by Diana Howard

Created on: September 09, 2008   Last Updated: October 26, 2008

The book of John verse one states that "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The word "Word" in the Greek is Logos. It means that the invisible is being made visible. Since Jesus was God as well as man, he did not have to mention homosexuality specifically for us to understand how he felt about it.

God's word is filled with examples with the most overreaching statement being made in Romans 1:25-27;

25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Long ago, during the time before the flood and Sodom and Gomorrah, men began making idols for themselves. It was this first corruption that caused man to slide further away from truth. In the twenty and twenty-first centuries there are few golden calves, for we have found the perfect objects to worship...ourselves and our pleasure. Men and woman today have exchanged natural sex with one another, not because they were born that way, victims of nature, but mainly because they were bored, satiated with pornography and easy illicit sex. They may have been sexually abused by people who didn't realize that God's laws are not suggestions...they are protections. Who would know better than the Creator, as to how the creation functions best.

Men and women today have exchanged roles; women have become more dominant causing males to respond with performance anxiety. Women, whose men do not respect them as equals, and those who have been hurt because of heterosexual relationships, mistrust most men. Sexual Freedom has perverted rather than helped our relationships and still we lie to our children about it. After all, if we told them that sex in a temporary relationship can rob you of gratifying sex as time passes and cause relationships to fail, we might have to give up our own selfish pleasures.

Eros, where we get the term erotic, is one of the Greek words for love and so is Philemon. Both sexual love (Eros) and Philemon (friendship) are self-centered forms of love. No relationship can last without the third kind of love which is Agape. Agape is a self-sacrificing

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