I’m often asked why I am against illegal immigration. When I explain that it is illegal, and what other countries do about it, I get a lot of pushback. I’ve tried relating it to the home. I say, “Imagine you are at home with your family about to have dinner, and a stranger walks up your drive, opens your door, takes a shower, eats your food, plops down in your recliner, and starts ruling the TV remote watching whatever they like, without saying a word to you. How would you respond to that?” Now, some people lie, and say they would be fine with it. I know it is a lie. They know it is a lie, but at least they heard the argument. Others would concede that it was wrong, but won’t allow for this simplified argument claiming that it is incongruent. A few will admit illegal immigration is wrong, but have parents who have illegally immigrated, and their emotional immaturity is overpowering their intellect, and they won’t be moved from their position. White liberal women are the most unreasonable creatures to deal with on this topic. They become enraged, and act like mad animals. Isn’t it amazing that there are still people out there who deny the doctrine of Total Depravity?
There are some bleeding hearts self-professed Christians out there who will accuse me of not being hospitable to sojourners. I think it is simple enough to debunk that accusation. Those who sojourned with Israel in the Old Testament were expected to follow their laws, and accept their culture. It was not the other way around. Hospitality was extended to short term, temporary interactions with a traveler. In modern times, that would look like us giving them some water, and food, at the border before sending them back to do it legally. It isn’t modeled by us opening the floodgates, and letting every person in to loot, and pillage our nation. We have a way to become a legal resident. People can apply for a green card, and a visa. They don’t have to come here illegally as raiders. I don’t care what their supposed intentions are. See the first argument. Anyway, that is my two cents. If you don’t like it, read someone else’s blog for crying out loud.
Some argue that grace is a gift that must be accepted, and people can refuse to accept it. It almost requires that the grace spoken of in this argument must be some sort of metaphysical substance. I believe that is wrong. The grace of God towards sinners He is saving is not a metaphysical substance. It is a term describing a one sided attitude in a relationship. We understand saving grace to be the unmerited favor of God upon the person He has elected to save. The last time I checked, I cannot effectively resist to negation another person’s attitude towards me. If that is true about a creature, how could a person ever imagine they could effectively resist the will of their Creator?
Let’s look at God’s providence for a moment. You didn’t choose to become a living person. That was a gift of God towards you, that was completely one sided. He created you. You didn’t choose to be born in America. That also was a gift of God, that you were completely passive in. There was no prerequisite volitional affirmation on your part.
Let’s look at God’s common grace. God causes the plants to grow for our food. He causes cattle to be born, and fattened, for our food. He causes the seasons to continue. None of these things require our acceptance. They only require that God wills them to be so.
God does not set to accomplish something, and let a part of His creation thwart His plans. If His attitude towards you is one of grace, there is nothing you can do to negate the effects of it. This also coincides with the new birth He was worked in the elect person, at the appointed time, according to His will in eternity. Not only will He do what He wants with His creatures, but they will want what He is doing. A person He is saving, will desire His grace. A person He is not saving, will hate Him, and want nothing to do with Him.
If you are being saved, praise God! Thank Him for what He is doing! Place all the honor, and glory on Him, where it is due! Don’t rob God of His glory by insisting that you had something to do with your salvation. If you currently are not being saved, but are concerned about your final destination, and the justice of God, there is hope. Turn to God in repentance, and faith. Trust Jesus for your salvation.
I know, some of you will point at that last statement as evidence that you do something to be saved, but if you truly knew what was true in eternity, you’d understand the categorical error in logic you just made by comparing the temporal existence with the eternal reality.
For those of you who are not currently being saved, and have no interest in being saved, I hope that one day God will regenerate you, and bring you into eternal life, in Christ. If it turns out that this isn’t the case, remember, this is what YOU wanted…
I think I have never seen a time such as the time we now live in. In my life it has never been so blatantly obvious the division. For the life of me, I cannot understand why people on the other side are blind to the fact that they have aligned themselves with the literal satan. Of course, I know theologically why they have. I know the teaching of the Bible about man’s depravity, and sin nature. I know that man is blind, and dead, in his sins, unless God causes him to be born again. Even understanding that, I am still shocked every time I hear someone extolling sin as a virtue, and decrying holiness, and obedience to God, as a horrible sin.
Let’s look at a few modern issues that we are separated on; Abortion, Euthanasia, Human Flourishing, Homosexuality, Promiscuity, Gender Roles, Eldership, Vocation, Lying, Theft, Lawlessness, Prejudice, Unbalanced Scales of Justice, Corrupt Judges/Prosecutors, The Usage of Natural Resources and the Subjection of Man to the Creation, to name a few.
The theme that runs through all these issues is the inversion/perversion of God’s ordained hierarchies, and determinations. Abortion is obviously the unjust taking of the most defenseless humans’ lives. It is murder of the preborn for the convenience of the promiscuous mother. It is an atrocious sacrifice of a baby to the idol of self. It is an abominable sin, and yet there is an entire political party that affirms it as a virtuous right, that must be sacred, and the act is tantamount to sacrament.
