Wissington Dragon

 

The Wissington (Wiston) Dragon!

Bodie Hodge, M.Sc., B.Sc., PEI

Biblical Authority Ministries, October 28, 2024

I was on a speaking tour in England and Wales, and my buddy Neil Seeds took me to an amazing place. We parked the car and started hiking down a trail, and after a bit, we came upon an old, secluded church—St. Mary’s Church in Wissington, Suffolk.

This little church building dates back to the 1100s as a Norman church, but interestingly, there appear to be Roman bricks laid at the base of a particular wall, suggesting that some history may have been lost over time. For the past 500 years or so, the church has been in the possession of the Crown.

Mr. Seeds informed me that there was supposed to be a dragon depicted on a wall somewhere in the church, and we hoped to find it. This image supposedly dates back to an event in the 1300s when a dragon was reportedly seen and possibly killed near a nearby creek or marsh.

Parishioners had painted what this dragon looked like on a wall in the church. A neighboring church apparently shared a similar account in their history, likely involving the same dragon account. We were determined to find the depiction and capture some photos.

As we walked into this ancient, quaint little building with detailed, intricate carvings, we were stunned to find the dragon painting so easily—it was a gigantic artwork covering a large section of wall above a doorway. In fact, you couldn’t miss it if you tried!

In 1405, there is a record, detailed by the church, of a dragon that could very well be referring back to this one. This account comes from the Chronicle of Henry de Blaneford of St. Albans Abbey, which states:

“In these days there appeared lately an evil dragon of excessive length with a huge body, crested head, saw-like teeth and elongated tail in land near the town of Bures near Sudbury, which destroyed and killed a herd of sheep. The servants of Sir Richard Waldegrave who owns the land haunted by the dragon came forth to shoot it with arrows which sprang back from its ribs as if they were metal of hard stone and from the spines if its back with a jangling as if they were hitting bronze plates, and flew far away because its skin was impenetrable. Almost the whole county was summoned to slaughter it but when it saw that it was to be shot at again, it fled into the marsh, hid in the reeds and was seen no more.”

I get excited about dragon finds because of their connection to dinosaurs (a subset of land dragons), which were created on Day 6 of Creation Week. Of course, winged or sea dragons were made on Day 5. Here are some photos we took of this amazing place. I hope you enjoy them.

Climate Cult

The Climate Cult

Bodie Hodge, M.Sc., B.Sc., PEI

Biblical Authority Ministries, October 17, 2024

Have you ever listened to certain actors, secular scientists, teachers, politicians, or peers spouting on about global warming? Or global cooling? Or climate change?

They do it with such fervor and demand that you follow them in their belief of doomsday scenarios. They even make prophecies about the future destruction of earth in just a few years. Salvation is dependent upon giving them your support, money, and doing what they command.

It almost sounds religious, doesn’t it? There is it reason that it sounds religious—it is. It’s a religion that has catapulted into the mainstream and caused massive division among cultures all over the world. And if you don’t follow this religion with the same fervor as its leading adherents, then you are labelled a “Climate Denier”—an evil and uncaring person in this religion.

How Is The Climate Cult Classified?

The Climate Cult (sometimes called “Climatism”) is a subset of the secular religions (think of secular humanism, atheism, agnosticism, naturalism, etc.) but has an emphasis that is environmental-based, almost like “earth worship”. Although the Climate Cult is secular in its historical understanding of origins, it has morphed into its own beast of a religion. Although its roots extend back over 100 years, it reared its head into public life particularly around the 1970s.

Today, certain people are famous for pushing this religion and making demands. Among these are Al Gore (former Vice President of the United States), Greta Thunberg (a teenage Swedish activist), Bill Gates (one of the richest people in the world), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who pushed the Green New Deal to be imposed), Hoesung Lee (who chairs the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, and many more—including companies and institutions like colleges, universities, high schools, and other government run schools.

Chances are you, or your children and grandchildren, have been influenced by this religion one way or another. Adherents push this religion through various means and it is largely funded by tax dollars being pushed by an educational or political means.

