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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Homosexuality: Not a "Sin" nor a "Free" Choice


The Bible says that homosexuality is not “wrong” or “unclean” for everyone!

The apostle Paul states in Romans 14: 14 that no act is “unclean” in and of itself, but an act is only “unclean” to a person who thinks a particular act is “unclean.”  So, a homosexual act would be “wrong” or “unclean” for me as I am a heterosexual male and do not desire males in that way.  On the contrary, a heterosexual act would be “wrong” or “unclean” for a homosexual male that does not desire women.

Jesus states in Luke 12: 57, “Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?”                                        
Jesus clearly states that you should judge for yourself what is right or wrong. However, this does not mean to judge other people on what is right or wrong for them. It simply means you should judge what is right or wrong for yourself. So, being homosexual may be right for one person and wrong for another person as it all depends on how each individual person feels about being homosexual, and not about how other people feel about being homosexual.

Jesus states in Mark 7: 15 that “Nothing outside a man can make him unclean by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man (or how a man treats other people) that makes him unclean.” 


You should only judge another person on how they treat other people!

Verse 13 clearly states for you, as a person, to not condemn other people for their sexual preference, but to only condemn people who act with the intent to only hurt or offend other people.

In Romans 14: 13, the apostle Paul states:
13Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother's way. 


Verse 19 states to strive and live peaceably with one another and to help one another!  Judging people because of a different sexual preference, race, weight, because they are a believer of a different faith, or ANY REASON other than how they treat others is WRONG and SINFUL as it creates division among us, as people in general, and spreads negativity in our world which is the opposite of striving to live PEACEFUL with one another as Verse 19 states! 

Verse 20 states ALL things are PURE!  As previously stated in Verse 13, the ONLY basis we should judge or condemn other people is if a person is acting with the intent to only hurt, harm, or offend someone else!  If everyone understood and lived by this concept, then there literally would be peace on earth!

In Romans 14: (19-20), the apostle Paul states:
19Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another
20All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence

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Delusion in Christianity: "Free" Will

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Delusion in Christianity: “Free” Will
I understand why people believe in free will as we, as human beings, do make choices all the time. However, the choices we make are not “free” choices. God controls man through man’s spirit, according to the Bible. A good example of this in the Bible is when God continually hardens Pharaoh’s heart (spirit). God controls Pharaoh so that Pharaoh will act according to God’s purpose and God’s timing. Scripture continually states that God hardens Pharaoh’s heart so that Pharaoh would not let Moses’ people go until the time at which God had appointed for Pharaoh to let Moses’ people go. God once again hardened Pharaoh’s heart so that Pharaoh would chase after Moses’ people. God clearly controls Pharaoh, and Pharaoh is not acting out of his “free” will to choose. Yes, Pharaoh does choose not to let Moses’ people go, but this is only after God had hardened Pharaoh’s heart. Yes, Pharaoh does choose to chase after Moses’ people, but only after God had hardened Pharaoh’s heart.


In two more different instances, God causes people to act according to God’s will and not their own “free” will. In one instance, God causes men to kill one another. In another instance, the Lord hardens the Anakites’ hearts just as God hardened Pharaoh’s heart. God hardened the Anakites’ hearts to make the Anakites declare war upon Israel so God could totally destroy the Anakites without mercy. Once again, the Anakites did not “freely” choose to attack Israel. God made the Anakites attack Israel by hardening the Anakites’ hearts. The Bible clearly states that man does not have “free” will. Man is always acting according to God’s will.


Exodus 11: 10
10 and the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land


Exodus 14: 4
4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them.


Judges 7: 22
22 When three hundred trumpets sounded, the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords.


Joshua 11: 20-21
20 For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 21 At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns.



In conclusion, the beauty in seeing God this way is that everyone is made and acts perfectly according to God’s will for God’s purpose. It is not your “free” choice to be homosexual or heterosexual. It is not your “free” choice to be an atheist or a believer in God. So, you should not judge other people on what is right or wrong for them; you should judge matters for yourself on what is right or wrong for you, as the scripture states.


Luke 12: 57
57 “Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?”

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