Simply, the integrity of the gospel. I’ll explain.
In the growing discussion of the inclusion of gender ideology at the base of national programmes and the promotion of LGBT lobby values in society, there are many topics: the preservation of traditional family arrangements, the autonomy of parents in education and sexuality. guidance of their children, and the psychological, social and moral protection of children (for those who still believe in these things, like me). All of this is certainly at stake. But there’s something even more important.
- What is at stake is the supreme and final authority of the Holy Scriptures.
- Summarized in the Protestant motto Sola Scriptura.
- For the heirs and followers of the Protestant Reformation.
- We are a people of Sola Scriptura.
- Who see in the Holy Scriptures our final authority.
- Faith and practice.
- Sola Scriptura does not yield to the motto of our time: only culture.
- It is the Word that judges every culture.
- Not the culture that judges the Word.
As others have further demonstrated, the Word of God knows only one arrangement as normative and acceptable: monogamous heterosexual union. This was the standard set by God in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1. 26-28; 2. 23-25), as recorded, and defended by Moses (Ex 20:14); This standard was authenticated by the Lord Jesus Christ (Mt 19:4-6) and quoted by the Apostle Paul as a faithful portrait of the covenant between Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5:22-33). Therefore, the scriptures recognize only one standard as acceptable and normative to all men and women, everywhere and at all times.
Interestingly, when reflecting on the union between husband and wife in the marriage arrangement, Paul sees a public and visible portrait of the union between Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5: 23-25). Paul’s direct application of this principle is the irreplaceable nature of the role of man and woman in marriage: one cannot fulfill the role of the other, just as the roles of Christ and the Church are not interchangeable. In that case, the husband is the? Head? (authority) of women like Christ is there? head of the church. And no, doesn’t that give you a blank check? For the tyrannical domination of man over woman. Rather, he must represent in him the spiritual, sacrificial and loving authority of Christ, to which each husband will respond on the last day.
But I think we can legitimately extend the original application of Paul’s metaphor to include the debate in question. Just as the roles of men and women are not interchangeable in marriage, they can only be played by a man and a woman. and another man, not a woman and another woman (or any other creative variant of our time). Touching this biblical arrangement would mean altering the public, visible, and earthly portrait closest to the covenant between Christ and the Church, inscribed inscribed in the Gospel And who would be more interested in portraying this portrait than those who wish to adulterate the gospel itself?
But isn’t the gospel the declaration of God’s love for sinners?Yes, it is. The Gospel is the declaration of God’s great love for sinners, God is love. But love, as defined by our culture since the 1960s as “free”, that is, without any restriction or subjection to an external or external authority, this type of love is not God, God is a holy love, distinct and unique. a distinction was sealed in the sacrifice of his only Son, Jesus Christ, on the cross of Calvary, by unworthy sinners of this love like you and me; and, in part, this distinction of God’s love is revealed in this world, according to the Apostle Paul, by the sacrificed love between human beings of different genders: a man and a woman.
To compromise this arrangement and promote another that defends love for someone of the same sex is simply to make love an idol, a love or a god?In our image and likeness ?, a love that does not confront us and challenges us to love the one who is radically different from us (although we are always of the same human species, with all the differences between men and women!).
The Gospel is the public proclamation of God’s holy and undeserved love for radically different creatures from Him. Does the Gospel instruct us to love this loving, holy, radically different God from all of us, and to love other human beings radically different from us?at home, at work, in the studio, in the church and in society as a whole (including our enemies, including those who disagree with the convictions set forth herein). But in marriage, this holy and loving God commands that only one man and woman be united by the bonds of marriage, as a witness of Christ’s love for the Church, revealed in the Gospel.
Anything other than this is not biblical, let alone evangelical
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