VOTE 'NO'
TO STOP APPROVAL OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN IRELAND
ON MAY 22nd
What JESUS said about homosexuality
Same-Sex Marriage is not ever right because homosexuality is not right.
So, Marriage only belongs as a Right for a Man and a Woman to enjoy,
NOT a man and a man, or a woman and a woman.
As a Bible beliving Christian, I do not accept that homosexuals should ever be singled out as targets of hate and violence (the Bible denounces this type of behavior toward anyone). But that does not mean that their lifestyle cannot be pointed out as sinful and wrong.

In case you don't continue reading, let me encourage you: if you're hopeless, depressed, and confused about your feelings and desires, don't be angry, look to the God who created you. He has the answers to your questions. No matter what you have done, God is graciously inviting you to turn to His sinless Son, Jesus Christ and start again, this time, with Him in you: "But as many as received him [Jesus], to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." (John 1:12). "if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17). Mark 2:17 "[Jesus] saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

Now, people constantly say: "If homosexuality is a sin, why didn’t Jesus ever mention it?" Well, HE MOST CERTAINLY DID mention it and condemned it in the clearest way possible!

Jesus CLEARLY exposed the judgment of God against the sins of the Sodomites in Luke 17:28-30 when we said... "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of SODOM it rained FIRE and BRIMSTONE from heaven, and DESTROYED them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed." God DESTROYED THEM ALL???? So, tell me, WHAT were they destroyed for??????

Jesus spoke clearly about all forms of sexuality, and He condemned all sexual activity outside of marriage between a man and woman when He said, "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, FORNICATIONS... these defile (ruin) a man" (Matthew 15:19).
The word "fornication" in the Greek is porneia where the word "pornography" comes from, so Jesus was saying that all sexual activity, outside of marriage between a man and a woman, including imaginary sex, is harmful, immoral and sinful.

Concerning marriage, Jesus stated, “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” (Matthew 19:4–6). Here Jesus clearly referred to Adam and Eve and linked THEM with God’s intended design for marriage and sexuality. He also is stating that adultery is wrong!
So, all forms of sexuality outside of the marriage between a man and a woman are wrong and sinful.

Jesus said that people are either to be single and celibate, or married and faithful to one spouse of the opposite gender. Jesus considered any other expression of sexuality as sinful. This would include same-sex activity.

By the way, an argument cannot be based solely on supposed silence. To suggest that Jesus approved of homosexuality simply because He did not use the term "homosexual," is like saying He approved of incest, and bestiality, necrophilia, and pedophilia, kidnapping and torture. So an apparant silence is no argument.

 The second to the last book in the New Testamwnt, named Jude has these final words of warning...
 "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the VENGEANCE of eternal fire." (Jude 1:7)

 But 1Corinthians 6:9-11 offers hope!
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither FORNICATORS, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor EFFENIMATE, nor ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such WERE some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

The bottom line here is that the Bible quite clearly condemns homosexual behavior.

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