In the Sept. 4 issue, a writer urged Christians to love homosexuals, explaining his son had convinced him that he would never have chosen to be homosexual, but that was part of his “inherited nature.” This begs the obvious question: inherited from whom? Same sex partners do not reproduce, so where did this unnatural proclivity come from?
I do not know one true Christian that does not love homosexuals, rapists, murderers and other sinners, as our Lord commanded. We are not, however, commanded to condone their immoral behavior. As a retired social worker, I can attest that every pedophile who has molested and violated a child will swear he or she cannot help their behavior and that he or she was helpless against their perverse desire.
Are we then to allow adult men and women to marry children to satisfy their urges, giving them their “secular protection under the law” as the writer urges us to give gays?
The writer accuses Paul of distorting the words of Jesus because of his devotion to the old laws. If Paul had loved the old laws so much, salvation for Gentiles might not have been preached.
When Paul was called by God, the other disciples shunned him because of his conviction that Christ came to die for the Gentiles and Greeks as well as the Jews. Their mere hint that Paul distorted God’s Word should be dismissed totally as He tells us again and again that His Word does not change, not even “one jot or tittle.”
Sylvia Brackin
Oneonta, Ala.
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