This Doomed World

Sodom's debris with righteous anger shakes
Beneath its desolate brimstone covers,
That God sustains this evil world who breaks
His laws of sex, her men of men lovers,
Yet oddly withholds His avenging hand!
Where is the Abraham that beseeches
Him His awful judgment to countermand
For sakes of who do as His Word teaches?
Even now His angels of impending doom
Are spreading alerts to the righteous few,
To prepare for this world's dark night of gloom
That must come before He makes it anew!
Ask Gomorrah, Egypt, Canaan, Babel,
If to respond, anyone is able!

Homosexuality is a sin, according to the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments. There is no excuse; no equivocation; no obfuscation; no symbolic puzzle; no misinterpretation. Of course, however, it is forgivable; it is not unpardonable. No person is born with an unquenchable attraction for same-gender sexual gratification; none with an unbreakable proclivity. Should there be such impulses, and there are with almost every individual, God expects those impulses to be successfully resisted, and the Bible says He will not test a person beyond his ability to refuse.

The principal cause for the deliberate obliteration of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 17 was homosexuality and its derivative practices. The Bible makes clear that if various sins were ranked according to the detestation of God homosexuality would be at or near the top. Modern psychology, sociology and formal governing authority have established toleration of homosexuality to unprecedented levels of respectability that encourage its increasing practice; indeed, its advisability, in certain mental and emotional aberrations from misguided cultural norms. Correspondingly, Christian marriage and the institution of heterosexual monogamous family are nosediving to levels dangerous to a healthy society.

This phenomenon is not surprising in a world whose occupants are born with inherent sinful natures, even before the takeover of world culture by postmodernism. Now our guiding philosophy is obsessed with hostility to absolute truths, especially Biblical, and the cultural demand for diversity in all things. Before, there was always more evil behaviors in the world than righteous; now, however, sin is a tidal wave threatening the very existence of Christianity. The abominations of abortion and same-sex immorality are potential rivals to the cultures of Canaan before Israelite took over and the pre-flood world, both of which God destroyed because of the stink of sin. The Bible forecasts the same destruction for today's earth and people, and for the same reason. Christianity, however, will not be extinguished, no matter how powerful its enemies become.