Wednesday 24 July 2013

What the Bible Says About Gay Relationships

Leviticus 18:22
"Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

Leviticus 20:13
" 'If a man lies with a man  as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Romans 1:24-27
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

I am a bit reluctant to share this post due to the seemingly controversial nature of what it speaks about, but we have a duty in Christ to speak the truth on issues at all times and shed the light of God on matters not to condemn, but to build up. Not to talk people down, but to show forth the light of God in a dark world. 
There is so much clamor in today's world for same sex marriage. It is fast becoming a topic of discuss within the ruling system of a lot of countries and it is fast becoming legitimate and legal for same gender people to move around freely as couples. The aspect that now calls for attention is the fact that even within the church of God the topic of same gender relationships is beginning to feature. So if we will not address the issue as ordinary men, we need to look at it with respect to the house of God.
When God was giving His laws to Moses, one aspect He didn't leave out was that of same gender relationship. When God instituted marriage at the beginning of time, the Bible said God made them Male and Female and said for this reason a man will leave father and mother and be united with his wife and the two shall become one flesh (Genesis 2:18-end, Matthew 19:3-9). So the natural kind of sexual relation seen in the context of marriage is between a male and a female. A sexual relationship in the context of marriage between a male and another male or a female and another female is unnatural and it is detestable before the Lord.
When the hearts of men have become so filled with sinful lust and they show no restraints to evil desires for fear of the One Who Created them, they Bible says God lets them have their ways to the degrading of their bodies. What we see in the world today as countries are beginning to legalize the unnatural for the natural is what Paul describes as exchanging the truth of God for a lie and the worship of created things rather than the Creator. What the Bible says is that same gender sexual relationship is detestable, unnatural and indecent. But in the world today, as knowledge as so increased and the created of God are assuming to be more knowledgeable than their Creator, we see man calling what God has called unnatural to be natural. And an indecent act is fast becoming legalized the world over. 
But because we cannot out-know God, and because we are mere mortals, men will receive in themselves the full penalty for their perversion. When we begin call natural what God has called unnatural, then we should not be alarmed when we begin to experience the unnatural for the natural. Man can never out-know God and there is a penalty for this perversion that will not cease to take place if men don't begin to retrace their steps and plead for mercy. 
If this trend is allowed the world over, we who are the beloved of God need to set ourselves apart. Marriage is a beautiful institution ordained by God for the man as a male gender and his wife as a female gender. Marriage presented in any other form apart from this is detestable to God, it is a perversion with a penalty. 

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