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What The Bible Has To Say About Homosexuality And The LGBT Lifestyle
All love is not love, not by a long shot
“And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; “ Genesis 19:1 (KJV)
We live in a day and age where God’s opinion no longer matters, and where man’s opinion and human relativism is the standard of the day. Sin is no longer sin, it’s a “disease”, and rehab has replaced true biblical repentance.
Gay rights and gay marriage have become the clarion issue of our day, and what gets decided on and what laws get passed will well determine our future as a nation. Every dispensation of man in the bible ends in failure. The awesome promise of a perfect creation mentioned in Genesis 1 ends with Joseph dead and buried in a coffin in Egypt. Both the Greek and Roman empires came to an abrupt end when they began to promote a national ordinance of homosexuality.
The Law Of First Mention In The Bible
“The law of first mention may be said to be the principle that requires one to go to that portion of the Scriptures where a doctrine is mentioned for the first time and to study the first occurrence of the same in order to get the fundamental inherent meaning of that doctrine. When we thus see the first appearance, which is usually in the simplest form, we can then examine the doctrine in other portions of the Word that were given later. We shall see that the fundamental concept in the first occurrence remains dominant as a rule, and colors all later additions to that doctrine. In view of this fact, it becomes imperative that we understand the law of first mention.” source – Biblical Research
LGBT Bible revisionists like Matthew Vines are working overtime trying desperately to convince you that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for anything other reason but for the sin of homosexuality. Don’t you believe a word of it.
The law of first mention in the bible is important because it usually sets the tone for every other place in the bible where that doctrine will appear. The very first place that the mention of homosexuality shows up is in Genesis 9, where we see the misdeeds of Ham towards his father.
“And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.” Genesis 9:20-24 (KJV)
It is obvious from the passage that Ham’s sin was more than simply seeing his father naked. If all Ham had done was looked, then Noah would have had no idea that had happened in his drunken state. Are you aware of your wife “looking at you” while you sleep? No, you are not. But Noah awoke from his wine, and the memories came flooding back that his son, Ham, had taken advantage of him and engaged in sexual intercourse with him while he was passed out.
Because of what Ham did, he and his generations to come were cursed. So we see that the very first time homosexuality is mentioned in any context in the bible it is connected with a curse.
The Sin Of Sodom And Gomorrah
A few chapters later in Genesis, we read about the sins of a place known as Sodom and Gomorrah. The bible says that the people in those cities had commited grevious sin, and God called them all wicked:
“And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.” Genesis 18:20,21 (KJV)
Now, before we comment on Sodom and Gomorrah, please note the following:
The word “sodomy”, which is connected with a sexual act of anal intercourse between two men, comes from the biblical account of the city of Sodom being destroyed by God because of homosexual behaviour. The word “sodomite” is a slang term for a gay men who engages in homosexual acts with other men. The reason why Sodom is remembered this way is because the Biblical account tells us that the sin of Sodom was homosexuality; not pride, greed or inhospitality as some have so ridiculously suggested.
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In Genesis 19, we see that two angels have come to pull Lot and his family out of Sodom. They lodge with Lot in his home for the evening, and as soon as this is noised abroad, there comes a crowd of men to Lot’s house, demanding that the two angels be handed over to them for sexual purposes. They mean to rape the angels.
“And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.” Genesis 19:5-7 (KJV)
This second mention of homosexuality in the bible, like the first mention, ends badly. We all know the story…the angels tell Lot that he must take his family and flee because God is planning on destroying both Sodom and Gomorrah for their wickedness.
“For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.” Genesis 19:13 (KJV)
Homosexuality In The New Testament
People very passionately debate over the two passages we have mentioned from Genesis, saying that neither passage is a direct indictment against homosexuality, only against violent behaviour. So, let’s go to the New Testament to see how God is dealing with the topic there.
“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 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.” Romans 1:26,27 (KJV)
Here we see in Romans the acts of both male and female homosexuality mentioned. The Holy Spirit, writing though the Apostle Paul, minces no words about the topic. God here labels homosexual activity with the term ‘vile affections’ and says that the practice is ‘against nature’ and unnatural.
No where in the entire bible is homosexual activity ever mentioned in a good or positive way. Not even once. It is always connected with a curse, sin, judgment or destruction. The bible offers no stories of happy homosexual unions or gay “marriages”. In point of fact, gay marriage doesn’t even exist. Like the rainbow, it’s just another thing stolen from the Bible and appropriated for their own ends. Marriage in the bible, which was ordained by God, is always between a man and a woman. All love is not love.
So you have a choice.
You can agree with what God has written in the bible, or you can rebel against it and claim any one of a number of reasons why what is in the bible doesn’t apply to you. But understand one thing. Whether or not homosexuality is a choice is besides the point. God says that it is a sin that needs to be repented of. The bible does not say that people were created as homosexual anymore than it says that people were created to do any other sin of any kind. The “I was born this way” argument receives no support in the pages of scripture.
God created a man and woman, and He gave them the gift of sexuality. Homosexuality appears exactly 6 chapters after the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, but it does not happen in the time in which God says that things were perfect and right. Homosexuality shows up after sin had entered into the world, and the world itself had been cursed.
Christianity cannot be reconciled with homosexuality anymore than it can be with drunkenness, murder, fornication or gossip. You cannot have both as they are opposed to each other.
You must choose.
