ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY AND LESBIANISM
CAN YOU PRACTICE EITHER WITH GOD'S BLESSING?
Part One
The AIDS Cover-Up? by Gene Antonio. Ignatius Press: San
Francisco, 1987. 253pp. Retail $9.95, suggested donation $5.50
from Giving & Sharing.
AIDS, the acronym for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, is
a controversial venereal disease. It is best known for producing
an inability of the body's immune system to ward off infections.
AIDS is 100% fatal, often within five years after symptoms first
appear. There is no medical cure for AIDS. The disease was first
noticed as a plague among male homosexuals, and now has been
known to have been transmitted to others (This was written in
1987 - life can now be extended for some people with AIDS, but it
is still a killer in the end - Keith Hunt).
At least ten million individuals worldwide now carry the
AIDS virus, including two million Americans. A U.S. health
official estimated that in two decades, 50 to 100 million people
could be infected. Working people, with the connivance of their
doctors, are concealing that they are dying of AIDS, fearing job
and insurance losses and rejection by friends and family.
What the Bible Says About Homosexuality:
Homosexuality is no longer contrary to public morals in the
western world. The Bible, however, is specific about what to do
with homosexuals: they must be executed (that is PRACTICING
homosexuals - Keith Hunt). The Almighty destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah for their licentious sexual practices, Genesis 19:4-8,
Jude 7, 2 Peter 2:6-7. Our national sins today are actually worse
than those of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lamentations 4:6, Ezekiel
16:48-56. The Messiah prophesied that today would be like Sodom,
Luke 17:26-33.
If we would simply enforce the plain instructions of the
Creator regarding homosexuality, AIDS would not exist. Our nation
would not be facing the soon-coming punishment of the Almighty.
Leviticus 18:22 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with
womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any
beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand
before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. 24 Defile
not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the
nations are defiled which I cast out before you: 25 And the land
is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it,
and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. 26 Ye shall
therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit
any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor
any stranger that sojourneth among you: 27 (For all these
abominations have the men of the land done, which were before
you, and the land is defiled;) 28 That the land spue not you out
also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were
before you. 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these
abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off
from among their people. 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine
ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable
customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not
yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.'
Leviticus 20:13 'If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth
with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they
shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.'
See also Deuteronomy 23:17-18.
Some may say we are under the "New" Covenant, so we are not
to execute criminals and perverts like the Old Testament says to
do. This is a gross misunderstanding of the truth. See our book
on Biblical Law. No practicing (unrepentant) homosexuals will
inherit the Kingdom of God. They are worthy of death, Romans
1:25-32. They defile themselves with mankind, I Timothy 1:10, and
do not have natural affection for members of the opposite sex, 2
Timothy 3:3. The effeminate and abusers of themselves with
mankind shall not inherit the Kingdom of God, I Corinthians
8:9-10. "Dogs" (usual King James English for homosexual) will not
be in the eternal city, Revelation 22:14-15.
Homosexuality is not a controversial subject in the Bible.
Evidence That AIDS is Not Just Sexually Transmitted:
Gene Antonio, in a calm and factual presentation, based upon
much scientific and medical research, presents startling evidence
that AIDS is a far more prevalent, communicable, and dangerous
disease than today's press and political machinery would like you
to believe. We have been told that AIDS is solely an "STD", a
sexually transmitted disease. If you abstain from sexual
relations with AIDS "victims"', or use condoms in what is termed
"safe sex", then you can be reasonably sure you are not going to
catch the dreaded AIDS. Antonio's book contradicts this media
swan song. If his evidence is correct, AIDS could well be one of
the end time pestilences mentioned in Matthew 24:7.
AIDS is a lentivirus. It can lay dormant for long periods of
time in some infected individuals before symptoms of immune
deficiency or brain damage develop. A person can have AIDS
without knowing it, and pass it along to others. This is why the
number of AIDS-infected persons is at least 100 times greater
than reported cases. One can die of AIDS without developing the
immune system weakness because AIDS, like many venereal diseases,
attacks the central nervous system and destroys brain tissue.
AIDS has been found in African green monkeys and is similar to a
class of viruses found in sheep. It began in humans infected
through animal bites, eating tainted meat, or bestiality.
Syphilis began in the Middle Ages when the crusaders
committed bestiality with sheep. AIDS resembles hepatitis B, a
common disease among today's promiscuous. Hepatitis B is easily
transmitted by close, non-sexual contact with someone having
infected sores, cuts, abrasions, or with their blood, urine,
saliva, or tears. Antonio suspects AIDS follows this pattern.
Under strict clinical tests, "...the AIDS lentivirus can remain
infectious outside the body for up to ten days" (page 110).
