There are many today teaching people that perversion is "okay"...just another "lifestyle". We have decided to find out just what the Book says concerning such practices.
First, look at Leviticus, Chapter 20, verse 13: 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.
"Abomination"? That's a pretty harsh word. Let's see just how much of an abomination God considers that sort of thing to be.
Judges 19:22...Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him...
So the Book says that these men, from the city of Gibeah, which was of the tribe of Benjamin, wanted to have perverse sex with a stranger who was simply travelling through. The scriptures that follow go on to say that in order to avoid this "folly" the man had to send out his concubine to these people, and they, in performing their perversions upon her, caused her to die. In order to inform the rest of the tribes of what was done here in Gibeah the man cut the body of his concubine into twelve pieces and sent them among the tribes of Israel. When Israel learned of the actions of these men, the scriptures describe what it did, as follows...
Judges 20...
Verse 1:... Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh.
2:... And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
3:... (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us how was this wickedness?
The man then related the whole story, and the deed was so abominable in their eyes that they gathered an army to come against the tribe of Benjamin, and demanded that those perverse men be delivered up to be killed. When the children of Benjamin refused, all of Israel made ready to war against them. They approached the Lord God, asking what to do, and He told them to proceed.
The scriptures describe the entire battle, and tell that in the end more than 85,130 fighting men were killed, the cities of Benjamin were razed, and the tribe of Benjamin was nearly eradicated, and would have been had it not been for the direction of the Lord as to how to restore it. It seems reasonable to say, then, that the Lord considered that the perversion of those men was somewhat more than abominable...He considered it absolutely necessary to remove them from among His people.
The foregoing in not from us, it is from the Book. We didn't write it, God had it written. So, has He changed his outlook in this latter day? Let's see. in the Book of Romans, Chapter 1, Verses 26 - 32...
Verse 26... For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27... And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one towards another; working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28... And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29... Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30... Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31... Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32... Who knowing the judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
So then, the outlook on such perversion is exactly the same in the New Testament as it was in the Old Testament, and God continues to consider those who engage in it as "worthy of death". These are the words of the Word of God.
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