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Today is 05242008 and as I do most days, I read the Tampa Tribune.  Some days I wish I didn't. Today in the "Letters to the Editor" a large segment appeared entitled "The Ability of Same-Sex Couples to Marry Is seen as a Civil Right" I read the letters with interest and dismay as I read the letters.

One letter writer agreed that same sex marriage weren't what the writer particularly agreed with but agreed with the California Supreme Court in striking down a state ban and allowing same sex marriage in California. The writer aluded to the founding fathers fleeing evil persecution and intolerance, saying that today, right -wing religious fanatics have perverted the gospel of Christ.

Another writer said that there was nothing "immoral" about the lifestlye or same sex marriages between consenting adults and that same sex couples want to enjoy the same status  that momogamous heterosexual adults enjoy, legally and socially.

As in all my other scribblings in this forum I will not beat around the bush but get to the point.  In an earlier post I made titled, "Lord of All or not at all" a primary distinction is made. It has nothing to do with being a right wing fanatic or perverting the Gospel of Christ.  God loves everyone equally, so much so that He sent His own Son to die for all, shedding His own precious blood and forfieting His life that we might live. God nor Christians hate "gay" people. God loves everyone and we are told to love our neighbor as ourselves. That said, God nor Christians hate people. God hates sin. His Word says so. You either believe the Bible is the inspired complete Word of God or you dont. There is no middle ground. Our opinions on these facts do not matter. Even if you deny God, He still is and only what He thinks will matter. The simple truth is that if you do not believe that the Bible is God's inspired and complete Word you might as well stop reading here because the rest will not matter to you (at least in this life)  We are told to hate sin. All the scripture I reference will be from the King James Version but you can read any version you like as the meaning does not change just the readability.  

In I Corinthians Chap 6 vers 9 we are told "...Be not deceived...  The complete verse goes like this, "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (footnote: perverts & homosexuals) ..... shall inherit the kingdom of God" The foot note is not mine but that written in the KJV of the Bible I am using for reference.

Marriage is an institution that was instituted by God Himself. In Genesis Chapter 2 vs 18 the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him (foot note: helper fit for him)

Genesis chapter 2 vs 21 thru 25 ( you can look these up and read for yourself to make sure I am accurate) God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam and took one of his ribs (footnote says "sides") and made a woman and brought her to the man. Adam said that she was "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh and that she should be called woman. A man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and they two shall be one flesh. Thus was marriage instituted by God and the first one was performed by God himself when He presented the man with the woman. God did not bring Adam another man nor did He form Eve and then bring her another woman.

We move on now to Romans Chapter 1 (again you will have to look these references up if you don't believe I'm accurate)  where we are told man began to do all sorts of terrible things and that the wrath of God is against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. Men worshipped gods made with hands and they did not glorify the true God but became, "(vs 21) "...vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. VS 22  "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools..."

Here we go to the meat and potatoes of the issue.  Romans Chapter 1 begin at vs 24 thru 32 (Look these up and read them for yourselves if you think I am inaccurate) The Bible says that ,"God gave them over to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves..."   The fact is that they changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped the creature more than the Creator.

The following is what the Bible says about same sex relations. I am simply passing on information:

ROM 1:26 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:

ROM 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, 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.

ROM 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

ROM 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

ROM 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

ROM 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

ROM 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

These are not the words of some "right wing religious fanatic" but simply the words of the Bible.  As I said in the beginning, if you don't believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God and is His completed work, then you will disagree with this scribbling vehemently and lump the writer into the can with all the other "fanatics".

It does not matter how acceptible these issues have become in society in America or the world today. They are still wrong and not ordained of God. God does not hate those who participate in same sex issues nor do I. He loves everyone but we are still required to as lovingly as possible show when something is contrary to God's Word and "marriage" of same sex couples is not ordained of Him and it is absolutely not  "A Perversion of the Gospel" as many who approve of these issues seem to think when followers of Christ say what the Word says. For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation.

These scribblings are not those of some "right wing religious fanatic" but of someone who loves the Word of God and the Lord Jesus and hopes all will come to that saving knowledge. I know that ,"...judge not, that ye be not judged..." is going to come so I head it off with this. We cannot pick and choose the verses of the Word we like and cast aside the rest. The old covenant was completed and fulfilled in the Savior Jesus and the new covenant is His blood to salvation. I am glad that we live under "grace" thats undeserved favor, rather than the law. As my first post says He is either "Lord of All or not at all"

Be Blessed

elkahna