After reading Spiritual Reflections, I was concerned with what the writer said concerning two very controversial topics, abortion and same-sex marriage. I do not want to infer what the writer’s intent was nor presume I know the inference either. Rather, I would like to share what the Bible actually says about these topics.
In the book of Psalms, “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” Psalm 139:13-16.
In the book of Job it says, “Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?” Job 31:15.
Now concerning same-sex marriage, Saul of Tarsus, who was ordained by Christ on the road to Damascus, was ordained and his name changed to Paul.
Paul became one of the greatest Evangelists of all time and spoke specifically about homosexuality. In the book of Romans 1:24-26, “So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. …women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones… men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.
“Men committed shameful acts with other men, and as a result, they bring upon themselves the punishment they deserve for their wrongdoing.”
The Bible is the inspired word of God, written through men over hundreds of years. God says, “Do not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep my commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.” Deut 4:2
Tim Piepho
Silver Bay
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