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Did Jesus Say Anything About Homosexuality?
GEORGE L. FAULL
Statement:
Mr. Faull, you’re all wet about
homosexuality. The sin of sodomy in the Old Testament has nothing to do
with those of us who simply want to be faithful in a loving married
homosexual relationship.
The Commandments against homosexuality in
the Old Testament has to do with male prostitution. God calls such
men, “dogs.” When the God of the Old Testament teaches against it, He
refers to those involved in this abominable practice. (Leviticus 18:22) Jesus never said a word about gay marriages and He is the one we listen to today.
Reply:
I will have to disagree with you and if
you care to read my answer about homosexuals in the Old Testament, you
may consult my prior writings in the Gospel Unashamed.
You speak as if the God of the Old
Testament is a different God than in the New Testament. They are one
and the same and homosexuality is condemned in both Testaments as a
great sin against a Holy God.
I wish to answer your argument about
Jesus not teaching about gay marriages. I think a simple reading of
what Jesus said about marriage in general will show you what a careless
reader you are.
When the Pharisees questioned Him about divorce, notice what Matthew 19:4-6 says, “4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause (that they are male and female)
shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and
they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but
one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together (a man and a wife),
let not man put asunder.”
On divorce He said, “from the beginning it was not so.” Jesus went back to the Creators’ design for marriage and it’s:
1. Participants (male and female)
2. Practicality (leave father and mother)
3. Purpose (the two shall be one flesh)
4. Prohibition (do not put asunder what God joined together)
5. Principle (as His Will was for it to be as in the beginning)
Jesus believed the book of Genesis. He speaks of creation of the world (Mark 13:19), of man (Matthew 19:4), and of the marriage of Adam and Eve (Matthew 19:5-6). He speaks of Abel’s martyrdom (Matthew 23:35), Noah’s flood (Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-30), Abraham’s faith (John 8:40, 56), Isaac (Luke 13:28), Jacob’s dream (John 1:47-51), and Lot’s wife (Luke 17:32). But He also spoke of the destruction of the Sodomites’ cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Luke 17:28-32; Matthew 10:15; 11:24; Mark 6:11). If
there had been 5 couples in a “loving married relationship” by your
perverted view, hundreds of thousands of souls would not have been
destroyed. Ten righteous souls is all that were needed to spare the
city.
Your attempt to separate the Old
Testament and the New Testament and the Old Testament God and the Lord
Jesus; is futile and ludicrous. Jesus is the Creator of all and the
very one who instituted marriage. Marriage is the picture of Christ and
His Bride (the Church) using the same compassion. “31 For this cause
shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his
wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery (or
revelation of God): but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33
nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.” Ephesians 5:31-33
You, sir, by your gay marriage would make
Christ a spiritual homosexual. Such blasphemy will not go unnoticed or
unpunished by our Ominscient God who in the beginning established His
directive Will and made them male and female. Adam said, “this is now
bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore, (what’s that “therefore” there for?) shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife (woman) and they shall be one flesh.” Genesis 2:23-24
I suggest you repent and do likewise.
Incidentally, the “Jesus never said
anything about it” argument is absurd on its face value. He never
mentioned pedophilia, bestiality, cannibalism, rape, wife beating or any
number of other sins. The only one who would use such rationale is
someone trying to defend some kind of a practice that he is involved
in. It’s kind of like a witch defending seances. God in the New
Testament addressed it, but Jesus never referred to it, so He permits
it.
Sin blinds people to their own foolish rationale.