Homosexuality and JESUS—the SON of GOD, part 2
Recommended: the CD “How to Think Like a Christian.” This CD is or should be a reminder to all Christians!
I suggest you check out the following website if you are a policy holder of Farmers Insurance Group or thinking about having them insure you in any capacity: http://www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com/
https://affiliates.visionforum.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=367
The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”
Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.
I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:
September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.
Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.
How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?
Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers
“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)
http://www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com/
http://www.childpredators.com/
http://www.lifedynamics.com/
http://www.libertylegal.org/
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/
http://www.searchtv.org/
“Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, ‘Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!’
Jesus replied, ‘And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ he is not to ‘honor his father’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, ‘Listen and understand. What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’’
Then the disciples came to him and asked, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?’
He replied, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.’
Peter said, ‘Explain the parable to us.’
‘Are you still so dull?’ Jesus asked them. ‘Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man ‘unclean.’ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man ‘unclean’; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him ‘unclean.’’” Matthew 15: 1-20 (NIV)
“The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were ‘unclean,’ that is, unwashed. (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.)
So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, ‘Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with ‘unclean’ hands?’
He replied, ‘Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’ You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.’
And he said to them: ‘You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.’
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, ‘Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’’
After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. ‘Are you so dull?’ he asked. ‘Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach,
and then out of his body.’ (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods ‘clean.’)
He went on: ‘What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’’” Mark 7: 1-23 (NIV)
Both of the passages in Matthew and Mark list EVILS that come from the heart of a person. Matthew lists seven EVILS and Mark lists thirteen EVILS as given by JESUS, the SON of GOD. Matthew’s entire list is included in Mark’s list. (Mark uses the term deceit while Matthew refers to false testimony.) Both include in this list of evils: SEXUAL IMMORALITY, adultery, murder, and theft. All of these as well as others given are EVILS as identified by JESUS. They are SINS that make a person “unclean.” JESUS is an Israelite speaking to other Israelites. All knowledgeable Israelites familiar with the law of Moses as given by GOD knew that SEXUAL IMMORALITY includes HOMOSEXUAL behavior as given in Leviticus Chapter 18. Therefore, JESUS is definitely identifying HOMOSEXUALITY as a SIN that makes a person “unclean” because it is an EVIL that comes from the heart. JESUS says nothing about genetic traits forcing a person to commit a HOMOSEXUAL act. HOMOSEXUALITY is an action that results in SIN and is EVIL. That conclusion can not be denied based upon the text. Opposition to HOMOSEXUAL acts is not a tradition of the Pharisees, teachers of the law, or a tradition of the elders. It is a command of GOD and JESUS includes it as one of a number of EVILS that come from the heart of a person.
“[The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7: 53-8: 11.]” The Holy Bible, New International Version, © 1984 by International Bible Society, published by Zondervan, page 903.
“Then each went to his own home.
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand
before the group and said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?’ They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, ‘If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.’ Again he stooped down and wrote on
the ground.
At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, ‘Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?’
‘No one, sir,’ she said.
‘Then neither do I condemn you,’ Jesus declared. ‘Go now and leave your life of sin.’” John 7: 53 and John 8: 1-11 (NIV)
Some people have tried to use these verses to argue that just as JESUS did not condemn the woman caught in adultery, which is a SIN according to the law of Moses, neither should HOMOSEXUALS be condemned for their acts of HOMOSEXUALITY. However, they ignore important points of the incident. First, JESUS has proclaimed that adultery is a SIN. Second, JESUS has proclaimed that HOMOSEXUALITY is a SIN. JESUS did not condemn her for her adultery at that point in time. HE did not say that she would not be condemned for her adultery on the Day of Judgment. In fact, HE specifically warns her to “Go now and leave your life of sin.” JESUS recognized that she was living a life of SIN. JESUS emphatically warns her to leave that life of SIN. It is reasonable to believe that HE would also warn people who are living a HOMOSEXUAL lifestyle to “leave your life of sin.” That is, stop living a HOMOSEXUAL lifestyle. The Bible and JESUS are clear. A life of SIN is not compatible with spending eternity in Heaven with GOD.
Finally, nowhere in the gospels is there any indication that JESUS ever tolerated SIN. Nowhere in the gospels is there any indication that genetic traits are to be considered in determining what is SIN and what is not SIN. Nowhere in the gospels is there any indication that HOMOSEXUAL acts are a positive lifestyle or a positive activity even for the individuals involved in those activities. Nowhere in the gospels is there any indication that JESUS was neutral toward HOMOSEXUAL acts. JESUS does however condemn SEXUAL IMMORALITY including HOMOSEXUALITY as EVIL!
In conclusion, it can not be denied that according to the Bible—the WORD of GOD—marriage is between one man and one woman period! This, according to GOD, is true from the beginning! This, according to GOD, is true during the time JESUS walked and taught on this earth! This, according to GOD, is true today! This, according to GOD, is true until JESUS—the SON of GOD—returns to call all to the Day of Judgment. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is a historical fact accomplished by GOD to punish the inhabitants for SIN including the SIN of HOMOSEXUALITY. JESUS condemned SEXUAL IMMORALITY including HOMOSEXUALITY as EVIL and, therefore, as SIN.
