Bible Publisher Sued For Using Term ‘Homosexuals’
Talk about a sign of the times indeed! A man wants to sue Zondervan (and Thomas Nelson) because their editions of the Holy Bible uses the term ‘homosexuals’ in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. The passage apparently gave his family the impression that unrepentant homosexuals are locked out of the Kingdom of GOD…which I suppose is what he is saying he is and what he doesn’t want them to believe he’s in danger of.
You know what’s next, right? Holy Bibles being burned in the streets, prohibited from being owned, never being published and totally edited so that the only passage that remains is ‘GOD is love’ … so man can feel good about himself and not feel condemned for his sinful actions that he knows are sinful.
This gentleman is obviously not a Christian…Christians believe — no matter how challenging a Holy Bible passage may seem — that the Holy Bible is the indisputable word of GOD. Paul was writing under the direction of the LORD’s Holy Spirit… as was our patriarch Moses when he penned that men shouldn’t lie down with men nor women to lie down with cattle.
The Holy Bible is not to validate us. It is to condemn and convict us for our sins…and reveal to us how we can be saved — through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Homosexuality is perversion, an immoral act, a sin — no matter which term you used to try and disguise it with. Sin is sin is sin is sin.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NKJV)
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals [That is, catamites], nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
As the LORD spoke against incest, bestiality, adultery and all other sexual sin, the FATHER also addressed same-sex relations:
22 ” ‘Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
23 ” ‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.
24 ” ‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. 25 Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things, 27 for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28 And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
29 ” ‘Everyone who does any of these detestable things-such persons must be cut off from their people. 30 Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.’ “
Sure, we can argue that Christians are not under the old Covenant… sure, let’s throw it all out. Let’s keep the part about incest, but let’s discard the part about same-sex relations. Whatever feels good, we’ll keep; whatever makes us feel guilty or complicates our habits should just get blacked out.
It’s all or nothing, folks. GOD doesn’t bend for us… we must deny ourselves. For who are we? Did we create ourselves? Is this really our planet? HE IS LORD. If we continue to deny and reject HIM and look to ourselves as our own lords, there won’t be anyone left on this planet soon enough. That is all we know — sin and death. GOD gives these laws and statutes so that we may have life.
This man should repent — Zondervan didn’t write the Holy Scriptures. These are statutes from the LORD’s Holy Spirit. GOD will not be mocked.
Article excerpt: A gay man is suing two heavyweight Christian publishers, claiming their versions of the Bible that refer to homosexuality as a sin violate his constitutional rights and have caused him emotional pain and mental instability.
Bradley LaShawn Fowler of Canton, Mich., is seeking $60 million from Zondervan, based in Cascade Township, and $10 million from Nashville-based Thomas Nelson Publishing.
HT to End Times… for the lead.
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