created one man (Adam)
for one woman (Eve),
thereby creating His
plan for marriage and
physical intimacy within
the marriage. Please
keep reading to see
what Jesus taught
about marriage.
Genesis
2:21 And the LORD God
caused a deep sleep to fall
upon Adam, and he slept:
and he took one of his ribs,
and closed up the flesh
instead thereof;
2:22 And the rib, which the
LORD God had taken from
man, made he a woman,
and brought her unto the
man.
2:23 And Adam said,
2:23 And Adam said,
This is now bone of my
bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be
called Woman, because
she was taken out of
Man.
2:24 Therefore shall a man
2:24 Therefore shall a man
leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave
unto his wife: and they
shall be one flesh.
Jesus spoke of marriage as
Jesus spoke of marriage as
being of one man and one
woman. The Pharisees
(a sect among the Jews
that very strictly observed
their rules and traditions).
came to Jesus asking if
they could divorce their
wife for any reason.
This post is not about
divorce so I will just
give you the part
where Jesus repeats
God's plan for marriage
to be between one man
and one woman.
Matthew
19:4 And he answered and
said unto them, Have ye
not read, that he which
made them at the beginning
[God in heaven] made
them male and female,
19:5 And said, For this cause
shall a man leave father and
mother, and shall cleave to
his wife: and they twain
shall be one flesh?
19:6 Wherefore they are no
more twain, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath
joined together, let not
man put asunder.
I realize that the rest
of this Bible study is
a cause for controversy,
but the following Bible
verses are God's
warnings to us. I tell
you these things
because I do not want
you to suffer any of those
consequences.
thoroughly because when
I was in my preteen years
my mother chose to leave
my father and become a
homosexual (more on
that later in this post).
Later in her life she had
God in her life and she
came out of that lifestyle
and she became a
devoted Bible reader
and prayer warrior in her
church.
The following Bible verses
The following Bible verses
are God's warnings to us
because He says that
homosexuality is an
abomination to Him
(meaning something He
hates); and there are
consequences when any
of us sins against God
(sin is disobedience to
God).
Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with
Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lie with
mankind, as with
womankind: it is
abomination.
Verse 26 below says that men
Verse 26 below says that men
and women dishonor their
bodies by changing the
natural use of their bodies
"which is against nature"
(against what God designed
us to be - one man with one
woman). Verse 27 says
that they who do these
things (homosexuals)
receive in themselves
the recompense
(payment) of their error.
Perhaps that payment is
referring to the
consequence of the Aids
virus?
When the first man Adam
When the first man Adam
sinned he gave up dominion
of the world (which originally
God had given to him), and
God allowed Satan (the
fallen angel Lucifer renamed
Satan) to take over the
world - temporarily.
God allows Satan to do stuff
to us (usually to get our
attention and bring us to
repentance of our sin and
back into a restored
relationship with God in
heaven). We know this is
true because God gave
Satan power to do bad stuff
to Job, but he also told
Satan he was not to kill
Job. Satan has no power
unless God allows him to.
Satan is an angel that
was created by God.
Romans
1:24 Wherefore God also
gave them up to
uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts,
to dishonour their own
bodies between
themselves:
1:25 Who changed the truth
of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the
creature more than the
Creator, who is blessed for
ever. Amen.
1:26 For this cause God gave
them up* unto vile affections:
for even their women did
change the natural use into
that which is against nature:
them to do exactly what they
wanted to do, even though it
was against what God had
created them to do (marry
one woman to one man).
God is not a bully. He will
not force us to obey Him.
He wants us to obey Him
out of our love for Him.
1:27 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*.
[*suitable]
In the following Bible history
account the men of Sodom
demanded that Lot send out
the men who were visiting in
Lot's home. Lot's visitors
were actually angels who
had come to warn Lot to
get out of Sodom before
God destroyed the city. The
city's men wanted to force
these visitors to have sex
with them. God says that
sodomy is an abomination to
Him. Read further to see
what God did to Sodom
because of their sin of
homosexuality.
14:22 And Judah [the
northern kingdom of Israel]
did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and they provoked
him to jealousy with their
sins which they had
committed, above all that
their fathers had done.
