How many here agree with the teaching of these scriptures?
The teaching especially clear and notice 1 Thessalonians 4, what it specifically says!
That if you reject this then your reject the Lord God.
Galatians 5
24 And those
who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own
wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
1Thessalonians 4
1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;
2
for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter,
because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
8 Therefore he who rejects
this does not reject man, but God, who[
a] has also given us His Holy Spirit.
To use your example from the prior post, from the NKJV, I'll quote the first sentence you highlighted:
2 Peter 2:6 NKJV "and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;"
I suppose you are interpreting "ungodly" as "sexually immoral(ly)". I imagine you are going to tell us that the sexual immorality in Sodom was homosexuality. Can you find any Scripture that tells us that the sexual immorality of Sodom and Gomorrah was "homosexuality"? Quote it for us!
The NKJV records for us what the Lord GOD Himself declared the iniquity of Sodom -
48 “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. 49 Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty and committed
abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit."
"
abomination" is the Hebrew
to ebah and the Strong's defines that as "properly something disgusting (morally), that is, (as noun) an abhorrence;
especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol:—abominable (custom, thing), abomination."
Read the 40 times that Ezekiel uses
to ebah, and you see he uses it in the sense as I showed in
bold, not homosexuality.
Compare 1 Cor. 6:9 in the NKJV and in the NRSVue -
"9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites," NKJ V
"9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The
sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex," NRSVue
In the NKJV, "fornicators" and "adulterers" are not the same as "homosexuals" or "sodomites", fornicators are distinguished from homosexuals or sodomites!
The NRSVue instead of "fornicators" uses "the sexually immoral". So, we see clearly that EVEN in the NKJV, homosexuals and sodomites are different from fornicators and adulterers.
As far as I'm concerned, I'll toss the phrase "sexually immoral" into the dust bin, and stay with the KJV fornicators or whoremongers. Or the consistent "fornicators" of the ASV.
1 Corinthians 7:2
"Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband."
I find in the evangelical community a disagreement whether "masturbation" is sexually immoral or not. Can you show anywhere that Scripture shows masturbation to be sexually immoral? How about mutual masturbation between husband and wife, M-F?
Are people so dense that they cannot see the same principle as expressed in the idiom -
"
One man's trash is another man's treasure" suggests that what one person may consider worthless could be considered valuable by someone else. This phrase
often relates to varying perceptions of worth and can apply to a wide array of scenarios, from physical objects to ideas and experiences.