ONE
HUMAN FAMILY
God
made everyone unique in
many ways. We see diversity naturally
in
skin color, eye color, or height. We see our chosen
individuality in
things like food preferences, taste in clothing, and sexual
preferences. Some of these things are not necessarily right or wrong,
while others are specifically against
God's commands.
While each person is unique, there are some things that are the same
in everyone. Some
things that unite us are good, some are bad.
We
are all human, and we
all miss God's mark of
perfection, the Bible says that “There
is none righteous, not even one.”
This “missing the mark” is called sin.
The Bible says that “all
have sinned and fall short of God's glory.” No human being will
ever be good enough to go to Heaven.
We
have seen people calling themselves “Christians” holding signs
that say terrible lies: “God hates fags” and “All fags go to
Hell” I
want to apologize to
anyone who has been hurt by man's perversion of God's Word. God
does not hate people of any sort.
God is just, and will
punish those that sin against
Him, but He
hates no man.
We will talk more later about how much God loves everyone.
While
considering God's
love,
we must also look at God's
standard.
As it would not be fair to sentence a person to jail without
knowledge of the crime and adequate proof of guilt, so God has given
us all a conscience that shows us right from wrong. I encourage you
to read the following passage from the Bible. Here we read God's
response to man's attempt to change His Word.
Romans
1:18-32 says:
“For
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the
truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God
has shown it to them. For His invisible attributes, namely, his
eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever
since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.
So they are without excuse.
For
although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks
to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish
hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and
exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal
man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Therefore
God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the
dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged
the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature
rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For
this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their
women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to
nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and
were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless
acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their
error.*
And
since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a
debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with
all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are
full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are
gossips,slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful,
inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless,
heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's decree that those who
practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give
approval to those who practice them.”
Whether
it is lying, stealing, adultery, idolatry, homosexuality, or any
other sin, the judgment
that
comes from
God is just.
I am a sinner myself, so I
have no reason to judge homosexuals any
more than I should liars, thieves, or prideful hypocrites. All sin is
the same to God. None of us can achieve God's standard of perfection.
Not the priests, pastors, or any other person that we might think of
as good. So,
who could ever get to Heaven?
The truth is nobody can.
That
is the bad news, but there
is good news, wonderful news!
God loved the world so much that he gave His Son, Jesus Christ, so
that whoever believes
in Him will
not perish, but have everlasting life. You can find this verse in
John 3:16 in the Bible. It is one of the most quoted verses in the
Bible, but many people skip the rest of the conversation. I encourage
you to find
a Bible and read all
of John Chapter 3 to see how Jesus told a seemingly religious man the
only way to get to Heaven. Jesus told this man that he must
be “born again”, which
is a spiritual rebirth
in Christ.
Jesus'
sinless life and sacrificial death on our behalf paid the penalty for
every sin: past,
present, and future.
He paid for all our sins, but to have that payment accepted on your
account requires that you repent,
or change your mind to agree with God about sin.
Only then can we accept what Jesus paid for us. This is God's “good
news”(Gospel)
for the ages! Sinners can be saved
from Hell and given eternal life because
of Jesus' sacrifice on our behalf. This is the greatest
love story of
all time; a perfect Father who sent His Son to earth, who willingly
gave up His life not for His friends, but His enemies.
Now
that you have this knowledge, what
will you do with it? You
can deny it and go on with your life, but when the day of your death
comes, God
will judge you justly,
and He
will punish sinners with
eternal Hell. Don't let this happen, it is not what God wants. The
Bible says, “God
is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance” Will
you accept Jesus' death on your behalf, turn from your sinful ways to
serve God, your Creator?
Email-
onehumanfamily@live.com God loves you more that you could ever
imagine.
God
wants you to be part of His family, but first “You
must be born again!”
