Humans can attempt to redefine sexual morality, but that does not change what God has already told us.
For example in Mark 6:17-18 we can read that King Herod had John the Baptist thrown into prison for telling him that “it is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
In this case, governemnt was used in an attempt to suppress how God had defined marriage.
John the Baptist’s statement about Harod’s marriage comes from Leviticus chapter 18 where God defined lawful sexual relations. It is a chapter well worth reading. It ends with warning of God’s collective judgement upon Israel, and by extension any society that seeks His blessing. Starting in verse 24, God says:
“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I will punish its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. But you shall ... do none of these abominations ... lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean.” (Lev 18:24-30)
Before you say that is just “Old Testament” and it doesn’t count, Jesus said in Matthew 21:32 that John the Baptist preached righteousness. Jesus also tells us, through John in Revelation 22:15 that people who practice sexual immorality will be excluded from eternal life. God tells us that “I change not”. If something is an abomiation, it is always an abomination.
here are sobering parallels today where government demands that citizens do not object to how it has redefined what lawful marriage is.
Exactly. John the Baptist would be vilified by today’s media for being “intolerant” and “non-inclusive.”