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Ok. First volley in the S#!t Storm:
“You can agree with what God has written in the bible”
God wrote nothing. Whether you believe that the bible is divinely inspired, or not, God did not physically write the words, to parchment.
“The word “sodomy”, which is connected with a sexual act of anal intercourse between two men, ”
Wrong. Sodomy, is the act of anal intercourse, period. Never has the distinction been made about who is involved in the act, itself. The idea that only men can engage in sodomy is a modern, religious interpretation which has no basis in actual fact.
” God here labels homosexual activity with the term ‘vile affections’ and says that the practice is ‘against nature’ and unnatural.”
Paul (with all his worldly biases) wrote this. See above.
” Biblical account tells us that the sin of Sodom was homosexuality; not pride, greed or inhospitality as some have so ridiculously suggested.”
Funny, I was always taught that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their decadence, of which homosexuality was only a facet of said lifestyle. Unbridled sex (both gay and straight), Gluttony, and all the other Deadly Sins; were on display, in the “Twin Cities”.
It’s my opinion, that to only focus on the Gay sex aspect of the story, is to miss the point of the story, itself.
Here’s a question…. What does it say about the one holy man in the story, Lot? If he was the one good man in Sodom, why would he give up his own daughters to the mob? Seems like there was no one worth saving, in that town. No wonder it was firebombed.
Your ignorance of Paul’s writing is expected.
Lot not allowing the Sodomites to take the angels to “know them” is an idiom for having sexual relations which is used through out the bible.
Since the were queers or biblical Sodomites they did not want the daughters of Lot.
Paul? Are you referring to the author of this article, or the man who founded Christianity?
Sex upsets judeo-christo-FREAKS so MUCH MORE than MASS MURDER (which, they call WAR)!
Yes, natural behavior, like sex, upsets the brain-washed judeo-christo-FREAK, while Deviant Behavior, like MASS MURDER (i.e. Viet Nam Massacre FINAL score:
Vietnamese men, women, and children KILLED; 3.5 million
Whiney arse ameriiiSCUM INVADERS killed; 58,000..just ANOTHER judeo-christo-CREEP MASSACRE FOR THE Ages)
Is not EVEN talked about by these brain-washed, demented Cretins called judeo-christo-FREAKS, here, in the jew-nited Fraudulent Fascist states of TORTURE, MEDICAL and MILITARY TERROR they LOVE so much!
The bible, written by men,.. The ten commandments, the ONLY thing ascribed to having been written by the hand of god.
Hmm which should anyone believe?? God is allegedly infallible and all knowing,. men aren’t!!
You’d think that if god thought something was truly important, he would have included it..
Go by the ten commandments and you’re good,.
Thou shalt not commit adultery, idiot.
The commandments go all the way back, even before Noah, they were first time codified in stone at the time of Moses. The prophets were hand picked men that Yahweh had to write his words down. Many times they wrote of things to happen that did not even make sense to them but they put it down anyway.
pennywise:
Where in the hell did the Commandments make an appearance, prior to Moses on Mt. Sinai? Chapter and verse, please….
There is NO mention of them, prior to the stone tablets, allegedly engraved by God.
HammuRABI
I guess we will all find out, the question of belief will be mute IF and when God moves. God never gets his hands dirty and will send an army or a natural disaster or maybe he will send an anti-gayray from space! It’s all a mind game.
The only thing God wants back is your acquiescence. Take No Thought in darkness and silence and shut the chatter down and find out for yourself. God only speaks when YOU shut up! Maybe, just maybe God will speak, but only by your genuine meditation. IF the churches tell you it’s dangerous, then that means it is exactly what they don’t want you knowing. I informed my parish priest that I now have direct dial to God in 1974 and his services were null and void.
I love God as myself, but I hate religion, especially churches governed by mammon!
Try this one Christians: Love or Mammon? Who do you serve slaves? Do you pay tax to God? NO.
You give your money to conmen supreme, anyone who charges for what was given freely is a charlatan.
That makes picking a religion simple. Ipso Facto: they have NO faith in God at all, they trust, love and worship their filthy money.
To the comment snipes: how well is your sacred economy going NOW?
14 years of gay marriage in The Netherlands…. still nothing happened.
i smell homophobia
Thank god that women don’t do anal…
“Love is love.” Those who are fooled by this are unlearned (i.e. profane). They assume they know/understand the meaning of all things based on silly sentiments that oft rely on a science that is incomplete and incorrect with a seared consciousness fastened to their own desires.
The truth is: Love lives in many spheres. In the higher it is compassion; in the lower is is just sex. Of course, the communist approach is always: One size fits all. Once again, this is incomplete and incorrect.
Then, what is this “love is love” ruse that the sodomites et al propagate? FYI: Self-love that leads through egotism is the basis for Satanism.
Do you now see how the “one size fits all” approach obscures the real meaning of things?
when the bible is silent, you should be silent.
leave Ham alone. to say anything more than is written in the text is to speculate. teach the scripture, not your speculations, okay? there is enough in the bible about homosexuality that you don’t have to add that to the story to make your point.
you left out the part that the wicked can’t get saved until they repent. see 1 Cor 6:9-10…there is quite a list there.
how come nobody rants about adulterers or fornicators like this? the unrepentent sinners are lost….there are a lot more people under that classification than homos.
I’m not defending them or their acts….there is a wider perspective here that is being ignored.
yea it say in the bible that if a man lays with another man he sould be stoned, read it right roll another and enjoy
I agree.