John R. Houk
© May 21, 2018
I moderate all comments on my SlantRight 2.0 blog.
Unfortunately I don’t always get to them in a timely manner. I approved a
comment to the post “
If
your school allows 'Day of Silence', keep your child home this Friday”.
The post was a cross post of an AFA announcement that LGBTQ proponents were
pushing Public Schools to have a Day of Silence to honor the homosexual
movement in America on or around April 27, 2018.
Needless to say, I was not pleased that homosexual activists
are using the same Public Schools to promote the godless homosexual lifestyle
that Christians were told could not pray because Judicial Activism used Thomas
Jefferson’s wording in a letter that does NOT appear in the Constitution, to
exclude all things Christian from taxpayer supported activities.
The Courts is how all things Left-Wing have corrupted all
thing moral in the United States of America.
I received a comment from a person who indicated he was a
proud member of the Lutheran Church. God have mercy on the Lutheran Church if
they promote homosexuality of the express condemnation of the practice in the
Word of God.
The depravity of a LGBTQ kind-of-Community around Sodom and Gomorrah
in Abraham’s day:
19 Now the two
angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of
Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed
himself with his face toward the ground. 2 And he
said, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and
spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on
your way.”
And they said, “No, but we
will spend the night in the open square.”
3 But he
insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he
made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
4 Now before
they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all
the people from every quarter, surrounded the house.
10 But the
men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut
the door. 11 And they struck the men who were at
the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they
became weary trying to find the door.
12 Then the
men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your
daughters, and whomever you have in the city—take
them out of
this place!
13 For we will destroy this place,
because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of
the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” (Genesis
19: 1-4, 10-13
NKJV)
And here:
You shall not lie with a male
as with a woman. It
is an abomination. (Leviticus 18: 22
NKJV)
And here:
18 For the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men, who
[a]suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
26 For this
reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their
[a]women exchanged the natural use for what is
against nature.
27 Likewise also the
[b]men, leaving the natural use of the
[c]woman, burned in their lust for one another,
men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the
penalty of their error which was due. (Romans 1: 18, 26-27
NKJV)
Friends this is only a Bible sampling showing homosexuality
is not the Creator’s plan for life. No matter how Liberal Christian Churches
twist the real meaning of God’s Word or even deny God’s Word by shoving it into
the realm of archaic irrelevance, the actual meaning is true, good and
righteous.
Below is the unedited comment made by Ren Time followed by
my answer.
where in the Bible does it say that
LGBTQ+ is not welcome. I'm Honestly wondering why so many people are against
LGBTQ+. The bible does say to "Love thy Neighbor
as yourself" Mark 12:31. So why are you against this?
~ A Memeber of The Lutheran Church
Hmm… Let’s look at the first sentence:
“where in the Bible does it
say that LGBTQ+ is not welcome.”
Let’s be CLEAR what LGBTQ+ represents:
In order to not be accused too much for source bigotry, note
the above quote is from a university that is fully supportive of the homosexual
lifestyle as a natural act as opposed to an unnatural act. You can go to the
above pdf for the pro-gay terminology, but I am going to use other sources
either neutral or pro-Biblical.
(L)esbian:
… where did the term
"lesbians" come from. For starters, it did not come from the Bible.
It is believed the term came from the reference to residents living on the
island of Lesbos. This island, the third largest one in the Aegean Sea, was
home in the early 7th century B.C. to a female poet named Sappho. She was known
for writing about her passionate relationships with other females. (
What
does the Bible say about LESBIANS? –
BibleStudy.org)
(G)ay:
1.
of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directedtoward a person or persons of one's own sex; homosexual:
a gay couple.
2.
of, indicating, or supporting homosexual interests or issues:
a gay organization.
3.
Slang: Often Disparaging and Offensive. awkward, stupid, or
bad; lame:
This game is boring and really, really gay.
(
Dictionary.com)
It should first be noted that the
KJV Bible does not use the word gay in its text. The word itself comes from the
Middle English word "gai" which came into existence around 1275 to
1325 A.D. (dictionary.com). It originally meant something that was fast,
sudden, merry or showy. The use of the word gay as a synonym for a homosexual
began sometime around the late 1930s and 40s. (
What
does the Bible say about being Gay? -
BibleStudy.org)
(B)isexual:
Sexually attracted not exclusively
to people of one particular gender; attracted to both men and women. (
OxfordDictionaries.org)
Though the Bible does not directly
speak about bisexuality, it frequently addresses issues related to sexual
ethics. A look at some of these principles offers clarity regarding God's view
of the practice of bisexuality.
First, sexual relationships were
created by God to take place within the context of marriage between a man and a
woman.
