Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Is Gay OK?

A few things I want to say first

1) I am not writing this to offend anyone, but I will not apologise for the answers God has already given us
2) I am not a preacher, but I am a Christian
3) I am not going to tell you my oppinion. I am going to quote directly from the Bible (New International Version)
4) I am not writing this to
a)condone any hatred toward homosexuals (Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.)(Mathew 5:44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,)(Mathew 22:39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.')
b) say anyone is better or worse than the other. (Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God)

Here are the answers from the Word of God

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 chapters 1 and 2, but specifically
Romans 1:24-32
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In 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.

28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

1st Timothy 1:9&10

9 We also know that law[a] is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for adulterers and perverts*, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

*New King James Version says "Sodomites"
*New American Standard says "homosexuals"

1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

Conclusion
The Short answer is No gay is NOT Ok
Many including President Obama have called these outdated standards. Jesus said in Mathew 24:35 and then again in Mark 13:31 "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." You have but to look through the Old Testament to see what happens to nations that have fallen away from God as completely as we have.

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