The religious nature of this movement has not gone unnoticed. Articles and books now abound that discuss this religion. For instance, John Berry’s “Climate Cult” tackles this religion head on. With caveats about certain theological and scientific positions, his take on this religion was excellent. Writing about the Climate Cult, Berry, a former atheist and environmentalist himself, writes:

“The modern secular environmental movement is an example of the twisted thinking that occurs when people reject God and a Biblical worldview. The passion of many climate change activists is an outward expression of the quasi-religious nature of the modern environmental movement. A mixture of secular atheism and pagan environmentalism has filled the void created by the rejection of traditional Christianity among many younger people. The result is radical environmentalism has become a form of religion for atheists and others who reject God.”[1]

The Scare Of Global Cooling And A New Ice Age

Beginning in the 1970s, there was a worldwide panic caused by adherents of the Climate Cult. For those old enough to remember, it was the global cooling scare.

Everyone was worried that there was going to be a new ice age (in the secular religious story, they have ice ages from time to time going back for millions of years). Looking at the average global temperature around the world, there was slight trend where we were going down by tenths of a degree. Yes, it was a very small amount.

So, climate cultists immediately began assuming the worst—presuming we’re at the onset of a new ice age! Yes, mankind burns things—wood, oil, coal, etc. and the industrial revolution was in full swing. It didn’t help that smog was becoming a major factor in certain areas that had direct localized effects. 

We see a minor decline in the global temperature, and then doomsdayers run with it and project their voice to say that a new ice age is right around the corner. Just so you know, we didn’t enter into a sudden onset ice age. This claim turned out to be false but sulfate particulates may have played a role in the slight cooling effect by reflecting sunlight back to space. This is significant.  

Ice ages don’t occur by simply cooling the earth. If you cool the globe, you get a cold earth, not an ice age. So…what is the different?

For an ice age, you need warm oceans and cool summers. This way you get a lot of accumulation of snow and ice in the winter months (because you had a lot of evaporation from the warm oceans). Then you need cool summers so that the accumulation from winter doesn’t melt off.

Then, the next year there is more accumulation on top of the previous year’s accumulation, so that it builds up into an ice age over multiple years—with the weight compressing ice into glaciers and ice caps. But warm oceans and cool summers are the key.

By the way, when we start with the Bible and have a major worldwide catastrophe (the Flood of Noah’s day), the resultant actions of mountain building (e.g., Psalm 104:8-9), continental shifting, and volcanism from mountain building, are all going to heat the global ocean temperature.

Furthermore, when violent volcanoes go off, they release dioxins and other small particulates into the upper atmosphere that remain suspended at higher altitudes and linger for a long time. We observed this to a small degree with Mt. St. Helens! The particulates reflected sunlight so that it doesn’t reach the surface of the earth, thereby causing a cooling effect. Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980 (and again in 1982) caused an observed cooling effect on the earth for a short time of about a 0.1° C.[2]  Mount Pinatubo, a larger volcano, in 1991 changed the temperature by about 1.3° F.[3]

To a much higher degree was the “year without a summer” in 1816. A volcano whose 1815 eruption dwarfed Mt. St. Helens in explosiveness, Mount Tambora in Indonesia changed the global temperature by an estimated and whopping 2-7° F.[4] The violent volcanic eruption of Krakatau in 1883 did much the same. Lack of sunshine and a cool summer destroyed the following summers globally.

The point is that the Flood in Genesis 6-8 is the perfect mechanism to have warm oceans and cool summers—with far more volcanoes going off in unison as well as delayed for quite some time during the final phases of the Flood and its early aftermath. 

The Scare Of Global Warming And The Sea Levels

The global cooling scare came to an end—do you know what happened? The global temperature stopped going down by tenths of a degree. It reversed and started to go up by tenths of a degree!