It’s ugly perverse sister is Euthanasia. Just as abortion is the unjust taking of the vulnerable youth, euthanasia is the murder of the old, or those who society has judged worthless due to disease, depression, or any other small suffering that makes their life intolerable. Suffering is not fun, nor is it enjoyable, unless you are perverse, but suffering from God is sanctifying.
Human flourishing is seen as a virulent scourge upon pseudo-mother Earth. The environmentalists would have you believe that we are destroying our planet. Well, it isn’t our planet. God has given us dominion over it, but it isn’t ours. We aren’t even ours. We belong to God. Our lives are not for our living according to our wills, and pleasures. The planet isn’t ours either. It is winding down. The entire creation is temporary. We are to use the world, and it’s resources to encourage human flourishing. We are made in the image of God. More of us is glorifying to God. We are to subdue the Earth for the flourishing of mankind. Not the other way around. We are not to be subjected to the consideration of what is better for the planet! No! Quite the contrary! The planet is subjected to us for our use in bringing glory to our Master!
Human sexuality is precipitates down to this, Genesis 2:21-25 “21 So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 And Yahweh God fashioned the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “This one finally is bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called Woman, Because this one was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.”
God has made us male, and female. There are only two genders, and they coincide with their sex. There is no discussion, debate, re-imagining for X generation! One does not imagine away the objective truth of God the Creator, in His creation. All sex outside of marriage is fornication, promiscuity, adultery, and considered sexual immorality. It is all sin. In the confines of a Biblical marriage, the only true marriage, sex is a beautiful gift from God. The intimacy of the union between man, and wife, and the legacy of children is a blessing from God. To destroy it by mutilating your genitalia, sterilizing yourself with opposite gender hormones, and surgeries is another abominable act of rebellion against God. I can hardly recon the immense darkness of those who would do these things. The notion of it boggles my mind. How could a person proclaim this as a virtue? Of course, they are dead in their sins, and blind. We know, but how can they not know?
There is a lawlessness happening now in some major cities. We see it, and can’t understand why half of the country doesn’t even blink. To them, it is right for these people to take what they want because they have been victims for so long. Victims of what? Who knows? I’m sure we’ll be called racists, and white supremacists, even if we are black. We’ve seen it. Black Christian brothers, and sisters in Christ are being called white supremacists because they are against lawlessness. If you ask me, it is the folks pointing the finger who are guilty.
Just from looking broadly at a few of these issues is enough to illustrate how different our values are. How can these two groups be from the same country? How can we have grown up along side each-other? The wheat, and the tares have grown up side by side. God in His wisdom has not uprooted the tares so as to not destroy His crop. The tares will be burnt up in God’s just judgment, and right wrath. His fire for us is refining fire. Our dross will be brought out to make us pure. We will be in God’s presence for all eternity.
One country. Two nations. One is in the Kingdom. The other is in the desert of sin, dead bones, perverse, and twisted. Wretched, like we once were, but without God’s grace for all eternity. If you don’t want to be among the eternally dying, repent of your sins, and trust Jesus for your salvation. If you won’t, and hate every good thing God has determined to be good, and you call that which He has judged evil, good. You are without hope. You will continue to die, and never finish dying. You will be in Hell, dying for all eternity. You will suffer the conscious, eternal, torment, of one under God’s judgment. Repent now. Agree with God that you were wrong, and that He is right. Be translated from death to life, darkness to light, dying to living.
Have you ever had a conversation with a person professing faith in Christ who refuses to give you a straight answer? You know the type. They only answer you by quoting scripture. They employ a form of, “Dodging the Question.”
For instance, I may ask, “Do you believe homosexuality is a sin?”
Then they answer back, ““Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.” Matthew 7:1”
That is not a proper answer. I then have to try to get blood out of the rock, and ask again, “Do you believe that homosexuality is a sin?”
They answer back, “I already told you my answer. I let the word of God speak for itself, but so you won’t say I didn’t answer you, “For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you measure, it will be measured to you.” Matthew 7:2”
By this point, I’m getting pretty ticked off, and rightfully so. This person is being purposefully obtuse, and refuses to actually answer the question. This is also something a person does when they think they have a command of scripture, and they don’t want to come right out and say something. If the person understood scripture, they would know that the verses they are citing are about hypocritically judging someone. Now since I know that, I have to ask them if they are homosexual, or are they accusing me of being homosexual. This throws them aback. Further demonstrating they are misusing the verse.
All I wanted, and all they needed to do is simply answer, “Yes, I believe the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin.” or “No, I don’t believe the Bible teaches homosexuality is a sin.”
Let me remind you, this article is not about homosexuality, but people who only answer questions by quoting Bible verses at you as if their opinions of what the verses communicate are actually the final truth on the subject. When you inform them, that their opinion of what that passage says is wrong, they won’t explain, but rather will quote you another misapplied citation further demonstrating their error. Rightly cited scripture is always in harmony with the fuller context of the entire Bible.
