By Kelly O'Connell ——Bio and Archives--May 22, 2012
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Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.Ephesians 5: 5-6 (NKJV)
No fornicator (a person engaged in sexual activity outside biblical marriage), unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous...And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.”So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, and said, “Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly!...Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain...Further, Derrick Sherwin Bailey's famous defense of homosexual behavior in claiming Sodom's sin was inhospitality, is wholly unsatisfying given the above words. Moreover, to raise children in an unabashedly gay household means to deny to them the truth of the God of the Bible every bit as much as never mentioning His name.
A systematic analysis of appeals court cases or cases cited in those appeals cases regarding custody of children in which a homosexual parent was involved. Here, 82% of the homosexual vs 18% of the heterosexual parents and 54% of the homosexual's associates vs 19% of the heterosexuals' associates were recorded as having poor character in cases involving a homosexual claimant.
Thus, when we penetrate the thoughts of these ancient men, we see of how great importance to them was the conjugal union, and how necessary to it was the intervention of religion. Was it not quite necessary that the young girl should be initiated into the religion that she was henceforth to follow by some sacred ceremony? Was not a sort of ordination or adoption necessary for her to become a priestess of this sacred fire, to which she was not attached by birth? Marriage was this sacred ceremony, which was to produce these important effect The Greek and Roman writers habitually designate marriage by a word indicative of religious act.Ironically, it is the Muslim notion of marriage, utterly opposed to Western practice, which treats marriage as a wholly secular contract, according to Joseph Schacht in An Introduction to Islamic Muslim Law. Certainly this developed to simplify the routine Islamic approach to polygamous marriage and frequent divorce. It would seem that a normal marriage is seen as essentially religious in the human experience (see John Witte's, From Sacrament to Contract).
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.But even atheist secularists understand the profound need to seek out one's birth parents. If this does not occur, many children will grow up with permanent emotional and spiritual scars which no amount of therapy can erase, and that can only cause chaos and destruction for future generations. The most absurd doctrine currently circulating among humanistic mankind is that – while God laid down his rules long ago, they have now been preempted and updated – and God Himself must accept these new laws of evolving, liberal man without judgment. Most ominously, remember the judgments reserved for those who truly ignore the Creator's rules for His subjects and creation: Romans 2:6-8
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.Final question: What is more credible – Mankind judging the acts and laws of God – or Him judging ours?
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Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.