Antonio shows that Africa is AIDS territory, and concludes
that transmission has largely resulted from mosquito bites. The
Wall Street Journal (June 1986) stated that over six percent of
Africa is infected with AIDS (probably much more today for AIDS
is a PAN-demic in Africa - Keith Hunt).
AIDS Mis-Information:
Individuals infected with the AIDS virus may demonstrate no
visible symptoms, but are just as capable of spreading AIDS as
patients with the full-blown syndrome. One cannot become
physically "disinfected". AIDS is a lifetime disease, 100% fatal.
It is unproven that condoms prevent AIDS transmission.
AIDS-induced brain damage is irreversible. The AIDS virus mutates
rapidly. Prospects for a vaccine are very bleak.
In chapter 2, Antonio briefly describes the vile nature of
homosexual behavior. If you have a weak stomach, skip this
chapter. Venereal diseases are a natural result of the fact that
the Creator did not design the rectum and colon for sexual
intercourse. Calling homosexual persons infected with AIDS or
other STD's "victims" is like calling a suicide a "victim". They
are doing it to themselves.
AIDS Cover-Up? describes how mis-information about AIDS is
proliferating society, due to a liberal bias in the media. The
majority still believe, falsely, that if the they live clean
lives, they do not have to worry about contracting AIDS.
Frequently I hear of bits and pieces of news
information that confirms Antonio's thesis that AIDS is not
merely transmitted through sexual activity. On national
television, I recently heard the report that two nurses
contracted AIDS through taking care of an AIDS patient in a
hospital. The U.S. Center for Disease Control forbade the media
from announcing the name and location of the hospital, so as not
to create a panic. Recently, we also heard a public media news
announcement that the AIDS virus was found in mosquitoes,
suggesting a possibility of insect transmission of the disease.
Continued Spread of AIDS Is Certain:
Instead of execution of homosexuals, as the Bible requires,
and quarantine of infected individuals, the AIDS epidemic is
being handled very differently. The government may even be
promoting the spread of AIDS by giving the false information that
condoms prevent AIDS. The disease is spreading like wildfire.
Millions may die. The black plague of Medieval Europe, which
killed one-fourth the population, could be repeated today.
The homosexual movement is gaining. It prevents schools from
educating students about the truth of homosexuality. Instead,
homosexuality is being presented in sex education classes as an
acceptable lifestyle. A recent survey of 104 of the nation's
leading television newscasters found that 60% do not feel
homosexual relations are wrong, and 51% do not feel adultery is
wrong. Is it any wonder why there is false and misleading
information about homosexuality and AIDS?
Not everyone should read Antonio's book. You may get sick
with worry and be terribly alarmed. Perhaps AIDS does not spread
as easily as Antonio states, but its prevalence is growing and it
appears that "clean" individuals should be concerned.
A Man-Caused Pestilence:
Liberal religionists scoff at the Old Testament laws and
have led to establish an anti-God prison system, courts that
often let the offenders off with little or no punishment,
eradication of laws against sodomy, pornography, divorce and
prostitution. Ironically, it is "poetic justice" that their folly
has now placed their own lives in jeopardy. Because of defiance
to the Eternal's laws, we are all now in danger of contracting
AIDS, a truly man-caused pestilence.
AIDS is not a plague from Heaven. It is merely the natural
consequence of rebellious mankind's defiance of Biblical Laws.
When the Eternal sends the seven last plagues, they will make
AIDS look like the common cold.
What We Should Do About AIDS:
You cannot take the law into your own hands. That would be a
sin. What we as Bible believers can do is pray as we never have
before for the Almighty's protection. Read Psalms 91. Obey God
now, and you will be spared from these truly awful plagues. The
Eternal has not given us the spirit of fear. Realizing the
dreadful facts about AIDS, we might live in fear. Repentance and
turning to the Almighty is the only answer. Watch and pray, Luke
21:26. Take diligent health precautions to insure cleanliness, 2
Corinthians 6:14,17, 7:1, Hebrews 10:22, Jude 23. Teach your
children the truth about sexuality and Bible morals. Only the
Creator can save His faithful from the coming horrible plagues.
--- written by Richard C. Nickels
1987
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Review: Homosexuality and the Bible
"Homosexuality and the Bible: An Interpretation," by Walter
Barnett, Lebanon, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill Pamphlet 226. 32pp.
Over half the states in America have repealed criminal
laws against homosexual acts between consenting adults in
private. Thanks to the Gay Liberation movement and favorable
treatment of homosexuals in education, government and media,
homosexuals have come out of the closet and into the schools,
streets, professions and businesses of this country. It is
estimated that ten percent of Americans are homosexuals.
We have presented the Biblical evidence against
homosexuality. An opposing view is given by the homosexual
community. "Homosexuality and the Bible", published and written
by a Quaker, represents the "gay Christian" point of view.
