The previous article tackled the fake freedom the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris was trying to show while in face it is an attempt of evil forces to lure people away from God through this event. The devil has no other business, but to attract humans to go on a journey to the abyss. He never cared about people’s freedoms. What happened was a baseless association between sports and the Christian and religious holies in general through proposing transsexual characters offering a pervert and offensive sexual connotations!
Satin, the roaring lion seeking to devour people has never stopped attempting to trap man in his dark abyss. Through history and different ages, he has been always trying to make people blind to the existence of God in two ways, by either introducing philosophies that call to deny and reject God’s existence. For
“The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good.”(Psalm 14:1), or by conditioning minds to accept radical ideologies aimed at eradicating the significance of religion and divine laws from human hearts, in an effort to create a world devoid of moral or ethical constraints, for Bible warns us that, “Having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!”(2 Timothy 3:5).
And among those ideas that seek to destroy human spiritual and moral values is the homosexual ideology, which tries to deceive the world in the name of ‘freedom’!!! And at the beginning, I would like to clarify an important principle Lord Jesus taught us: we do not hate or reject the sinner, but we hate and reject the sin that separates man from God.” Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened
That it cannot save, Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God. And your sins have hidden His face from you So that He will not hear” (Isaiah 59:1-2)
In a quick view, we can see that the Holy Bible condemns and warns against the sexual relationship between two people of the same sex. In the Old Testament, it is mentioned “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman” Leviticus 20:13. In the New Testament, Bible says, “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.” (Romans 1:24-27)
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
Thus, we see that the word of God condemns homosexuality, punishes and warns homosexuals, and clearly declares that homosexuality is an abomination. The claim that the scripture encourages and forgives homosexual behavior is entirely false. It is a deception of oneself and others. The best example of this is the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
And the problem of Sodom and Gomorrah was ‘sexual immorality’, as the scripture says: “But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people together. And they called to Lot and said to him, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them sexually.’ But Lot went out to the door to them and shut the door behind him and said, ‘Please, my brothers, do not do so wickedly.’ “ (Genesis 19:4-7). But before God, the sin of His people was exceedingly great: “And the LORD said, ‘The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grave'” (Genesis 18:20); and the judgment was the end of the cities with fire and brimstone.
Ultimately, if these homosexuals insist on their ideas and practices that they desire, that is their affair and their choice. They must bear the consequences of this choice for it is condemned as per the Bible and will result in their utter ruin as per God’s judgment. However, neither do they have the right to strive to spread their ideas with all their might and power, nor should they relentlessly seek to impose the acceptance of these ideas on others, with such arrogance and complete disregard for the freedom of choice! If they desire to follow such deviant practices, they have no right to impose this deviant lifestyle on the entire world!!!
Undoubtedly, the world is facing an attempt to distort the human system that God designed and endowed human nature with. There is a power trying to eliminate religions that are the safeguards and guardians of this human system. Such power is an attempt that aims at creating a new global system with no identity or benchmark!
And the talk in Beautiful Egypt is endless …
The General Bishop
Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center
