The seeds of apostasy will slowly destroy a church. The first step in this downward spiral is that truth must first be suppressed. For unbelievers, that is self-evident. However, for those who are (externally) called to be God's people in the churches, such suppression occurs when the people refuse to listen and to discover the truth. Instead of striving to know God and His Word, and to stand strong in the Lord by putting on the full Gospel armor (Eph. 6: 10-18), these people would rather create a 'god' of their making, and emphasize unity over doctrine, what the late Anglican Bishop J.C. Ryle would appropriately call 'the unity of hell'. Once that is believed, because they refuse to love the truth, God will give them over to strong delusions against the truth (2 Thess. 2:10-11). In this passage of Romans, those who scorn God's truth will be given over to worser and worser errors. First, they will worship a 'god' of their own making (Rom. 1:22-23), which is a given since God is only known through Scripture, and if you scorn Scripture, then what do you have?
The second stage of delusion that God will send on those people who continue on and do not repent of their sins is that of sensuality (Rom. 1:24-25). They acquire a certain lust in their hearts to impurity, meaning that they acquire a burning passion for the things which are not pure. Such actions may not be specifically that of sexual immorality, though that is obviously included. What the verse is referring to is any impure stuff, sexual or otherwise. A perverse, twisted, non-biblical 'non-judging' attitude would certainly qualify, as it distorts God's truth. With regards to my former church, sensuality does play a part, as I have seen girls who dress immodestly and any attempt to rebuke them is thwarted by both the leaders of the church and the parents (i.e. We shouldn't judge them, you know. Who are you to judge?).
The third stage is where the Singapore society is currently at a crossroads with respects to the issue. After improper and impure lusts, God gave them over to even worse behavior; that of homsexual pervasion. Not sated with perverting the truth and embracing sensuality, Man desires to act out in total rebellion in perverting the very core of his being; that of sexuality. Instead of being a man, a man desires to behave like or change into a woman, and vice versa. We can see this madness currently sweeping the world today, as good is called evil and evil good (Is. 5:20). With regards to the situation in my former church, as I see it, the false siren of 'love' is busy singing in the email exchanges they are currently having. Looks like at least some of the church in Singapore are ripe for the homosexual harvest; after all, pleads for 'love' and 'tolerance' is the homosexuals' most powerful weapon.
The fourth stage is the stage of complete moral anarchy. We can read of the actions stated in Rom. 1:30-32. Granted, all of these sins are found in any society to a certain extent, but when all of these sins have progressed to the stage whereby they are not only not condemned by society, but being approved of (v. 32), that society has gone to the stage of no return, whereby God will punish the society terribly and even destroy it, unless by His sovereign grace and mercy He sends revival.
So that brings us back to the mess that is Singapore Christianity. Years of unbiblical emphasis on 'love' and 'unity' has left the churches without a defense against the homosexual agenda, and that's not factoring in all the other doctrinal compromise, error and heresy yet. Singapore Christianity is fertile soil for the militant homosexuals to plant their seeds of corruption, if and when they so desire to do so. God help us!
Oh, and talking about homosexuality and Christianity, see the fruits of the infiltration in America here.HT: Daniel's Place
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UPDATE 7/18/07
Stacy over at Active Christian Media has a post about this topic and has graciously acknowledged Talkwisdom.
My comment there:
Hi Stacy,
Thank you for your kind acknowledgement of my Talkwisdom blog. I really appreciate it!
You are correct. Most Christians are unwilling to tackle this subject matter; especially the heresy being promoted through the gay christian movement. Daniel’s Place was a blog I found that really gets to the basic “tenets,” if you will, of this new-found cult of “Christianity.” The physical aspect of it all has to do with sodomy. They want to legitimatize, sanctify, and “force” belief that such an act as anything else than what it truly is… a sexual sin that is an abomination in the eyes of God Himself.
The group “Soulforce” has aptly named itself. Think about it. They are attempting to force everyone (particularly, Bible-based Christians) to agree with them in their man-made religious ideology that homosexual behavior is not sin.
The physical harm done to the bodies of those who participate in such activity, notwithstanding, doesn’t even come close to the spiritual harm being done to the souls of unrepentant homosexuals who are being duped into believing this heretical ideology. In fact, they are actively forcing souls (who don’t know the Bible well enough to see their errors) into eternity without Jesus Christ.
The book of Jude warns us that such heretical ideologies of a sexual nature would be upon us the closer we get to the end times. It is my belief that the homosexual christian theology movement is a reprobate theology that must be exposed for what it truly is.
Thanks for your efforts in this battle. Ultimately, it is spiritual in nature and recognizing this fact makes it all the more important to stand up against “the wiles of the devil.”
Yours in Christ, Christine
5 comments:
Oh please.
They said that about giving women equal rights.
They said that about giving non whites equal rights.
The world is not going to end because we give gays equal rights.
Andrew,
This post doesn't have anything to do with human "rights." It is about the perversion of the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
In this particular instance, the infiltration (or, sanctioning of the sin of sodomy as something other than it really is...namely SIN) of the sin of sodomy is being forced into Christianity.
The book of Jude warns about such sexual perversions (as well as other heresies) sneaking in to the churches in the last days.
Don't like this fact? Then your argument is with the Bible, not me.
:)
We both know I have many issues with the Bible.
Well then, you need to make a decision. Does the truth in the Word of God count more than your "issues"?
UPDATE 7/18/07
Stacy over at Active Christian Media has a post about this topic and has graciously acknowledged Talkwisdom.
My comment there:
Hi Stacy,
Thank you for your kind acknowledgement of my Talkwisdom blog. I really appreciate it!
You are correct. Most Christians are unwilling to tackle this subject matter; especially the heresy being promoted through the gay christian movement. Daniel’s Place was a blog I found that really gets to the basic “tenets,” if you will, of this new-found cult of “Christianity.” The physical aspect of it all has to do with sodomy. They want to legitimatize, sanctify, and “force” belief that such an act as anything else than what it truly is… a sexual sin that is an abomination in the eyes of God Himself.
The group “Soulforce” has aptly named itself. Think about it. They are attempting to force everyone (particularly, Bible-based Christians) to agree with them in their man-made religious ideology that homosexual behavior is not sin.
The physical harm done to the bodies of those who participate in such activity, notwithstanding, doesn’t even come close to the spiritual harm being done to the souls of unrepentant homosexuals who are being duped into believing this heretical ideology. In fact, they are actively forcing souls (who don’t know the Bible well enough to see their errors) into eternity without Jesus Christ.
The book of Jude warns us that such heretical ideologies of a sexual nature would be upon us the closer we get to the end times. It is my belief that the homosexual christian theology movement is a reprobate theology that must be exposed for what it truly is.
Thanks for your efforts in this battle. Ultimately, it is spiritual in nature and recognizing this fact makes it all the more important to stand up against “the wiles of the devil.”
Yours in Christ,
Christine
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