Genesis 2:24 teaches, "Therefore a man
shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall
become one flesh." Though the Bible records other forms of relationships,
it only specifically presents one man and one woman enjoying sexual relations
within marriage as God's design.
Second, since bisexuality includes
sexual relationships outside of marriage, it is also excluded as a form of
sexual immorality.
First
Corinthians 6:18 clearly teaches, "Flee from sexual
immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the
sexually immoral person sins against his own body."
Third, bisexuality is also excluded
from Christian practice since it includes same sex relationships that are
prohibited in the Bible. In the Old Testament, same sex activity was called an
abomination (
Leviticus 18:22). In the New Testament, Jesus
speaks directly of marriage (and sexual relations) between one man and one
woman in marriage (
Matthew 19). The apostle Paul mentioned that some
of the believers in Corinth had been involved in same sex relations before
becoming believers, saying, "And such were some of you. But you were
washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (
1
Corinthians 6:11). Same sex activity is clearly excluded from the
lifestyle of those who follow Christ. This would certainly also include
bisexual relations. (
Does the Bible
say anything about bisexuality? Is being bisexual a sin? –
CompellingTruth.org)
(T)rans or Transgender:
used
to describe someone who feels that they are not the same gender (= sex) as
the one they had or were said to have at birth (
Cambridge
Dictionary)
Someone who is
transgender has
a gender identity which does not fully correspond to the sex assigned to them
at birth. (
CollinsDictionary.com)
…
The biggest claim of the
transgender movement is that a man who thinks he’s a woman can really be a
woman, and vice versa. You see this in many ways — from preferred pronouns, sex
reassignment surgeries, and demands to use the restroom of perceived rather
than given gender.
The problem is that this is a
philosophical claim that is not true, and can never be true, in any way or
form. A man’s chromosomes cannot be engineered into female chromosomes.
Altering one’s appearance cosmetically or surgically cannot change the
underlying reality of a person’s biological make-up. The psychology of the mind
cannot override the facts of a person’s biological markers. The transgender
revolution demands that we believe falsehoods about human nature. And truth and
falsehood have never been a matter of majority vote, because we know that there
is a Creator who has the authority to decide and state what is right and wrong.
(Q)Queer/Questioning:
Dictionary.com
has 12 definitions for “Queer.” The definitions are divided between
adjective, noun, verb and the slang of those grammatical divisions. Under
adjective, there are four definitions of “queer” that were normal before the
homosexual lifestyle appropriated the term. My focus is what dictionary.com
calls slang –
5. [Adjective] Slang.
a.
Usually Disparaging and Offensive. (of a person) gay or
lesbian.
b.
noting or relating to a sexual orientation or gender identitythat falls outside the heterosexual mainstream or the gender
binary: queer subcultures.
10. [noun] Slang.
a.
Disparaging and Offensive. a term used to refer to a a personwho is gay or lesbian.
b.
a person whose sexual orientation or gender identity fallsoutside the heterosexual mainstream or the gender binary.
2. d. often disparaging +
offensive
(1) : sexually attracted
to members of the same sex :
homosexual,
gay
(2) : of, relating to,
or used by homosexuals :
gay 4b
“(
Q)ueer/Questioning” is a bit difficult to locate
via a Biblical perspective. Search engines typically go the homosexual issue
when looking for a Biblical perspective of the term. Hence, I’ll use the
definitions from the pro-homosexual “
LGBTQ+ Terminology”:
Queer
1. An umbrella term for the LGBTQ+
community (ex: the queer community).
2. A sexual orientation that is
intentionally left vague. Many people identify as queer because they feel that
no other sexuality term applies to them. People who identify as queer might
also do so for political reasons: to specifically and publically [sic] reject
society’s prevailing view of sexuality. Some people experience “queer” as a
slur, so use this term with care.
Questioning-
Being unsure of your gender
identity, being unsure of your sexual orientation, or both. Many people go
through a stage of questioning during their lives, sometimes several times.
This can be because they learn new words that fit them better, or it can be
that their actual feelings of gender or attraction change over time.
Evidently the homosexual community keeps adding initials
to their acronym as indicated by the last character “+”.The “LGBTQ+ Terminology”
pdf translates the “+” as “and others”. Unfortunately, the “and others”
is not addressed in the terminology pdf. There are plenty of terms however that
a Biblical Christian more than likely have an unfamiliarity.
The Urban
Dictionary defines “+” as “… meaning other sexualitys such
as pansexual, asexual and omnisexual extra.”