I asked a person, “Once a person is justified to God, can that justifying be undone by the believer?” They answered my question by asking another question. Don’t do that either. You are not Jesus. If you are having a discussion with someone, and it is an exchange of ideas. Answer the question. Then you can ask your own question. These people are playing games when they do this. I’m not here to play games with board people looking to stir up division, and confusion. I don’t have time for that. Answer the question, or go away. If you are going to cite scripture, explain it as you understand it, and include context.
I put this article up back in 2016 just after the country accepted, “gay marriage” in 2015 after the Obergefell v. Hodges decision. There are articles that don’t age well, as time proves the original premise of the article wrong, but this one was not one of them. Christians have been arguing for a long time that marriage is between a man, and a woman. This is straight from God’s word. It is a non-negotiable. To call the relationship of homosexuals, “marriage” is sin. To agree that they have the same right as a natural man, and woman, to marry is a sin. Marriage is not a thing for the state to define, or control. Marriage has always, and will always be, a covenant between husband, wife, and God. He has only ordained marriage this way. Everything else is worldly sin, and perversion. There were several things that happened before 2015 that sped this all along. When perverts were considered part of a legally protected minority group, it opened the door to include them as minorities in general. The reason I want you to think in the terms of perversion rather than gay, and lesbian, is so you can see the cause, and effect. Many people were fine with the idea of, “gay marriage” but they were not fine with pedophilia, bestiality, or necrophilia. If you had mentioned those perversions as being part of the minority group, they would have had a strong negative response. This isn’t how it was presented to the American people. They were shown images of properly dressed, gays and lesbians, crying because they didn’t have the same rights as straight people. This was complete satanic manipulation, and it worked. It worked because people are Biblically ignorant, and unconverted. In 2020 the Supreme court decision of Bostock v. Clayton County forced us to accept perversion as a protected minority class according to title 9. Title 7 also is being applied to perverts. It was originally to protect women from being discriminated against in the workplace. You can see how they equated sexual immorality to being female. The legal groundwork has been being set up by the enemy for years now, but hardly anyone was forward thinking enough to see where this was going. There were people like me out there telling everyone what a horrible mistake it is, but nobody listened. The enemies of God, the globalist politicians, and appointed officials, who were all in league with satan, knew exactly what they were doing, and they gleefully did it. The mindless masses shouted, “love is love!” The ignorant, inane, middle went along for the ride, not being able to coalesce a single reasonable objection with their sin addled minds. While the Church was eating itself seemingly from the inside with liberal christianity, (which is not Christian at all) protesting in like worldly fashion with their satanic comrades. With the foundational work in place, the satanic politicians, and activist judges struck! Gay marriage was the nose of the camel under the tent for all the pedophilic atrocities we see being perpetrated against our youth now. You want to know why they are transitioning the kids? Because you all let gays steal marriage for their own perversion! Your idiotic sympathy for sin brought this on us as a nation. This and your holocaust against the unborn! Your whoring around with adultery, and premarital sex! Your acceptance of widespread pornographic websites! Your unrepentant, sin loving, evil hearts have brought this on our heads. Like Jeremiah, and Habakkuk, true Christians have been warning you, and now we are lamenting, because God is not going to start judging us some time in the future. The judgment has already begun! Go read Romans 1, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Habakkuk! You can see God’s character, and what He will do. We won’t get away with what we are currently doing. God will punish us by giving us over to even more sin. Our guilt will be compounded, and so great, that on the day of God’s wrath, nobody will be able to rightly say, “We didn’t deserve this! Your wrath is unjust, and too great!” That doesn’t mean they won’t say it. It means they can’t rightly say it. While there is time, REPENT OF YOUR SINS, AND TRUST JESUS!!! READ, AND STUDY HIS WORD. COME TO KNOW HIM. You aren’t promised tomorrow! If you die in your sins, you will be in hell for eternity. There is no maybe about this. It is a certainty. If you die in Christ you can be with Him for eternity, living life eternal, and enjoying Him for ever.
Many of you know who this man is. For those who don’t, it is Bill Johnson from Bethel, “Church” in Redding California. He is a false teacher. Like many other men of his ilk, he preaches miraculous healing, by claiming it in faith. Of course, when it doesn’t work out for you, it is because there is something qualitatively, or quantitatively wrong with your faith. As you can see, Bill has splinted fingers in this picture, and he has been wearing glasses for a long time. I guess his faith is lacking, otherwise he’d be healed. This is a prime example of hypocritically judging people, and laying on them a burden he, himself cannot carry.
Bill Johnson, false teacher
Just like him, Andrew Wommack had a skin cancer on his face. He went to a Doctor for treatment. He claims he didn’t continue after the diagnosis, but he has a long history of telling lies, (I cite his false teachings as evidence of his long history of telling lies) and doing cover ups. Ask his ex-daughter-in-law, if you can find her. Him, and his family are truly nefarious, if the ex-daughter-in-law can be believed. Every negative thing is scrubbed from the internet. It takes some $$ to get that done.
