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                      Homosexuality

   A recent article in the Birmingham News dealt with the
subject of homosexuality, featuring two homosexual
"deacons." The article was predictably biased, and very
obviously designed to push and promote homosexuality as
normal and acceptable. It said the Bible contains "fewer
than a dozen, mostly ambiguous references to
homosexuality, with Romans in the New Testament and
Leviticus in the Old Testament frequently cited by
traditionalists."
   My first reaction is this: How many times does God
have to say something for it to be accepted as truth?
Would two dozen be enough, or perhaps three dozen? I have
an idea that if one will not believe when God says
something is wrong in a dozen verses, that he would not
believe if it were stated on every page. 
   The author reflected either on his intelligence or his
integrity (I say that in all kindness) when he said that
those references were ambiguous . But let God's word
speak for itself: Speaking of the homosexuality of Sodom
and Gormorrah, God said, "their sin is very grievous"
(Gen. 18:26). Is that really ambiguous to you? Ambiguous
means that which is unclear, vague, or indefinite. This
passage says homosexuality is a sin, and it is very
grievous. There was nothing "ambiguous" about the punish-
ment: "Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom
and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens" (Gen.
19:24). 

   Then again, God gave the following law to His people
Israel: "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a
woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They
shall surely be put to death. There blood shall be upon
them" (Lev. 20:13). I really don't have any trouble
understanding that, do you?
   The Romans passage to which the news article referred
says, "There- fore God gave them over in the lusts of
their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be
dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of
God for a lie....For this reason God gave them over to
degrad- ing passions; for their women ex- changed the
natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the
same way also the men abandoned the natural function of
the woman and burned in their desire toward one another,
men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in
their own persons the due penalty of their error" (Rom.
1:24-27). I would be ashamed to say that I couldn't
understand that, wouldn't you?
   1 Corinthians 6:9,10 plainly says that neither
"homosexuals, nor sodomites" (NKJV) "will inherit the
kingdom of God."  Would it not be more honest and
honorable for a person to just say that he is stub-
bornly refusing to accept what the Bible teaches than to
say that the Bible is "unclear"? Let God be true but
every man a liar. -- Leon Mauldin





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