What God has to say about Homosexuals and the works of the Catholic Church as an International Cult
December 18, 2008
Leviticus 18:22, 24
22 You shall not lie with a male as one lies
with a female; it is an abomination.
24 Do not defile yourselves by any of these things;
for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become
defiled.
Romans 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness,
19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made
it evident to them.
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal
power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what
has been made, so that they are without excuse.
21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or
give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their
foolish heart was darkened
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in
the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and
crawling creatures.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to
impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and
worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator,
who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women
exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the
natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one
another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own
persons the due penalty of their error.
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave
them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed,
evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,
malice; they are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant,
boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving,
unmerciful;
32 and although they know the ordinance of God,
that those who practice such things are worthy of death,
they not only do the same, but also give hearty
approval to those who practice them.
1 Corinthians 6:8-10
8 On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to
your brethren.
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not
inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
homosexuals,
10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:2-8
2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord
Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you
abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and
honor,
5 not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 and that no man transgress and defraud his brother
in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just
as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.
7 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in
sanctification.
8 So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the
God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.
Romans 13:12-14
12 The night is almost gone, and the day is near Therefore let us lay aside
the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and
drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in
strife and jealousy.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no
provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
Ephesians 5:5-8
5 For this you know with certainty, that no
immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an
idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ
and God.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these
things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of
disobedience.
7 Therefore do not be partakers with them;
8 for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk
as children of Light.
Food for Thought
Luke 21:34
34 Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down
with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life,
and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;
Galatians 5:16
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out
the desire of the flesh.
Romans 13:4
4 for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil,
be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for
nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who
brings wrath on the one who practices evil
December 24, 2008 at 1:54 am
December 23, 2008 — Updated 1744 GMT (0144 HKT)
ROME, Italy (CNN) — Pope Benedict XVI reiterated the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to homosexual behavior and warned that humanity could destroy itself. Gay rights campaigners in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City, in December. The pope’s year-end message to Church leaders sparked anger among gay and lesbian religious groups. The Church “demands that the order of creation be respected,” the pope said Monday, defining “the nature of the human being as man and woman,” according to excerpts released by the Vatican.
Part of the Church’s mission is to “protect the human beings against self-destruction,” the Pope said in his annual address to the cardinals, archbishops and others who make up the Roman Curia. The Church has as much responsibility to preserve what it sees as man and woman’s God-given roles as it does to protect endangered species, he implied.
“The rain forest deserves, yes, our protection,” Benedict said, “But mankind does not deserve it less as a creature.” He did not specifically mention homosexuality in his speech, but his meaning was clear, and gay rights activists criticized the remarks.
“I think the pope is trying to limit God’s world view and stands in grave error by doing so,” said Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, which campaigns for openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics to be accepted fully by the church.
“Gay, lesbian, bixsexual and transgendered people represent part of God’s creativity, which is beyond any human understanding, including the pope’s,” she said. “I would challenge the pope to show a little more humility.”
She said it was particularly unfortunate that he made the remarks just days before Christmas, but described them as “so in line with other statements from this pope, it’s not really atypical.”
A papal spokesman issued a clarification after gay rights campaigners responded angrily to the remarks.
“The pope had no intention to offend or attack transgendered” people, Father Federico Lombari said Tuesday. “What the pope meant to say was that in God’s eyes, a person is born either man or woman. And to deny this fundamental concept, central to Catholic teaching, is to create confusion.
“If you forget that … people are born either men or women and together are meant to create children, then you can create negative consequences.”
The Catholic Church considers homosexual intercourse to be a sin — as it does all sex outside of marriage — but does not consider homosexuality itself to be one.
“Homogenital behavior is objectively immoral, while making the important distinction between this behavior and a homosexual orientation, which is not immoral in itself,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said.
The Pope spoke of an “appropriate ecology of man,” the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales said. “This is rooted in central Catholic teaching of the dignity of the person. It is a central message for all Christians. It is central to what it means to be human.”
AS SEEN ON CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/23/pope.speech/
Can you say “VICTORY IS JESUS CHRIST“.
Mark 11:22-24
22 And Jesus answered saying to them, “Have faith in God.
23 “Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.
24 “Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.