There are a few things in life that seem to be never-ending. Taxes would be one, but another one is the ability of clueless wonders or deceptive dupes to totally mangle, twist and distort the Word of God to promote radical, godless agendas.
The number of incredibly appalling cases of theological revisionism out there is mind-boggling. We have cases every day of those who trash the Bible as they run with fully unbiblical agendas. The good news is that one day all these Bible-benders and truth-deniers will have to meet their maker and give an account for all this.
These Scripture-twisters are of course a dime-a-dozen, and not a day goes by when we do not see another mind-boggling example of this. Consider the latest case as reported in a Queensland newspaper. A political leader who should know better has managed to absolutely mutilate the Bible as he pushes fake marriage.
The story opens:
Queensland Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls has voted in favour of same-sex marriage but said it was a difficult decision. The LNP leader told reporters in Brisbane on Sunday he had filled out his postal survey earlier that morning, after a lot of “interesting” discussions with his wife and three teenage children.
“This has been really hard for me,” he said. “I come from a traditional marriage, a traditional background.” Mr Nicholls said ultimately it was St Paul’s letter to The Corinthians, in the bible, which swayed him in favour of marriage equality.
“He says faith, hope, love and the greatest of these is love,” he said. “And on that basis I voted yes.”
Good grief! What in the world does faith, hope and love – especially as biblically defined – have to do with destroying marriage and promoting the radical cause of the cultural Marxists? Has this guy even read this chapter, let alone any other parts of the Bible? It sure does not seem so.
Let me do a little bit of basic Bible study here. The phrase he is totally twisting and abusing for his own political ends of course comes from 1 Corinthians 13:13: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” It is the final verse in what is known as the “love chapter”.
As always, context is king, and anyone who knows even a little bit about 1 Corinthians will understand that chapter 13 is strategically placed between chapters 12 and 14. The entire epistle involves Paul dealing with divisive and carnal Christians at Corinth.
And chapters 12-14 deal especially with what had become a contentious matter of spiritual gifts. So it is in that broader context that Paul raises the importance of Christian love as he tries to navigate his way through the host of problems besetting the Corinthian church.
He most certainly was not offering any sort of saccharine-sweet, touchy-feely pop psychology pep talk about “all you need is love” as the Beatles wanted us to believe. He was not pushing a patently unbiblical notion of love as mere feeling or emotions, and certainly not lusts.
Biblical love is always a much firmer thing than what the worldlings and the sham Christians make it out to be. It is hard-headed and realistic. It confronts sin head-on, and never promotes, affirms or seeks to make excuses for any sort of evil.
Had Nicholls read the whole chapter he would of course have come across verse 6. It could not be more clear in what it affirms: “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” Um, earth calling Mr Nicholls, the Bible everywhere presents homosexuality only in a negative light.
It is ALWAYS seen as evil and sinful, and thus never something any believer can in any way delight in or promote. And of course the Bible from Genesis to Revelation makes it quite clear what God’s intention for human sexuality is all about, and it sure does not entail homosexual marriage.
As I have mentioned so many times already, the biblical understanding of love is quite straightforward. Genuine love is always about willing the highest good of the beloved. It is about seeking the best for the other person. That includes setting people free from their sinful and dangerous lifestyles.
A person in the bondage of homosexuality is NOT being loved when we simply affirm the sin and seek to further legitimise it. Nor are we showing biblical love when we push something like fake marriage which simply shows we are shaking our fist at the Creator, and telling him he is wrong about marriage and that he needs to get with the times.
Please tell me how that equates to biblical love. What it equates to is sinful rebellion against Almighty God. Telling God he is wrong and telling people to engage in blatant sinful activities has absolutely nothing to do with biblical love. It has everything to do with diabolical evil and blatant disobedience.
And remember that verse 6 tells us that love “rejoices with the truth”. The truth of God must always stand against the lies of men. God’s truth about sexuality, marriage and family stand completely against the radical agenda of the homosexual activists.
We either run with God and his truth, or we side with sinful man in open, defiant rebellion against God. This of course has always been the case. Thus all the more reason to bemoan clueless wonders – or deceptive manipulators – like Nicholls on this issue.
If he wants to push for faux marriage, even though he is supposed to be leading a conservative party, that is up to him. But how dare he drag into this debate the Holy Scriptures, and twist and abuse the Word of God to push an ungodly and evil agenda. Shame on you Mr Nicholls.