14:24 And there were also
14:24 And there were also
sodomites in the land: and
they did according to all the
abominations of the nations
which the LORD cast out
before the children of Israel.
God destroyed Sodom and
God destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrha because of their
sins of fornication and
"going after strange flesh"
(homosexuality); and God
said that they will suffer
the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jude
1:5 I will therefore put you in
Jude
1:5 I will therefore put you in
remembrance, though ye
once knew this, how that
the Lord, having saved the
people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed
them that believed not.
1:6 And the angels which
1:6 And the angels which
kept not their first estate,
but left their own habitation,
he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under
darkness unto the
judgment of the great day.
1:7 Evan as Sodom and
1:7 Evan as Sodom and
Gomorrha, and the cities
about them in like manner,
giving themselves over to
fornication, and going
after strange flesh, are
set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance
of eternal fire.
The Bible says that in the
The Bible says that in the
'Last Days' (we're living in
the Last Days now) sin
shall abound, including
homosexuality ("without
natural affection") instead
of living in a God-ordained
sexual relationship
between one man and
one woman inside of
marriage.
2 Timothy
3:1 This know also, that in
2 Timothy
3:1 This know also, that in
the last days perilous times
shall come.
3:2 For men shall be lovers
3:2 For men shall be lovers
of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy,
3:3 Without natural affection,
3:3 Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers
of those that are good,
3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded,
3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more
than lovers of God;
3:5 Having a form of
3:5 Having a form of
godliness, but denying the
power thereof: from such
turn away.
3:6 For of this sort are they
3:6 For of this sort are they
which creep into houses,
and lead captive silly women
laden with sins, led away
with divers lusts,
3:7 Ever learning, and never
3:7 Ever learning, and never
able to come to the
knowledge of the truth.
My dear Mother was not
My dear Mother was not
born a homosexual. She
had been married twice, and
she had had a child with
each of her husbands. But
when Mom was a very
small girl she was assaulted
twice. The first assault was
committed by a group of
older boys who knocked
her down on her way
home from school. They
took off her underpants and
stood around looking at her
young naked body! Mom
was so embarrassed and
humiliated by this assault
that she never even told her
mother about it! The second
assault happened when a
much older girl caught Mom
(who was still a very young
girl at the time) on her way
home from school and forced
her to go behind a house
and commit a homosexual act
with her. The girl threatened
Mom afterwards that she
would kill Mom if she ever
told what the girl had forced
her to do! Remember, Mom
was just a little girl at the
time; and she was scared
of this older, bigger girl.
Mom also never told her mom
or either of her husbands
why she was so 'frigid'
around men, because she
was embarrassed about
these assaults. She told
me that she felt guilty about
them - as if she had done
something wrong to
encourage these assaults!
She knew that that didn't
make sense to blame
herself, but it was what she
felt. I only found out about
her experiences when I was
about 40 years old; and she
broke down crying and told
me how she was still hurt
by the memory of these
assaults that happened to her
more than 60 years before!
Many of Mom's homosexual
friends said that that is also
how they came to be involved
in the same-sex lifestyle -
after they had been assaulted
or seduced by a trusted friend
or family member. They were
not born that way! When Mom
left my Dad for a woman, she
later told me that she felt that
that girl who had forced her to
commit that homosexual act
so many years before must
have chosen Mom for a
reason! Wow! So, my precious
Mom actually thought that she
was meant to become a
homosexual - just because
that girl who had assaulted
her thought Mom was an
easy to threaten choice to
commit her homosexual
assault on! What power Mom
gave that girl over her life!
How sad. That homosexual
lifestyle caused my Mom so
much pain and heartache.
The information from God's
Word is a warning, dear
reader. I hope that you will
take heed. God wants you
to spend eternity in heaven
with him, but he cannot be
around sin. God says that
we are all sinners; but
God made THE way for us
to be washed clean of those
sins so we can choose to
spend eternity in heaven
with him where there is no
more pain, heartache, or
tears, or sorrow.
Here is a link to a
short post I did on
how to be saved from
our sins and know that
we will go to heaven
when we die. This is
why I no longer fear
what comes after death.
What hope, joy, and
peace there is in
knowing that my
future will be in
heaven with my
loving Saviour,
Jesus Christ.