Were climate cultists satisfied that it reversed? Not at all. We saw, with even greater fervor, a new challenge. It was now global warming and doomsday warnings came flying out at a record pace (even though global temperatures were mildly rising by an excruciating slow amount just before the cooling phase).

In fact, it is estimated that the global temperature has risen 0.7°C since 1880—if the old measurements are accurately correlated.[5] So, there is some warming and we all agree on that—but what is the cause? That is where the debate “heats” up.

In the Climate Cult it is automatically assumed that mankind did something to cause global warming—it must be the industrial revolution—we burn things like wood, and coal, and oil. Gas guzzling cars need to go, strict new laws about burning were rampant and CO₂ (Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas) is the target.

Prediction about sea level rise due to melting ice caps were pushed hard in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, which turned out to be false by the way. Sea Levels have remained largely the same as they were over 100 years ago, based on pictures. Nevertheless, small island nations were scared witless because they were afraid, they would be flooded out!

Al Gore’s 10-year prediction of crazy high coastal flooding (e.g., covering much of low-lying Florida and other coastal low-lying areas) turned out to be false (and yet, Gore made lucrative money over global warming and interestingly, bought a very nice house on the coast in California). Josef Joffe writes:

“Eclipsed by Thunberg, Gore is nonetheless still in the prophecy business. Writing in the New York Times last September, he doubled down on doom. "More destructive Category 5 hurricanes are developing," he wrote. "Monster fires ignite and burn on every continent but Antarctica, ice is melting in large amounts there and in Greenland, and accelerating sea-level rise now threatens low-lying cities and island nations."”[6]

Gore was famous for his failed predictions about global warming and climate change (e.g., there were bold claims that failed from his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth”). His failed predictions are well known and well documented.[7]   

Well, what happened to global warming? The global temperatures started to trend down again for a time. The same thing that happened to global cooling now happened to global warming. But this time, global warming had a bigger and longer lasting impact on the culture and lot of money behind it. It had political pull and unprecedented wealth that had been pushing it—and it was a money maker for so many (the UN gives out money for climate issues and research measuring billion dollars per year since 2009[8]). Do you just give it all up?

What happens when global cooling turns out to be false; and then global warming turns out to be false? Do you just give it up? These were hard questions. So, what happened?

Adherents didn’t give it up. Instead, it was like adding fuel to a fire! Thinking in terms of their secular religious worldview, they merely adjusted it once again. This brings me to the latest form of this religion—climate change.

The Scare Of Climate Change

Climate change has eclipses each of those before it. If global temperatures rise—it is called climate change. If global temperatures drop—it is called climate change. It seems that any weather at any time can be used to justify “climate change”. Mark Perry writes:

“Regardless of the weather, they are always intrinsically correct. Flood? Climate Change. Drought? Climate Change. No Snow? Climate Change. Too much snow? Climate Change. Hurricane? Climate Change. Lack of hurricanes? Climate Change. See how this works?”[9]

Thus, the climate change religious view is arbitrary. There is no logical basis behind this religious stance. It is that simple.

The problem is that anything weather-related that happens get chalked up to climate change. And climate change religious adherents start throwing out blame and demand money and power to stop it.

To clarify, when people say “climate change”, they mean something very specific. I don’t want you to miss this. They mean that man has caused these weather issues. If there are hurricanes, then man caused it. If glaciers are melting—then man caused it. If the global temperature changes back and forth, man caused it.

You need to understand that in the climate religion, man is the ultimate evil and causing all these problems. Man is seen as an enemy which is why this religion really pushed population control—to reduce people on the earth.[10]

Why do they think this? It has to do with the made-up secular history that they believe. Let me explain.

In the secular viewpoint (not the biblical viewpoint), since the last ice age (in the secular religions an ice age last happened about 10,000 years ago) there is this presumption that global temperatures have largely been about the same. Thus, when we see minor fluctuations by tenths of a degree in the global temperature, they go crazy and think the world is about to end because we did something to mess it up! Climate cultists then blame man and say we are ruining the world.

