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To: darrellmaurina
The author seems to have a superficial view
of the Holy WORD of G-d.

Throughout the Holy WORD of G-d, marriage is a metaphor
for the relationship of YHvH and his "called" people.
In the Tanach, YHvH is the Bridegroom and Israel is His Wife.
Later "called" gentiles are referred to a Bride.

A clear reading of Romans 1 in context beginning at
verse 16 shows that those who should know YHvH and his creation
but reject Him are given over to a perverse relationship in direct
opposition to the metaphor of marriage.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

29 posted on 08/16/2012 10:28:44 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012; xzins; wagglebee

I swapped some emails on the subject with my pastor. He made the point that flagrant homosexuality is a sign God is already judging a people:

“So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him...

THEREFORE God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie...

FOR THIS REASON God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise...men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.”

As others have pointed out, you don’t need specific divine revelation to know certain body parts don’t belong in certain other body parts. The natural revelation given to ALL makes it obvious. There may be an obscure exception somewhere, but I don’t know of any society that endorsed homosexual ‘marriage’ during the last 5000 years.

When people ignore excruciatingly obvious natural truths, THEN God gives them up to dishonorable passions. It is not an unforgivable sin, but it is a sign men and society have rejected God already, and God is already preparing their judgment. God is bringing their rejection of Him to the surface so all can see how just his judgment will be.

“Because I have called and you refused to listen,
have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,
because you have ignored all my counsel
and would have none of my reproof,
I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when terror strikes you...
...Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.” - Prov 1


58 posted on 08/17/2012 6:56:18 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Liberalism: "Ex faslo quodlibet" - from falseness, anything follows)
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