Wednesday, April 22, 2009

God's Opinion

Even those of us (like me) who do not watch beauty pageants or read celebrity magazines could have missed the outrage about the controversial answer that Miss California gave at the Miss USA pageant this year.

If you were asked your opinion about gay marriage would you have said that you did not agree with it?

Would you say that in front of a crowd of people?

Would you have said that on national television?

Would you have said it even though it meant that, in one moment, it made void everything you had been working on for months (if not years)?

She did it without hesitation.

She said it with conviction.

I hope that I would have the strength to do the same!

Not to pass up any opportunity to preach God’s word and to firmly stand by his commands when questioned. To say firmly to the world: "This is God's opinion and it is mine too!"


God's opinion about homosexuality:
"For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due."
—Romans 1:26-27 (NKJV)

"Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God."
—1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NKJV)

"Knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,"
—1 Timothy 1:9-10 (NKJV)

Making gay marriage legal is the same as if the law openly endorsed murder, extortion or lying.

If one switched the words "gay marriage" for anything else that God hates, most people would not have a problem with it. There would be no controversy on such topics such as murder or extortion.

But God does not only hate homosexuality.

Gay marriage is not the only thing people take pride in while disobeying God. People can boast about how many people they had slept with, or how much money they had received from "working under the table."

Gay pride is an easy one to pick on because it is such an easy one to see.

But how many times in a day do we lie? Or get angry? Or gossip?

Any form of sin separates us from God.

Don't continue in it.

God does not want us to continue in sin but instead wants us to change our hearts so that grace may abound.

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