Some issues that have been bothering me in the news, have come up in blogs recently too, so thought I'd share my opinion on trying to make the world conform to our beliefs and attitudes.
Same-sex 'marriage' has come up time and time again and I might be a bit controversial here but I don't really mind! I believe marriage should involve God and that the most successful marriages have God as the third strand ('A cord of three strands is not quickly broken') but not everyone shares our views. I do believe that the world would be a much happier and successful place if our laws reflected God's laws but it is very unrealistic to expect people who do not share our faith to follow the same laws.
Same-sex partnerships and the legality that goes with it allows the couple to have the same financial rights as a heterosexual partnership, which I fully agree with. The trouble occurs when we try to negotiate the Bible around current social trends and allow same-sex marriages in a church of God. They don't go together as easily as some would like to hope and although Jesus didn't discuss the issue himself, the rest of the Bible is quite clear. This does not mean, though that we judge or harm others; Jesus did the opposite of that Himself and He had every right to (judge I mean!).
How far should we inflict our moral code on society? It is obvious it leads to a better place but I do believe laws have to reflect current society and not just Christian society.
It is interesting - I believe we should be light and salt in society in a much more subtle and potent way - by how we live and NOT by judging others. We are called to be in the world but we 'are not of the world, even as I (Jesus) am not of it'.
Sadly, I believe you misunderstand the law had already brought judgment, so Christ came to fulfill the law, not end it. The demand of the law was to bring us to the need of a covering of our sins. If we do not see our need for covering our sins, we will not see the need for Christ or what God did out of His love for His purpose. The civil law established by our founding fathers was taken from the Bible and it is part of the revisionist agenda, which have removed such facts from public academia. We had laws against such marriages due to the fact it was against God’s will. Our nation no longer accepts the Bible as the rule of law the founding fathers set forth, so now with a secular worldview this nation has embraced a civil law under such dictates. This does not make it right it just makes it reality. God always judges a nation by how His people live, either in righteousness or in sin. This nation is under judgment but we are just too blind to see it. It will take total bondage before the “church” wakes up and sees the boiling pot we have been thrown into. The enemy of our soul is not stupid, if change had come so drastic the church would have seen and stopped it, but the subtle liberal agenda has been so gradual over the last 200 years the church simply fell asleep and never noticed. We cannot create pigeon holes for God and expect society to behave. We slapped God in the face so He is letting us go our own rebellious way, sin will take us farther then we want to go, keep us longer than we will want to stay and cost us more than we ever dreamed we would pay. We have a free will and we are using it to our own destruction, may God wake up the sleeping giant.
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By fulfilling the law Jesus ends the need for us to be judged by it - that is the beauty of His saving grace. I do agree that it is going against God's will but it is for God to judge and by opening our churches to people that are questioning, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual, I believe we are following what Jesus is asking us to do when He says: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." Jesus spoke to everyone and rather than condemning them, he allowed the Holy Spirit to convict them so they would realise it for themselves.
ReplyDeleteChrist called the leaders of His day a brood of vipers, white wash tombs with dead bones inside, their father was the devil, these are judgment statements and ones that stirred up trouble for Christ. Matthew 7:1 was about using righteous judgment, removing the log of unrighteous judgment before removing the speck of unrighteous judgment from some one else. When taken in context Christ was referring to those who use their own standards of righteousness to judge other. It was not about ignoring judgment.
ReplyDeleteRomans 1 and 2 Paul begins to describe the nature of ungodly and unrighteous men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. These same men were passing judgment on others for the very same things they were doing.
In 1 Corinthians Paul tells them to make righteous judgments, that if we are going to judge angels how much more are we to judge the things of this earth. We look at sins from a linear view on different levels. God sees sin as sin, nonlinear, all lumped together under one category, disobedience, rebellion.
How can the message of Christ make sense if we do not see our need for salvation, from what do we need to be saved from. The law points to the sin nature of man and the need for grace, without the law there is no need for grace.
Psalm 5:5 – says God hates sinners. How can God hate sinners when John 3:16 says that He loves them? Norman Geisler & Thomas Howe writes, “There is no contradiction in these statements. The difficulty arises when we wrongly assume that God hates in the same way men hate. Hatred in human beings is generally thought of in terms of strong emotional distaste or dislike for someone or something. However, in God, hate is a judicial act on the part of the righteous judge Who separates the sinner from Himself.”
Psalm 7:11 – God angry with sinners everyday; John 3:36 – wrath of God abides on sinner; Romans 2:5 every time a sinner sins he stores up God’s wrath; 1 Thessalonians 1:10 – Christ delivered us from the Wrath of God to come; 1 Timothy 1:10 – use law to show sinner his sin. On our blog we had answer the question about "judge not least you be judge."
Mrs. J.