109, then Spiritual Experiences 5457. Spiritual
Experiences 3895-3900 are also very revealing.
It is very clear in Genesis that from first
creation it is in the relationship of one male
and one female together as husband and
wife that we especially have the “image” and
“likeness” of God – what is truly and fully
human in finite creation:
Nowhere in
Scripture is there any
indication, not even
a whisper, that it is
permissible for two of
the same sex to try to
become one flesh.
So God created man in His own image; in the
image of God He created him; male and female
He created them. Then God blessed them. And
God said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and
subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over
every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Genesis 1: 27-28)
In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created
them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they
were created. (Ibid. 5: 1-2)
It is affirmed by the Lord Himself that this teaching regarding the
relationship between one male and one female is taken further, asserting that
“these two” shall become one flesh:
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and
they shall become one flesh. (Ibid. 2:24)
And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at
the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall
leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one
flesh’? So then they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined
together, let not man separate.” (Matthew 19:5,6; see also Mark 10:6-9)
Nowhere in Scripture is there any indication, not even a whisper, that it
is permissible for two of the same sex to try to become one flesh. In fact, the
only teachings that we can find in the Bible bearing on this kind of effort, as
we know, firmly, roundly condemn it, whether in the Old Testament or Paul’s
Epistles:
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an
abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
(Ibid. 20:13)
There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the
sons of Israel. (Deuteronomy 23:17)
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to
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