Let me finish with some wise words about truth and love penned by Harry Blamires way back in 1957 in his book A God Who Acts:
A curse of contemporary Christendom has been the replacement of traditional theology by a new system which we may call Twentieth-century Sentimental Theology. Sentimental theology has invented a God: it insists that he is a God of love, and implies that it is therefore his eternal concern that a thumping good time should be had by all….
So runs the Sentimental Creed. Because this God loves all men equally, therefore we must live in agreement with all men, smiling indulgently upon every vanity and betrayal. Because this God is a God of Love, we must never differentiate between good and evil, for judgment partakes of uncharity and presumption. Because this God is a God of mercy, we must pretend that sins have not been committed, that evils under our own noses do not exist.
14 Replies to “Massacring Scripture for Fake Marriage”
Tim Nicholls clearly demonstrates he is not Premier material if his poor analysis of the Bible is indicative of his overall decision making ability.
Best regards, Phil
Good article, thank you Bill. That last quote from Blamires especially, wow! Must pick up that book!
I read that report this morning and shook my head. Tim Nicholls appears to be like so many of the heterosexual activists for redefining the Marriage Act, blithely believing in the ‘Love is Love’ slogan. It is enough that a child can legally be adopted into a homosexual relationship and denied natural justice. Mr Nicholls demonstrates a woeful lack of life experience. I agree with Phil Browne. Perhaps, some wiser souls in the National Party will take him aside and explain the birds and the bees.
Not only Biblically clueless but politically clueless as well. How does he think all the Christians and social conservatives who have been sold out by these creeps are going to vote? Overseas we have seen it time and time again where claims of so called “bigotry” have excluded extremely decent people from positions of authority and power, from the law, from public service, from senior business positions etc. etc. You may as well hand the the world over on a plate to the radicals as give them this “weaponized tool” as some call it, to attack decent people. If Mark Dreyfus gets his way there will be vexation litigation galore and all held behind closed doors because to do otherwise might upset the homosexuals but we know the real political agenda. This is why 100% of left wingers support the change – a much higher rate than the support among homosexuals.
It is so obvious that this is part of the prophesied great deception but, seriously, you would think some of these people would have at least a few smarts. You would think an IQ of 70 or less would be plenty enough to see through this scam.
Dear Bill,
I agree with you completely that God has decreed marriage to be between a man and a woman and that homosexual acts are a sin. Unfortunately, “Western” societies have moved away from faith in God to such an extent that the majority of people do not believe in Him. Or even if they claim to believe in Him, they do not follow his commands. So anything goes. That’s a major reason why I choose not to live in my country (UK). Although I am a Muslim, I guess we’re on the same side in this debate, although I can’t help feeling that the horse has already bolted (legalisation of homosexual acts) and that the slippery slope is getting slipperier by the day.
The mistake is made by many who want to twist God’s word to suit their unbiblical belief, that love triumphs all, Love is love.
God is love, the source of Love is God, God moves in his grace by his love.
The bible speaks about the Love of God, but it also speaks about God’s Holiness, in His righteousness.
God is Holy, in his Holiness is his love, not separated, but intertwined with in Holiness and love demonstrated at the cross.
To twist his love as a reason to approve and promote sin, knowing homosexuality is in God’s eyes, an abomination.
So they may say it was a hard decision to vote Yes; is just a self justification to ignore God Holy word.
Ignore God at self peril, judgement is at the door, by A Holy Righteous God.
Jesus never succumbed to the culture of his time. His love was seen through his compassion and forgiveness, never through an endorsement of sin. How often was his parting exhortation: Go and sin no more. How hard is it for so-called Christians to understand that?
It’s a shame Mr Nicholls didn’t read a bit more of ‘Paul’s letter to the Corinthians’. He may have come across: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11New International Version (NIV)
9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
– the text for ex-gays. Check out the stories of ex-gays at pfox.org
One good catholic with a prominent place in the church argued at me that Jesus never mentioned homosexuality. I suppose he never mentioned a lot of things. It’s difficult to discuss anything with these people. I cite scripture. They say ‘that’s debatable’. I’d offer to lend them my copy of Strained Relations but I don’t think they read. I call down the Holy Spirit as a last resort but they go off and tick Yes. I believe some people vote Yes because they have a gay child yet they say they don’t quite know where they stand. So why vote at all.
If he had read chapter 7, then he would have read what Paul said about sexual immorality in the first two chapters. For men to avoid sexual immorality by having each his own wife and for women, they should have their own husband. It’s extremely clear.
