What does God think?

© 2014 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

God designed man and woman to form an intimate life partnership.

“And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. … And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:18-24).

Before this, God had given Adam a command.

“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17).

Adam and Eve disobeyed. Their hearts became permeated with wickedness which took control of all their offspring.

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” (Romans 5:12).

Mankind soon began disobeying God in every conceivable way – even rejecting the proper relationship between man and woman. God declared this “abomination.”

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).

“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, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet”         (Romans 1:26-27).

Because of man’s great wickedness, God the Son, Jesus Christ, offered Himself as a blood sacrifice at Calvary to save all who come to Him in repentance asking for mercy.

What do you think? Is sodomy just another acceptable lifestyle, or is it part of the wickedness for which Christ died?

 

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