THEME: MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP AS ORDAINED BY GOD
LESSON: SIX
SUBTOPIC: THE ERRORS OF HOMOSEXUAL ADVOCATE
TEXT: Romans 1:19-26, Jude 1:2-15
MEMORY TRACK
In our last lesson we learnt by the grace of God that LGBTQ+ and its variants are unnatural expressions of the old man. The old man is an entity of sin and death that grows stronger through the learning of the course of this world. We also understood that LGBTQ+ thoughts and inspirations that flows into the mind of people with this act are peddled by evil spirits (seducing spirits and devils). A believer can come under the influence of these spirits and their doctrine and as such inadvertently depart from the faith.
Changing the Truth of God to a Lie
Some men crept into the seat of scriptural knowledge, seeming to hold the keys of truth, but are liars and servants of sin. These people are apologists of the sexually perverse lifestyle and are crusaders of LGBTQ+ not just in the world but also in the church. These individuals delve into the scripture under the influence of evil spirits and twist the Holy Writ to support the LGBTQ+ ideology and lead many saints into error of life and doctrine.
Today we shall be looking at some of the works of these agents of darkness and their erroneous interpretation of the wholesome word of God, to support their blasphemous act. The following are some of their notions:
- The Lie: Scripture does not condemn loving, responsible homosexual relationships. Therefore, gay men and lesbians should be accepted – just as they are – in Christian churches. And homosexual relationships should be celebrated and affirmed! This invariably implies that a marriage relationship can exist outside of male and female.
The Truth – (Gen 2:24, Matthew 19:5, Eph 5:31): The Bible defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. Jesus Christ upholds this definition of marriage in Matthew 19:5, as does the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 5:31. Any and all sexual activity which takes place outside of this divine arrangement is sin.
Further to this, same-sex practice is specifically highlighted as sinful a number of times in Scripture. In the Old Testament, for example, condemnation of homosexual practice is clearly mentioned in Leviticus 18:22-25 and 20:13 and in the New Testament Romans 1:24-32, 1Corinthians 6:9 and 1Timothy 1:10. The Scriptures is consistent in its prohibition of same-sex sexual activity, across different periods of salvation history and within different cultural settings.
- The Lie: The sins of Sodom and Gomorrah that led to their destruction are: lack of hospitality and gang rape. They argued that homosexuality was not the reason why the twin cities were destroyed.
The Truth – (Gen 19:4-10, Ezekiel 16: 48-50, Jude 1:6-7): While Sodom and Gomorrah were guilty of many other wicked sins, homosexuality was the principal reason God poured fiery Sulphur on the cities, completely destroying them and all of their inhabitants. Moral decadence set in from fornication to adultery and then finally homosexuality. They were then filled with all unrighteousness (Romans 1:28). Sodom and Gomorrah had other wickedness but the primary reason for their overthrow was homosexuality.
- The Lie: While the Old Testament directly condemn homosexuality, we are not under the law but under grace (Rom 5:20).
The Truth: Under the law (Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13) sexual immorality was expressly prohibited and this was also affirmed and established as an act against God, also, in the New Testament (1Cor 6:9-11,1Tim.1:911, Gal 5:19-20).
Most importantly Roman 1:25-27 unambiguously reveals that homosexuality is a sexual immoral decadence that contravenes the natural order that God put in creation. It is a further degradation of the soul below fornication and adultery. So, biblical teachings unequivocally affirm that homosexuality is considered sinful, in both the old and the new covenants.
- A reprobate view (Romans 1:19-31):
Some theological scholars have peddled two highly detrimental teachings on the interpretation of the above-mentioned scripture:
- The Lie: The human authors of Scripture were limited by the scientific immaturity of their age. If they knew what we now know, these revisionists claim, the human authors of Scripture would never have been so closed-minded. Paul and the other apostles seem completely ignorant of modern secular understandings of sexual identity and orientation.
Propounders of such ideologies believe that the concepts of homosexuality were unknown in Paul’s day. These terms like heterosexual and heterosexuality, bisexual and bisexuality presupposed an understanding of human sexuality, that was possible only with the advent of modern psychology and sociological analysis. The ancient writers were operating without the vaguest idea of what we have learned to call sexual orientation. Bringing the Bible to answer modern notion of sexual orientation is a step back into the stone age (archaic).
The Truth: This is the most blasphemous statement against the HOLY Bible by the LGBTQ+ crusaders and advocates. They seem to be wise, but are fools. They are ignorant that scripture is given by the inspiration of God (2Timothy 3:16). Unholy men will definitely call foolish what Holy men penned down. To question the authority of any portion of the Bible is to question God and to fault all the reality found in it.
- The Lie: Another error such false teachers push forward is that the passage refers to specific and oppressive act of men and women of those days. That Paul’s references to homosexuality are actually references to pederasty (the sexual abuse of young boys) and to homosexual rape. Some affirm that the change of use that Paul refer to was that, God is against those who are homosexual and change their orientation to be heterosexual, viz-a-viz.
The Truth: God formed the man and the woman and established a marriage union between them, thus certifying that the marriage relationship is between a male and a female. Also, Paul specifically mentioned in Romans 1:27 KJV “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.”
This reveals that, homosexual advocates are attempting to pervert the truth and speak the truth in a lie as there is no mention of boy-rape or child-molestation, but the passage portrays a consensual relationship between same sex individuals.
More than change of Nature (Jude 1:6-7)
“And the angels which kept not their first estate……. even as Sodom and Gomorrah.
From the passage above we can deduce that angels have their estates and one of the expressions of their estate is that they are neither male nor female. Man’s estate on the other hand, is that man is either a male or female.
The angels that did not keep their estate suffered eternal damnation. Likewise, God poured the vengeance of eternal fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah because of their not keeping the original estate, at a city-wide level. This shows that homosexuality is beyond change of nature. It is the refusal to keep one’s estate as male and female and attracts both rejection by the land as well as judgement from God.