BIBLE: Frowns on gay marriage

I am a Christian, and while I readily confess that I do not speak for all Christians, I have a Biblical world-view in serious conflict with recent events in this country. Same-sex marriages are troubling on several levels.

God’s perspective: Romans 1:24-27 “God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own minds, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. They changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. For this reason, God gave them up to vile affections, because even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. The men also left the natural use of the woman and burned with lusts towards one another, men with men, engaging in that which is unnatural, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error, which is only right.”

A number of states, including the bastion of liberalism, California, and your own state of Idaho, had voted to ban same-sex marriages, but a number of courts, including SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the U.S.) have decided for the American people that the people’s majority voice in this matter should be overridden by the constitutional right of a minority of people to pursue happiness as they define it, no matter how unnatural the acts they derive happiness from. Even Pandora would be ashamed at the opening of this box. You don’t have to be a prophet to know that legalization of polygamy is next on the agenda, and where it goes from there is anyone’s guess, but the trajectory is troubling for those of us who see this as screaming for God’s judgment on America. When politicians from top to bottom, and the judges of the land, from top to bottom, not only condone this, but go out of their way to force it on the American people, against their will, it speaks volumes about the level of evil that has engulfed this country. Deni-ability is no longer plausible.

When ancient Israel rebelled against God, He used a heathen king of Babylon named Nebuchadnezzar to bring judgment against it when it stubbornly refused to repent of its sins. Is the ruler of a future Caliphate our Nebuchadnezzar? Space doesn’t allow me to develop it here, but there are a number of viable scenarios that would enable that to happen without much bloodshed. If America will not end its own love for sin, Sharia Law is definitely a divine option that would accomplish that. And if you think Christianity is harsh, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

BILL JOHNSON

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