From what I read in the print media, Rick Warren ( of Purpose Driven Life fame ) has been waffling on the issue of marriage being only between a man,..and a woman. Unfortunately, his reported confusion isn't limited to only him.
For the sake of brevity here,..please examine prior post of 4/19/09,...entitled Homosexuality, as it provides even more depth to accompany this post. I sense God's Word is needed here, because it's death to the clamors of political correctness,...
Genesis 1:27,28,..."So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,..."
One has to have experienced a shipwreck of conscience not to interpret this correctly; or be completely bewildered by groping for affirmation of their perverted idealisms. Cloaked in innocence, God's plan for males and females begins to unfold....
Genesis 2:18,..."And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."
Here, at the beginning, we see the fingerprints of God upon his institution of marriage.
Genesis 2:21-24,..."And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
The first institution of marriage has been completed; and wholly orchestrated by God!! And for the 'loophole libertines',...a cursory examination of O.T. Hebrew bears out that the term wife
carries a feminine connotation. But imitate the biblical Bereans , and check it out to see if it's so.
I don't personally know Rick Warren, nor do I know his heart; but I find it hard to believe anyone can dispute, or misinterpret, such clear teachings. However, I do know that circulated articles of 'celebrity' Christian's fence-straddlings should keep us driven to our knees !!
Compromise is merely seduction in disguise; and it's no time to coddle the carriers of such gross imbecility. Our passions for loving our God dictates that we unshackle the tightening strangleholds our enemies have placed upon the minds of Christians. We must recognize this principle; the liberty of our faith carries with it a tint of anarchy; it has to be done God's way !
I close with these two verses:,....one of warning for those shifty Word wrestlers,....
Jeremiah 6:15,..." Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall,...."
...and one with the remedy for those Word wrestlers,....
Jeremiah 6:16,..."Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therin, and ye shall find rest for your souls. ,...."
"The Dinosaur Book of Wisdom and Observations"......a good book.
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