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God's Remnant Ministries
3418 Sevierville Rd.
Maryville, TN 37804
United States
Ph: 865-740-7795
godsremnant2007@aol.com
3418 Sevierville Rd.
Maryville, TN 37804
United States
Ph: 865-740-7795
godsremnant2007@aol.com
LEVITICUS 18:22 & 20:13
Three times we’re told these rules were set forth to prevent the Israelites
from doing what the Egyptians and the Canaanites did. (LEVITICUS 18:
24:
20:23). Biblical historians tell us the Canaanites’ religions often included
fertility rites consisting of sexual rituals. They were thought to bring the
blessings of the god or goddess on crop and livestock production.
During these rituals whole families, including husbands, wife’s, mothers,
fathers, sons, daughters, cousins, aunts, and uncles would sometimes
have sex. Also included was sex with temple prostitutes. In short, every
kind of sexual practice imaginable was performed at these rituals,
including homosexual sex (Grill, EJ Congress Volume: 37-80) Historians
tell us that many Canaanites and Egyptians worshiped a goddess of love
and fertility called Astarte. Depositing semen in the body of a priest was
believed to guarantee one immortality (Greenberg Worship of Astarte: 95-
97). My last concern on these scriptures would be that if you keep these
two verses alive to condemn gay people, you would most definitely be
judged yourself by the whole law. They include things like not cutting
your hair, no tattoos, no working on the Sabbath, not wearing mixed
fabric, never eating pork, and no football.
ROMANS 1:26-27
Wow what a chapter! Many times I have ready this and thought, “Lord,
this can not be me?” Then on one fateful Thursday night at work the Lord
spoke to my heart and said, “That’s not who you are!” God shows us
who He is speaking to in verse 21, He is talking about people who refuse
to acknowledge and glorify God. (People who refuse to make Him Lord
and Master of their lives). In verse 23 He is talking about people who
began to worship the created instead of the Creator. (What do we
worship in our society today?) In verse 25 he refers to people who were
more interested in worldly stuff than Godly stuff. (Do you know anybody
like that?) These people gave up what was most natural for them in
search for pleasure (verses 26 and 27). The word natural” is used in the
sense of what is most like you.
Three times we’re told these rules were set forth to prevent the Israelites
from doing what the Egyptians and the Canaanites did. (LEVITICUS 18:
24:
20:23). Biblical historians tell us the Canaanites’ religions often included
fertility rites consisting of sexual rituals. They were thought to bring the
blessings of the god or goddess on crop and livestock production.
During these rituals whole families, including husbands, wife’s, mothers,
fathers, sons, daughters, cousins, aunts, and uncles would sometimes
have sex. Also included was sex with temple prostitutes. In short, every
kind of sexual practice imaginable was performed at these rituals,
including homosexual sex (Grill, EJ Congress Volume: 37-80) Historians
tell us that many Canaanites and Egyptians worshiped a goddess of love
and fertility called Astarte. Depositing semen in the body of a priest was
believed to guarantee one immortality (Greenberg Worship of Astarte: 95-
97). My last concern on these scriptures would be that if you keep these
two verses alive to condemn gay people, you would most definitely be
judged yourself by the whole law. They include things like not cutting
your hair, no tattoos, no working on the Sabbath, not wearing mixed
fabric, never eating pork, and no football.
ROMANS 1:26-27
Wow what a chapter! Many times I have ready this and thought, “Lord,
this can not be me?” Then on one fateful Thursday night at work the Lord
spoke to my heart and said, “That’s not who you are!” God shows us
who He is speaking to in verse 21, He is talking about people who refuse
to acknowledge and glorify God. (People who refuse to make Him Lord
and Master of their lives). In verse 23 He is talking about people who
began to worship the created instead of the Creator. (What do we
worship in our society today?) In verse 25 he refers to people who were
more interested in worldly stuff than Godly stuff. (Do you know anybody
like that?) These people gave up what was most natural for them in
search for pleasure (verses 26 and 27). The word natural” is used in the
sense of what is most like you.
