When the subject of marriage becomes a
political football, we had best educate ourselves.
Marriage was God's idea. He invented it. And it
is for a man and a woman only. It is
ridiculous for the issue to even be "voted on".
The issue of homosexuality involves us with God
also:
"Those who advocate full acceptance of
homosexual behavior choose to downplay the growing
and incontrovertible evidence regarding the serious,
life-threatening health effects associated with the
homosexual lifestyle. Homosexual advocacy groups
have a moral duty to disseminate medical information
that might dissuade individuals from entering or
continuing in an inherently unhealthy and dangerous
lifestyle. "
No loving parent would fail to warn their
children of the dangers of drinking poison or playing
with a cobra, yet so many of us walk away from our
responsibility by relegating it to a matter of "personal
choices". (Most likely because that parent is so
involved themselves). Do I dare to say the same
of ministers, priests, rabbis, and other religious
leaders?
Whether we agree or not, our
Heavenly Father's love for us is one of the
reasons He forbids it.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE ONLY REASON!
Our bodies were not only His creation, but were
made to be inhabited by His SPIRIT!
Consider this:
"Bringing an idol into God's holy temple
and worshipping it there or sacrificing a pig on the
altar of the Lord (as done by
Antiochus Epiphanes about 200 years
before the crucifixion) was about the most
defiling attack that could be made on the
temple. This act was be seen as direct attacks on
God's temple, joining God's holy dwelling place with
false gods.'
In like manner, our bodies are
specifically identified as the temple of the
Lord,* and joining it in any act of
adultery, fornication, homosexuality,
beastiality, or any other forbidden sexual act is
a direct attack on that holy temple. Even thinking
about or lusting after makes us guilty. It is a spiritual
attack directly against the dwelling place of the
Holy Spirit!
If for unbelievers (Antiochus) it
was an abomination, how much more for a
believer?
MARY E ADAMS