Andrew Wommack, false teacher
They all age, and get old. They all die. None of them are exempt. They are all born under the curse of God due to the fall of Adam. Benny Hinn is looking pretty old, and sickly these days as well. In 2015 he had to go to the hospital for a heart problem. I guess he couldn’t faith his way out of it.
Benny Hinn, false teacher
So is Jesse Duplantis, and Kenneth Copeland. Ol’ Jesse Duplicitous… He has really gotten older over the years. He can comfort himself in his palatial home. He and Kenny can fly around the world on their private jests, living it up on the lifestyles of the rich and infamous.
I guess there is no fountain of youth for these guys. (except plastic surgery, not that he has had it, but Joyce, the Joker Meyers sure did.)
Don’t worry Demon Kenny. I wouldn’t forget about you, you sick, servant of satan. Remember when this deceiver told us he was blowing Covid away?
Kenneth Copeland, false teacher
The only thing Kenny chases is cash. Just like the other false teachers. It boils down to the the three, “P’s” with false teachers, and cults.
Power- Power over people, and their lives.
Profit-Not to be confused with, “prophet.” These people are all about the money, filthy lucre, μαμωνᾶς mamōnas; of Ara. or.; wealth:– wealth(4). Matthew 6:24 24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
Promiscuity/Perversion-These people are always committing adultery, molesting children, coercing unwilling people to have sex with them.
Look for those three, “P’s” as a warning. Cults, and false religions are full of people at the chancel preaching lies, and manipulating people to gain the three, “P’s.”
If these people were legitimate, they would be healing all the cancer kids, in the hospitals. They would be living in the means that are reverent of their service to Jesus, not as money grubbing thieves. Mark 12:38-40 38 And in His teaching He was saying: “Beware of the scribes who want to walk around in long robes, and want respectful greetings in the marketplaces, 39 and best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets, 40 who devour widows’ houses, and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation.”
Don’t fall into the trap these scoundrels have set for you, and your faith. They are guilty of lying about God, and putting words in His mouth He did not say. They blaspheme the Holy Spirit, by attributing works to Him that are wicked, and He would never do. If you truly want to know God, repent of your sins, and trust Jesus to make you right with God, as there is no other way. Then, read, and study His word. Everything we need to know about God, life, living, and dying of death, are there. The Bible is Jesus’ mind for us to know Him by. It is made understandable, and knowable, by the illumining work of the Holy Spirit, in the believer.
1. The Global Flood, Was God Executing His Just, and Righteous Judgment, Against Sinful Mankind.
2. The Rainbow is the Symbol of His Covenant, to Never Again Destroy the Planet With a Flood.
3. To Use the Rainbow, as a Symbol of Pride, in Regards to Your Perverse Sins, is Blasphemous.
GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.
Proverbs 16:5 5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh; Assuredly, he will not be unpunished.
1. In Genesis, we read that God flooded the world because of how sinfully degenerate mankind had become. God is our Creator. He is the Law Giver, and Judge. He owns us. He has every right to do whatever He pleases with His creation. By breaking His laws, we deserve instant death, and eternal torment in Hell. God chose Noah, and his family. Noah found favor in His sight due to his faith. God provided a way for them to be saved from His just judgment. They must enter into that way of salvation. It was a wooden vessel, covered with pitch. The Hebrew word for pitch is also used to mean atonement. There was only one door, or way into the ark/salvation. Later in the Bible we read about a wooden cross, where Jesus atoned for our sins, and provides the only way of salvation. Jesus is the one, and only way. We must turn from our sins, and forsake them. We must trust in Jesus, the way Noah trusted God, and built an ark. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.
2. The rainbow is a symbol/sign of God’s covenant to never destroy the planet with a flood ever again. This covenant is one sided. It doesn’t depend on fallen mankind. It is from God. There is no way we can satisfy the righteous requirements of God’s laws. This is why God must provide for us. like the rainbow reminds us of God’s mercy, His new covenant in Jesus, provides our only hope for salvation.
Genesis 6:1 – 8:22 1 Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good in appearance; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3 Then Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever because he indeed is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. 5 Then Yahweh saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And Yahweh regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 And Yahweh said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh. The Generations of Noah 9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among those in his generations; Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. 13 Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. 14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and you shall cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 Now this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. 16 You shall make a window for the ark, and complete it to one cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 As for Me, behold I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall breathe its last. 18 But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 21 As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.” 22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. Noah and the Flood 1 Then Yahweh said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this generation. 2 You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female; 3 also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.” 5 And Noah did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him. 6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth. 7 Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. 8 Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything that creeps on the ground, 9 by twos they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 Now it happened after the seven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep split open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12 Then the rain came upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On this very day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, 14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every fowl, every winged creature. 15 So they came to Noah into the ark, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and Yahweh closed it behind him. 17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water multiplied and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. 18 And the water prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went on the surface of the water. 19 And the water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered. 20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh that moved on the earth breathed its last, that is birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, as well as all mankind. 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life—of all that was on the dry land—died. 23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah remained, and those that were with him in the ark. 24 And the water prevailed upon the earth 150 days. The Water Dries Up 1 Then God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. 2 Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained; 3 and the water receded from the earth, going forth and returning, and at the end of 150 days the water decreased. 4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 Now the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. 6 Then it happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; 7 and he sent out a raven, and it went out flying back and forth until the water was dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land; 9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he stretched out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark to himself. 10 Then he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. 11 And the dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in its beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth. 12 Then he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove; but it did not return to him again. 13 Now it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth, and that they may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark. Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah 20 Then Noah built an altar to Yahweh and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And Yahweh smelled the soothing aroma; and Yahweh said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done. 22 While all the days of the earth remain, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”Luke 14:11 “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Matthew 23:12 And whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
1 Peter 5:5-7 5 You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE. 6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, 7 CASTING ALL YOUR ANXIETY ON HIM, because He cares for you.
