Pete Buttigieg, one of the democratic presidential
candidates, is staking his claim as a genuine voice of the Christian faith,
more genuine than the voice of the vice president:
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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is not
letting the vice president forget that he opposed the union that Buttigieg says
“moved me closer to God.”
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“It has made me more compassionate, more
understanding, more self-aware, more decent,” Buttigieg said of his
relationship with his husband at the LGBTQ Victory Fund’s annual brunch in
Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
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“My marriage to Chasten has made me a better
man,” he added. “And yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God.” https://ijr.com/buttigieg-pence-speech-gay-marriage/
Buttigieg claims that gay made him a better person. This may
be. However, our normal condition is characterized by self-deception. Our “confirmation
bias” serves as one indication of this tendency to welcome those ideas that
confirm our bias and to reject the rest.
Instead, I’m more concerned about his statement that “it has
moved me closer to God.” How does he assess his claim? Perhaps it’s because he
has encircled himself with only those people who regard him as their hero, the one
who is carrying their torch to a possible presidency.
However, if Buttigieg is a Christian, he should know that
the Biblical faith has always been a magnet to imposters claiming to be God’s
representatives and their fate. Therefore, Scripture warns God’s people in many
ways to be alert against this danger:
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“If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises
among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he
tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which
you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words
of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing
you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with
all your soul. You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his
commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. (Deuteronomy
13:1-4)
Buttigieg might not be a miracle worker, but he is charming
and well-educated and comes armed with a teaching of a different god, one who
approves of the gay lifestyle, despite the many passages which express God’s
disdain for sexual immorality, including homosexuality:
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For although they knew God, they did not honor
him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and
their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools…Therefore
God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring
of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God
for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is
blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable
passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are
contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women
and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts
with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since
they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to
do what ought not to be done…Though they know God’s righteous decree that those
who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give
approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1:21-22, 24-28, 32)
After we stubbornly reject God in favor of our own desires,
God gives us up to these desires to freely pursue them and to justify them. And
justify them, we must! Why? Because our conscience continues to indict us with
the charge of “sin” and “rebellion” against God, as many ex-gays have
acknowledged! The evidence of their internal conflict is in the statistics. Gays
resort to substance abuse far more than others do. Gay domestic violence
remains alarmingly high. Gay men live on the average of 20 years less than the
average. Mental health issues abound along with suicide. This coincides with
the Scriptural warning that they receive “in themselves the due penalty for
their error.”
Meanwhile, the LGBTQ “Christian” community interprets these
verses as merely an injunction against uncommitted
gay relationships. However, the verses never cite a lack of commitment as the
problem, but rather that it is “unnatural”
(according to both our conscience and to God’s law) and “shameless.”
Within all of the Scriptures, there is not a single verse
that gives the slightest encouragement to the homosexual lifestyle. However,
Buttigieg claims that this “shameless” behavior has “moved me closer to God.” Not
only does he promote this lifestyle, but his stance “give[s] approval to those
who practice them.”
Buttigieg preaches a gross and damning distortion of the
Christian faith (Luke 13:1-5). How does he hope to succeed? He is very charming
and well-spoken, as even numerous conservatives have observed. However, these
are just the people who graduate to become false prophets. I have never met a
false teacher who wasn’t charming and articulate. It is only these who have the
hubris to exalt themselves above the Word of God.
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