The Sanctity of Marriage (rant for the day)
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
I had a T.V. programme on earlier I was half-watching, and at some point there was a wedding ceremony. And the vicar's words rather surprised me. As it was a modern thing. I don't recall exactly but it went along the lines of: Marriage is one man and one woman, etc, etc, and no one else can enter into it, as said in the Laws of our land. Well, I don't know the current legislation here regarding men "marrying" men and women "marrying" women. Or men "marrying" women that were once men, or women"marrying" men that were once women. But I do know at least several years ago, that it rather depended on the leader of a church, as to if he would conduct such a ceremony, so it may have progressed, (ir one can call it that) since then. But far from it being ias stated in the law of the land, as homosexuality is NOT illegal. But tis against God's law. And there are very specific references as to how God hates and abhorred this sin, in Genesis and Romans 1.
But when one gets men of the clergy themselves, making such a mockery of God, and the laws of Nature, suchas here: Rev Peter Stone and again, Mark Savage makes you realize how man will go to any lengths to justify themselves and alter the words of Scripture. I actually had a long email discussion with a personal friend at the time about a year or so ago, who was using this site, Religious intolerance to say why "according to the Bible homosexuality was ay ok!" I'm sure God is just reeling and a dancing at how we know what He meant which is not what He meant at all, and how we pervert the Scriptures to suit ourselves. The Pharisees and the Saducees did this, tho to the other extreme, they added laws that were not laid down by God. Man has always thought we know the mind of God, and what He says isn't what He actually means. A good kind, God, will bear with us, and let us do just what we want, but If'we're nicer than your average Joe's and don't' set out to hurt other people are fairly decent, we just work our way into Heaven by our goodness and niceness. The Papists still propogate this, under the guise of Christ. But Popery, (a nice word methinks) thinks they are the final authority in what Scripture teaches, and not the Holy Spirit which indwells every true believer. If we can do just about anything we like, and get to Heaevn anyway, why do Christians who were once lost, pray to God and worship His name, knowing He is there God, and not a God who will accept anyone no matter what? This verse in itself, says just how many professing Christians will fall short on Judgment Day, and they too will hear He never knew them, before they are cast down into the lake of fire:
The Narrow and Wide Gates
Matthew 7
13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it,
14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
If being as nice or as good as the next person, earned our way to Heaven, then not many people would be left behind.
And so to the papists, and the whore of Babylon, and to anyone who argues with these words.. suchas His popeness only being able to inerpret the Sciptures and thinking the narrow gate above is not talking to how God lays down who gets to have eternal life and who has eternal death. I wonder if the Pope has more brains than me, huh? Not saying much since the guy has Parkinson's is it? That the Roman Church is relying on someone to say exactly "what God meant" who maybe too fuddled through illness much of the time to even know what time of day it is!
One of the closing lines in the Canon of the NT in the final book of Revelations: 18I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Marriage is sacred. God instituted it. The family is an institution. And I do know at least that the words let no man put assunder come into the marriage service, but that's exactly wht man is trying to do, in his knowing what God did and didn't mean and perverting the Scriptures to his own ends. We all have a tendency to see things how we want to see them. I know I do. But we all have to look into our own hearts to see what our motives may be for any thing. We need revival. For the Spirit of God to move upon our lands. As I have heard a lot of stuff about revival lately. And even those who lived through it, yet remained unconverted, knew and could NOT argue, that something supernatural had happened. That God was at work. They admitted it, and knew it was true, yet couldn't probably take it further than that. But no one who has lived through revival, whether converted or unconverted remains unchanged. How could one.. when one almost comes face to face with God. When most of us only probably expect to in eternity.
Oh, and I just wanted to say, that the Babylonian Whore has no resemblance to Dolly Parton in Best little whorehouse in Texas!
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