The Stockholm News ran an article “Same sex marriage suggested by board of Church of Sweden” on 13th June, 2009.

Can you believe It? The church board of the Church of Sweden is suggesting same sex marriage? It would be understandable if this proposal was a suggestion of the legislators of Sweden, but a suggestion like this coming from any church board is particularly disturbing.

Leviticus 18:22 puts it like this “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” That is a very clear message telling us that God finds homosexuality particularly detestable. He destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah “because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is grievous”. Genesis 18:26 – The sin of Homosexuality!
In Malachi 3:16, God lets us know that He is not a person who goes back on His word. Even though man behaves badly, He says, “I am the Lord, I change not”.

Even if we could claim that the old Testament theology is defunct and we are now living by New testament theology. A journey to Romans 1:22-27 should cure us of any thoughts we harbor that God has changed His mind about same sex relationships. It reads, “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”

What is particularly disturbing about the church board’s suggestion, is that the elected officials who are the authority of the Church, the people selected to instruct the congregation on how to get well from the diseases of sin and teach the truth about the character of God, are the very ones leading their congregation into sin. If one cannot go to the church for instruction on what is right from what is wrong and where can one go?

God has not changed His mind about same sex relationships. So please do not be misled by the action taken by the church board of the Church of Sweden but study the Bible for yourself, and be willing to be guided into all truth by the Spirit of truth.