Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Cor 6:9-11
I think The Holy Spirit chose the categories of sin very carefully in the above verse, so as to reach out and grab each reader by the bowels of compassion and with identification of many of the same sins in our very own lives. We may not be a dyke or an effeminate transvestite ourselves but we may have once been a reviler, or partier; or thief or purloiner ourselves.
Only non-believers or those in open rebellion can attempt to say that the Bible is not very clear on sin. No it is clear as a bell in a fog. Turn from your sin or wreck your ship in the consequences. Ding! Ding! It chimes out in the Storm. Closing the Bible's covers and hiding it from view won't change what we know God has Said. For God Himself has said: " For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:10-11
No, there is no doubt as to how God wants us to live out our lives. It took an old Duck Hunter named Phil Robertson to correctly quote the Bible on the matter of Homosexuality for the America of 2014-15 to understand. Phil quoted directly from Leviticus, not as a backslidden American would read it, but rather in the original context where God Himself was reviled by the Stench in His Nostrils (abomination) by men having sex with other men. God in his disgust compared it to sex with a Beast (Bestiality). Phil quoted it grammatically correctly as one sentence in the original Hebrew language. There is nothing "gay" about homosexuality. It is vile, disgusting, evil, sinful, and an Abomination to God.
But when you are going to bed tonight and about to say your prayers, don't gloat in self-righteousness; remember, "and such were some of you". Amen.
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