What does the God of the creation think about homosexuality?

[Bro.T]

Okay, but what does any of this have to do with the Africans who were kidnapped into slavery? Are you saying that the Africans were Israelites, or just that both groups endured enslavement, or something else?

No, African Americans the so-called Negroes are the true Israelites, to this day. Still in captivity and will be there instill Jesus makes his second coming, but look what Paul says in Romans 11: 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Also, the Israelites or Africans who "do not have a chance": they do not have a chance at what?

They have a chance now, even the stranger, but at that time they didn't. Note what the scripture says, “Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.” These men of Judah not only built temples to pagan gods, they allowed sodomites/homosexuals to dwell among them. Note what the Lord had Moses to write in regards to this:

There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. (Deuteronomy 23:17)

 

[Kathleen30]

Grace is nothing more than a free gift. And that free gift is our access back to the tree of life (Jesus) which Adam caused us to lose by disobeying God. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5: 12) But to maintain your grace you must keep the law. (1John 3:4) Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. Now we have just read the biblical definition of sin, the transgression (breaking) of the law (commandments.) It doesn’t matter what you or I think sin is, it’s what God says sin is that counts.

Paul says in (Rom. 4:15) Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. If there is no law there is no sin.

Paul said in "1 Corinthians 6:9" Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

You say grace is nothing more than a free gift. Bro you than write further in your reply. ( But to maintain your grace you must keep the law . Firstly it is not merely a free gift but a free gift given by God. And if it is as you claim that one’s salvation or grace of God depends on adhering to the law to keep it than we all be still under the law and that would mean trying to keep the law and that would mean keeping law trumps over the grace and power of God to forgive permanently . Bro you must remember the law was supposed to point us to a savior to forgive us of sins because simply put none of us can keep the law. Again if we go with all the attributes you mentioned in 1st Corinthians 6:9-10 and Revelations 21:8 that would ban many Christian’s of their eternal. In other words saved today lost tomorrow never knowing if one is fully saved

 

[Bro.T]

You say grace is nothing more than a free gift. Bro you than write further in your reply. ( But to maintain your grace you must keep the law . Firstly it is not merely a free gift but a free gift given by God. And if it is as you claim that one’s salvation or grace of God depends on adhering to the law to keep it than we all be still under the law and that would mean trying to keep the law and that would mean keeping law trumps over the grace and power of God to forgive permanently . Bro you must remember the law was supposed to point us to a savior to forgive us of sins because simply put none of us can keep the law. Again if we go with all the attributes you mentioned in 1st Corinthians 6:9-10 and Revelations 21:8 that would ban many Christian’s of their eternal. In other words saved today lost tomorrow never knowing if one is fully saved

Jesus brought grace when he came in the flesh, but example of grace was in the days of Noah. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8), And Noah and his family was saved. Not save from eternal life, but saved from the flood. This is why Jesus had to come. Paul says in Hebrews 9: 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 26 for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Now Paul said in (Rom. 3:23-25) (v.23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (v.24) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (v.25) Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.

So the bible tells you to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2 :36-38). And by doing so you come up under his precious blood and then you are saved from your sins that are past, not present or future sins but for sins that are past. We were all locked under death by Adam’s sin, even the second death, which is the lake of fire. But when Jesus became (he was God in the beginning) man and died for the sins of the world, he gave us access back to the tree of life (himself) which Adam had caused us to lose. That’s what grace is, our free gift our access back to the tree of life but that’s another lesson for another time.

So by coming under the blood of Jesus being baptize, you are saved from your past sins. And if you are saved now, it is on a day to day basis. Because for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 23:3), and if you continue to live you will sin again.

When the bible speaks of laws we no longer have to keep, it is speaking of the sacrificial laws and Priesthood laws. These animal sacrificial laws were a school master pointing us to the fact that Jesus would be sacrificed for our sins. Since Jesus died we are no longer under a school master, (required to offer up bulls and goats for our sins).Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. This animal sacrificial law was only a schoolmaster.
(Gal 3:24)

Now we must believe (have faith) Jesus died for us (Hebrews 10:4,9-10) 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 9 then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

This doesn't mean we don't have to obey God's moral laws of conduct. That would be like a man getting paroled from prison and then ignoring the same laws that sent him to prison in the first place. Jesus only died once, so if we willingly break God's law, after accepting Jesus, our reward will be eternal damnation

It is the willful sinning that you need to put in check. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrew 10: 26, 27)

 

[Kathleen30]

Jesus brought grace when he came in the flesh, but example of grace was in the days of Noah. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8), And Noah and his family was saved. Not save from eternal life, but saved from the flood. This is why Jesus had to come. Paul says in Hebrews 9: 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 26 for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Now Paul said in (Rom. 3:23-25) (v.23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (v.24) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (v.25) Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.

