Sunday, February 9, 2020

SDA Issues - Time to Fire Ness

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.
Romans 1:27

"Bryan Ness, a biology professor at Pacific Union College, a
Seventh-day Adventist institution, says that we have it all wrong. He recently published an article defending consensual homosexual relationships as part of God’s will for mankind. He also calls upon the Seventh-day Adventist Church to amend its prohibition against same-sex marriage and to embrace the LGBT+ lifestyle.
Bryan Ness believes that not all homosexual behavior is bad. He teaches that homosexuality in the context of a loving, consensual, same-sex marriage is in harmony with God. This is reinterpreting the longstanding teaching of morality as found in God’s word.
This is not biology, it’s social reengineering.
Ness: "Our prohibition against it stems from a tradition of interpreting the Bible in a way that does not consider the vastly different culture of today."
AdventMessenger

A terrible picture of the condition of the world .... Immorality abounds everywhere. Licentiousness is the special sin of this age. Never did vice lift its deformed head with such boldness as now. The people seem to be benumbed, and the lovers of virtue and true goodness are nearly discouraged by its boldness, strength, and prevalence. I was referred to Romans 1:18-32, as a true description of the world previous to the second appearing of Christ” (Child Guidance, p. 440).