IT DOESN’T HAPPEN NATURALLY

IT DOESN’T HAPPEN NATURALLY*

You make a choice. It is a decision. You are what all of us are...one or the other. There is no difference except the decision you make to rebel against the Word of God. One man is to be with one woman or one woman is to be with one man. When we do anything else it is a cognitive decision to violate the expressed will of God. It is a choice. Romans 1:26-27 says, “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: (v.27) and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense (payment) of their error which was meet (appropriate).”

It is not natural. In other words, it is not of nature, i.e. it is not a part of God’s design. Anything can be called ‘normal’ as long as a certain number of people participate. But that in no way makes it proper, right or divinely sanctioned. You were not born that way. It is sin. If it is repented of and turned away from it can be forgiven like all other sin. Otherwise, it becomes open rebellion against God.

It is the very absence of love. Homosexuality is a matter of sin and its consequences, not love. Love seeks the very best for the other person (I Cor. 13:4-6) including a right relationship with God. However, in a homosexual lifestyle each is actively causing and/or encouraging the other to sin against God and to remain in that unsaved state. Thereby, neither individual is ever able to achieve a proper relationship with God. And so, they are so focused on their own sexual pleasure, they are willing to allow the other person to spend eternity in hell to satisfy themselves. If they truly got saved or born-again they would have to repent and turn away from this sin. So, instead they selfishly choose the eternal damnation of the other person. It is not, and cannot ever be love. Homosexuality is a form of sexual perversion which is just as morally and socially destructive as alcoholism, heroin addiction, pornography, bestiality, pedophilia or cannibalism (which is acceptable, and seen as normal, in some societies even today). It is not natural or healthy or in any way an act of love. It is sin against God and a vile and vulgar sexual perversion regardless of how ‘natural’ an ungodly world tries to tell us it is.

In fact, homosexuality takes on a more heinous sense of sin in Biblical imagery because of God’s use of the marriage union in the Bible. In the Old Testament Israel is represented as the wife of God in many passages. And in the New Testament the Church is seen as the Bride of Christ. One of the reasons that God gave us the marriage union was to aid in our identifying with Him and to clarify some aspects of our relationship to Him. Homosexuality violates that union and hence, distorts and pollutes the very image of our relationship with God.

Every Biblical reference to homosexuality in the Bible is negative and most are met with the judgment of God. Leviticus 18:22ff says, “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” The opening of this passage is clear enough. Even if nothing else were to be said anywhere in Scripture this is clear, “Thou shalt not….” He then also addresses bestiality. And combining several of these sexual sins the text makes it clear that God’s judgment came as a direct result of these sins. Does God have to judge us personally before we finally understand? Homosexuality is sin.

One can only choose to obey God or to disobey God. There is no middle ground. And that decision brings with it eternal reward, or consequence beyond human comprehension. Disobedience to God’s command reveals the condition of the human heart. In Psalm 14:1 we read, “The fool hath said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” Anyone committing this sin is doing something which is a disgusting thing, abomination, abominable (from the Hebrew ‘taw-ab’). It is not an expression of love, it is not good in any way, it is vile and abominable.

And so, engaging in a homosexual relationship is to be involved in something God says is abominable, something that He will judge. It is to so selfishly seek one’s own pleasure that there is a willingness to allow the other person to never find a loving relationship with God and to allow them to suffer the agonies of Hell for all of eternity. One would never say to someone, “I love you, but I really don’t care if you are tormented for all of eternity just as long as I can have perverted sexual pleasure today.” But this is precisely what a homosexual relationship does say. It is sin. It is an abomination to God. It is not natural.

*This article is written with no angry tones, but an earnest call to repentance from this sin and all sin. And with the understanding that people must recognize that it truly is sin.