This post contains some of my thoughts after being ordered to pay $41,000.00 in fines and damages by the City of Evansville, Indiana. News coverage by the Evansville Courier and Press.
Ancient pagans envisioned separate gods over separate areas of life. The Greeks had Aphrodite over love and pleasure, Apollo over knowledge and the arts, Ares over war and courage, Artemis over animals and girls, and Athena over peace, military tactics, and craft projects. These are only the ‘A’s. The Greek’s alphabet had more letters and their pantheon more gods.
Contrary to the ancient pagan teaching, the Christian God revealed himself as having all authority over all people in all places in all matters for all time. (Mt 28:18-20) If anyone should know of any obscure but extant god, it would be God himself. Significantly, he denies any knowledge of competing gods (examples only from the prophet Isaiah 43:11, 44:6, 44:8, 45:5,6,21).
Seeing God is God over all, he is Lord over sex. If a civil government denies God by holding GLBTQ+ identity, orientation, or practice as morally neutral, and protecting it as an individual right upon threatened pain of loss of life or liberty, I should obey God and stand with Christ, rather than fearing man. Christ said, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Mt 10:28)
God is to be worshiped in truth as he is the Lord of all. He is the Lord of sex. Worshiping him means affirming his commands in thought, word, and deed. When God prohibits things such as fornication, adultery, incest, and things GLBTQ+, so must I. If I must be crucified, or die of a thousand fines, here I stand, I can do no other.
These thoughts have raised questions, some of which are considered here.
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