexual preference, and nouncg anyone who would disagree as a “bigot” or “homophobe. Th, Levic 18:22 clearly stat God’s feelgs about homosexual behavr: should not such a straightforward verse, is surprisg how many people try to expla away as simply a regulatn unr the Law of Mos, or an old le that Christians are no longer required to obey.