Bible makes clear God’s position on gay relationships

Editor:

The following letter may have a Biblebased response, but, Mr. Mitsui, your long letter to the editor of March 23 opened that door.

If vandalism to your home would be legalized in the name of self-expression, would you be angry because your long-held view of ownership was ”now dismissed as obsolete”? Or because the legal system had made something wrong legal?

The fact that the Bible is against gay sex has nothing to do with “ensuring the longlasting existence of one’s race and tribe” – although God certainly did command His people to “be fruitful and multiply.”

Large families are rarely mentioned in scripture, but over and over again there are passages which make God’s position on gay sex very clear. How ministers in Christian denominations can condone it must mean they are using a book other than the Bible. The intent here, Mr. Mitsui, is not to change your mind – that seems firmly made up.

But to brush off Christianity as something man-made, an invention of imagination and “delusional hope“, “the kind of god we like who will tweak nature and make us live forever” is just foolish.

Perhaps you could add to your reading list some of Lee Strobel’s books that take a journalist’s approach to what is true and not true.

In fact, his first book in the series began with an attempt to journalistically debunk his wife’s faith in Christ.

MAiD might sound like an answer for those who are in pain or tired of living but the reality of human nature is that it won’t stop there.

Jeremiah 17:9 reads that “the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.”

Already, there are forces who want to make it available to the mentally ill, even children.

And what of those elderly or disabled folks who are encouraged to think of themselves as a burden to their families and society? As for Easter, it is the time that Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ after His sacrificial death on the cross. Not so, for most of our culture.

To the average Canadian – whether proor con- the “paradigm shift” – Happy Easter is about bunnies, candy, and the onset of spring.

I, for one, celebrate the “joyful tidings” of “eternal life” made possible through the cross, and that makes me look forward to a lot more than a “comfortable rest.” Theresa Teerling

Lethbridge