I quote from the article I
read, "The Republican governor also said the
health risks of trying to change a child's sexual orientation . . . outweigh
concerns over the government setting limits on parental choice." Also quoting from the same article, "Christie
said he believes people are born gay and that homosexuality is not a sin." California also has a similar law.
It ought to be obvious to
anyone who knows the Bible and can read that homosexuality is a sin in God's
eyes. Here is what the Bible says,
"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous,
nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of
God." (1 Cor. 6:9-10 NKJV, my underlining) Does Christie get to trump God in deciding
what is and what is not sin?
In Romans 1 we read the
following:
"Therefore God also gave
them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies
among themselves, . . . 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." (Rom. 1:24, 26-27 NKJV)
Does Gov. Christie believe this passage teaches that homosexuality is
not a sin?
Note from the passage just
quoted that God gave these people up to uncleanness. Now I ask you what was this uncleanness
associated with? Was it not with
homosexual acts? A homosexual act in
God's eyes is uncleanness. I do not mean
to imply that homosexual acts would be the only kind of acts that fit into the
category of uncleanness but certainly, they are included if this passage is to
have any meaning.
Here are a couple of New
Testament passages that associate uncleanness with sexual sin in addition to
the one above.
Paul speaking, "Lest, when
I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who
have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and
lewdness which they have practiced." (2 Cor. 12:21 NKJV) The word is clearly used in the context of
speech about sexual sin.
Paul speaking again in Gal.
5:19 says, "Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lewdness." (NKJV) Here again, uncleanness is in a list of sexual
sins and we already know that while homosexual acts are not the only acts of
uncleanness they are nonetheless one type of such acts based on Rom. 1:24,
26-27. Do Gov. Christie and the
lawmakers in New Jersey as well as those in California think the unclean will
inherit God's blessing? But then do some
of them even believe there is a God? If
they do, do they believe the Bible is the word of God? If so do they believe he meant what he said
or is he wishy-washy?
But I want to mention one other
thing in the news just this morning, Sept. 4, 2013, which I saw on Fox
News. It seems in the state of Oregon a
lady by the name of Melissa Klein had a bakery and cake decorating
business. When a lesbian couple planning
on marrying came in asking her to make a wedding cake for them she
refused. What happened? It got in the news and on social media and she
was besieged by demonstrators and protestors carrying signs in front of her
store forcing her to close her business (she moved it into her home).
She refused to make the cake
for the couple out of her Christian faith.
Did she do what was right according to scripture? Hear Paul, "Do not lay hands on anyone
hastily, nor share in other people's sins; keep yourself pure." (1
Tim. 5:22 NKJV, my underlining) "And
have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
expose them." (Eph. 5:11 NKJV, my underlining)
Now hear John, "Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ (teaching of Christ-ESV),
hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ (teaching-ESV), he hath
both the Father and the Son. If there
come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your
house, neither bid him God speed: For he
that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." (2 John 1:9-11
KJV) Would helping one commit sin be a
thing God would look favorably on?
Solomon said, "The fear of
the Lord is to hate evil." (Prov. 8:13 NKJV) So I guess the lady was to hate evil by
making the cake and profiting off it and by helping out those who were engaging
in it? Is that right? She did what was right and separated herself
from any association with the sins of others.
She did not help others sin by assisting them in doing it.
The main point I wanted to get
at in this article is the fact that Christianity and the Bible and even God
himself are under attack in America today.
I have never seen a time like this where it has been so pervasive all
throughout society and throughout our government. People simply no longer care what the Bible
says. They are no longer willing to
accept it nor want anything to do with it.
They are writing their own bibles, that is to say they are guiding their
lives by the rules they have set up for themselves irrespective of any
religion.
They are like Gov. Christie who
is supposed to be a Catholic but does not care what his church teaches or what
the Bible says and will not allow parents of homosexual children to get
professional help under threat of law for those who provide the help. I truly believe Christians in America are
headed for persecution both by the government (by law) and by a people, fellow
Americans, who have rejected the word of God and decided like the children of
Israel to go their own way without God.
(All underlining was done by me
for emphasis.)
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