RE: There it is again - a compromise has to be made to what accommodate something that is unnatural. a man has a penis and a woman has a vagina that is what is natural. God intended humans to procreate.
I agree. That really is a problem because whether we like it or not ( and I do not like it ), America has CHANGED.
No matter, even if we badly want to , we cannot MAKE MEN MORAL, even by passing laws. It has to come by inner change and persuasion.
Let’s take God Himself as an example. The Bible clearly tells us that He hates divorce (see: Malachi 2:16 )
Jesus even taught: “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Knowing this, Someone once asked Jesus (in Matthew 19:7 ):
“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.”
So, if Moses and Jesus recognizes this reality of the HARDNESS OF MEN’s hearts and allowed laws that catered to this, I guess we as Christians have no choice but to recognize this same reality today when it comes to homosexuality.
We cannot change people other than to exemplify morality ourselves and courageously tell the truth.
But we cannot do the latter if we are being persecuted in a supposedly free country whose founding document PROTECTS the free exercise of religion.
So, we can compromise, just as Moses did in regards to divorce laws, while at the same time PROTECTING our own rights NOT to condone it in word and deed.
We do not have permission to be more generous than what God has allowed. He has permitted divorce, under certain limited circumstances. But He has done nothing that suggests we should cooperate with perversion. If a man and a goat wanted a marriage licence, and had the backing of the Supreme Court, what then? Where is our red line?
Peace,
SR