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In this episode, we discuss the controversial verse Leviticus 18:22 and its significance in the Bible. Highlighting the … (visit YouTube for more)
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Well, if there’s any verse in the Bible that’s guaranteed to cause friction, it’s this one, Leviticus 18 verse 22. You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
I don’t know where you sit on this particular verse. Many Christians want to explain it away. Scripture starts with the joining of a man and a woman . And then Jesus Christ is expressed as the Bridegroom of the church.
So this whole concept of maleness and femaleness being joined together is extremely important to God. It is a recurrent theme in scripture. He never talks positively about a man lying with a man or a woman lying with a woman.
And yet in our witness to the world, we are called to love and compassion. So if this verse is anything, it’s not a weapon. It’s not something that we beat people around the heads with.
In fact, Jesus would ask us to look at ourselves. When we talk about anything that is considered a sin, we look at ourselves first. We look at the plank in our own eye before attempting to deal with a speck in someone else’s.
We are all sinners, my friend. All we need to do is think an evil thought or behave in a way that is anything less than holy and there we have fallen short of God’s standards, which is sin. So there’s never any cause for anyone to feel superior to anyone else.
Here’s a news flash. All churches are full of sinners. Every single one of us . We are all looking to God and trying to find out together how we can love him and obey him best. And for every single one of us, this means letting go of things that we don’t want to let go of.
Are you perfect? No. You are not. Only one ever was, and that is Jesus.
So, yes, a controversial verse, but it’s in the Bible and God’s Word is true. And to the best of my ability, may God help me, I will always bring you truth, his truth, on this channel.