James 4:1-10 1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have, so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”? 6 But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.” 7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable and mourn and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Philippians 2:3-11 3 doing nothing from selfish ambition or vain glory, but with humility of mind regarding one another as more important than yourselves, 4 not merely looking out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. 5 Have this way of thinking in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although existing in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a slave, by being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore, God also highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
Romans 12:3 3 For through the grace given to me I say to each one among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound thinking, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
Isaiah 57:15 15 For thus says the One high and lifted up Who dwells forever, whose name is Holy, “I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the crushed and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the crushed.
Isaiah 66:2 2 For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,” declares Yahweh. “But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.
Proverbs 3:34 34 Though He scoffs at the scoffers, Yet He gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 11:2 2 When arrogance comes, then comes disgrace, But with the meek is wisdom.
Proverbs 18:12 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, But humility goes before glory.
Proverbs 22:4 4 The reward of humility—the fear of Yahweh— Is riches, glory, and life.
Proverbs 29:23 23 A man’s lofty pride will bring him low, But a lowly spirit will take hold of glory.
Proverbs 21:4 4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart— The fallow ground of the wicked—are sin.
Psalms 25:9 9 May He lead the humble in justice, And may He teach the humble His way.
3. Pride in any human work is not a virtue. All human pride is sin. To be proud of sexual immorality is sin. To boast about wickedness, and then rob God of His covenant symbol, and pervert it for your own abominable deeds is blasphemy. God will not hold blameless the one who blasphemes Him.
Here are the 1828 Webster’s definitions of, “blasphemy” and “pride.”
“Blasphemy
BLAS’PHEMY, noun An indignity offered to God by words or writing; reproachful, contemptuous or irreverent words uttered impiously against Jehovah.
Blasphemy is an injury offered to God, by denying that which is due and belonging to him, or attributing to him that which is not agreeable to his nature.
In the middle ages, blasphemy was used to denote simply the blaming or condemning of a person or thing. Among the Greeks, to blaspheme was to use words of ill omen, which they were careful to avoid.
1. That which derogates from the prerogatives of God. Mark 2:1.”
“PRIDE, noun
1. Inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one’s own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, accomplishments, rank or elevation in office, which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
Martial pride looks down on industry.
PRIDE goeth before destruction. Proverbs 16:18.
PRIDE that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
All pride is abject and mean.
Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. Daniel 4:37.
2. Insolence; rude treatment of others; insolent exultation.
That hardly we escap’d the pride of France.
3. Generous elation of heart; a noble self-esteem springing from a consciousness of worth.
The honest pride of conscious virtue.
4. Elevation; loftiness.
A falcon tow’ring in her pride of place.
5. Decoration; ornament; beauty displayed.
Whose lofty trees, clad with summer’s pride
Be his this sword
Whose ivory sheath, inwrought with curious pride
Adds graceful terror to the wearer’s side.
6. Splendid show; ostentation.
Is this array, the war of either side
Through Athens pass’d with military pride
7. That of which men are proud; that which excites boasting.
I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. Zechariah 9:6. Zephaniah 3:11.
8. Excitement of the sexual appetite in a female beast.
9. Proud persons. Psalms 36:11.
PRIDE, verb transitive With the reciprocal pronoun, to pride one’s self, to indulge pride; to take pride; to value one’s self; to gratify self-esteem. They pride themselves in their wealth, dress or equipage. He prides himself in his achievements.”
I’d like you to also consider some synonyms to the word, “pride.”
1. “1. Pride, conceit, self-esteem, egotism, vanity, vainglory imply an unduly favorable idea of one’s own appearance, advantages, achievements, etc., and often apply to offensive characteristics. Pride is a lofty and often arrogant assumption of superiority in some respect: Pride must have a fall. Conceit implies an exaggerated estimate of one’s own abilities or attainments, together with pride: blinded by conceit. Self-esteem may imply an estimate of oneself that is higher than that held by others: a ridiculous self-esteem. Egotism implies an excessive preoccupation with oneself or with one’s own concerns, usually but not always accompanied by pride or conceit: His egotism blinded him to others’ difficulties. Vanity implies self-admiration and an excessive desire to be admired by others: His vanity was easily flattered. Vainglory, somewhat literary, implies an inordinate and therefore empty or unjustified pride: puffed up by vainglory.”
