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The Ten Commandments
1.
One God
2. No idols
3. Revere His Name
4. Remember to Rest
5. Honor Parents
6.
No murder
7.
No adultery
8.
No stealing
9.
No lying
10.
No coveting
Exodus 20:14 “14 “You shall not commit adultery.”
To commit adultery, or not to commit adultery –
for hundreds of readers in the 17th century, the answer depended on which bible they consulted, after an unfortunate error in a certain edition of the text omitted to include a vital “not”.
Known as the “Wicked” Bible, the text, printed in 1631, leaves the word “not” from the seventh commandment.
This means that amid exhortations that
“thou shalt not kill”, and
“thou shalt not steal”,
readers are also informed that “thou shalt commit adultery”.
One thousand copies of the text, which also came to be known as the Adulterous or Sinners’ Bible,
were printed, with the printing error only discovered a year later.
When it was uncovered, the printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas were summoned by order of Charles I to court, and found guilty.
They were also fined £300, and their printing licence removed,
with the entire print run of the offending text called in,
and the majority destroyed.
Around 10 copies are believed to still exist today,
One was auctioned off in 2018 for a total of $56,250
The seventh commandment, then, is about much more than a few sexual adultery.
It’s about safeguarding the gift of marriage and promoting the flourishing of the family.
In other words, the seventh commandment forbids more than just cheating on your spouse.
If we read the Bible oT and NT we can see that it is about a whole category of sexual in and sexual passions
But before we hone in on one narrow area of the category of same sex attraction, lest see some foundational scriptures.
There are two sides to this controversy.
There are those who see the Bible as condemning all forms or homosexuality.
That is the traditional view.
On the other side are those that see homosexuality,
either in committed monogamous relationships or in all forms, as acceptable.
Throughout this message I will refer to those of the pro-homosexual orientation as the revisionists.
That is not to demean them but it is to accurately describe them.
For more than 2,000 years of church history the church uniformly condemned the practice of homosexuality as sin because everyone understood that as a clear teaching of the Bible.
For 2,000 years this was never considered a debatable subject.
It is only in recent history that this discussion surfaced.
Those who want to affirm homosexuality or homosexual unions are revisionists.
They are leaving the clear and uniform understanding of the church and the Scriptures for the last 2,000 years.
They are assuming all great biblical minds from the last 2,000 years of church history — Augustine, Luther, and Calvin just to name a few — read their Bibles wrong.
Today we discovered something they missed.
We are smarter than they were.
That is a scary claim.
C.S. Lewis called that chronological snobbery.
When you think you are smarter than the great biblical minds that preceded you for the last 2,000 years, that is a scary claim.
That is a recipe for heresy.
God defines and defends marriage and sexuality.
Genesis 1 and 2 — What does the creation of man, woman and marriage teach us about homosexuality?
The first chapters of Genesis are important.
In these first chapters we learn about God, the creation of the earth, the creation of mankind, the creation of sexuality and the marriage.
The rest of the Bible continually references the opening chapters of Genesis as the God-given template for our lives.
Genesis 1 and 2 teach us God’s plan for gender, sexuality and marriage.
The creation of woman shows she is the only possible marital and sexual companion for a man.
Genesis 2:21 “21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.”
Adam was made from the dust of the ground.
Eve was made from Adam’s side.
A rib was taken out of Adam to make Eve.
Adam was made intentionally incomplete.
The only thing that could complete him was the corresponding piece in the puzzle that was taken out of him, that is, a woman.
Another man cannot complete a man.
Another woman cannot complete a woman.
Look at how Adam celebrated Eve’s arrival.
Genesis 2:23 “23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.””
Adam was thrilled Eve was not another animal.
Adam was also thrilled Eve was not another man.
Adam was thrilled Eve is a woman.
She was the only piece that could complete him.
She was what fits his needs.
She was his equal and his opposite.
Two men and two women cannot, by definition, complete each other.
Only two people of the opposite gender can fulfill the procreative purpose of marriage.
Genesis 1:28 “28 And God blessed them.
And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””
God created Adam and Eve to be equals but opposites.
Part of the reason he created a man and a woman equal but opposite is so they can come together and have children.
Children are the natural result of a healthy marriage.
I realize not all married couples can have children.
That is an unfortunate consequence of sin.
The point remains — the only way to conceive children and for the human race to continue is for a man and a woman to come together.
Two men and two women coming together cannot make children.
A homosexual union cannot complete the procreative purpose of marriage.
Homosexual couples cannot be fruitful and multiply.
If Godly offspring is one of the purposes of marriage, and there is no conceivable way for a homosexual couple to have children between them, they are violating one of the purposes of marriage.
Some revisionist authors don’t think the one man and one woman marriage declaration of Genesis is enduring.
They say one man and one woman is the normal way marriage is done but it is not the normative way all marriages should be done.
What do you think?
Is Genesis just a marriage recommendation or is it a marriage declaration for all of time?
Is marriage always to be heterosexual and is one of the purpose of marriage to produce children?
Let’s find the answer.
Jesus and Paul claimed Genesis doesn’t just make heterosexual marriage normal, it makes it normative.
In Jesus’ day there was a marriage debate.
Some religious leaders taught easy divorce
while others taught hard divorce.
They said a husband and wife should stay committed.
One day the religious leaders approached Jesus to ask him if he was for easy divorce or hard divorce.
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