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Gay Rights Are An Affront To God

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Image via Wikipedia Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality had as his  guest today   Chicago pastor and radio show host John Kirkwood . While speaking with LaBarbera, Kirkwood likened gays and lesbians to heroin users and said that supporting gay rights is similar to encouraging a drug addict. Kirkwood also attacked “the Lady Gaga theology that you were born that way” and said people who believe that are “rejecting God ” and “rejecting the Bible .” Kirkwood : So when Christians start buying into the Lady Gaga theology that you were born that way, they’re rejecting Paul, they’re rejecting God, they’re rejecting the Bible, they’re rejecting the offer of redemption through the shed blood of Jesus Christ . And so it’s a larger issue to me than simply traditional marriage versus same-sex marriage . LaBarbera : Absolutely. Kirkwood : It’s an affront to the most holy God. And God says, listen, here’s the thing that’s crazy, if your son was a heroin addict ...

Homosexuality and the Bible (2 Peter & Jude)

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Image via Wikipedia By Elodie Ballantine Emig The final references to homosexuality, or should I say to Sodom and Gomorrah, we shall study are II Peter 2:6-8 and Jude 7.  We will examine them together because the second chapter of II Pet. is so similar to Jude. In fact, most scholars believe that there is literary dependence between them.  Most compelling to me is the notion that Peter used Jude as the springboard for part of his letter. Having mentioned Peter as the author of II Pet., I should address, albeit briefly, the question of authorship. Fairly few modern scholars think the apostle Peter wrote the second epistle bearing his name.  The general and liberal consensus is that the letter is a pseudonymous product of the late first, or early second, century. Since as far back as the beginning of the third century, there has been doubt concerning II Pet. Therefore, “more hesitancy accompanied its acceptance into the New Testament canon than any other book” (D. Edm...