Letting Go Of The Leash Series

The word ‘corinthianize’ actually came to mean “to practice immorality.”.

Paul is writing this and probably looking outside his front door in Corinth to be reminded of these things. Like sitting on a balcony in San Francisco and watching a Gay Pride parade. Asking himself, ‘Is this what God intended? Is this how God designed us?’

The Roman world in Paul’s time didn’t condemn homosexuality. 14 of the last 15 Roman Emperors were practicing homosexuals. So were many of the military leaders. In fact the closest culture you will find to modern America is the Rome Paul wrote to. The only difference is that they were ahead of us regarding this issue.

The first-century A.D. catechism manual, the Didache, makes clear what Romans will have to give up once they entered the Church. It begins with, “There are two ways: one of life and one of death—and there is a great difference between the two ways.” The converts are then confronted with a list of commands. Some of which would have been quite familiar and reasonable to Romans, such as, “You will not murder” and, “You will not commit adultery” (for Romans, abortion wasn’t murder, and a husband having sex with slaves or prostitutes was not considered adulterous). But then followed strange commands (at least to the Romans), “You will not corrupt boys”; “You will not have illicit sex”; “You will not murder offspring by means of abortion [and] you will not kill one having been born.” “You will not make potions” (a prohibition against widespread practices in the Empire which included potions that stopped conception or caused abortion. The Roman elevation of pleasure above procreation led to the desire for contraceptive potions, abortifacients, and infanticide.

Gay marriage was normal there and Emperors like Nero were married in homosexual weddings. He was the bride by the way.

Emperor Elagabalus (ruled 218-222) married and then divorced five women. But he considered his male chariot driver to be his “husband,” and he also married one Zoticus, an athlete. Elabalus loved to dress up 'as a queen'.

Same sex unions were finally outlawed in 5th century Rome when Christianity finally took hold. We are not facing something new but very old. Predates Christian influence.

There is a movement today in churches called the ‘More Light’. This reinterprets the Bible in order to justify admitting practicing homosexuals as members of the church. “We don’t know whether homosexuality is right or wrong.”

We now exist in a generation that has gone thru an intense agenda of propaganda meant to create an acceptance for this lifestyle.

This was done by design for last 25 yrs.

In 1989 there was a clearly stated 6 point program put together called the Gay Agenda.

Step 1—talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as possible.

People will become tired of the issue and give us anything we want to shut us up.