I wrote the following sometime back. However, after reading it, I felt it might be offensive to some. But after reading some of this discussion I decided to re-write it and post it.
BE WARNED: Some may find some of this too graphic and offensive. If so, please accept my apology. But... I just feel its time to stop ignoring the elephant....
Doth not nature
itself teach you…. 1Co 11:14
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. -1 Tim 3:1-5
In having a biblical discussion with a Christian acquaintance recently about the freedoms we hold so dear (and, sadly, often take for granted,), my friend brought up his belief that the Constitution guarantees us the right to “…life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. He then dropped a bombshell by saying this makes the gay lifestyle okay. I had noticed that he rather sloppily changed the discussion from the Bible to politics. He also blundered by saying the Constitution, rather than the Declaration of Independence grants us the right he had quoted.
This is a favorite ploy of those promoting the gay agenda, They turn the discussion to politics. I’ll get into why God and the Bible is avoided like the plague in these types of discussion later.
The problem of all the gay rights rhetoric is that it ignores the big rainbow colored elephant in the middle of the room. Its only by ignoring the elephant that the gay rights agenda can be promoted. And its also by ignoring the elephant that those opposed to the gay agenda are being soundly defeated. That elephant is not gay marriage. Its not gay rights. Its gay sex. I know. Shocking, isn’t it? About as shocking as Paul when he wrote,
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 1Co 5:1. People just don’t talk about such things. Well, there’s the problem. We don’t talk about it. We ignore the elephant, and by doing so, the ol’ elephant is free to roam and do as he pleases. After all, he does have the unalienable right to “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, doesn’t he?
My friend didn’t want to talk about it. He said “its not all about sex”. He’s right. Marriage, any marriage, isn’t “just about sex“ . But lets face it… SEX is a major part of all marriages. I reminded him that he was the one that brought up the subject of gay marriages, and now that he had, we should talk about it with honesty and frankness.
Sex is a part of the gay lifestyle. Some may find this shocking and disgusting, but for the briefest of minutes, lets think about gay sex. Okay, that’s enough. Now, the question is,
“Doth not nature itself teach you….” this activity is against God’s plan? The primary purpose of marriage is procreation.
“Doth not nature itself teach….” us that procreation cannot be achieved without a male and female involved? I mean everything living that reproduces requires a male and female participant. Nature teaches us that. And, nature teaches us that the very primary and basic purpose of life on earth (i.e. procreation) can only be achieved by following God’s original plan.
Of course, there are those that will counter, “But sex isn’t just about procreation”. And, they are right. Sex is a part of a loving relationship between a married couple. It is an expression of love. It is a beautiful experience. But, again, for the briefest of seconds, lets stop to consider sex between members of the same sex. How is sex performed? As offensive and distasteful as this might be, we must face the facts. . To be blunt, for sexual penetration to be performed between, lets say, two males, body orifices that weren’t designed for insertion are penetrated. Painfully at first, I might add. Often, even damaging. There are a host of medical issues that are being risked when one engages in this type of unhealthy and un-natural activity.
“Does not nature itself teach you…“ this is wrong? The fact that life was created for the purpose of procreation should be enough to tell us that homosexuality is against nature and is therefore wrong. Procreation cannot be achieved without a male and female. This is true for birds, the bees and for humans. So, any deviation from the original plan of procreation is wrong.
But, some argue, it brings pleasure. Yes it may do that… but the question we must ask, if our pursuit of pleasure counters what God intends for us… doesn’t that make us
“lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God”? Doesn’t that put us in the category with those of whom Paul wrote:
“…. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness….”? I believe that passage ends with these words
“… from such turn away.”
Paul said in 1Co 11:14 “
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?” If nature taught Paul that long hair on a man was a shame, what did Paul think about what nature teaches about homosexuality? We can turn to
Romans 1 to find that out. And its here that we find out that homosexuality (and other sins, I might add) are symptomatic to an even greater sin in the human heart.
The “greater sin” that concerned Paul begin with
Rom. 1: 18 and continues to the end of the chapter. These people of whom Paul writes knew the truth of right and wrong but gave themselves over to the
“ungodliness and unrighteousness men”. They chose to pursue the wrong, They burned in their lustful hearts for that which satisfies the flesh. The imaginations became vain and the hearts became dark to the glorious Light of the Gospel. They felt they had a right to live their own life…. But when life is filled with lust, it leads to sin. And sin ends in death. Like the serpent in the Garden they pervert Gods Word and believe the lies spewing from hell. Listen to what Paul said:
Rom 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:
“Doth not nature tell you….” this is a sin?
Men …burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly (unnatural)…”
Doth not nature itself teach you… this is a sin in the eyes of God?
What greater sin can there be? Paul tells us :
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge….”. This is the root sin from which grown the ensnaring vines of all sin listed in
Rom. 1 and elsewhere. The gay community does not want this to be a spiritual or biblical discussion because in so doing they are forced to think about God.. They want this to be a political debate for there is no God in today’s political arena. They don’t want God in their thoughts let alone in any discussion because they can’t think about the holiness and righteousness of God while living an unholy and ungodly lifestyle. Of these Paul writes in
1 Thess 2: 11-12
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Doth not nature itself teach you…? Friend, if the pursuit of life ends in eternal death, then perhaps that’s no life at all. If your pursuit of liberty only brings you to bondage, then maybe you need the Truth which really set the captive free.. And if your pursuit of happiness brings you to shame and sorrow…. Maybe you should know there is joy in living your life in Jesus.
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