D14-4: Is God Against Homosexuality Or Does He Leave It Up To Human Preference?

Let’s continue our discussion on the scriptural viewpoint of mankind and sin that we began yesterday.

Recall I concluded our study by pointing out there are two categories of choice-making available to humans.

One category deals with moral choices (right and wrong as defined by God in the Bible) and the other category deals with preferences (decisions outside the realm of right and wrong as defined in the Bible). 

I said that it is important for the believer to be able to distinguish between those decisions that lie within the realm of moral choices and those that are merely choices of preference such as what flavor of ice cream I should have for desert after dinner.

I then mentioned that the only way to be able to make that proper distinction is to use God’s Word as the objective measuring rod which tells us in black and white terms what is right and what is wrong AND…

…finally I said that if we hold to a doctrine that says the Law has been done away with, we are essentially saying no morality exists for followers of Messiah.

In other words, we are basically saying we are currently living in the same state as Adam and Eve BEFORE God gave them the one-rule Torah command to not eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

This is just plain Scriptural error, pure and simple.

Now here’s the thing.

Although mankind has been doing this pretty much since the dawn of civilization, the attempt to remove God’s commands from the realm of moral choice and instead place them inside the realm of preference is accelerating at an alarming rate today.

Again, moral choices are determined and governed by God’s will as expressed by His laws and commands in Scripture.

On the other hand, preferences are those things that are NOT governed by divine law and thus do not involve rights and wrongs.

A prime example of how an instruction of God was transferred from the realm of moral choice to the realm of preference is the command against homosexuality.

In Scripture, of all prohibited sexual relationships mentioned, only homosexuality is described as an “abomination to Hashem”.

Heck, even bestiality is not so described.

Yet our modern society (especially in the West) is doing its darnedest to move God’s command against homosexuality from the realm of morality, of right and wrong, of good and evil, into the realm of human preference where whether it is moral or immoral is of no issue.

This nice little deceptive slight of hand is nothing less than rebellion against the Lord at the highest level.

Why?

Because man doesn’t have the authority to take a command of God dealing with morality and downgrade it to the level of human preference.

We are the creation and God is the Creator.

So how dare we say that His definitions of what is right and wrong no longer applies to our lives?!

This movement of decisions about how to live our lives out of God’s realm of morality into the realm of preference is nothing less than letting our rebellious nature get the better of us.

And this is precisely where the modern church has erred and fallen into apostasy to a degree from which they may never recover.

Let me make it clear.

The day Christianity declared there is no longer any Law because “Jesus nailed it to the cross” is the day they literally did away with the realm of moral choice and moved it into the realm of subjectivity and sinful man’s preferences.

The gentile church has adopted the lie of all ages.

Because when you adopt a doctrine that says “Christ did away with the Law”, you are eliminating the very foundation, the very basis for moral choices.

Satan won a huge victory that day folks. 

And it has resulted in moral relativity which has led to decadence, tolerance of all kinds of wickedness and mass confusion.

Again, all one has to do is look at Christendom itself with their thousands of denominations each with their own anti-Law doctrines.

The most ridiculous false doctrine of them all is the teaching that “salvation saves us from the Law itself”.

Are you kidding me man?!

Think about just how illogical that teaching is for a second.

If Yeshua really abolished the Law, then why would a person need to be saved from his or her sins?

BECAUSE IT IS ONLY WHEN THERE IS LAW CAN THERE EVEN BE SIN…

BECAUSE THE LAW DEFINES WHAT SIN IS IN THE FIRST PLACE.

This is also exactly what Paul said.

With Law there is sin and without Law there can be no sin…

…because without the Law there is nothing to break.

And if there is nothing to break, then there is nothing to be atoned for.

So why in the heck did Yeshua have to go to the cross?