A doctor’s task is not merely to diagnose, but to make the right diagnosis. In the same way, the Church’s challenge today is not simply to offer answers, but to offer the right answer—one that comes from the Bible. This is the aim of this book.
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SECTION IX
ON HOMOSEXUALITY
- Evil Wearing the Mask of Good
“There is a way that seems right in our own eyes, but its end leads to destruction” (Prov. 14:12, 16:25).
As a creation of our benevolent God, man carries goodness within him. In other words, man is, by his very nature, good. For this reason, he proceeds to commit an act of evil through sound reasoning. For example, when he steals, he does not focus on the act itself, but rather on the good he believes will come from it. He steals in order to support his family.
When he wants to get revenge, he does not dwell on the act itself, but rather on the good that will supposedly result from it.
Even terrorists kill innocent people under the guise of good intentions, such as societal awakening or whatever other “noble cause” their minds can conjure up.
The message is that a person must keep his so called good thoughts under scrutiny so that he is not deceived by what appears to be good.
Man may be good by nature, yet, as a descendant of the fallen Adam, he is inclined toward evil. The good Lord, wanting to protect him from the captivity of evil, gave him an inner alarm system called conscience, a vigilant and watchful judge of his deeds.
When a donkey eats another’s grass, it feels no guilt, but when a human being eats another’s bread, his inner alarm system is immediately activated, and he experiences guilt.
“When I picked up a gun for the first time in order to kill a man, my hand was trembling.” This was the initial reaction of the internal alarm. “Later, I became accustomed to it,” said Savvas Xiros, a member of the terrorist organization 17 November. The second time, his hand trembled less, and the third time, far less, until he grew accustomed to murder. “If you want to stop feeling that something is a sin, do it many times,” says a proverb.
What follows is just as interesting.
Because man is good by nature, he cannot accept or swallow the evil he commits. Once again, he tries to “deceive” his own good nature by justifying evil with a seemingly good intention in order to find peace. Yet no matter how much peace one may find, the peace of a cemetery is one thing, and the peace of a mountain summit is quite another. Paul, aware of the psychology and reasoning of sinful man, issues a warning: “Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators nor homosexuals nor sodomites will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Cor. 6:9).
What constitutes sin is determined neither by you, society, science, nor me, but by God and God alone, and “God is not mocked” (Gal. 6:7).
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