VOA: Homosexual evangelicals claim Bible supports their unions

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

Homosexual evangelical Protestants are claiming that the Bible does not condemn their lifestyles and ‘marriages’:

Gay Evangelicals Argue That Bible Does Not Condemn Homosexuality

November 21, 2014

WASHINGTON—It looked like a typical evangelical service, except for the same-sex couples in pews: a man leaning his head on another man’s shoulder, a woman with her arm around her female partner.

They were among the several hundred gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Christians who recently gathered at the National City Christian Church in Washington for a meeting of The Reformation Project.

The group was founded by Matthew Vines, who grew up in Wichita, Kansas, after an hour-long YouTube testimonial he posted two years ago about being Christian and gay went viral.

He said the aim is to show that “there is a path to both affirming the full authority of the Bible and affirming same-sex relationships.”

Most evangelical Christians believe the Bible unequivocally condemns homosexuality. The Book of Leviticus calls male-male sex “detestable,” while in the Book of Romans, one of Jesus’ apostles, Paul, condemns men who commit “shameless acts” with other men.

But Vines said homosexuality was seen differently in the ancient world, and believes these passages are about lasciviousness, and do not apply to loving same-sex couples. …

Vines also argues the traditional teaching is wrong because it has failed in its objective – it has not stopped homosexuality and it has caused much suffering among Christians with same-sex attractions.

But critics argue he is reinterpreting scripture to justify his own sexual orientation. http://www.voanews.com/content/gay-evangelicals-argue-bible-does-not-condemn-homosexuality/2528829.html

The nonsensical, anti-biblical, arguments by homosexual advocates is not unexpected, though it is clearly wrong. The idea that “the traditional teaching is wrong because it has failed in its objective – it has not stopped homosexuality and it has caused much suffering among Christians with same-sex attractions” is distorted and absurd.

The Bible warns against idolatry, fornication, murder, stealing, and adultery as well, and people violate those prohibitions, so is that supposed to mean that those admonitions are also not be be followed. The Bible warns that sins hurt the sinner and that those who practice such sins are deserving of death.

Interestingly, to me at least, Voice of America (VOA) actually had a side-bar insert with the following scriptures:

Biblical passages that mention homosexuality:

Leviticus 18:22 – Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

Leviticus 20:13 – If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to 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 about God for a lie, and worshiped 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 sexual 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 shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

I Corinthians 6:9 – Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men.

1 Timothy 1:10 – For the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers – and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine.

And while I would have added others (and have later in this post), even those VOA showed demonstrate that the Bible is opposed to homosexuality.

In June, the legislative body of the Presbyterian Church in the USA declared that homosexual ‘marriage’ was Christian, despite what Jesus and the rest of the Bible teach on homosexuality and on marriage (see Presbyterian Church Declares Homosexual Marriage ‘Christian’).

In the USA itself, more and more states (normally through activist judges) have legalized homosexual marriage and have overturned laws against it. Here is Wikipedia’s update on that:

Same-sex marriages are recognized by the United States federal government and granted by 34 states; the District of Columbia; select local jurisdictions in Kansas and Missouri; and 11 Native American tribal jurisdictions. In addition, Missouri recognizes same-sex marriages established in other jurisdictions. Several hundred marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Michigan and Arkansas between the time their bans were struck down by federal or state courts and when those rulings were stayed. (Viewed 11/21/14)

The increased legalization of something opposed by the Bible does not bode well for the USA.

Perhaps it should be mentioned that a study out this week shows that homosexual couples are more violent with each other than heterosexual couples:

November 18, 2014

A study in the US suggests that same-sex relationships suffer higher levels of domestic violence than heterosexual ones. …by the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago – a review of data from four earlier studies, involving 30,000 participants – go further.

“One of our startling findings was that rates of domestic violence among same-sex couples is pretty consistently higher than for opposite sex couples,” says Richard Carroll, a psychologist and co-author of the report. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29994648

The Bible teaches that homosexuality is a dangerous, and that does not count ‘domestic violence.’

Encouraging the homosexual agenda is something that the Bible warns against:

9 The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves. (Isaiah 3:9)

13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate. (Proverbs 8:13)

18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)

7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 7)

6…the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly (2 Peter 2:6)

So the Bible shows that Sodom was destroyed for many things including its pride and the committing of abominations. Homosexuality is an abomination. Sodom and Gomorrah were turned into ashes making them an example–but many leaders in the UK, USA, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere do not wish to consider the ramifications of what they are doing. Much of the ‘extreme weather’ that has been going on lately appears related to the increasing acceptance of the homosexual agenda (cf. Amos 4:7-12).

The survival of many in the United States and the Anglo-Saxon lands is at risk! There are other sins of immorality, such as pornography and abortion, that are rampant and wrong in these lands as well.

No one should be ignoring the warnings of the Bible. No one should be pushing the homosexual agenda. Yet, many in the West, religious leaders included, foolishly are–and this will be to their peril.

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