Law of land changes Marriage Law of land

Law of land changes “Marriage”

Law of land changes “Marriage” What will the Righteous Do? Resist? (VS) Get Along?

God’s Word Still Says the Same… • Marriage instituted by God – not man (Gen. 2: 18 -24)

God’s Word Still Says the Same… • Marriage instituted by God – not man (Gen. 2: 18 -24) • Marriage is between and man and a woman – male and female (Matt. 19: 4 -5)

God’s Word Still Says the Same… • Marriage instituted by God – not man (Gen. 2: 18 -24) • Marriage is between and man and a woman – male and female (Matt. 19: 4 -5) • God never joins same sex in marriage – it is as much an abomination to God as bestiality is confusion (Leviticus 18: 22 -23)

God’s Word Still Says the Same… • Marriage instituted by God – not man (Gen. 2: 18 -24) • Marriage is between and man and a woman – male and female (Matt. 19: 4 -5) • God never joins same sex in marriage – it is as much an abomination to God as bestiality is confusion (Leviticus 16: 22 -23) • Same sex relationship: bodies dishonored; worship of the creature; vile passion; against nature (Romans 1: 24 -26)

What Christians Will Do? • “I am a Christian, and Christians are not to judge others. ” – show love instead of being judgmental? (Matt. 7: 1 -5, 6, 15 -17; Jn. 7: 24, Rom. 1: 16 -17)

What Christians Will Do? • “I am a Christian, and Christians are not to judge others. ” – show love instead of being judgmental? (Matt. 7: 1 -5, 6, 15 -17; Jn. 7: 24, Rom. 1: 16 -17) • “I am a Christian and own a bakery. I will bake the requested cake, but will reprove the same sex couple of their sin. ”? ? ? (Eph. 5: 11 -12; I Cor. 10: 25 -29)

I think it is important to state clearly that we do, in fact, reject the straightforward commands of Scripture, and appeal instead to other authority when we declare that same-sex unions can be holy and good. And what exactly is that authority? We appeal explicitly to the weight of our own experience and the experience thousands of others have witnessed to, which tells us that to claim our own sexual orientation is in fact to accept the way in which God has created us. By so doing, we explicitly reject as well the premises of the scriptural statements condemning homosexuality – namely, that is a vice freely chosen, a symptom of human corruption, and disobedience to God’s created order. ” (Luke Timothy Johnson – Homosexuality and the Church)

What Christians Will Do? • Will Christianity look to other authority besides the Bible to define belief and action as some are comfortable in doing (John 8: 21 -32)?

What Christians Will Do? • Will Christianity look to other authority besides the Bible to define belief and action as some are comfortable in doing (John 8: 21 -32)? • Christians cannot justify same sex marriage and still hold to the Bible as one’s authority – there is no “in-between” (2 John 9).

What Christians Will Do? • Will Christianity look to other authority besides the Bible to define belief and action as some are comfortable in doing (John 8: 21 -32)? • Christians cannot justify same sex marriage and still hold to the Bible as one’s authority – there is no “in-between” (2 John 9). • Will Christians make Christianity as they like, just as the Government has made marriage as it wishes?