For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth...Eph 5:9
Summer 2001 Volume 2, Issue 3 |
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"The men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord" (Genesis 13:13). The people of Sodom had “gay rights,” for Sodom was a city of homosexuals (Genesis 19:4,5). They declared their sin, and they did not hide it (Isaiah 3:9). Before God destroyed Sodom, the Dead Sea region was a fertile plain (Genesis 13:10). Because their sin was very grave (Genesis 18:20) the Lord rained sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding plain, destroying the cities, the inhabitants and all vegetation (Genesis 19:24,25). It became a land of sulfur, salt and burning. "It is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there" (Deuteronomy 29:23). It was "overrun with weeds and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation" (Zephaniah 2:9). Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them "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). God explained why He destroyed Sodom saying, "...they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit" (Ezekiel 16:49,50). In the time of Ezekiel, God condemned Jerusalem for having a tolerant attitude toward Sodom, "For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride" (Ezekiel 16:56). In 2001, Holland legalized same-sex marriages implementing a clause in the European Union's Treaty of Amsterdam which forbids discrimination on the basis of 'sexual orientation'. Perverted relationships may be called marriages by governments of this world, but they are not recognized by the High Court of Heaven. Same-sex relationships are condemned by God in both the Old and the New Testaments. They are perversions of the beautiful and pure relationship God has given husbands and wives within the bonds of matrimony. Jesus said: "Have you not read that He who made
them at the beginning 'made them male and female', and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate" (Matthew 19:4-6). "Marriage is
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honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge" (Hebrews 13:4). Same-sex relationships are a form of fornication (sexual immorality). The Law of Moses pronounced the death sentence on those who engaged in homosexual relationships. "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination" (Leviticus 18:22). "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them" (Leviticus 20:13). The condemnation of the New Testament is also severe: "Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due" (Romans 1:24-27), "who, knowing the
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