Recently, a friend of mine who is a Pastor in New England went to a weekly community Pastor’s meeting and he was polled as to some of his opinions regarding sodomy. He sent me a copy of the poll and I’ve answered only a few of the questions here. It was quickly clear that this poll is what is known in the political activist business as a “push poll.” A push poll is an opinion poll whose real purpose is to influence people’s opinions rather than to collect information about them. Push polls often rely on innuendo or knowledge gleaned from opposition research on a subject. Push polls have as their purpose to confirm the desired opinion held by those conducting the poll and the questions are often either biased or indefinite by the way they are phrased, thus allowing their interpretation to be spun as favorable to the pollsters doing the polling. In this push poll questions were worded to make the position of acceptance of sodomy more rational and compassionate. The traditional position which opposes sodomy appeared unreasonable and rigorous. In push polls the phrasing of the language is everything.
Dear Pastor,
What practical dilemmas do you encounter related to homosexuality or same-sex marriage? (for example, situations at church, in your family, at work, or at school).
The largest practical dilemma I face is the necessity to repeatedly show from Scripture that sodomy is sin. However, because sodomy and sodomite marriage is being pushed on us in culture and in the Church in every quarter and because the Church is constantly being bombarded with the message that, “to oppose sodomy and speak against sodomy is hateful” it makes it difficult, as a Pastor, to give the Biblical message that it is the most loving thing in the world to speak out against sodomy and sodomite marriage.
So the chief dilemma I have, as a Pastor, is to help congregants hold on to the idea that sodomy and unrepentant sodomite “sex” and sodomite marriage is an offensive sin before God almighty and is a sure sign of God’s judgment against a people for their rebelling against Him. I have the dilemma that fewer and fewer people believe that sodomy and sodomite marriage is the consequence of God “turning them over (Romans 1).”
Another dilemma I have is how “God’s love” is used as a blanket phrase to somehow excuse all sins but no less the sin of sodomy and sodomite marriage. It’s as if the idea of God’s love is interpreted to be the equivalent of the love of a whore or a gigolo.
Finally, another dilemma that crops up frequently is the idea of how as Christians we are not to Judge therefore we can’t judge against sodomy and sodomite marriage.
Pastor,
What do you see as the most pressing questions for your congregation in regards to same-sex attracted people and/or same-sex marriage?
The congregation I serve, unknown possible exceptions notwithstanding, have no pressing questions. They pretty much uniformly realize that sodomy and sodomite marriage is sin and that God can forgive this sin and that the Church must be declaiming against this cultural sin du-jour, while tenderly shepherding former sodomites who repent and join themselves to Christ’s Church.
Pastor,
What are your greatest fears, if any, concerning same-sex marriage?
I have no fears.
Here are my concerns.
1.) I am concerned that the sodomite agenda is about destroying heterosexual marriage. See the links below that discuss this.
see — http://salvomag.com/blog/2013/03/five-gay-marriage-myths/
see — http://www.peter-ould.net/2012/12/07/gay-marriage-and-the-effect-on-heterosexual-marriage/
2.) People will begin to believe sodomite marriage is possible. Sodomite marriage is no more possible then being an accomplished rider of a two wheeled unicycle can be accomplished. Sodomite marriage is no more possible then the drawing of a square circle. Sodomite marriage is not possible given the very definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. Are we forgetting the Scripture by even talking about the possibility that sane Christians can subscribe to “sodomite marriage?” Will we advocate next that Christians subscribe to the reality of Fairies and Goblins?
3.) I am greatly concerned that the Church is going to rebel against God on this matter by normalizing sodomy and sodomite marriage and so diminish His glory among men and incur His wrath.
4.) I am greatly concerned that the souls of sodomites, that are precious to God, will end up being confirmed in their sin and be told that God loves them “just the way they are,” in their unrepentant sodomite behavior. I am concerned over how hateful and cruel any action that “normalizes” sodomy or sodomite marriage would be, to yet unrepentant, practicing sodomites.
5.) I am greatly concerned that humanistic sociology and psychology will be used to reinterpret the clear teaching of Scripture that forbids sodomite behavior. I am concerned that passages like Romans 1, I Corinthians 9, and Galatians 5 will be reinterpreted via a LGBT sacred canopy.
What are your greatest hopes, if any, concerning same-sex marriage?
My greatest hope is that sodomite marriage will be seen as an absurdity and will be recognized as always characteristic of a social order about to flame out. My greatest hope includes that men and women will be set free by the Lord Christ to repent of their sins, whatever those sins might be.
Resources I recommend,
Homosexuality; A Biblical View — Dr. Greg Bahnsen
Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation & Political Control — Dr. E. Michael Jones
Degenerate Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior — Dr. E. Michael Jones
Redeeming the Rainbow — Scott Lively
Oh, praise my Father’s Holy name,
And lift it up on high.
For even though I lack the know,
My God knows how and why.
I often maze at why he “lets,”
The evil spread on earth.
For they are butter, earth is bread,
The government is a knife.
They scrape the jam from off the bread,
And butter takes it’s place.
Chaos reigns throughout the land,
And nothing tastes quite right.
Though through the pain and misery,
I know who holds us all.
A hand that holds the knife and spread
Another holds the bread.
He knows what happens here on earth,
And does not fall asleep.
He simply carries out his plan,
Which in the end will praise his name.
Someday the hand will hold the knife,
And scrape the butter from bread.
Replace it with his homemade jam,
Of which he loves the taste.
God’s hand is that which holds the knife,
The knife is law and rule.
The butter is His enemies,
And His Christians are the jam.
-Rebecca Bacon
Inspired by recent events, which have God’s Christian’s running around pulling their hair out (this obviously doesn’t include Pastor)and screaming at the top of their lungs in insanity.
My prayer when I learned of said recent events:
Dear God,
I know that many of us may be rather frustrated right now or may be weary from battling our enemy these past few days.
So I pray that one, many people will see my poem and remember that no matter how crazy or insane our enemy is (the joker from batman comes to mind when I think of how crazy they are), they will find rest under your sheltering wings.
And two, that you would turn the wicked. And Lord, if they would not be turned, I pray you would destroy them. For they defile your Holy name and believe that what they do is right.
In the name of your Son Jesus Christ I pray all these things, Amen.