Homosexuality and Paul’s other letters

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September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
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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”
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January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
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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”

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The books of the New Testament from Romans to Hebrews (fourteen books in all) are generally considered to be written by Paul as inspired by the HOLY SPIRIT. Throughout these books Paul specifically declares that his teachings and writings are directed, guided, given by the HOLY SPIRIT. At least once, Paul makes reference to Sodom and Gomorrah as a historical event. At least seventeen times, Paul identifies SEXUAL IMMORALITY including HOMOSEXUAL acts as a SIN that should not occur and that will be punished by GOD—declaring in several instances that the SEXUALLY IMMORAL will not inherit the kingdom of GOD and of CHRIST. (In only five of his fourteen books, Paul does not mention SEXUAL IMMORALITY by name. In two instances he wrote two letters. In the first letter he discusses SEXUAL IMMORALITY and in the second [These two books are II Thessalonians and II Timothy.] he does not make a specific reference.) At least twice, Paul writes about marriage and in each instance declares emphatically that marriage is between a man and a woman and does not make allowances for any other type of arrangement.

In chapters 5 & 6 of I Corinthians, Paul’s theme is SEXUAL IMMORALITY in the church or body of CHRIST. Starting in I Corinthians 6: 9-20 (NIV), he declares “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

‘Everything is permissible for me’—but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible for me’—but I will not be mastered by anything. ‘Food for the stomach and the stomach for food’—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, ‘The two will become one flesh.’ But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.”

In this quoted passage, Paul states emphatically that the WICKED will not inherit the kingdom of GOD. He lists specific SINS that will prevent a person from inheriting the kingdom of GOD. “Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” I Corinthians 6: 9b-10 (NIV) First, he identifies the broad group of the SEXUALLY IMMORAL. Then he identifies specific kinds of SEXUAL IMMORALITY including adulterers, male prostitutes, and HOMOSEXUAL offenders. He is very specific. HOMOSEXUAL offenders will not inherit the kingdom of GOD. Finally, all Christians everywhere and on every occasion must “Flee from sexual immorality.” If we live in SIN, we will die in SIN. Those who die in SIN will not inherit the kingdom of GOD. Can any truth of the Bible be clearer?

Immediately after Paul’s discussion of SEXUAL IMMORALITY in Chapter 5 and 6, he devotes most of chapter 7 to marriage. In relation to our topic of HOMOSEXUALITY, the significance of chapter 7 is the continuing references to marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. Marriage is for a man and a woman to each other. No reference is made of any type of a relationship between a man and a man or a woman and a woman. This is understandable since in the previous two chapters Paul specifically declares that HOMOSEXUAL behavior is a SIN and those who are engaged in such acts will not inherit the kingdom of GOD. Paul would not nor should any Christian ever sanction a relationship of SIN. As Paul states in I Corinthians 11: 8-9 (NIV), “For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.” Woman was created for man! Man was not created for man. Woman was not created for woman. Woman was created for man and they are joined together in marriage. No human society or practice can alter that fact. Marriage is between a man and a woman.

Paul also refers to SEXUAL IMMORALITY in I Corinthians 10: 1-13 (NIV) as he discusses the SINS of the Hebrew people while in the wilderness after leaving Egypt. He concludes that section by stating “These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.” I Corinthians 10: 11-13 (NIV)

In II Corinthians, Paul makes only one specific reference to SEXUAL SIN. II Corinthians 12: 19-21 (NIV) In Galatians 5: 13-26 through Galatians 6: 1-10 (NIV), Paul discusses the SINFUL nature of man. He lists 15 specific types of SIN. “The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality ….” Galatians 5: 19a (NIV) The first act listed is SEXUAL IMMORALITY. In Ephesians in warns “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.” Ephesians 5: 3 (NIV) [Read Ephesians 4: 17-32 through Ephesians 5: 1-16 to get the full sense of the passage]

“Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—for we are members of his body. ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” Ephesians 5: 22-33 (NIV)

Paul quotes Genesis 2: 24 just as JESUS did. A man leaves his family and is united with his wife—male and female. Throughout this discourse, Paul refers to male and female in the marriage relationship. Male and female because that is the only union that GOD has ever established. Man can not change GOD’S plan without dire consequences. Every Christian should know that. Every Christian should support GOD’S plan for life; not man’s. GOD’S plan is marriage between a man and a woman. No other system is acceptable.

To be continued.