It's truly sad that a "man of the cloth" would say something like this. YES, God loves His creation, but it's highly doubtful that He would deliberately "make someone gay," and then call that person’s sexual preferences an ABOMINATION! It seems as if the Pope is deliberately watering down YHWH’s Word for the purpose of enticing people into the pews of Catholic churches…
Leviticus 18: 22 - You are not to go to bed with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Deuteronomy 22:5 "A woman shall not wear man's clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.
Revelation 22:14-16: How blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they have the right to eat from the Tree of Life and go through the gates into the city! 15 Outside are the homosexuals, those who misuse drugs in connection with the occult, the sexually immoral, murderers, idol-worshippers, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10: "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters, nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:3: For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality....
According to Scripture, YHWH places sexually active homosexuals on the same level as murderers and liars:
1 Tim 1:9-11 - 9 We are aware that Torah is not for a person who is righteous, but for those who are heedless of Torah and rebellious, ungodly and sinful, wicked and worldly, for people who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers, 10 the sexually immoral - both heterosexual and homosexual - slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and anyone who acts contrary to the sound teaching 11 that accords with the Good News of the Glorious and blessed God.
Romans 1: 22 Claiming to be wise, they have become fools! 23 In fact, they have exchanged the glory of the immortal God for mere images, like a mortal human being, or like birds, animals or reptiles! 24 This is why God has given them up to the vileness of their hearts' lusts, to the shameful misuse of each other's bodies. 25 They have exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, by worshiping and serving created things, rather than the Creator - praised be he for ever. Amen. 26 This is why God has given them up to degrading passions; so that their women exchange natural sexual relations for unnatural; 27 and likewise the men, giving up natural relations with the opposite sex, burn with passion for one another, men committing shameful acts with other men and receiving in their own persons the penalty appropriate to their perversion.
28 In other words, since they have not considered God worth knowing, God has given them up to worthless ways of thinking; so that they do improper things. 29 They are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and vice; stuffed with jealousy, murder, quarreling, dishonesty and ill-will; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God; they are insolent, arrogant and boastful; they plan evil schemes; they disobey their parents; 31 they are brainless, faithless, heartless and ruthless. 32 They know well enough God's righteous decree that people who do such things deserve to die; yet not only do they keep doing them, but they applaud others who do the same.
Hi Carmen, I see this is an old post, yet ever more relevant and important. It's nice to see someone standing up for the truth. I don't know what Bible translation you use but you have got to try a King James Bible. It was translated from a different text than most modern Bibles (Most modern Bibles use the corrupt Alexandrian text).
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment! We use several different versions, including the Schocken Bible, Stern's Complete Jewish Bible, and the Aramaic English New Testament. I don't know why I didn't cite my references this time, as I usually do that!
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