“Homosexuality: “natural” or chosen?

What does the Bible have to say about the claim of many homosexuals today that one’s sexual preference is “natural” and not chosen? Are we born with one tendency over the other? What is the cause of homosexuality?

Several factors must be kept in mind here, the first of which is the most basic: God condemns homosexuality. The Scriptures allow no mitigating circumstances but everywhere treats homosexuality as unnatural and sinful. See, for example, Leviticus 18:22, 24; 20:13; Romans 1:18-32; and 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. These passages of Scripture, and others like them, establish at least these three conclusions:

1) Homosexuality is rebellion against God.  There is no way to speak of any kind of acceptable or “Christian” homosexuality.  There is never any allowance for it, and it is never anything but sinful.

2)  Homosexuality is contrary to nature.  It is a particularly rebellious sin, a violation even of one’s own conscience. Keep Reading...

Sensual Worship — A Sign of Impending Apostasy

When interest in the churches begins to centre round the visual and the sensual it is commonly a sign of impending apostasy. By ‘sensual’ I mean that which appeals to the senses of man (sight, smell, hearing), as opposed to ‘spirit’, that is, the capacity that belongs to those born of the Spirit of God. Hence the antithesis, ‘sensual, having not the Spirit’ (Jude 19). ‘Sensual’ is also translated ‘natural’ or ‘worldly’; the meaning is the same. It does not take regeneration to give the sensual or the aesthetic a religious appeal to the natural man or woman. In the Old Testament the people of God were in measure taught by their senses as God imposed the form of worship. As a check against any misuse of that means of teaching no additions to or subtractions from it were allowed. But with the finished work of Christ, and the coming of the Holy Spirit, a momentous change took place. The church was raised to the higher privilege of worship in ‘spirit and truth’ (John 4:24). She belongs to the ‘Jerusalem which is above’ (Gal. 4:26). Continue Reading>>>