Leviticus 26:14-46 Reject His Statutes and He Will Strike You 14 ‘But if you do not obey Me and do not do all these commandments, 15 if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments so as not to do all My commandments and so break My covenant, 16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up. 17 And I will set My face against you so that you will be defeated before your enemies; and those who hate you will have dominion over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you. 18 If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will discipline you seven times more for your sins. 19 I will also break down your pride of strength; I will also give your sky over to become like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And your power will be spent uselessly, for your land will not give forth its produce and the trees of the land will not give forth their fruit. 21 ‘If then, you walk in hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins. 22 And I will send out among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and cut down your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie desolate. 23 ‘And if by these things you do not accept My discipline, but walk in hostility against Me, 24 then I will walk in hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins. 25 I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you so that you shall be given over into enemy hands. 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by rationed weight so that you will eat and not become full. 27 ‘Yet, if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but walk in hostility against Me, 28 then I will walk in wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will discipline you seven times for your sins. 29 Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you will eat. 30 I then will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and give your corpses to lie on the corpses of your idols, for My soul shall loathe you. 31 And I will give your cities over as a waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas. 32 And I will make the land desolate, so that your enemies who inhabit it will themselves feel desolate because of it. 33 You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste. 34 ‘Then the land will make up for its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, and you will be in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and make up for its sabbaths. 35 All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it. 36 As for those of you who may remain, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall. 37 They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand up before your enemies. 38 But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. 39 So those of you who may remain will rot away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away with them. 40 ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also how they walked in hostility against Me— 41 I also was walking in hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make up for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be forsaken by them and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making up for their iniquity because they rejected My judgments and their soul loathed My statutes. 44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so loathe them as to bring an end to them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God. 45 But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.’” 46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws which Yahweh has given to be between Himself and the sons of Israel by the hand of Moses at Mount Sinai.
2 Chronicles 26:16-23 16 But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to Yahweh his God. And he entered the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17 Then Azariah the priest entered after him and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, men of valor. 18 And they stood against Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are set apart as holy to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from Yahweh God.” 19 But Uzziah, with a censer in his hand for burning incense, was enraged; and while he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense. 20 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous on his forehead; and they hurried him out of there, and he himself also hastened to get out because Yahweh had smitten him. 21 So King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death; and he lived in a separate house, being a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh. And Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land. 22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first to last, the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, has written. 23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the grave which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” And Jotham his son became king in his place.
Psalms 10:1-3 1 Why do You stand afar off, O Yahweh? Why do You hide Yourself in times of distress? 2 In his lofty pride the wicked hotly pursues the afflicted; Let them be caught in the thoughts which they have devised. 3 For the wicked boasts of his soul’s desire, And the greedy man curses and spurns Yahweh.
Psalms 31:17-19 17 O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon You; Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol. 18 Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With lofty pride and contempt. 19 How great is Your goodness, Which You have stored up for those who fear You, Which You have worked for those who take refuge in You, Before the sons of men!
Psalms 31:23-24 23 Oh, love Yahweh, all you His holy ones! Yahweh guards the faithful But repays fully the one who acts in lofty pride. 24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who wait for Yahweh.
Psalms 36:10-12 10 Continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, And Your righteousness to the upright in heart. 11 Let not the foot of pride come upon me, And let not the hand of the ungodly drive me away. 12 There the workers of wickedness have fallen; They have been thrust down and cannot rise.
Psalms 59:12-13 12 On account of the sin of their mouth and the word of their lips, Let them even be caught in their pride, And on account of curses and lies which they utter. 13 Destroy them in wrath, destroy them that they may be no more; That men may know that God rules in Jacob To the ends of the earth. Selah.
Psalms 75:4-5 4 I said to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ And to the wicked, ‘Do not raise up the horn; 5 Do not raise up your horn on high, Nor speak with insolent pride.’”
Proverbs 8:13 13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the mouth of perverted words, I hate.
Proverbs 14:3 3 In the mouth of the ignorant fool is a rod of lofty pride, But the lips of the wise will keep them.
Proverbs 16:17-19 17 The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; He who guards his way keeps his soul. 18 Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling. 19 It is better to be humble in spirit with the lowly Than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 29:23 23 A man’s lofty pride will bring him low, But a lowly spirit will take hold of glory.
Proverbs 15:25 25 Yahweh will tear down the house of the proud, But He will cause the boundary of the widow to stand.
Isaiah 13:9-11 9 Behold, the day of Yahweh is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it. 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark when it rises And the moon will not shed its light. 11 Thus I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their iniquity; I will also put an end to the pride of the arrogant And bring low the lofty pride of the ruthless.
Mark 7:20-23 20 And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.”
1 John 2:15-17 15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and also its lusts, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.
Luke 1:49-51 49 For the Mighty One has done great things for me, And holy is His name. 50 AND HIS MERCY IS UPON GENERATION AFTER GENERATION TOWARD THOSE WHO FEAR HIM. 51 He has done a mighty deed with His arm; He has scattered those who were proud in the thoughts of their heart.
