There are many issues that people who don't want to acknowledge the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible, or Jesus Christ as Lord, like to bring up to try and trap Christians. When they do, they then try to attach labels to us to try and hurt our reputations. Pay no attention to those who would try to do this in YOUR life! You need answer no questions about these issues unless the Spirit of God is leading you to minister to them! Jesus encountered this often in His ministry! We see one example of that in today's Bible Reading in Mark. The Pharisees, always trying to trap Jesus, asked Him about divorce. Jesus answered them in verses 5-8:
5 But Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart [your condition of insensibility to the call of God] he wrote you this precept in your Law. 6 But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. 7 For this reason a man shall leave [behind] his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and cleave closely to her permanently, 8 And the two shall become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
There is your answer! This is also your answer to the "gay marriage" debate! God Himself created marriage! HE established the boundaries of marriage to be between a man and a woman. People are free to do whatever they want! God gave each and every one of us the freedom of CHOICE! He will NOT force anyone to obey His Word! He will NOT force anyone to receive Jesus as Lord and personal Savior! He made THE WAY for us to belong to HIM for all of eternity (John 14:6), but the choice is, and always has been, our own! The same is true for every one of God's precepts, instructions and commandments! Joshua 24:15 gives us this choice:
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. KJV
Marriage, by God's own decree, is between one man and one woman. Anything else is whatever you want to call it, but it is NOT marriage! Let God be true, but every man a liar; (Romans 3:4)! Settle this for your own mind, and refuse to debate! If someone TRULY wants to know what God thinks, they KNOW where to look! Debating YOU is only for the purpose of dragging you into contention. AMEN! Here is Hillsong with an older song called "One Way", because He IS the ONLY Way!
Shalom in Him!
