APOSTATE CHURCH LIES TO HOMOS. INSTEAD SHOULD WARN OF DISEASE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Homosexual activity spreads disease. Oral and anal sex are exceptionally popular in homosexual practice. This kind of physical interplay fosters all sorts of sickness, especially AIDS.
Yet such denominations as the Episcopal Church state that God smiles upon homosexual behavior. The United Church of Christ (Congregational) does likewise. The Lutheran Church in America just voted not to ordain practicing homosexuals. The United Methodist Church is being plagued by practicing homosexuals, the latter demanding total acceptance in that denomination. Various segments of Presbyterianism are dealing with the same threats. The Unitarian-Universalist Society has long endorsed homosexual activity as blessed by the divine.
These church bodies that endorse practicing homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle are lying to their people. Therefore, they add to their sin of condoning that which is abhorrent to God their deceit messages in furthering sodomy.
While AIDS spreads throughout the world, segments of the Christian Church — apostate segments that thereby take themselves out of the genuine global Christian Church — are championing "inclusive congregations." These local groups advertise in their weekly religion page ads that they accept practicing homosexuals to encourage them continuing their daily practice of spreading disease.
Where the Christian Church should be preaching holiness of heart and life, thereby calling sinners to repent of their spiritual waywardness in order to come into newness of life in Christ, apostate segments go the way of Satan by encouraging wickedness and disease spread.
This all the more is horrific in what many consider to be another End Times sign — "an increase of sin," as Jesus prophesied in such Second Coming chapters as Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21.
All the more that the evangelical segment of the Christian Church — that is, that portion of the worldwide Christian Church that calls persons to personal salvation through Christ — warns practicing homosexuals of their need to confess their sinful lifestyles in order to take up the pure live in Christ.
The evangelical congregations thereby remain true to the Gospel call to holy living as well as warding off such diseases as AIDS and other venereal ailments. Now that is seeing through the commission of Holy Scripture.
Apostate segments vehemently deny the Scripture passages warning persons to abstain from homosexual activity. Instead, they brashly rewrite the Bible in order to accommodate sodomy as acceptable within the confines of the sanctuary.
Yet the Word of God boldly, clearly warns against homosexual activity. If the global Christian Church preached such obvious cautions from deity to the world, the Christian Church could then enhance the work against AIDS and other venereal diseases.
There are those who would hear that message, be convicted by the Holy Spirit, and thus become converted to Christ as Lord of their lives. This would directly involve their sexual decisions. For practicing homosexuals this would mean yielding up that desire to God for His cleansing in discipline.
FOOTNOTE:
ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE
Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."
Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .
"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .
"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
"God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."
I Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
Homosexual activity spreads disease. Oral and anal sex are exceptionally popular in homosexual practice. This kind of physical interplay fosters all sorts of sickness, especially AIDS.
Yet such denominations as the Episcopal Church state that God smiles upon homosexual behavior. The United Church of Christ (Congregational) does likewise. The Lutheran Church in America just voted not to ordain practicing homosexuals. The United Methodist Church is being plagued by practicing homosexuals, the latter demanding total acceptance in that denomination. Various segments of Presbyterianism are dealing with the same threats. The Unitarian-Universalist Society has long endorsed homosexual activity as blessed by the divine.
These church bodies that endorse practicing homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle are lying to their people. Therefore, they add to their sin of condoning that which is abhorrent to God their deceit messages in furthering sodomy.
While AIDS spreads throughout the world, segments of the Christian Church — apostate segments that thereby take themselves out of the genuine global Christian Church — are championing "inclusive congregations." These local groups advertise in their weekly religion page ads that they accept practicing homosexuals to encourage them continuing their daily practice of spreading disease.
Where the Christian Church should be preaching holiness of heart and life, thereby calling sinners to repent of their spiritual waywardness in order to come into newness of life in Christ, apostate segments go the way of Satan by encouraging wickedness and disease spread.
This all the more is horrific in what many consider to be another End Times sign — "an increase of sin," as Jesus prophesied in such Second Coming chapters as Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21.
All the more that the evangelical segment of the Christian Church — that is, that portion of the worldwide Christian Church that calls persons to personal salvation through Christ — warns practicing homosexuals of their need to confess their sinful lifestyles in order to take up the pure live in Christ.
The evangelical congregations thereby remain true to the Gospel call to holy living as well as warding off such diseases as AIDS and other venereal ailments. Now that is seeing through the commission of Holy Scripture.
Apostate segments vehemently deny the Scripture passages warning persons to abstain from homosexual activity. Instead, they brashly rewrite the Bible in order to accommodate sodomy as acceptable within the confines of the sanctuary.
Yet the Word of God boldly, clearly warns against homosexual activity. If the global Christian Church preached such obvious cautions from deity to the world, the Christian Church could then enhance the work against AIDS and other venereal diseases.
There are those who would hear that message, be convicted by the Holy Spirit, and thus become converted to Christ as Lord of their lives. This would directly involve their sexual decisions. For practicing homosexuals this would mean yielding up that desire to God for His cleansing in discipline.
FOOTNOTE:
ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE
Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."
Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .
"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .
"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
"God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."
I Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
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