when did Christ repeal anything? God is not in conflict with God. His death paid our sin debt, but if you don’t accept that Good News, you’re still under the Law, still dead in your sins.
The Law still is. And Thank God, so is the Gospel - ie the Good News.
Matthew 19 - 4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Man and woman, Christ said. Period.
Amen. I've sent a courtesy ping to a few stalwart FReepers for this excellent post and added "homosexualagenda" to the keywords. Take it from one who was in a gay marriage (happy and complete with God's Blessing of Joy) for over 40 years until my lovely wife died, I'm disgusted by all aspects of sodomy including the corruption of our language, taking a perfectly fine word and twisting it for their vile purposes.
I question whether such people that call God a liar can truly be Christian. Christ really didn’t stutter here:
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
That passage should terrify every apostate/heretic.
Christ did warn: Remember Lot’s wife. I doubt that there are many Christians that ever get taught about Lot’s wife. We have a majority who are not really all that interested in what Christ said.
do we have christians who defend murderers for murdering?
do we have christians who defend porn stars for being porn stars?
do we have christians who defend adulterers for being adulteraters?
do we have christians who defend rapists for being rapists?
do we have christians who defend alcoholics for being alcoholics?
do we have christians who defend gamblers for being gamblers?
do we have christians who defend thieves for being theives?
are they out there advocating for them, that they can’t help it, and we just hgave to accept them exactly the way they are, the way God made them?
are they out there marching in adultery parades for these people? are they advocating for equal rights for pedophiles because they can’t help who they “love”? are they for support groups in the schools to tell kids it’s okay to murder other people if you’re angry enough? are they for having alcoholics pride week celebrations that require everyone to embrace and celebrate the alcolholic lifestyle? are they opposed to any groups that try to get these people out of the murdering, thievery, porn, adultery lifestyles they are currently wallowing in?
why is homosexuality the only sin they defend? all the rest, they don’t. they refuse to believe what God’s Word says on homosexuality, that’s why. the reason(s) don’t matter.
i have sins i like, that appeal to me, more than others. i’m not out there trying to get approval from others. i don’ t run around trying to convince anyone the sins i like are not sin but are God-pleasing. i don’t have a parade to walk in and show off my sins. i am embarrased and ashamed of my sins, and that i have weaknesses for certain sins. i wait for the day those that appeal to me, will never appeal to me again. i can’t wait for the day there is no “old man” i have to fight each day.
homosexuality is sin. it’s sin lie any other sin, not to be approved of, celebrated, but avoided, shunned, and fought against.
Very few on here do that. Maybe 1 or 2. We know the truth
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law , or the prophets : I am not come to destroy , but to fulfil .
America has become a nation of fools. America is soon to be the next Sodom and Gomorrah.
Jesus condemns homosexuality and sexual immorality in Revelation 22. The term “dogs” used there by Jesus is the Jewish term for homosexuals.
Even if you’re an atheist who denies any relevance to any religious holding on homosexuality, there remains the fact that the primary purpose of every living organism on this planet is to reproduce.
Homosexual unions fail in this purpose.
No, don't tell me . . . that would be "un-American."
I understand that many believers may be naive about some things, but to not understand basic truth about law, sin and our standing in God through repentance is not in that category. Frankly, I’d be leery of anyone claiming faith in Christ and rejecting the clear Biblical authority in teaching our beliefs. In fact, I wouldn’t accept their profession of faith as a basis for fellowship.
More broadly, Jesus never altered God’s expression that humanity must behave in harmony with His Law, and one aspect of that Law relates to sexual conduct. If anything, Jesus elaborated on the intent of the Law because He instructed that not only must people not commit adultery, they must not allow sexual desire to rise to the level of living out the act in the privacy of the mind.
Later, in Revelation chapter 22 and verse 15, He revealed to John that no person who practices sexual immorality, as God defines it, will be granted salvation.
What part of Homosexual behavior is a sin is hard to understand?
Having said that, what human, secular, governments declare to be legal sends a message that a lot of people presume is a moral standard. They think that when government declares some behavior to no longer be a crime, that it becomes moral in God’s eyes. That could not be further from the truth.
Similarly, just because government presumes the power to declare two men or two women to be married that God approves of the new “family”. By God’s definition, they cannot be married and their domestic living arrangements and personal relationships are not a “family”, as God defines it.
Proponents of same-sex marriage can no more hide behind the institution of marriage than they can hide behind the Ten Commandments plaque that they insist must not be on any State property.
Paul, The Apostle to the Gentiles and his 'thorn in the flesh'
So what was this thorn in the flesh that Paul spoke of?
Examine his writings and read between the lines...
Note: He did not marry and called himself a Pharisee.
2 Corinthians 12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
Romans 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry.
He seemed to have a problem with women.
1 Timothy 2:12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.
1 Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Who writes this? Certainly not a straight man. After all the first commandment is to be fruitful and multiply and you've got to touch a woman to fulfill that commandment.
He did write extensively about homosexuality (it takes one to know one) in Romans 1 then adds this line immediately after... Romans 2 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
Sounds like 'thorn in the flesh' is a metaphor for gay sex. And now a quote from the fashion police, and who knows fashion better than gay men?
1 Corinthians 11:13 Judge among yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to G-d with her head uncovered? 14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? 15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering. 16 But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of G-d.
As for nature and long hair the lion has a mane the lioness short hair.
...we have no such custom, nor do the churches of G-d...
The verbal equivalent of a dog chasing its tail.
There you have it... Paul, the gay apostle to the goyim.