Seventh Day Adventist homosexuals advocate its principles. There
is a growing homosexual movement in the SDA church, and possibly
other Sabbath keeping groups. Catholics have their "Dignity"
movement. The Church of England ordains avowed homosexuals. What
used to be unheard of and unthought of is now commonplace.
Let us examine the ideas of those who claim that they can be
both homosexual and "Christian".
They reject the term, "homosexual", preferring to be called
"gay". These people have no conscious recollection of ever having
deliberately chosen their sexual orientation. They feel it is an
integral part of their personality which cannot be changed. They
feel God has made them the way they are. They do not consider
themselves perverts. As Barnett states; "Now in order for
anything to be a sin there must be a possibility of moral choice.
Where there is no choice there can be no sin. So if one's sexual
orientation is not a matter of choice, it cannot be a sin to be a
homosexual .... the option open to the rest of the world -
heterosexual marriage - is immoral and unethical, yes sinful, for
a Gay person." (pages 6-7).
Let's understand the nature of man and of sin. Sin is the
transgression of the law. There is ONE LAW applicable to ALL.
Man was created with free moral agency. Like Adam, he soon
follows the way of sin and develops a carnal mind, Romans 8:7.
The carnal mind is enmity - in total opposition - against the
Almighty, and continually sins. Carnal man has given up any
sense of right and wrong because he rejects Biblical Law. He
feels he is doing right. In many cases, he does not even
recognize that he is choosing the way of sin and death. The
person being called, however, is in a different position. He
realizes that he has to continually make moral choices. Even
then, without God's Holy Spirit, he is helpless to change from
the ways of sin.
It is claimed that homosexuality and homosexual behavior is
nowhere mentioned in the Bible, and that the Bible condemns only:
(1) homosexual rape (as in Sodom and Gomorrah), (2) ritual
homosexual prostitution that was part of the Canaanite fertility
cults, (3) homosexual lust and behavior on the part of
heterosexuals (page 7).
Referring to Genesis 18 and 19, it is held that Lot objected
only to gang rape of his angelic guests, but that had the angels
willingly consented to homosexual acts, it would have been
perfectly fine. The angels, however, needed no further evidence
for the decadence of Sodom and its worthiness than this show of
homosexual lust. Isaiah 1:9 and 3:9 indicate that Israel followed
the sins of Sodom. Even their rulers openly professed their sins
and weren't ashamed of them. Sounds very much like today, when
homosexuals are no longer ashamed for their sins. 2 Peter 2:4-9
describes how Lot was vexed with the filthy (Greek 'aslemeia,'
#766 defined in Thayer's Lexicon as "wanton (acts or) manners, as
filthy words, indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling of
males and females") conduct of Sodom. It is claimed that today's
consenting homosexuals are not condemned by these verses. The
fact is, homosexuals who frequent bath houses often make dozens
of anonymous sexual contacts a week. If this is not homosexual
lust, what is? Jude 7 shows that the Sodomites went after strange
flesh (margin "other flesh"). Not just when handsome male
visitors came passing by, but on a routine basis they engaged in
unnatural sexual relations.
Barnett says that references in Deuteronomy 23:17-18, 1
Kings 14:2; 15:12 and 22:46, 2 Kings 23:7 and Job 36:14 are not
injunctions against homosexual relations, but only against
homosexual prostitution which was part of the Canaanite fertility
cult whose priests and priestesses engaged in sexual intercourse
with male worshippers as part of the ritual. Likewise, Leviticus
18:22 and 20:13 are held to be only against Canaanite religious
practices. If all these assertions are true, then if we merely
strip away Canaanite religious ceremonies, then one can freely
practice homosexuality, bestiality, and incest, and do it to the
Eternal, because these practices are all condemned in Leviticus
18. Reading such a twisted explanation of scripture as contained
in this booklet made me feel as if I was mentally raped.
In trying to explain Paul's strong language in I Corinthians
6:9, I Timothy 1:10 and Romans 1:18-32, Barnett says that we
cannot know what Paul was talking about, because the Greeks
didn't have a word corresponding to the English word
"homosexual". In I Corinthians 6:9, the Greek word translated in
the KJV as "effeminate" is 'malakoi,' #3120, which means
'catamite,' "a boy kept for purposes of sexual perversion" from
Ganymede, cupbearer of the gods of pagan mythology. This refers
to the passive partner in homosexual anal intercourse. The word
for "abusers of themselves with mankind" is the Greek
'arsenokoitai,' #733, which is a composite of the two Greek words
"male" and "sexual intercourse". Green's Interlinear Bible
renders it as "homosexual". Lexicons concur that 'malakoi' and
'arsenokoitai' denote the passive and active partners of
homosexual anal intercourse.
