An Open Letter To A Young Friend...(Sexual confusion, or clarity)

I am writing out of a concern for you and a lot of others of your generation. You were born into a world which was already well into a “sexual revolution”, and this has presented you with perplexing questions and issues which my generation (Baby Boomers) didn’t have to bear as much as yours.

I come as a friend, and concerned Christian, in Jesus name. I want you to understand that I know why there is such a gap between my generation and yours.

I didn’t grow up in a world where gender was considered a fluid construct, or one in which my own sexual identity was constantly emphasized,or challenged from Kindergarten through twelfth grade.To put that upon little children is such a great sin that Jesus warned that those who do so will not escape God’s wrath.

“Sexual Education” was just getting off the ground, we weren’t inundated with such heavy and confusing issues at a young age, as you were.

For most of us, gender roles were still set in place like pillars, men were men, women were women, and that was that. No one ever thought to call that into question.

But part of the cultural revolution that you were born into, was the destruction of all of the former certainties. Sexual anarchists have destroyed notions such as “men are men and women are women”, in the name of freedom.They have pushed away all boundaries in the name of liberty; we have Sexual liberation, women’s liberation, and gay liberation, LGBT liberation, and now we have transgender liberation.

A famous American Poet once warned us not to ,”… tear down a fence unless you realize what that fence was put there for in the first place…” .

I have noted that your generation is much more tolerant, and accepting of any variation of sexuality, for you have been taught not to judge anyone. So many think in terms of “Whatever makes you happy!”, or “Live and let live!”, or, “I am cool with that, as long as you don’t hurt anybody”.

But I want to raise the question, “What were those old Judeo/Christian moral fences which we tore down, put there for?”.

You ask,’Why is it wrong for a “for a girl to kiss another girl“‘(I assume romantically) ? What could be wrong with two people loving each other? What makes anything wrong in the first place? What determines ‘good or evil’? Are we able to determine for ourselves what good and evil is ? Or is there a fixed standard?

The truth is, dear X, there is really nothing “gay” about being gay, because it goes against the way we were created by God. There can be no real home, future, children, lasting legacy or security in two boys or girls kissing romantically; only rebellion, lust and bitter disappointment, as many, many millions have found, according to statistics of suicide and drug abuse among “gays”.

Sexuality, is part of the Image of God. “Male and Female, He created them, in the Image of God He created them…”. This is why sexual questions are extremely important, and sexual confusion is a serious danger. God himself has assigned the sexual roles, they are not optional, nor are they mere ‘societal constructs’.

The Bible says that the truest meaning of marriage and sexuality is as a picture; of Christ and His church. Every man and woman at an altar stands as a symbol of something greater and more ancient, for marriage points to the redeeming love of Jesus for his church, which he purchased with his own blood.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.( Ephesians 5:25-32)

A man’s role in marriage is to imitate Christ; in selfless devotion to his wife and family, laying down his life in countless services , protections and provision. The wife is to uphold her husband, loving and respecting him. Together they build a safe , nurturing place to rear children.This is the scriptural vision of marriage.

Of course, no one has done it perfectly since the fall, but this is God’s plan for human stability and happiness.

This is what makes adultery, incest, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, and any other distortion of sexuality such a serious issue. How serious? So serious, that those who do so will not be able to enter the Kingdom of God, for it is an act of rebellion against God.

It all comes down to whether or not you are going to believe that God’s way will make you happy, or will man’s way.This was the choice Adam and Eve were presented with, and they chose Satan’s lie, that doing their own thing would make them happier, wiser and better people. Homosexuality and gender distortion is a modern form of that same lie.

I am praying for you dear X, that you will come through this time of testing in agreement with your Creator, and that you will find true happiness in marriage, motherhood and all of life as a Christian. Your concerned Friend-Pastor Bill

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.(Matthew 19:4-6)

So serious, that those who do so will not be able to enter the Kingdom of God, for it is an act of rebellion against God.

This strikes me as misinformation. We are all sinners. Adultery is as much a sin as homosexuality, or theft, or bearing false witness.

Homosexual activity does not damn a person for all eternity, any more than other sins do.

We all need forgiveness and salvation.

That’s not what Scripture says, Scripture is very clear on this:

“Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” (I Cor. 6:9-10)

“But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” (Ephesians 5:3-5)

“Happy are those who wash their robes clean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city. But outside the city are the perverts and those who practice magic, the immoral and the murderers, those who worship idols and those who are liars both in words and deeds.” (Revelation 22:14-15, words of Jesus)

Don’t misunderstand me, I applaud your attempt to preach the Gospel to those who are most in need of it.

But you may as well be speaking Latin— a dead language. The generation you’re addressing hasn’t read the Bible, wasn’t inculcated with the traditional, common sense moral values & expectations to which you refer, and they have no remembrance, no clue what you’re even talking about.
When we reference familiar (to us) Biblical teachings, they shut us out, dismissing us as madmen spouting superstitious nonsense.
And it’s because of what they’ve been taught, and the culture of death in which they’ve been raised.
They’ve been been taught that the Bible is the basis of fascism, and that therefore, CHOOSING total ignorance of the Bible equates with a rejection of fascism, and magically leads to a higher moral purity and “social justice.”

We must learn to speak to them in their own language, to dismantle their erroneous notions, and — we must be sly about it!— show that Marx & Mao are the false prophets who have lied to them, promising heaven on earth & delivering only misery— and then help them find their own way— to a desire to open the Bible for themselves, and learn.
In this way I believe the kids can be led to understand, that the yearnings of their own hearts can be satisfied only by living The Way of Jesus Christ.

Homosexual activity does not damn a person for all eternity, any more than other sins do.

I would say that sins would damn us all for all eternity were it not for the forgiveness Jesus made available for us when he died for our sins, taking the punishment on Himself that would otherwise fall on each and every one of us.

That is the forgiveness and salvation that you most rightly say we all need.

You have stated the case better than I did.

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