Recognize and respect God's truth

Letter to the Editor

If we expect respect then we should respect others, especially God, who is due our utmost praise and thanksgiving for His amazing commands that are not burdensome but awesome, since they are good for our souls.      

First commandment, we are to love God above everyone and everything else. This means we are to obey all of His commandments, not just the ones we choose.

Second, we are to love all people by being merciful to their needs of body and soul such as providing food, clothing and shelter and charitably admonishing their sins, instructing them in Jesus’ one, true Faith and praying for them for the sake of their souls, see John 14:15 and Matthew 22:36–40.

God’s holy will for us is love and mercy, see Ephesians 2:4. Mercifully, God commands the kind of love that gets us into Heaven.

Sadly, some confuse the slavery of forbidden sexual sins with love. Those experiencing disturbing sexual tendencies or attractions should seek authorized spiritual / professional help and not succumb to disordered behaviors offensive to God. 

Scriptures forbidding sexual sins: Romans 1:18-32; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 1 Timothy 1:8-11; Jude; Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Genesis 13:12 -13; Genesis 18:16-21 and Genesis 19.     

“…their speech and their deeds are before the LORD, a provocation in the sight of His majesty. Their very look bears witness against them; their sin like Sodom they vaunt, they hide it not. Woe to them! They deal out evil to themselves. Happy the just, for it will be well with them…” Isaiah 3:8-10.

“But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them - bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them and their destruction has not been sleeping. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard) - if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority,” 2 Peter 2:1-10.

 

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