Christian Marriage

My sister and I differ on many issues and recently we have reached another point where we disagree.
She believes that "there is nothing wrong with homosexuality" and she is all for gay marriage.
She has said that her Christian friends are "okay with it".

This has caused me to think, reflect and consult Scripture.

I woke up today to study Mark 10, where Jesus was teaching on divorce and godly marriage.
I have always heard the argument that He never specifically taught on the issue of homosexuality and he never condemned it as a serious sin.

In our present time, so many people and believers are conditioned into accepting that homosexuality is an expression of identity and self and that it is permissible and there is "nothing wrong with it".

They reject the Pauline epistle to the Romans, where homosexuality is clearly taught to be a sinful state.

Romans 1-


 ²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
 ²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.


We must look to Christ Jesus, who has the highest authority and understanding. We look not to the law receiver, but instead to the Law Giver, where He has defined the structure of a coupling designed by God.

Mark 10-

   ⁵ “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. ⁶ “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’^[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,^[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’^[c]So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”


Jesus has left no room for alternate configurations or permutations. We may not innovate or reinvent ourselves any other pairings.

He has established the institution of marriage and godly union and has spoken strictly against any deviation from this structure.

Now then, may we not adhere to God's definition of immorality and sin, but instead "decide" for ourselves?

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This episode has also led me to see again that our young Christians have almost no depth in Scripture, and in the ways of the Lord. This is extremely worrying, because they have displaced the authority of the revealed Word of God and believed in their own human reasoning and the standards of the world.

There needs to be a return to faithfulness and to become rooted in the Word of God.

We as His people must take on His standards and live out our faith the way He has shown us.

May we seek His face with all our hearts, mind and soul, using all of our strength.
May His Spirit claim us for Him and prepare us for His purposes.

Glory to Christ our Lord.


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