Barnett in "Homosexuality in the Bible" cannot deny this.
To discredit Paul, he says that the Apostle's views were colored
by the culture of his time, and that he had a degrading view of
the status of women and was not opposed to slavery. "Yet there is
perhaps no Christian alive today who does not believe human
slavery to be absolutely and fundamentally opposed to the will of
God at all times and in all places." (page 21).
(Some things God did "allow" for the hardness of the heart -
slavery was one of them. I have gone into full detail about
"allowed" things, as under the Old Testament, in other studies on
this Website, BUT homosexuality and lesbianism WAS NEVER an
"allowed" - God CLEARLY said under the OT that such persons
practicing homosexuality and lesbianism were to BE PUT TO DEATH.
Some practices were such an evil vile sin in God's eyes that NO
ALLOWANCE, even for the hardness of the heart, could be allowed -
Keith Hunt)
But that is another topic:
For Barnett, Romans 1:26-28 only speaks against
heterosexuals who go into homosexual acts, not homosexuals who
are "born" that way and stay that way. Just because God created
Adam and Eve and NOT Adam and Bruce doesn't in the eyes of
pro-homosexuals mean that deviations from the norm are
fundamentally evil. It is not evil to be left handed. Therefore,
it is reasoned, - it is not sin to deviate from the heterosexual
norm.
Some believe that consenting homosexuals are not doing
anybody any harm. A brief reading of medical observations of
homosexuals totally refutes this. Anal lesions and bleeding are
common among active homosexuals. A number of sores and diseases
with strange sounding names are given to the frequently reported
ailments caused by vile homosexual acts. If there were no AIDS or
venereal diseases, homosexuality would still produce physical
problems. It is false that they do not hurt anyone.
Understanding the Homosexual Problem:
Homosexuals often feel condemned by false religion that
doesn't know God and has no answers or power to overcome.
Homosexuals may waste a great deal of time and money to change
themselves through psychotherapy, or even go through with a
heterosexual marriage in the vain hope that they can work out
their difference. Without God's power of the Holy Spirit, this is
indeed impossible. Imagine how it would feel to be constantly
despised and jeered at by your peers and told by both church and
society that your desire for love from members of the same sex is
sick and sin and a crime, when neither church nor society has the
answers nor the power to help you change.
There is a conspiracy against manhood, a constant
bombardment against the proper role of man in leading a family,
home, business, government and society. As a result, some men
fall into the homosexual trap. Women likewise become Lesbians.
Situation ethics says that it is a sin for heterosexuals to be
homosexuals, and vice versa. As one pro-homosexual said,
"...there was no choice; they were gay. God has made them that
way - either genetically or in very early life. And over time
they are learning to rejoice in God's gift." God did NOT make
them that way. Their carnal mind and society allowed them to sin.
Vain reasoning against the Scripture evidence cannot prove that
one can be both homosexual and a Bible believer.
Recently we received a touching letter from a man "still
plagued with homosexual feelings and lust". He attributes this to
having been sexually molested as a child, being addicted to
homosexual pornography, compulsive drinking in gay bars and his
parents' divorce when he was eleven. "I was always looking for a
father-figure substitute, companion and a friend. I believe these
are sins and problems, which with God's mercy and help from the
Holy Spirit after repentance can be overcome. Please pray for my
complete deliverance and healing from my past .... I consider
myself a reformed' homosexual, and I have fallen short of
complete deliverance ... I do really want to completely repent
and be baptized into the Church of God and receive God's Holy
Spirit to help me overcome." He fears dying of a brain tumor or
of AIDS. He has continuous headaches, trouble sleeping,
nightmares and nervous disorders. Homosexualism is a NOT a
"victimless crime".
For the unrepentant homosexual, the penalty of physical and
later ... eternal death will be paid. For the truly repentant
homosexual, there is mercy and forgiveness, compassion and power
to overcome by and through the Holy Spirit.
"Homosexuality and the Bible" is a twisted attempt to
justify perversion. We should hate the sin, not cover it up or
say that it is not sin. And we should love the sinner, and urge
them on to repentance.
Jude 21 "Keep yourselves in the love of God...22 And of some
have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with
fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh.
- written by Richard C. Nickels August 1987
Note: Gene Antonio mentions several groups which help persons to
come out of homosexuality: "Exodus International," Box 2121, San
Rafael, California 94912. Another group is "Homosexuals
Anonymous" in Reading Pennsylvania. While these groups may not
have the proper Biblical prospective on homosexuality, they may
provide some feedback and assistance to those with homosexual
problems. One must realize that it is humanly impossible to come
out of homosexuality, without the Almighty's help.
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