The Grave Sin of Homosexuality; God already spoke against it
[ Bible Probe ]Posted by Bible Probe on August 21, 2005 at 18:34:06:
The Greek word apostasia is used here for the “falling away.” It is from this word that we derive the English word “apostasy.” Apostasy is defined as “a defection from the truth,” or “a departing from that which was given at first.”
Timothy 4:1-2, “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.”
2 Timothy 4:3-4 Paul says, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
We have reached a place in church history where Roman Catholics, reeling from lawsuits stemming from decades of latent homosexual priests abusing children - are now weeding out homosexuals from their clergy. On the other hand, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Anglican denominations are now welcoming homosexuals to their clergy in defiance of scripture. Christian ministers are also "marrying" homosexuals in defiance of God's design and holy Word.
Sin is rooted in self-deception, and becomes its own judgment as “God gives them up” to their self-destructive practices. And please remember dear brethren in the churches that are now in apostasy (regarding homosexual priests), Jesus spoke explicitly about what would happen to those who taught against the law.
Rampant acceptance of the sin of homosexuality is a sign that the situation has gotten very bad, no less than those days related to us by the true stories of Sodom and Gomorrah and the Deuteronic story in Judges which is punctuated with the words: “In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.”
Satan has unleashed this plague and confusion on Christendom with a well planned strategy. Make no mistake about it - this is part of Satan's plan to pervert God's creation and His holy Word. Satan ultimately wants to infiltrate - and to finally lead the Lord's Churches into rebellion against God with him.
Homosexuality is just as much a sin against Jesus and the Father as when a husband or wife who goes out and commits adultery. Weak liberal Clergy who accept this perversion in their churches are basically standing with Satan and turning their backs on Jesus and the Father. These are refusing to obey the Word of God. Homosexuality is an aberrant lifestyle!
Within 5 decades we have returned to the unholy days of perversion, murder (babies) and rebellion (homosexuality) against God that existed prior to and during the time of Noah. Doesn't history itself speak to us from Sodom, Rome, Greece, and Babylon? The Lord does not favor countries who sink into hedonism and bestiality. In the homosexual, insatiable, grunting, lascivious, and unnatural conduct is more kin to animals than to human beings.
In defining themselves primarily by their sexual appetites, homosexuals reveal an unbalanced obsession with the carnal rather than the mental. Such strange unnatural sexual desires can and do distort perception and judgment. Principles and standards have minor or no-meaning for a those whose decisions are dominated by physical appetites triggered by glandular secretions. Seen against the background of history and nature, terms like "deviant,' "perverse," "weird," and "aberrant," are not epithets, but appropriate descriptions of homosexual behavior. Yet, our government and the liberals among us-- are following the lead of Sodom, Rome and Greece as they are "hell bent" on giving homosexuals the absolute right to be alone with our children, and to pervert our children with their ungodly behavior and immorality.
Jesus warned us these times would come!
It seems to be part of the homosexual agenda to dismiss everything in holy scripture that calls homosexuality a grave sin against God. Now they are attacking the apostles of Jesus who gave up their lives for Christ by trying to convince people Jesus himself said nothing about this perverted lifestyle. It appears homosexuals won't stop until they pass off the great lie that God is not against homosexuality.
It is one thing to live in the perverted sin of homosexuality their selves, and it is quite another thing to spread their false teachings that may infect innocent young Christians. Remember fellow Christians & Jews, Jesus (Yeshua) actually held the Old Testament (with story of Sodom & Gomorrah, and below admonitions) in His hands, and said; "Every iota of this is true". Iota means the smallest dot on the page.
The homosexual agenda will nearly always use these faulty arguments to make a case. You will often see homosexuals say that because Jesus satisfied the requirements of the old Mosaic Jewish Law, then nothing in the Old Testament applies now, including the below. This reasoning is simply ridiculous. We as Christians are NOT under the Laws of Moses. We surely are not required to go to mandatory worship services or to do animal sacrifices. Jesus was and is the only sacrifice God will ever look at.
