Jesus and Homosexual "Marriage"

The argument for “sameSex marriage” often includes the myth that Jesus didn’t say anything against homosexuality, and his alleged silence on the issue is taken as support. This idea could only be proposed successfully among people who are ignorant of the Jesus of the Bible and who are committed to an imaginary “Jesus” created in their own image. It is an idea that resonates with a generation that is in love with the false christ of The Shack. The Jesus of the Bible upheld the covenant of Genesis 2, which is foundational to the Bible’s teaching on marriage and to the entire issue of biblical morality. When asked about His position on divorce, Jesus replied: “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 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? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Matthew 19:4-6). Jesus, therefore, emphatically upheld “traditional” one man/one woman marriage. In reality, those clamoring for “sameSex marriage” aren't opposed merely to a few “hard-nosed” Christians, they are opposed to Jesus himself, at whose name “every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and ... every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10).

(Friday Church News Notes, April 12, 2013, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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