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God’s Position On Same-Sex Marriages
Earlier this month a great deal of controversy was stirred up about same-sex marriages. On May 9, 2012 Barack Obama became the first sitting US. President to declare his support for the legalization of same-sex marriages. In fact, a recent Gallop Poll says that half the country agrees with the President’s position.
But what is God’s position on this divisive issue? Well first of all it is important to understand that the Word of God defines marriage as being between a man and woman. “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matt. 19:4-6).
Thus God made them male and female, not male and male, and not female and female. God joins together a man and woman to be husband and wife. Never do we read in the Bible where God joins two men or two women together in a marriage relationship.
Also in the beginning, God commanded men and women to: “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). It’s impossible for homosexuals to be fruitful and multiply. Our bodies simply were not created for homosexuality.
We know what God’s position was on it when He destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19). The inhabitants of these ancient cities were described as being “exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD” (Gen. 13:13). The sin that is given special emphasis in Scripture is homosexuality (Gen. 19:4-11).
God position regarding homosexuality in the Law of Moses was that it was an abomination to Him and a sin punishable by death (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13).
God’s position of homosexuality in the New Testament is that it: (1) is vile passions, against nature, and shameful, Romans 1:26-27. (2) Will keep those who practice it out of heaven, I Cor. 6:9-10. But it is a sin that can be repented of and forgiven (I Cor. 6:11; 2 Cor. 7:10; Acts 2:38; 3:19; 17:30-31).
Man’s position on this issue will change. Polls will go up and down. But God’s position will always remain the same. Why? Simply because He does not change (Malachi 1:6), and His Word “lives and abides forever” (I Peter 1:23).
