JUST ANOTHER HEADLINE

It seems that about every day we are bombarded with headlines about homosexual marriages, homosexual rights etc. In today's news we see that the United Church of Christ has accepted same sex marriages, and encouraged its member congregations to do so. This group is referred to in the article as a church of Christ (which it is not), and Christian (not even close). In the Bible the "disciples were called Christians first at Antioch" (Acts 11:26), and no disciple of Christ ever taught or encouraged same sex marriage, or homosexuality. I challenge anyone to find one scripture that would teach such a doctrine. Once again we emphasize what the Bible says about people of the same sex joining themselves together in marriage or sexually. Note the following from the scriptures:

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.(Romans 1:24-27)

From the beginning God made them male and female (Gen. 1:27;Mt. 19:4).

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination(Lev. 18:22).

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them (Lev. 20:13).

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God (I Cor. 9-11).

Denominations who desire to justify homosexuality among those they call Christians will try every trick of translation to claim the scriptures do not mean what they say. Label them what they are - deceptions of men. God says it this way. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death (Rev. 21:8). Resolutions of church boards do not change what God accepts.