This is by no means an extensive list of scriptures on the topics of pride, and humility. It is a good representation of the topics. If we take pride in anything except what God has accomplished, we are sinning. He is our provision. We live because He upholds us by the power of His word. He gets all of the glory. When we are proud of something outside of God, we are robbing God of His glory, and attributing it to ourselves. In other words, we are taking something that should be attributed to God, the Creator, and just Judge, and attributing it to ourselves. We are fallen, sinful, finite, creatures. This is a demonstration of what is said in Romans Chapter 1. We are there now. We are under God’s just judgment. We need individual, and national, repentance of sin. We need to all turn from our sins, and trust solely in the Jesus, and His justifying work on the cross.
Romans 1:18-32 God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the likeness of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions; for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the males abandoned the natural function of the female and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, violent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the righteous requirement of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
1. Cited from Dictionary.com
* All Bible verses are cited from the Legacy Standard Bible translation.
Homosexuality and modern gender lies, are sexual immorality. They are perversions of the means God has ordained for the flourishing of mankind, being made in His image, for His glory. Therefore, they are sins against God, rebellion against His created order, and a blasphemies against the His gospel. The marriage union of a husband, and wife, is a typological representation of the gospel of Christ being unified with His blood bought bride. It is denigrated by satan, and his perversions. I absolutely don’t give any credence at all to any so called Christian who would defend these perversions, and seek to do violence to God’s word to justify these things. These sins must be repented of, and the sinner must be reconciled to God by the justifying work of Christ on the cross. They must admit that they are in sin. If they are taught by the satanic pseudochristians that these are not sins, they will never repent. They will be deceived all the way to the eternal torment of hell. The pseudochristians who teach them these lies will burn in hell for their satanic allegiance.
Romans 1:18-32 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the likeness of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions; for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the males abandoned the natural function of the female and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, violent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and although they know the righteous requirement of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
1 Timothy 1:8-11 8 But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and godless, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for sexually immoral persons, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, 11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.
Jude 1:6-7 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having indulged in the same way as these in gross sexual immorality and having gone after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Leviticus 18:22 22 And you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 13 If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
Genesis 19:1-11 1 Then the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them and rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.” 3 Yet he pressed them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4 Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, from young to old, all the people from every quarter; 5 and they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them.” 6 But Lot went out to them at the doorway and shut the door behind him, 7 and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly. 8 Now behold, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them what is good in your eyes; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.” 9 But they said, “Step aside.” Furthermore, they said, “This one came to sojourn, and already he is persistently acting like a judge; now we will treat you more wickedly than them.” So they pressed hard against Lot and stepped up to break the door. 10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door. 11 And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from small to great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.
Judges 19:16-30 16 But behold, an old man was coming from his work, from the field, at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites. 17 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?” 18 And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem in Judah. But I am now going to the house of Yahweh, and no man is taking me into his house. 19 Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, your maidservant, and the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of anything.” 20 Then the old man said, “Peace be to you. Only let me take care of all that you lack; however, do not spend the night in the open square.” 21 So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys fodder, and they washed their feet and ate and drank. 22 They were making their hearts merry, and behold, the men of the city, certain vile fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house that we may know him.” 23 Then the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, please do not do evil. Since this man has come into my house, do not commit this disgraceful act. 24 Behold, my daughter who is a virgin, and his concubine—please let me bring them out that you may violate them and do to them whatever is good in your eyes. But do not commit such a disgraceful act against this man.” 25 But the men were not willing to listen to him. So the man took hold of his concubine and brought her out to them; and they knew her and abused her all night until morning, and they let her go at the breaking of dawn. 26 As the day began to dawn, the woman came and fell down at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was, until full daylight. 27 Then her master arose in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, and behold, the woman, his concubine, was lying at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold. 28 And he said to her, “Get up and let us go,” but there was no answer. Then he took her on the donkey; and the man arose and went to his home. 29 Then he entered his house and took a knife and took hold of his concubine and cut her in twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel. 30 And all who saw it said, “Nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day when the sons of Israel came up from the land of Egypt to this day. Consider it; take counsel and speak up!”
Portraying yourself as the opposite sex, is deception. It is the sin of lying. It is perversion of what God made as male, and female. Therefore it is rebellion. It is believing a lie, that you can become a different gender when you cannot. It is impossible. There is no such thing as being, “transgendered” regardless of what modern liberal “theologians”, psychologists, and other deceived sinners say.
Deuteronomy 22:5 5 “A woman shall not wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Mark 10:6-9 6 But from the beginning of creation, God MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE. 7 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, 8 AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”
Genesis 1:27-28 27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that creeps on the earth.”
