On May 9, 2012 President
Obama announced he supports the marriage between same sex individuals. That declaration made him the first President
of the United States to officially make such a declaration. This age-old issue continues to ring
throughout our land and around the world really. In fact, this issue has likely been around
for thousands of years. No matter how
many states or nations proclaim the equality of unions between genders, either
opposite or the same, there will always be one thing that the Biblical union in
marriage between a man and a woman will have over all other unions, that is
God’s blessing.
The state can pass laws
that totally equalize the unions between genders, and in a secular, civil
society that is well within their purview.
Many obviously consider it a fair thing to do, equalizing all gender
unions pertaining to rights and the sharing or disposition of property. After all, who decides that man/woman
marriages deserve rights above and beyond those of man/man, or woman/woman
relationships? It is all decided in
civil, legislative or judicial venues.
The difference of course
becomes noticeable and apparent when a person moves his/her life from the
secular life to the submission of the Christian life. For the Christian there is a significant
difference between the God-ordained sanctity of marriage and the secular, civil
laws that sanction same sex marriages. For
the Christian that difference is the knowledge of living within the Will of God
or not living within the Will of God.
Each individual makes free
choices regarding his/her life-style.
After reading and studying the sacred Scriptures that Christians refer
to as the Bible in such passages as Leviticus 18:22, 20:13 and Romans 1:25-27, 1Corinthians
6:9 and 1Timothy 1:10, each person decides what to believe. If a person decides these Scriptures are in
error or have different meanings beyond what they say, then that person is free
to practice any life-style that conforms to the secular, civil laws of the
state or nation in which they live.
The Christian person
believes that God is unchanging. No
matter how earnestly an individual, state or nation tries to create an exact
replica of God’s holy marriage; it can never be done in same-sex unions in such
a way as to make God change His formula.
He established the parameters of marriage between a man and a woman as
early as the Garden of Eden. It is
recorded for us in Genesis 2 the foundation of marriage:
“Then the Lord
God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her
to the man. Then the man said, ‘This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh
of my flesh; this one will be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.’”
“That
is why a man leaves
his father and mother and unites with
his wife, and they become a new family. The man and his wife were both naked,
but they were not ashamed.” (Genesis 2:22-25)
The conclusion of the
issue will always be the fact there is a great difference between a secular, same
sex marriage and a Biblical marriage; the same sex marriage disregards the
Biblical injunction from God, while the Christian marriage abides within the Biblical
injunction from God. Mankind can ascribe
all the rights and status they want to a same sex marriage, but it will never
be a God-ordained marriage.
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