As we see the homosexual agenda forcefully pressing on, demanding acceptance and equality, we must not lose sight of why the covenant of marriage excludes homosexuals. The latest audacity of a judge overruling prop. 8 isn’t really that shocking, this is the nature of a depraved mind.
You don’t have to dig too deep into God’s word to find the origin of the covenant of marriage; the first book of the Bible reveals this covenant to us. In Genesis chapter two, we see the dilemma for Adam, he has no suitable helper {one who helps}. The helper should compliment the one for whom they were designed for. Up to this point, none of God’s creatures were suitable helpers for Adam; all the beasts, birds, and livestock were created according to their own kind. This is why they were not suitable for Adam, not to mention the fact that they weren’t created in God’s image, as Adam was. So, God formed woman from Adam’s rib, fashioned by God as a suitable helper for Adam. This one woman was to be his wife {Genesis 2:24}. If God had intended for men to be with men, or women to be with women, or men to have multiple wives, or whatever else the sinful nature deems ‘acceptable’, then why do we not find any of that in His word? Because depravity always demands what is contrary to sound doctrine! So we find the covenant of marriage established by God in Genesis 2:24, this covenant distinctly being between a man and a woman.
Another reason found in God’s word proving same-sex marriage as wrong is in Genesis 1:28, ‘be fruitful and multiply’. Same sex partners cannot naturally reproduce, no matter how hard they try. By Divine design, one of the blessings {and purpose} of marriage is to have godly children. From Malachi 2:15, ‘Did He not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? GODLY OFFSPRING.’
Marriage is a sacred covenant established by God in which the Lord is a witness {Malachi 2:14}. We find numerous passages in God’s word in which He speaks against homosexuality {Lev. 18:22, 20:13, 1 Cor. 6:9-10, 1 Tim. 1:10}; this in an abomination to the Lord: He will NOT be a witness in the covenant of marriage if the union is that of same-sex partners. Is this ‘discriminatory? According to man’s ‘wisdom’, maybe. BUT, God is LORD over all, He has laid down the commandments in His word according to His holiness, His righteousness and has a right to enforce these, for He is the Giver of life. Those who rebel will face an eternity of separation from God and endless torture because of their rebellion.
The reason homosexual marriage is wrong is because God has ordained this covenant for a man and a woman, to produce godly children…not so one can have ‘access’ to benefits and pensions. Not only is homosexual marriage wrong, the motive for why they insist on it is wrong as well.
As we see the nation collapse under the demands of the wicked, know this…judgment is coming. Pray for America, stand firm in His truth and speak that truth always boldly and in love!!!
Maranatha!!
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Amen and amen! So many people get wrapped up in arguing whether or not the issue for Paul and in Leviticus was male temple prostitutes (which is a straw man argument for the homosexuals) that they miss the presuppositional argument: marriage is defined by Creator God as the covenant union between A man and A woman AND all sex outside of the union is sin.
Way to cut to the chase Lynn!
Amen!
Very politically incorrect! Amen:)
Very well said unworthy1. The tragedy is that the militant homosexuals will not stop at their re-defining of marriage for this is not their end-game. Rather, it is simply one step alone their sordid path to get total, absolute and complete acceptance in every facet of society including business, family, government and religious.
This total acceptance is something they must have because deep inside their heart they have an innate knowledge that what they are doing is wrong and hence they need a constant stream of approvals coming from outside to try to calm the storm raging inside. The reason for this I believe is that at heart, homosexuals are very, very insecure individuals and hence they want the world to tell them all is well. They really being no different in type than any other person who does not want to be told they are wrong – pride simply being too proud to admit a wrong. Something made that much more difficult for the homosexual as they wrap their entire identify in their sexual lifestyle.
The bigger tragedy though is when so-called Christians come along and give the homosexual the exact opposite of what they need; that being the truth in love. Rather, they give the homosexual exactly what they want – the stamp of religious approval. This religious certification declaring that what they are doing is not wrong, most assuredly not sin, but rather an acceptable, nay, rather a commendable lifestyle that their “church” approves of and welcomes. Here, doing a damnable work of pointing the lost soul away from God’s word and the truth that sets free and instead further searing the homosexual’s conscience and tightening the fetters that bind them to sin.
To all homosexuals who may read this post, know that there is freedom in Jesus Christ for he came not to condemn you or anyone else, but rather to save. Your lifestyle will destroy you – it will destroy you emotionally, it will destroy you physically and ultimately it will destroy you spiritually. Call out unto the Living God who lives forever more to save – call out in your desperation, call out in your fear, call out in your confusion for he is not far from any of us that he might hear your cries and deliver you from that for which you believe there is no escape.
Another reason same-sex marriage is wrong is that same-sex relations are wrong. Since scripture in many places condemns homosexuality, the it follows that God would not approve of same-sex unions.
One more thing we all need to do is quit using the word “homosexual” as a noun. There is no such thing as a homosexual.
http://sanityinanupsidedownworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/dismantling-homosexual-agenda-part-1.html
Glenn,
Even more basic is the fact that scripture condemns all sexual relations outside of “marriage”.
Futhermore scripture plainly defines “marriage” as a union of one man and one woman as described in the creation account of Adam and Eve, in Christ’s affirmation of the practice of a man leaving his father and mother and clinging to his wife, in the Apostle Paul’s discussion of Christian marriage in his inspired epistles, and finally in the fact that Scripture teaches that the earthly marriage of a man and a woman is a type or foreshadowing of the union of Christ [the bridegroom], and His church, [His bride] being knit together by neverending, reciprocal, exclusive, sacrificial love for one another.
Of course the spiritual reality underlying human marriage [God's law] is stamped on the hearts of fallen humanity, being written there by their Maker, which also explains why so-called “traditional marriage” is [and has been for thousands of years] a bedrock institution among human societies worldwide, as opposed to simply being a novelty among nations with a Judeo-Christian heritage. This law of God written on their hearts also explains why those who engage in sinful, sexually perverse lifestyles inescapably and unavoidably experience the pangs of their guilty accusing conscience, causing them to earnestly desire and seek for a way to feel affirmed in their sin.
In their heart of hearts they know they are guilty sinners doing that which is evil with their bodies, so in a furtive attempt to receive the approval of men, even as they experience the approbation of God, they seek to have a man-made seal of affirmation applied to their depraved lifestyles in a fruitless attempt to silence their own nagging, accusing consciences.
But that won’t work folks! Being “married” by the state [or an apostate "church"] won’t soothe their guilt-riddled consciences because so long as they remain unrepentant, rebellious sinners they abide under the wrath and curse of God. And in their quiet moments, when they are all alone with only their thougts, they will still know deep down, in their heart of hearts, that there is an angry, offended God above them; an accusing, guilty conscience within them; and a yawning hell beneath them.
They need to hear the truth in love that there’s a Savior Who came to seek and save the lost. One Who laid His life down for wretched, miserable, vile, filthy, God-hating sinners just like me, and just like you, and just like them. May we who have been called forth from death unto life by His glorious grace alone be salt and light in a sin sick and dying world, crying out “WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED!!!”
In Him,
CD