For example Paul said. ‘Doesn't’ nature itself teach you that women
should have long hair?” Nature Doesn't’t tell us that, but culture does. It
is natural for women in some tribes to go topless. If we did that in the US
we would be arrested; it’s not natural in our culture. We all know when
we meet a bitter person, who is always looking for the worst (verses 29-
31). These people are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed,
and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.
They are gossips, slanders, God haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful;
they invent ways of doing evil: they disobey their parents, they are
senseless, faithless, heartless and ruthless. We all might know someone
like this who may be homosexual or heterosexual, but certainly their
problem is a head sickness. The Word says that the heart is deceitfully
wicked above all things, and beyond cure who can understand it. I the
Lord search the heart and examine the mind to reward a man according
to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve. My question to the
church is are you judging my heart or my fruit’ (JEREMIAH 17:9-10)
In I CO 6:9-10 & I TIMOTHY 1:10 there are two words that come to
question, the words were originally written in Greek Malaol (mal-ak-os’)
of uncertain affinity, (i.e. soft fine clothing) this word is now being
translated as effeminate, male prostitutes, homosexuals, abusers,
sexual perverts, sensualist. The second word is Arsenokoite (ar-sen-ok-
oytace) which literally means lift couch. This word is now being
translated as abusers of themselves, homosexual offenders, Sodomites,
and sexual perverts, To illustrate the power of translations, let’s say
today you said God was awful, people would think you were angry with
God. Yet 400 years ago the word awful meant awe inspiring, or full of
awe.
Nine versions of the Word of God use the word homosexual. Anytime
we see the word Thomosexual” used, we must know this word did not
even exist until the 19th century - it isa mistranslation. Paul coined the
word “Arsenokite” and went on to say that this included some in his
parish. They would not have known if they were a “lift couch” or not. A
modem understanding of the so-called “homosexual lifestyle’ was not
what Paul was talking about. He was not addressing gay couples living
together and serving God by way of His tithe first, their mortgage
second, and their lives together committed as covenant partners bound
to God in fear, and loving all the people in their lives. Paul said, “Were
such were some of you and they agreed.” Were they us? I think not all of
us.
should have long hair?” Nature Doesn't’t tell us that, but culture does. It
is natural for women in some tribes to go topless. If we did that in the US
we would be arrested; it’s not natural in our culture. We all know when
we meet a bitter person, who is always looking for the worst (verses 29-
31). These people are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed,
and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.
They are gossips, slanders, God haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful;
they invent ways of doing evil: they disobey their parents, they are
senseless, faithless, heartless and ruthless. We all might know someone
like this who may be homosexual or heterosexual, but certainly their
problem is a head sickness. The Word says that the heart is deceitfully
wicked above all things, and beyond cure who can understand it. I the
Lord search the heart and examine the mind to reward a man according
to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve. My question to the
church is are you judging my heart or my fruit’ (JEREMIAH 17:9-10)
In I CO 6:9-10 & I TIMOTHY 1:10 there are two words that come to
question, the words were originally written in Greek Malaol (mal-ak-os’)
of uncertain affinity, (i.e. soft fine clothing) this word is now being
translated as effeminate, male prostitutes, homosexuals, abusers,
sexual perverts, sensualist. The second word is Arsenokoite (ar-sen-ok-
oytace) which literally means lift couch. This word is now being
translated as abusers of themselves, homosexual offenders, Sodomites,
and sexual perverts, To illustrate the power of translations, let’s say
today you said God was awful, people would think you were angry with
God. Yet 400 years ago the word awful meant awe inspiring, or full of
awe.
Nine versions of the Word of God use the word homosexual. Anytime
we see the word Thomosexual” used, we must know this word did not
even exist until the 19th century - it isa mistranslation. Paul coined the
word “Arsenokite” and went on to say that this included some in his
parish. They would not have known if they were a “lift couch” or not. A
modem understanding of the so-called “homosexual lifestyle’ was not
what Paul was talking about. He was not addressing gay couples living
together and serving God by way of His tithe first, their mortgage
second, and their lives together committed as covenant partners bound
to God in fear, and loving all the people in their lives. Paul said, “Were
such were some of you and they agreed.” Were they us? I think not all of
us.
God's Remnant Ministries