It is not about sex per se, never has been. It is about our response to sinful behavior. Everyone sins, but not everyone confesses and repents for their sins. Christians do repent for their brokenness--for every behavior that violates God’s intentions for humankind--and no exceptions can be made.
Grace is available. God forgives those who ask for forgiveness, but the unforgivable sin is the one that denies God’s forgiveness. God won’t force forgiveness on those who don’t want it.
Sexual sin calls for God’s forgiveness, but for the first time in Christian history we are seeing a movement that seeks a special dispensation of nonrepentance for homosexual behavior. It says you must repent if you have an affair, if you practice sexual misconduct or are caught in some other perversity, but if you act out homosexually, that should be okay with the church. Special exception, new dispensation, a new way of doing sexual ethics--all would be fine and dandy if proponents would (or could) present the Church with an articulate rationale based on scripture.
But no--what have we heard from the best and brightest minds among them? Nada. There has been no rationale from the movement’s beginning, which has instead sought to overwhelm sense and reason by siding with a host culture that depends upon blind erosion for its engine. The sexual revisionists of the PCUSA have abandoned their former good faith and now go with with flow of cultural entropy--riding the popular mudslides downhill in a culture that needs no reasons to do whatever it feels like doing.
You’ve got to hand it to them, if only for the sheer nerve of it--for as they ride the popular bandwagon of cultural decline, they proclaim that they are in fact the “prophetic voice.” Wow--they are prophets! They believe the Word of God leads us to condone and bless whatever hip culture wants to do. Who are these people? What confession or communion are they from? They call the Church in God’s name not to repent for homosexual sins? This is “prophetic voice”?
If they were not Presbyterians, we would be having a good laugh about it.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