Self-deception is alive & well in Politics (& elsewhere). New members of a fictitious Darts club wished to use inflated balls instead of darts. Whatever the outcome it was NO Longer a “Darts Club”. Marriage is a Heterosexual relationship: ALL else is NOT marriage.
Oh my God. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. As leader of LNP, he can’t even read!
Tim Nicholls clearly demonstrates he is not Premier material if his poor analysis of the Bible is indicative of his overall decision making ability.
Best regards, Phil
Good article, thank you Bill. That last quote from Blamires especially, wow! Must pick up that book!
I read that report this morning and shook my head. Tim Nicholls appears to be like so many of the heterosexual activists for redefining the Marriage Act, blithely believing in the ‘Love is Love’ slogan. It is enough that a child can legally be adopted into a homosexual relationship and denied natural justice. Mr Nicholls demonstrates a woeful lack of life experience. I agree with Phil Browne. Perhaps, some wiser souls in the National Party will take him aside and explain the birds and the bees.
Not only Biblically clueless but politically clueless as well. How does he think all the Christians and social conservatives who have been sold out by these creeps are going to vote? Overseas we have seen it time and time again where claims of so called “bigotry” have excluded extremely decent people from positions of authority and power, from the law, from public service, from senior business positions etc. etc. You may as well hand the the world over on a plate to the radicals as give them this “weaponized tool” as some call it, to attack decent people. If Mark Dreyfus gets his way there will be vexation litigation galore and all held behind closed doors because to do otherwise might upset the homosexuals but we know the real political agenda. This is why 100% of left wingers support the change – a much higher rate than the support among homosexuals.
It is so obvious that this is part of the prophesied great deception but, seriously, you would think some of these people would have at least a few smarts. You would think an IQ of 70 or less would be plenty enough to see through this scam.
Dear Bill,
I agree with you completely that God has decreed marriage to be between a man and a woman and that homosexual acts are a sin. Unfortunately, “Western” societies have moved away from faith in God to such an extent that the majority of people do not believe in Him. Or even if they claim to believe in Him, they do not follow his commands. So anything goes. That’s a major reason why I choose not to live in my country (UK). Although I am a Muslim, I guess we’re on the same side in this debate, although I can’t help feeling that the horse has already bolted (legalisation of homosexual acts) and that the slippery slope is getting slipperier by the day.
The mistake is made by many who want to twist God’s word to suit their unbiblical belief, that love triumphs all, Love is love.
God is love, the source of Love is God, God moves in his grace by his love.
The bible speaks about the Love of God, but it also speaks about God’s Holiness, in His righteousness.
God is Holy, in his Holiness is his love, not separated, but intertwined with in Holiness and love demonstrated at the cross.
To twist his love as a reason to approve and promote sin, knowing homosexuality is in God’s eyes, an abomination.
So they may say it was a hard decision to vote Yes; is just a self justification to ignore God Holy word.
Ignore God at self peril, judgement is at the door, by A Holy Righteous God.
Jesus never succumbed to the culture of his time. His love was seen through his compassion and forgiveness, never through an endorsement of sin. How often was his parting exhortation: Go and sin no more. How hard is it for so-called Christians to understand that?
It’s a shame Mr Nicholls didn’t read a bit more of ‘Paul’s letter to the Corinthians’. He may have come across: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11New International Version (NIV)
9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
– the text for ex-gays. Check out the stories of ex-gays at pfox.org
You’re right. Nichols should know better.
This “Doctor of Theo” is even worse:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/rendezview/how-the-bible-is-misused-in-relation-to-sexuality/news-story/54973bfa073bb6cf4df1f6c1a4d20c45
Thank you Bill for that article so well said.
One good catholic with a prominent place in the church argued at me that Jesus never mentioned homosexuality. I suppose he never mentioned a lot of things. It’s difficult to discuss anything with these people. I cite scripture. They say ‘that’s debatable’. I’d offer to lend them my copy of Strained Relations but I don’t think they read. I call down the Holy Spirit as a last resort but they go off and tick Yes. I believe some people vote Yes because they have a gay child yet they say they don’t quite know where they stand. So why vote at all.
If he had read chapter 7, then he would have read what Paul said about sexual immorality in the first two chapters. For men to avoid sexual immorality by having each his own wife and for women, they should have their own husband. It’s extremely clear.
Self-deception is alive & well in Politics (& elsewhere). New members of a fictitious Darts club wished to use inflated balls instead of darts. Whatever the outcome it was NO Longer a “Darts Club”. Marriage is a Heterosexual relationship: ALL else is NOT marriage.
Oh my God. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. As leader of LNP, he can’t even read!