This does not, however, relieve you from what God has said, God's feelings/judgment on a matter -- OR even the 10 Commandments, which Jesus showed in his discussion with the Pharisees are different from the Laws of Moses. Keeping the 10 Commandments that are for all, and not just the Jews.
What God has said, and what God's opinion on a subject CANNOT be retracted. Don't ever think for one second that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is anything like the pagan Allah who often changes (and retracts) his mind.
Another homosexual argument that falls flat is that they claim they know for sure that a young man named Jonathan had a homosexual relationship with King David. And yet God did love David.
The answer to this is that: Jonathan was probably a homosexual. But David was not!
As David goes back to Saul after killing Goliath, we see that David is totally unknown to King Saul (17:58). However, as David talks to King Saul, Jonathon falls in love with David, after having never met him, or talked to him (which has a vague sound of "love at first sight" in our culture).
One should conclude from this that David had a strong emotional attachment to Jonathan and that he valued Jonathan's friendship even more highly than he did sexual relations with women. Coming from a man like David, who found the woman Bathsheba irresistible, this would be no small compliment to Jonathan.
There is no hint anywhere that either David or Jonathan had any sort of problem in their heterosexual sex lives. David had a large number of wives and concubines (2 Samuel 5:13), if you will remember..
Jesus DID say something about it.
Leviticus means the Law. Jesus held Torah (Old Testament) in His hands and said every iota of this is true. Including God's condemnation of the sin of homosexuality.
Leviticus 18:22
'You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 says,
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
Romans 1:26-27 (Pauline epistle):
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."
2 Peter 2:4-6
“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eight person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an en-sample unto those that after should live ungodly;”
Jude 7 depicts the activity as "gross immorality" and going after "strange flesh." Peter wrote that Lot was "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked," and "by what he saw and heard...and Lot felt his righteous soul vexed from day to day with their unlawful deeds." These people were "chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government....." (2 Peter 2:7-10)
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God..
Sodom & Gomorrah was not a story about inhospitable people against God's angels as the homosexuals "agenda" is trying to "sell". It is a true story about God destroying cities in the Dead Sea area of Israel because people there had sunk to the same levels of ungodly, indecent, defiling, selfish, lustful, perverted sexual behavior as did the people in Noah's time.
Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 BC to AD 50). Jewish philosopher, theologian, and contemporary of Jesus and Paul. Writing on the life of Abraham:
“The land of the Sodomites, a part of Canaan afterwards called Palestinian Syria, was brimful of innumerable iniquities, particularly such as arise from gluttony and lewdness, and multiplied and enlarged every other possible pleasure with so formidable a menace that it had at last been condemned by the Judge of All…Incapable of bearing such satiety, plunging like cattle, they threw off from their necks the law of nature and applied themselves to…forbidden forms of intercourse. Not only in their mad lust for women did they violate the marriages of their neighbors, but also men mounted males without respect for the sex nature which the active partner shares with the passive; and so when they tried to beget children they were discovered to be incapable of any but a sterile seed. Yet the discovery availed them not, so much stronger was the force of the lust which mastered them. Then, as little by little they accustomed those who were by nature men to submit to play the part of women, they saddled them with the formidable curse of a female disease. For not only did they emasculate their bodies by luxury and voluptuousness but they worked a further degeneration in their souls and, as far as in them lay, were corrupting the whole of mankind.”
Another collateral source. Quoting from Bayside, New York warnings in 1977, 1979, 1982 and 1991:
"You who cry love your neighbor, do not twist the truth and say that Sodom and Gomorrah fell because they were inhospitable! Oh, no! I say unto you: hospitality had nothing at all to do with this. It was a manner of degrading, debased sin, using a creation of the Father for vile acts, animal acts, and far worse until your filth and pollution has entered into the minds and souls of the young! You defilers of mankind, the skin shall burn off of your bones soon! "It was a manner of degrading, debased sin, using a creation of the Father for vile acts, animal acts." "You even deny the truth of what the Eternal Father did to Sodom and Gomorrah for the sin of homosexuality."
Our Lady of Bayside, April 2, 1977
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MINDS?
