The Omnibus

Issue date: 5/11/07 Section: Letters to the editor

Leviticus 18:22 says, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination" (New King James Version). Romans 1:26-32 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"(NKJV). The Bible clearly states in these verses and others (Genesis 19, 1Corinthians 6:9-11, Galatians 4:19-21, Ephesians 5:3-5, 1 Timothy 1:9-10, Jude 7) that God sees homosexual activity as a sin. The deception that has been portrayed upon the world, and that I see in some of the comments in Ben Nielsen's series of articles, is that a person is born as a homosexual. The belief seems to be that it's part of a person's identity, and that they have no choice. But, the Bible says that God created each of us and He is opposed to homosexual activity. So how can we believe that God would create a person to "be" something that he sees as an abomination. Homosexuality is not a "way of being" it is a chosen activity by an individual, and in God's eyes this activity is a sin. Thus we, as Christians, and in particular as a part of an academic community promoting Christian education, have a responsibility to point to God's view of these and other sinful and destructive behaviors. Am I a sinner? Absolutely, and I am saved by the grace of God who gave his son, Jesus, to die for my sin. My first response to God's grace is to realize how God views my sin and agree with Him. If I live my life believing that my sin is just "the way I am" and I am not responsible because there's not anything wrong with it, then I can never experience God's grace in my life. I don't want any student at SBU to be deceived by the world into believing that their sin is really okay in God's eyes and experience the destruction that comes with sin as opposed to experiencing His wonderful grace and love.

Bob Glasgow
Mathematics Department
Southwest Baptist University
Bolivar, MO 65613
(417) 328-1597

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