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Exam Time For Pastors and America….
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column
Well, if you read the papers, more states, like
dominoes, are one by one falling to the wayside and are
being placed in the camp of those capitulating states that
are condoning gay marriages.
The states that are holding out are akin to being
precariously perched on the razor-thin edge of a skyscraper
window ledge; and with a brief financial push or a gust of
political wind they too will fall in line and champion
sodomites (derivative term from the O.T.) marrying each
other.
For me, everyone and anyone regardless of their sexual
preferences should be entitled to rights of fairness in
employment and housing and medical care and other attributes
that citizens enjoy.
My beef comes in the fact that the concept of
marriage which was initiated and condoned and blessed by God
to be a union of only a man and a woman is now being
transmogrified to include same-sex individuals.
That is not a marriage. It may be a civil union but
it is not a marriage which has been already defined by God
and which cannot be redefined to suit the peccadilloes of
the sodomite crowd.
Apparently with their relentless drive to be
inclusive in the definition of marriage, the sodomite crowd,
over the years has spent considerable capital and time doing
a convincing job of telling society that same-sex marriage
is OK.
God has the copyright, patent and trademark on
marriage and the parameters of what constitutes a marriage
and which concept has been etched in stone and is backed by
the inviolable Word of God and is not subject to change or
debate at the whim of contrary people.
Just as you cannot debate that water is made up of
two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, you cannot
change the gender of who is to marry whom.
Just as you cannot command the sun to stop beaming,
you can not tell God that He’s got the concept of marriage
all wrong and it should be changed to accommodate their
sexual proclivities.
Just as you cannot fire a rifle and have the speeding
bullet reverse itself in mid-flight and return to the gun
barrel, so you cannot practice the obvious lie that same-sex
marriages are approved by God.
Oh, I know…I know. You want everyone to have their own
freedoms and for everyone to be happy and in a state of
marital bliss regardless of their sexual orientation.
But does that freedom to engage in same sex marriage
extend to the following scenarios, since it is also reflects
my choice and my pursuit of happiness that I am seeking?
For example, which of the following marriages would be
allowed by the courts on the basis that the parties have
either the freedom to contract or it involves one’s
individual liberties and the pursuit of their happiness?
[A] a man falls deeply in love and wants to marry his
favorite horse…or cow…or pig [B] A woman wants to marry
three men at the same time [C] three couples {all males or
all females or a mixture thereof] want to intermarry with
each other couple [D] people engage in “cluster” marriages
by which a person from say. Japan marries nineteen different
people from seven countries via Skype on a conference call
officiated by a “minister”?
As you can see, the combinations of what a “marriage”
can be construed to be is endless and that is why God placed
limits on marriage and who could marry and why marriage was
the first institution that was placed into society.
One of the questions for the pastors who profess to be
followers of Christ is where are their voices and their
allegiances to the Biblical concept of marriage when this
‘Frankenstein’ comes to a state near you?
Will these pastors raise a voice as one against such a
fouling of the concept of marriage or will they meekly
accept this Frankenstein and hide behind their pulpits and
stained glass windows and refuse to make a comment for fear
of losing their Sunday morning pew sitters or the money in
the passed offering plates.
Has the power of the pulpit so lost its moral
influence and power that the world no longer bends a
listening ear towards the Church of the Living God to hear,
“what sayeth the Lord?” on social and moral issues?
Is it because those who occupy so many pulpits across
America has so diluted their teaching and preaching that the
world is more in the church than the church is in the world?
Has the saltiness of the church been trampled and lost
and its light hidden under the proverbial bushel basket?
Has the pulpit been hijacked by mere hirelings who care
not for the sheep or for even propagating a sound word that
has a moral punch within it, or, would so speaking, cause
the effete pastor to wince because he would rather see the
semi-illiterate (lack of Bible knowledge and discernment)
pew sitter have their best life now and leave the church
happy and not under any conviction or remorse?
The sheep are being scattered and the Caesars (courts
and legislatures) of the world are trumpeting their new
found freedoms of control over the institution of marriage
and are being energized by the well-oiled lobby of the
sodomites who both deny God and defy God.
Once the moral rot of the acceptance of gay marriages
takes it full toll on these shores, it is only a matter of
time before that rot metastasizes to other vital societal
organs and America will be a burning ship without a port to
run to or able to command a stream of water to quench the
flames.
If the true church of God (not including those apostate
denominations that have already bowed their knee to Satan in
their acceptance of gay marriages) is to make a stand, now
is the time.
They might have to forsake the applause and comforts of
social acceptance and be willing to suffer the slings and
arrows of an enraged Herod but if they have already died out
to self, they have nothing to lose but all to gain.
Lafe Tolliver can be reached at
tolliver@Juno.com
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