So the bible tells you to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2 :36-38). And by doing so you come up under his precious blood and then you are saved from your sins that are past, not present or future sins but for sins that are past. We were all locked under death by Adam’s sin, even the second death, which is the lake of fire. But when Jesus became (he was God in the beginning) man and died for the sins of the world, he gave us access back to the tree of life (himself) which Adam had caused us to lose. That’s what grace is, our free gift our access back to the tree of life but that’s another lesson for another time.

So by coming under the blood of Jesus being baptize, you are saved from your past sins. And if you are saved now, it is on a day to day basis. Because for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 23:3), and if you continue to live you will sin again.

When the bible speaks of laws we no longer have to keep, it is speaking of the sacrificial laws and Priesthood laws. These animal sacrificial laws were a school master pointing us to the fact that Jesus would be sacrificed for our sins. Since Jesus died we are no longer under a school master, (required to offer up bulls and goats for our sins).Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. This animal sacrificial law was only a schoolmaster.
(Gal 3:24)

Now we must believe (have faith) Jesus died for us (Hebrews 10:4,9-10) 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 9 then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

This doesn't mean we don't have to obey God's moral laws of conduct. That would be like a man getting paroled from prison and then ignoring the same laws that sent him to prison in the first place. Jesus only died once, so if we willingly break God's law, after accepting Jesus, our reward will be eternal damnation

It is the willful sinning that you need to put in check. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrew 10: 26, 27)

Bro you write Noah and his family found grace from God but not eternal life. Well considering God gave Adam & Eve coats of skin being the first sacrifice of animals and of the prophecy given to Eve of the serpent bruising our Lords heel but with the serpent having his head crushed and considering they also had sacrificial offerings just as Abel’s offerings pre-flood. Then I think it is much wiser to consider that they believed in eternal life from a future redeeming Saviour. Noah made an animal sacrifice upon entry into the new world . It is highly unlikely that they viewed that sacrifice only as being saved from the deluge but also of a coming redeemer they would bring them eternal life too. Just as all post flood sacrifices just as Abraham’s sacrifice in the wilderness when the Angel of the Lord intervened all the way up to temple sacrifices. All were a promise of things to come that a Saviour would save us from our sins as the final sacrifice

So the question must be asked why would the blood of Christ be only sufficient for PAST sins and not also for PRESENT and FUTURE sins of which the Bible clearly says his saints are sealed until the day of redemption and of who can break the seal of God. No power on earth can do so. Not even ourselves or any other principality for that matter. What you put forth makes no sense and what you are promoting is a works based religion

Bro as to the book of Hebrews you quote. It is very true that the continuing sacrificing of beasts that we no longer need, because Christ was the perfect final sacrifice for forgiveness of sin and Christ being the one and only final priest as we need no other to assure us of our salvation. You must also remember this book Hebrews was specifically meant for the Jews. Meaning to warn them if they continue wilfully on with temple sacrifices and reject Christ’s sacrifice that there can no reconciliation from Gods fiery indignation and judgment. And that would not long be forthcoming as seen in 70 AD with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple completely..

Now the law was certainly was once our schoolmaster it pointed all to the sacrifice and the hope of a final sacrifice which we now find in Jesus Christ. The law is still a moral code to giude us but we are not relying on it to bring us to eternal life. Christ has already done that And finally Bro as to wilfully sinning . Well God does correct his children in many ways . But how do you evaluate wilfully sinning? You must remember it is not just a physical problem it’s also a spiritual one with the many thoughts that wilfully come into our minds everyday . As Christ said we commit sin even with our minds . So again you would have the same problem . Saved today and perhaps lost later on in the day, or maybe tomorrow or whenever saved again only that is of course if I or someone determines one to be saved or lost and that not be wise. Bro do remember we are still in our carnal nature which is yet to finally transition over upon death do we are all going naturally sin in some capacity until the perfect day cometh . And do remember we all have been brought at a great price. By the blood of Christ ❤️ and who can break the seal of God. Is the power of sin superior to Gods power ? . Yours Kathleen