1: of, relating to, or
characterized by sexual desire or attraction that is not limited to people of a
particular
gender
identity or sexual orientation
·
Pansexual people
are attracted to all kinds of people, regardless of their gender, sex or
presentation. —Farhana Khan
Also: not solely homosexual
or heterosexual
·
The famous 0-6 scale … was
devised to chart sexual proclivities, from purely heterosexual (0) to purely
homosexual (6). Kinsey felt humans are pansexual (most falling
somewhere between 0 and 6), and restrictions imposed by society and religion
lead to sexual maladjustments. —Lisa C. Hickman
2: tending to suffuse all
experience and conduct with erotic feeling
·
Although Whitman's impulses
were homoerotic, he was pansexual in the sense that he could find
the driving force of something such as sex in almost everything … —Peter
Craven
— pansexual noun
·
A pansexual is
someone who can be attracted to males, females, transgender people and those
who identify as non-binary (not female or male). —Mel Evans
Evidently “pansexual” and “omnisexual” are similar yet
distinct. Check out this explanation from Affinity Magazine:
Throughout pride month I saw the
terms pansexual and omnisexual being used interchangeably.
However, they are not synonyms of each other (thus being why they each have
their own day during pride month); there is a big difference between the two
that needs to be acknowledged.
…
Both pansexual and omnisexual
are rather new words in relation to labeling sexualities, but both stem from
different languages.
The prefix pan- comes
from the Greek word ‘pan’ meaning all, while
the prefix omni- comes
from the Latin word ‘omni’, which also means all. But despite the fact
that both of the terms contain a prefix meaning ‘all’, there is still a key
difference between the two.
The key difference being the fact
that pansexuality is the attraction to people regardless of gender, meaning
that they could date a man, a woman, someone identifying as non-binary or
anyone else without said person’s gender playing a part in whether they date
them or have the capacity to love them. Whereas omnisexual is the attraction to
anyone despite their gender, meaning they could also date a man, a woman,
someone identifying as non-binary or anyone else, while noticing their gender
but not caring how they identify. (
What
Is The Difference Between Pansexuality And Omnisexuality? By
PIPPA LACEY;
Affinity
Magazine; 7/11/17)
WHAT in the godless world are these guys trying to
justify as natural!!!????
These explanations are NOT natural. They are not only unnatural;
these explanations literally demonstrate what rebellion against the Creator
looks like.
So
Ren Time
(
I’d be surprised if this is not a pseudonym), one may not find “LGBTQ+”
in the Bible, But those descriptions are definitely written off as ungodly
counter-Creator separating from the Presence of God practices.
The next question by Ren Time is a bit perplexing to
Christians that are fully aware that homosexuality is ungodly but and versed
well enough in the Word of God to respond with firm compassion. Ren Time then
asks, “The bible does say to "Love thy Neighbor as yourself"
Mark 12:31. So why are you against this?”
In rightly discerning God’s Word, one should discover that
under the New Covenant established by the Blood of Jesus in the torturous
whipping and Crucifixion of Jesus the price was paid for humanity’s inherited
sin bequeathed by Adam by believing Satan in Eden rather obeying God pertaining
to the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Christians should love the godly and the ungodly alike. BUT,
Christians should NOT support the practices of sin that separates humanity from
God’s Presence. That means Christians should freely condemn sin without being
the Judge/Executioner of sin. Redemption is about Forgiveness of sin,
Acceptance of contrition for sin and Restoration to the Presence of God.
This is when such oft used phrases as “Hate the sin and
not Sinner” should mean something. It is the place of Christians to use
acts of violence against the sinners that practice the various forms of
homosexuality especially after the law of the land has legalized the godless
practice.
The duty of a Christian is to pray for the ungodly just as
Jesus did even right from the Cross before spirit left His body:
Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive
them, for they do not know what they do.”
And they divided His
garments and cast lots. (Luke 23: 34
NKJV)
So indeed Ren Time, love your neighbor as yourself, but also
the heed the rest of the Word of God:
17 “Do not
think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy
but to fulfill.
18 For assuredly, I say to
you, till heaven and earth pass away, one
[a]jot or one
[b]tittle will by no means pass from the law
till all is fulfilled.
19 Whoever therefore breaks
one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called
least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches
them, he
shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20 For I
say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds
the righteousness of
the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew
5: 17-20
NKJV)
Here are some parting Words written in the Word of God about
the mission of Jesus Christ the Son of God to a world enveloped in darkness:
1 In the beginning was
the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He
was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made
through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
4 In
Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 And the
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not
[a]comprehend it.
9 That
[a] was the true Light which gives light
to every man coming into the world.
10 He was in the
world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know
Him.
11 He came to His
[b]own, and His
[c]own did not receive Him.
12 But as
many as received Him, to them He gave the
[d]right to become children of God, to those
who believe in His name:
13 who were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the
Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
(John 1: 1-5, 9-14
NKJV)
JRH 5/21/18
