Is Homosexuality That Big of a Sin?
From the way that this issue is painted, Homosexuality is the worst sin to befall mankind. I made the argument in a discussion of the McDonald’s boycott that there are many sins that God hates, and that we should make sure that we major on what God considers sin.
So, what about this sin?
Let’s Look at Romans
Perry believes that God exaggerates the importance of this sin based on Romans 1:27. What’s interesting about this passage is that it is a progression.
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The Greatest Sin of the American Culture
If I were to ask you what you thought the greatest sin the America culture is guilty of, what would you select? You may pick one of the big problems Christians see with the culture—abortion, greed, homosexuality, etc. But I believe that you’d be mistaken. Don’t get me wrong—I believe these are a problem, but I believe that they are the outgrowth of a deeper sin, rather than truly the problem itself.
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Why Would You Throw it All Away?
Today’s big news concerns the Democrat Governor of New York, but he is hardly the first and will not be the last. In case you had not heard, Governor Eliot Spitzer engaged in acts that he prosecuted as the Attorney General of the state of New York– he hired a prostitute on multiple occasions.
There are many things that makes this tragic. It’s just the latest thing in Gov. Spitzer’s life to come undone.
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The Problem With the Culture Argument
There are many things in the Bible that we do not adhere to in today’s church. We do not teach them as commands. We don’t encourage people to follow them. We try to ignore that they are even in the Bible. And we do this because they are counter-cultural and inconvenient.
And this is part of the reasons that Christians aren’t taken seriously. I can’t tell you how many conversations I have gotten into with unbelievers that follow this basic order:
- We’ve all sinned and the Bible defines sin.
- The Old Testament says that you shouldn’t do XYZ.
- You do XYZ.
- Aren’t you sinning?
And then after trying to get out of that one, the real fun begins.
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Fashion’s Effect on Men and Women
It is no secret that the culture today is pressing onto men and women a certain look– and that look is not one of inner beauty, but it is an appeal to the carnal desires of the world. God made men and women to be appealing to one another to look upon– for obvious reasons. But ever since the fall, there have had to be barriers put into place to protect us from inappropriate desires and to lead to sexual thoughts and sin.
Indeed, for as long as there has been modest clothing, there has been immodest clothing. If we take a chance to look back through history we will find that prostitutes (no, it’s not the world’s oldest profession, since Adam could be considered a farmer or engaged in husbandry even before there was a woman on the face of a planet) were identifiable. Why these women chose to do this is a discussion for another time, my point is that they dressed in a way to advertise what they were selling, and it was clear what they were doing.
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