"Immorality, homosexuality, and what do We hear now but permissiveness in sex, even from the mouths of Our trained ones known as theologians? Have you all lost your minds or your souls to satan? Human sexuality you call it? Animal sexuality I call it! You fornicate like animals. And why did the Father deem it necessary to intervene upon Sodom and Gomorrah?"
Jesus (at Bayside), November 21, 1977
BLACK CLOUD OVER AMERICA
"In the days of Sodom, so too were men giving themselves over to all the pleasures of the flesh: eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage. All manner of sinful lusts are being committed. Men shameful with men, women casting aside their role of motherhood and lusting after women. As it was in the days of Sodom, so now is this black cloud over America."
Our Lady of Bayside, July 14, 1979
ALL MANNER OF ABOMINATIONS
"All manner of abominations are being committed in the world, and even has entered onto the clergy. Many clergy shall stand before My Son and have to give account for what they have done, and what measure they have taken to destroy souls upon earth. Many are on the road to perdition and taking others with them."
Jesus (at Bayside), June 18, 1982
HOMOSEXUALITY
"Homosexuality shall not be condoned. It is an abomination in the eyes of the Eternal Father, and as such, is condemning many to hell." - Jesus, June 18. 1991
See Bayside, New York revelations and warnings to America here: http://www.tldm.org/directives/d176.htm
Over 1.5 million ancient well fed bodies found buried where Sodom & Gomorrah was:
If Sodom & Gomorrah is a myth, atheist scientists and archeologists need to explain the more than 1,500,000 bodies found buried in vertical shafts, inside 3 ancient cemeteries there. Also, where did the millions of round balls of nearly pure sulfur (brimstone) found there come from? The area is now a hot, barren desert. If it were not well watered before the destruction as the Bible says - how could the area have supported well over a million well fed people?
See what the following Church fathers/teachers and Jewish historian Flavius Josephus say about homosexuality: http://bibleprobe.com/earlyteach.htm
After Islam and Satanism, the homosexual agenda has to be the most militant and anti-Christian movement in the world today. This gay rights movement is a well-organized, unrestrained, no-holds-barred attack on the Church, family and religious freedom. Christianity, is a primary target of intolerance by homosexuals. Homosexuals are allowed to flaunt their lifestyle in our schools and in the media. And homosexual school teachers are not being restrained from infecting our children with their rebellious agenda of perverted behavior.
In Canada, where even more progress has been made towards achieving the homosexual agenda; individuals can be forced to pay damages to homosexuals who are offended by "hate speech." An example of this is Christian man in Saskatchewan who was forced to pay $1500 to three homosexuals after placing scriptural references in a newspaper ad during a local "gay pride week." Hate speech legislation in the United States has exactly the same implications for religious freedom here. Recent legislation in California may force churches and Christian businesses to hire transsexuals or homosexuals by force of law.
Gays and lesbians should realize that it is not the truth that they are born homosexual, despite what some including John Kerry would have you believe. If this were so, then why have tens of thousands of homosexuals been able to turn away from this sinful life style, with the help of the Lord Jesus?
April 11, 2004 -- LOS ANGELES - Most Americans oppose gay marriage and many believe homosexuality is "against God's will," but otherwise consider themselves tolerant of gays, according to a Los Angeles Times poll.
By a margin of 55 to 41 percent, those polled agreed with the statement that "if gays are allowed to marry, the institution of marriage will be degraded."
About half favored a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman, while 42 percent opposed it.
About six in 10 people felt homosexual relationships are "against God's will."
The telephone poll of 1,616 adults around the country was conducted March 27-30 and published yesterday. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
It's Not Gay presents a story that few have heard, allowing former homosexuals the opportunity to tell their own story in their own words.
Along with medical and mental health experts, these individuals express a clear warning that the sanitized version of homosexuality being presented to students is not the whole truth.
JONAH is a non-profit international organization dedicated to educating the world-wide Jewish community about the prevention, intervention, and healing of the underlying issues causing same-sex attractions. If you are confused by same-sex attractions or know someone who is and desire help, please contact us for resources and professional confidential assistance. Visit HERE
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