I didn't say that, sir.
A little under a year ago, Preacher Bert M. Farias wrote a piece for
Charisma Magazine titled "The Raw, Naked Truth About Homosexuality."
In it he explained how terrible the gay is. His point is clear: gay marriage is coming!
The writing is on the wall.
What will you do on that fateful day? Obey man or obey God?
Gay rights and gay marriage have become one of the major issues of our culture today. In such times, Christians cannot afford to lose their moral compass or compromise the scriptures.
He goes on to quote Romans 1:26-27, which is the part where the Bible talks about how "woman exchanged the natural use for what is against nature..." Men too, it's pretty clear.
Homosexuality is not ordained by God, nor is it even biologically right or natural. People are gay because they choose to be--not because they can't help it. It's a choice in the same way I could choose as a sexually normal red-blooded male to go out and commit adultery. Being gay is a choice just like a heterosexual couple chooses to have children, or a man decides to remain celibate and enter the monastery, or a woman chooses to be a nun. Men don't say, "I can't help being a monk!" Women don't say, "I couldn't help being a nun!" Just as normal couples make a choice to marry, or not to marry, have sex or not to have sex, have children or not have children, so it is with being gay.
The choice to be gay, however, has far greater risk in that it ties one to lust, illicit passions, and unclean practices that open up a person to the demonic. I will explain this further below.
I guess it's far greater than adultery since ... lust, illicit passions ... oh, it's the same thing, just gayer I guess. He goes on to say sort of as much in that he can't go and tell his wife that it's natural for him to sleep around (point taken). Then he unleashed the real, honest, naked, sexy, sweaty, lusty, tan, truth:
Here's the raw, naked truth: Homosexuality is actually a demon spirit. It is such a putrid-smelling demon that other demons don't even like to hang around it. A genuine prophet of God told me that the Lord allowed him to smell this demon spirit, and he got sick to his stomach. And yet as humans, many embrace this demon. Yes, you heard me right: Being gay is demonic.
Boom! FYI, totally not in the Bible. But, according to this man of the cloth it is in the Bible.
Follow me below the fold to find out about how to be a literalist and not even read the Bible literally.
Preacher Farias goes on to quote a section from Mark about Jesus exorcising the demon "Legion" from a man known for the region the story takes place (the man from Gadarenes):
There is an account in the Bible where Jesus casts 2,000 demons out of a man. The demons came out screaming and begged Jesus to send them into the pigs. The pigs didn't want them, so they ran down a steep hill and were drowned in the sea. Pigs have more sense than some humans. Some people embrace homosexual demons, but the pigs would rather die than be possessed with demons.
"Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains. So all the demons begged Him, saying, 'Send us to the swine, that we may enter them.' And at once Jesus gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine (there were about two thousand); and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea." (Mark 5:11-13).
The number 2,000 is from the more "literal" translations of the Bible out there. There isn't anything in
any translation about them being particularly smelly—the reason the pigs run into the sea is because they are
unclean. Remember, Jesus was Jewish and pigs are super-duper unclean themselves, so pigs feeling so unclean that they are willing to kill themselves is a pretty damning statement.
Unfortunately, the leap from Gadarenes man's demonic possession to homosexuality is quite a leap. It's a leap because like many homophobic men of the cloth, the big problem they face is that, according to the four gospels, Jesus of Nazareth never spoke on the subject of homosexuality. At all. Ever. Was not important enough for him to mention. Not once. Even in passing.
The Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible) has a few places where homosexuality does not meet God's approval, and there is the rub. "Christians" like Mr. Farias enjoy cherry-picking the parts of the Hebrew bible they are willing to follow, and for the rest of the more awkward stuff (At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release) they like to say that Jesus changed some of those rules (even though in the case of the "Lord's release" Jesus didn't change that rule, he said you shouldn't loan thinking you will be repaid—but anythewho).
Shame on you, sir. You are a liar.
3:10 PM PT: librarisingsf wrote a diary discussing alternate readings of Old New Testament section Romans: 1:26-27.
Worth a read.
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