Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ta00est@unccvax.uncc.edu (elizabeth s tallant) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Moral reasoning (was Re: draft of Identity Task Force statement) Message-ID: Date: 13 Dec 90 09:59:58 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of NC at Charlotte Lines: 49 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Here is what the Bible has to say about sex, even if it is between two unmarried people: " Do you not know that your bodies are memebers of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in the flesh? For it is said, 'The two will become one flesh' (Mt. 19:5) But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. Flee from sexual immorality. All other sin a man commits are outside his body, but HE WHO SINS SEXUALLY SINS AGAINST HIS OWN BODY. Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holt Spirit, who is in you, whom you have recieved from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your body." I Chorinthians 6:15-20 This passage is telling us that even though fornication may not "harm" anyone God sees it as a sin because it is a sin against your own body. When you unite sexually, you become one flesh with another person. If you are a Christian, then you have just united your body, which is the temple of God, in a sinful act with another person. This is why it is wrong to have marriage outside of sex. In regard to homosexual acts, they are strictly forbidden by the Bible. "...neither the sexually immoral....nor homosexual offenders.... ...will inherit the kingdom of God." I Chorinthians 6:9-10 Why then do people become homosexuals? It is not because 'God created them that way." NO, not at all! It is because : "For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking because futile and their foolish hearts were darkened....Therefore, God gave them over to the sinful desires of their hearts to the sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator..... Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 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 perversions." Roman 1:21-27 Notice that these passages forbid ALL homosexual acts. There are no conditions. It does not matter if two homosexuals love each other or whatever. HOmosexual relations are strictly forbidden. Saying that it is OK to commit fornication or homosexual acts as long as "two people love each other" is like saying it is OK to murder someone as long as you are angry with him.