Website owner: James Miller
True Christianity is not just about loving good. It is equally about hating evil. As Christians, we follow God's way, accept his words and teaching as true, adopt his outlooks and values, look at things the way he does. We follow his values. That is his spirit within us. When we read the Bible, we quickly learn that God is a being of strong feelings. He has a strong love for goodness and, at the same time, a very strong loathing and hatred for evil. He is not a wishy-washy, broad-minded, tolerant being without strong opinions. He has a very strong bias against sin. His teachings center around attitudes and conduct. He loves good and he hates evil. And we learn in numerous places throughout the Bible that one sin that he especially abhors is homosexuality. For him it is a sin of very great proportions. One cannot read the Bible honestly and seriously without understanding that. A true lover of God necessarily loathes homosexuality. When I was a boy growing up I was so grounded and ensconced in the Bible and scripture that I didn't give much thought to homosexuality. I just knew, from having read the Bible, that it was a great and terrible sexual sin in which men had sex with other men. More than that I didn't know. I never heard people talk about it. Having always been very selective in my friendships, I was never around the kind of person that might talk about such a subject. If you had asked me about it I would have probably said that there were probably a few homosexuals around, very few, hiding in cracks here and there like roaches. For me, America was a great country and I wouldn't have ever thought of it as a big center of world homosexuality. If I had been told that it was, I wouldn't have believed it, wouldn't have been willing to believe it. It would have been too incompatible with my view of America as being a good and great country. One incident did occur in my early teens. I overheard my parents talking one day about a scandal at our church in which a single fellow, a member of the church, was exposed as being a homosexual who had perverted some of the young boys in the church (it had come out because one of the boys had told his parents). The fellow disappeared from the church and I later heard he had been put in an institution. That was about the only thing I ever heard about homosexuality in my youth and never knew much about it until later in life when all the gays started "coming out of the closet" and brazenly demanding their acceptance and rights. I do remember one thing. When I was in high school I asked myself a question that I just couldn't answer. I asked myself, "How is it possible for a man to have sex with another man?" I puzzled over this question for quite a while, just couldn't figure it out, and became so curious about it that I finally decided to ask someone. I asked a long-time friend if he knew. He did know and rather embarrassedly told me. I remember being just totally shocked, totally amazed and disgusted at such an idea. Well, that was then and now is now. I remember in college being called a "babe in the woods". I have always been a bit of a loner, selective in my friendships. We all have our wavelengths and I have always associated with people on my wavelength. And there has never been many. I have always had a special liking and preference for good, honest, decent, moral people. I have never cared much for low, immoral types. America. What can I say? I understand so much now that I would never have believed when I was younger. Truth in this life is often ugly. The older we get the more we see and the worse things look. Over the dinner table my wife, who is a hairdresser, tells me things she has heard in the beauty shop. My wife is my window to the real world. People talk a lot in the beauty shop. One can learn a lot about people and life there. Through my wife I have been privy to continuing updates on the intimate details of various people's lives. I hear the details about family quarrels, teenager problems, etc. What is happening with young teenagers is amazing. I see it again and again. Teenagers without any principles or moral knowledge. Young teenagers living low, degenerate, wild, wanton lives. Teenagers breaking every rule of conscience and morality. Lying, cheating, stealing, tricking their parents, sexual wantonness. Young people making rendezvous for sex over the internet. You name it. It is all there. About everything short of murder. I have a front row seat to comedies, people living like animals. When there are no rules, no moral principles, that is the result you get. Is all this an accurate picture of what America really is? Is this the real America? Is the picture I am getting typical? According to a 2005 report of the National Center for Health Statistics: - over half of teenagers aged 15 to 19 have engaged in oral sex with the proportion increasing with age to about 70% of all 18 and 19 year olds. Proportions are about the same for boys and girls. - 11% of young women have had some kind of sexual experience with a female partner - half of 15 to 19 year olds have had vaginal intercourse Oral sex?! Like homosexuality, it is totally beyond me! It is completely outside my mind, my comprehension. That is all I can say. When I was a boy in high school in the mid 1950's I developed a pessimistic view of my society. I was shocked by Elvis Presley and his sexually suggestive antics right out on public television. I was shocked that he could be so popular. I wondered, What did the great popularity of such a person say about the morality of our society? It said to me that the country was going downhill rapidly morally. I thought at that time that things were going to be really bad in another 50 years. Well, it is now 50 years later. Things have changed a lot, just like I predicted. And it has all been downhill. Now we have gone so low as to be at the point of condoning and accepting that great sin of sins, that sin for which God lost all patience and rained fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, homosexuality. I didn't really think we would ever get that low. In my opinion, that is as low as you can go. That is rock bottom. To sin is one thing, but to condone sin, and such a great sin as homosexuality, and say it is not sin, is another. That reveals total moral corruption. That reveals a total loss of moral sense, moral knowledge. The downward course of America does not come as a really great surprise to a serious reader of the Bible. No theme comes out more strongly in the Bible than man's inclination toward wickedness, evil, spiritual error. Man is naturally disposed towards questioning God and his ways, doubting the existence of God, rebelling against God and his law. Immorality, moral degeneracy, sexual depravity is nothing new. Homosexuality is certainly not new. It was practiced by many peoples in Biblical times. We learn that from the Bible. Immorality has existed as long as man himself. The Bible is full of accounts of men and peoples turning away from God and his laws and towards wickedness. Through time, history keeps repeating itself. However, wickedness is wickedness. And God has declared that there will be spiritual consequences for the wicked. There is a great spiritual law that must obtain in the end: the law of final justice --- the righteous will be rewarded and the wicked will be punished. Unless the wicked man repents of his sin and turns back to God he has the promise of punishment. People might tell me, "Oh, America is not so bad. There are many countries in the world that are worse." They might cite some countries. They might cite some of the countries of western Europe. Well, that may be true. But wickedness is wickedness and the wicked will be judged. Many Americans regard themselves as Christians. It is quite amazing to me to see people singing, "Oh, how I love Jesus" on Sunday and living like all the rest of the world on Monday. Something just doesn't add up right. I suspect some self- deception, a false sense of security. Oct 2007 More from SolitaryRoad.com:Similarities between America and the ancient city of Sodom
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