The liar, and murderer, satan, has from the beginning, lied about what God has said, and perverted, inverted, everything that God has declared good, and evil, beautiful, and bad. Satan murders people in this world by lying to them, and once they have believed the lies, they suffer the death due them. Then, they die eternally. The unimaginable evil being done to the people who have believed these lies about gender, and sexuality, is unfathomable to me. Only the most defiled, disgusting people, and satanically deceived people would push these perversions on the young, and impressionable. If you are one of the people who push these lies, and call yourself a Christian, repent! You are a false teacher, and are leading people to eternal torment in hell. If you won’t repent, you may find yourself in hell as well. May God have mercy on us all.
“Theophilus (Θεόφιλος, friend of God), bishop of Antioch (died 181 AD). Theophilus was born into a pagan family in Syria and became a Christian as an adult by studying the Scriptures. Towards the end of the second century, he wrote a three-volume apologetic work, Ad Autolychum (To Autolycus), to an intelligent pagan friend named Autolycus, “an idolater and scorner of Christians.”3 In this, his sole surviving work, Theophilus tries to convince Autolycus of the falseness and absurdity of paganism (idolatry) and the truthfulness of Christianity by contrasting the gods of the Greco-Roman religions with the God of Christianity. In Ad Autolycus, Theophilus “draws upon his impressive learning as he makes his case, quoting philosophers, poets and historians that would be familiar to his audience.”4 Not only does Theophilus work on an extensive philosophical level, but his apologetic methodology “focuses on the creation story [account] in particular, offering a lengthy exposition of Genesis and the creation week.”5 Theophilus is an important apologist to learn from as he sees the importance of the authority of Scripture, especially in Genesis, in his apologetic work against pagan philosophies.” From Answersingenesis.com
Theophilus – To Autolycus – Book 1
Chap. II. — That the Eyes of the Soul Must Be Purged Ere God Can Be Seen.
“But if you say, “Show me thy God,” I would reply, “Show me yourself,3 and I will show you my God.” Show, then, that the eyes of your soul are capable of seeing, and the ears of your heart able to hear; for as those who look with the eyes of the body perceive earthly objects and what concerns this life, and discriminate at the same time between things that differ, whether light or darkness, white or black, deformed or beautiful, well-proportioned and symmetrical or disproportioned and awkward, or monstrous or mutilated; and as in like manner also, by the sense of hearing, we discriminate either sharp, or deep, or sweet sounds; so the same holds good regarding the eyes of the soul and the ears of the heart, that it is by them we are able to behold God. For God is seen by those who are enabled to see Him when they have the eyes of their soul opened: for all have eyes; but in some they are overspread,4 and do not see the light of the sun. Yet it does not follow, because the blind do not see, that the light of the sun does not shine; but let the blind blame themselves and their own eyes. So also thou, O man, hast the eyes of thy soul overspread by thy sins and evil deeds. As a burnished mirror, so ought man to have his soul pure. When there is rust on the mirror, it is not possible that a man’s face be seen in the mirror; so also when there is sin in a man, such a man cannot behold God. Do you, therefore, show me yourself, whether you are not an adulterer, or a fornicator, or a thief, or a robber, or a purloiner; whether you do not corrupt boys; whether you are not insolent, or a slanderer, or passionate, or envious, or proud, or supercilious; whether you are not a brawler, or covetous, or disobedient to parents; and whether you do not sell your children; for to those who do these things God is not manifest, unless they have first cleansed themselves from all impurity. All these things, then, involve you in darkness, as when a filmy defluxion on the eyes prevents one from beholding the light of the sun: thus also do iniquities, O man, involve you in darkness, so that you cannot see God.”
Here Theophilus is arguing that God must open your eyes via spiritual new birth, (regeneration) and that God must cleanse you from sin, (justification) and that you must live accordingly by the power of God in the Spirit. (sanctification)
Let’s consider why our eyes, nose, tongue, and ears, are so close to our brains. If they were located at the extremities, the signals they received would have a higher latency. What you see with your eyes, no longer exists as it did when you saw it. There is a short amount of time that passes from when an observable situation passes from occurring, to being observed, and perceived by an individual. In a sense, we are always living in the past. The same is true for all of our senses. Imagine if there were creatures with vastly superior systems of sensation than us. To us it would seem like they were supernaturally quick. To creatures that don’t have senses closely located to their brains, we seem that way to them.
This is one of the many evidences of an intelligent Creator, as opposed to a chaotic non-probable chance mutation model based on Darwinian evolution. Let’s just assume that there were a pool of creatures that suddenly evolved with all the sense organs, and the neural hardware to operate them. (Which is a lot to assume.) Did they evolve the desire to eat, or the ability to eat first? Did they evolve the complex organs for sexual reproduction first, or the desires to engage in sex first? If they had the desire, but not the capacity, how did they move from their first iteration to the next? If they developed the capacity, but not the desire, you have the same problem. Did they somehow evolve at the same time? Why would they do that? How would that happen? If it didn’t happen for all of the creatures in the pool at the same time, how did they survive long enough to breed, and pass the mutation on? This is all too idiotic. It is a pipe dream.
God as the Creator, makes infinitely more sense to me than any of these other silly ideas. We have similarities to other creatures, because we have the same Creator, who used similar designs, not because we are related through ancestorial descent.
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