SIN IS A REPROACH (4)
January 29, 2012 Volume 8 Number 5
Sober thinking people fully understand the family, one man, one woman, and offspring, is the foundation of society! God started the human family in just this manner: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. … and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply…” (Gen. 1:27-28). The bodies of the male and female are designed for reproduction. Jesus addressed the natural order of marriage: “… 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” (Matt. 19:4-5). In these words God has described the family, and from one family comes another!
The battle has raged for a number of years over just what is a family. The dictionary gives as the first meaning: “Parents and their children” (College Standard Dictionary, page 479, year 1966). For many years this was the general meaning and everyone understood it. However, it is also understood that the word “family” is used other ways, but in this article, as revealed in the Bible, the word family will be used with the meaning: husband (father), wife (mother), and offspring (child, children). In a larger context it may include grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins (etc.). But the bed rock of society is a married man and women and their offspring: the family!
Homosexual couples do not make a family! Two men, or two women, cannot reproduce with each other; it is against nature, as Paul wrote of some: “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: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,…” (Rom. 1:26-27). Paul is describing the sin of homosexuality! Two men, or two women, is not the family upon which a sound society may be built! No offspring can be reproduced between two men, or two women; therefore, other means must be used. Thus, it is not natural, but against nature!
There is a move, which has been ongoing for a number of years, to legitimize homosexuality. First, the effort was to make all of us accept homosexuality as natural. The second effort is to force all people to accept homosexual marriages. A number of states have passed laws giving the “right of marriage” to homosexual couples. This effort will not stop until all states have been brought under the “gay banner,” and homosexual couples are made equal to the marriage of one man and one woman. America needs a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman! This would remove the subject, of what is a marriage, out of the hands of each state. Our national leaders need to step up and nail down the “bed rock of society:” marriage, one man and one woman!
The subject is not just that of two of the same sex; no, sin is never satisfied! Those who desire to perpetrate the sin of homosexuality upon us, now desire to take children, by adoption, and make them part of their sin! The result, a child will be raised by a male daddy and a male mommy; or by a female daddy and a female mommy. Through these efforts sin is multiplied!
Friends, it must be remembered: “sin is a reproach to any people!” Will the United States of America continue on the road to such a “reproach?” Let your voice be heard!
— Frank R. Williams