"Marriage Equality"

I believe that as a Christian I can’t let the lost be misguided. God calls us to be the light. But so many Christians put their own opinion over this light to the point that it is so dull that it's no longer distinguishable from the dark.

I am not saying I am perfect. I am just saying as Christians we DAILY need to check ourselves. Make sure we have it right according to God. I am not on here to judge people. The Bible says not to judge others.

Matthew 7:1-3 (NIV)

7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

But it doesn’t say give up on what you believe in and don’t fight for it. I want to do something about the issue of “gay marriage” that will affect generations and generations if Christians don’t’ stand up for what the Bible tells us.

When the Prime Minister of Australia claims to be a Christian and uses the Bible to defend his stand on issues, I would expect him to have some knowledge of the Bible. And as a politician, I expect him to have some knowledge of the importance for context.

But what Kevin Rudd said in answer to a question about gay marriage, is misleading, completely out of context and even if he was to put what he said in the context, it would still have absolutely no relevance to the question.

In fact, (I am not a Bible scholar) but what I would get from what Kevin Rudd said is this. “Slavery is a natural condition” True. When Adam and Eve sinned, they brought sin into the world. So all are born into sin (slavery). And only through Jesus can we get to the Father. So in saying this, Kevin Rudd has actually backed up what the Bible is saying. Homosexuality is a sin.

And then when I see Christians are in support of what Kevin said, I am really saddened. They post on Facebook about what a revelation a politician has just made that pastors for centuries have not been able to do. They condemn their pastors for not reading the Bible. And are falling for every word this politician had to say. And he had it WRONG!

I hear Christians preaching God is a God for universal love. My God IS a loving God. Yes, He loves everyone, no matter what the sin. And He offers us grace … BUT He still said sin was wrong and this is where people get mixed up. A person cannot be covered by Grace until they accept what they have done is sin and ask for that covering of grace.

John 14:6 (NIV) Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

And as a Christian myself, I don’t believe that making people feel that whatever they do is ok. As we will all give account if what we have done for Christ Jesus. By telling people God is ok with whatever they do, we are not only risking their salvation, but our own.

Matthew 12:35-37 (NIV) 35 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. 36 But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. 37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

My God is a loving God. Not a wishy washy God. I don’t want to serve a passive God that lets us do what we want.

If that was the case what was the point of the crucifixion? Jesus came as man to take the sin of man. But only if we ask him too. If we don’t believe we are sinners, we are making the reason for the crucifixion  null and void.

My God is the same Yesterday, today and forever. So why would his stand on this issue change? His Word doesn’t change to be more relevant to the world today. It is always relevant. And I will stand for my belief regardless of what people think. Because that is my duty to future generations and it is my right.

Hebrews 13:8 (NIV) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

I don’t believe it is right for gay marriage to be made legal. They want equality. They have the right to a civil union. They have rights in the government to receive same benefits as de facto and married couples. Yet they want to be legally wed. Have a definition that doesn’t define their circumstance.

Marriage equality is already equal based on the definition. Any man may marry a woman if she is of right age and not related. But they want to change the definition to allow man and man to marry. And woman and woman to marry, Why then, based on that, would it be wrong to change the definition to allow brother to marry sister, man marry child, or woman take more than one husband at one time?

I don’t believe equality is the changing of a definition. That is not making anything equal. It is turning an apple and a panda into a palm tree. It completely loses all meaning of the original meaning. And as a married person I feel it is my right to defend the meaning of the vow I took. And the covenant I entered into.

By allowing “marriage equality” to pass we are giving the world a sense of false hope. We are giving the green light to do wrong in the eyes of God. As Christians we don’t need to abide by this law, but if we can look at the affect it will have on future generations. We are denying children the right to have both a mother and a father. Yes, there are already circumstances this happens. But the law is stripping this right away. Then the world gets messed up. And the world cries out “God, what have you done to us”

We might get knocked down by standing for what we believe. We might get spat on. Laughed at. We don’t need to be uncompassionate about the way we do it. We don’t need to be ruthless and soap box standing Christians telling them they will be going to hell. But sometimes. Hell. They need to know.