Recommended: the CD “How to Think Like a Christian.” This CD is or should be a reminder to all Christians!
I suggest you check out the following website if you are a policy holder of Farmers Insurance Group or thinking about having them insure you in any capacity: http://www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com/
https://affiliates.visionforum.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=367
The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”
Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.
I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:
September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.
Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.
How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?
Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers
“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)
http://www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com/
http://www.childpredators.com/
http://www.lifedynamics.com/
http://www.libertylegal.org/
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/
http://www.searchtv.org/
“Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, ‘Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!’
Jesus replied, ‘And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ he is not to ‘honor his father’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, ‘Listen and understand. What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’’
Then the disciples came to him and asked, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?’
He replied, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.’
Peter said, ‘Explain the parable to us.’
‘Are you still so dull?’ Jesus asked them. ‘Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man ‘unclean.’ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man ‘unclean’; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him ‘unclean.’’” Matthew 15: 1-20 (NIV)
“The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were ‘unclean,’ that is, unwashed. (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.)
So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, ‘Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with ‘unclean’ hands?’
He replied, ‘Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’ You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.’
And he said to them: ‘You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God), then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.’
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, ‘Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a man can make him ‘unclean’ by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him ‘unclean.’’
After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. ‘Are you so dull?’ he asked. ‘Don’t you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him ‘unclean’? For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach,
and then out of his body.’ (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods ‘clean.’)
He went on: ‘What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man ‘unclean.’’” Mark 7: 1-23 (NIV)
Both of the passages in Matthew and Mark list EVILS that come from the heart of a person. Matthew lists seven EVILS and Mark lists thirteen EVILS as given by JESUS, the SON of GOD. Matthew’s entire list is included in Mark’s list. (Mark uses the term deceit while Matthew refers to false testimony.) Both include in this list of evils: SEXUAL IMMORALITY, adultery, murder, and theft. All of these as well as others given are EVILS as identified by JESUS. They are SINS that make a person “unclean.” JESUS is an Israelite speaking to other Israelites. All knowledgeable Israelites familiar with the law of Moses as given by GOD knew that SEXUAL IMMORALITY includes HOMOSEXUAL behavior as given in Leviticus Chapter 18. Therefore, JESUS is definitely identifying HOMOSEXUALITY as a SIN that makes a person “unclean” because it is an EVIL that comes from the heart. JESUS says nothing about genetic traits forcing a person to commit a HOMOSEXUAL act. HOMOSEXUALITY is an action that results in SIN and is EVIL. That conclusion can not be denied based upon the text. Opposition to HOMOSEXUAL acts is not a tradition of the Pharisees, teachers of the law, or a tradition of the elders. It is a command of GOD and JESUS includes it as one of a number of EVILS that come from the heart of a person.
“[The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do not have John 7: 53-8: 11.]” The Holy Bible, New International Version, © 1984 by International Bible Society, published by Zondervan, page 903.
“Then each went to his own home.
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand
before the group and said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?’ They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, ‘If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.’ Again he stooped down and wrote on
the ground.
At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, ‘Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?’
‘No one, sir,’ she said.
‘Then neither do I condemn you,’ Jesus declared. ‘Go now and leave your life of sin.’” John 7: 53 and John 8: 1-11 (NIV)
Some people have tried to use these verses to argue that just as JESUS did not condemn the woman caught in adultery, which is a SIN according to the law of Moses, neither should HOMOSEXUALS be condemned for their acts of HOMOSEXUALITY. However, they ignore important points of the incident. First, JESUS has proclaimed that adultery is a SIN. Second, JESUS has proclaimed that HOMOSEXUALITY is a SIN. JESUS did not condemn her for her adultery at that point in time. HE did not say that she would not be condemned for her adultery on the Day of Judgment. In fact, HE specifically warns her to “Go now and leave your life of sin.” JESUS recognized that she was living a life of SIN. JESUS emphatically warns her to leave that life of SIN. It is reasonable to believe that HE would also warn people who are living a HOMOSEXUAL lifestyle to “leave your life of sin.” That is, stop living a HOMOSEXUAL lifestyle. The Bible and JESUS are clear. A life of SIN is not compatible with spending eternity in Heaven with GOD.
Finally, nowhere in the gospels is there any indication that JESUS ever tolerated SIN. Nowhere in the gospels is there any indication that genetic traits are to be considered in determining what is SIN and what is not SIN. Nowhere in the gospels is there any indication that HOMOSEXUAL acts are a positive lifestyle or a positive activity even for the individuals involved in those activities. Nowhere in the gospels is there any indication that JESUS was neutral toward HOMOSEXUAL acts. JESUS does however condemn SEXUAL IMMORALITY including HOMOSEXUALITY as EVIL!
In conclusion, it can not be denied that according to the Bible—the WORD of GOD—marriage is between one man and one woman period! This, according to GOD, is true from the beginning! This, according to GOD, is true during the time JESUS walked and taught on this earth! This, according to GOD, is true today! This, according to GOD, is true until JESUS—the SON of GOD—returns to call all to the Day of Judgment. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is a historical fact accomplished by GOD to punish the inhabitants for SIN including the SIN of HOMOSEXUALITY. JESUS condemned SEXUAL IMMORALITY including HOMOSEXUALITY as EVIL and, therefore, as SIN.
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