This has led to a number of doomsday predictions by climate activists over the years. Dire famines, another ice age, acid rain, arctic will be ice free in a few years, rising sea levels dangers and more—these are just a tip of the failed prophecies in this religion. John Berry documents at least 15 failed predictions in his book, Climate Cult.[11]

Now, let’s pause because there are a couple of things climate change believers and I agree on. I love that they see a desire to care for the earth. But that is a Christian principle of dominion—care for the earth in a responsible way. They have warped this belief into a religious fervor of worshipping the earth instead of using it the way God intended (e.g., Romans 1:25[12]).

Is it good to have cleaner air and water, recycle, and be responsible for our environment? Yes, it is. So please don’t get me wrong. I love that we can use technology to burn things cleaner—coal for example is burned 80% cleaner than in the past. Or that we can reuse certain things to be more efficient (e.g., recycling) and discover new or improved energy sources. I love that.

So, what am I talking about? I’m talking about the application of a false religious worldview that has zeal without knowledge. The Climate Cult is fueled by a false worldview, false predictions, and making demands that were unwarranted from the data because of these strict religious views.

In the secular view, it’s much more of a problem. If we are just rearranged chemicals on a planet that ultimately came from nothing and has no purpose, and has no meaning, and there will be heat death in the universe where nothing really mattered (as the secular worldview teaches), then why do they care?  Note the inconsistency.

Another thing we agree on is that man is involved. But we don’t agree on how man is involved. In the biblical view, man had dominion over the earth and when we sinned, the originally-perfect earth is now subjected to sin and its effects. And sinful man is living with those effects and will die (culminating in an eternal death in Hell after we die physically).

This is why we need a Savior to save us from sin and death. So, climate problems are because of man—man’s sin at the beginning in Genesis 3 as well as man’s sin that led to the Flood (more on these in a moment), but subsequently our action contribute to very little. Obviously, we have two different understanding of how man was involved.

CO₂ (Carbon Dioxide) Is Essential To A Healthy Planet

Without CO₂, the planet would “die” quickly. How often are we told this? Without CO₂, plants would wither and cease to produce clean air and oxygen (O₂). So, we need CO₂ to maintain a healthy balance. There is a range of course—too much could be bad too.

CO₂ is a recyclable gas naturally in our environment as phytoplankton and plants devour it. When there is a little more in the atmosphere, the plants and phytoplankton do very well (e.g., in controlled environments CO₂ is added to promote good plant growth). When there is less—plants aren’t as vigorous. When CO₂ starts to get a little higher, nature balances it out—this is what we expect based on God’s Word—even in our broken and sinful world.

God designed the world to remain in balance and has promised this balance will not get out of hand until He returns and the earth no longer needs to endure per Genesis 8:22:

“While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22, NKJV)

God is making a new heaven and a new earth if you didn’t know that (Isaiah 65:17[13], 66:22[14]; 2 Peter 3:13[15]; Revelation 21:1[16]). This cursed and broken creation (since Genesis 3 with sin) does have its problems. This is but a taste of what life is like without God upholding things in a perfect state. We look forward to a perfect world again for those who believe in Jesus Christ and put their faith in Him.

So Why Does The Earth Experience Fluctuations In Temperature?

So why does the global temperature go up and down. The obvious reason is due to the output of the sun. The sun fluctuates its radiation and the earth mimics this. Is it really this simple? Yes. Dr. Jason Lisle, an astrophysicist who specialized in the sun in his PhD, points out that the sun is the primary culprit.[17]

The sun goes through a 22-year cycle of magnetic reversals (to get back to its original polarity) which affect things like sunspots and output. In short, more sunspots—more heat output and less sunspots equate to less heat output. Dr. Lisle writes:

“We must understand that the most important natural factor in determining the earth’s temperature is the sun. We take for granted that the sun is stable and warms the earth in a uniform way. For the most part, it does; it is an unusually stable star. But the sun does have natural cycles and minor changes in intensity that affect climate on the earth. One such cycle is the relatively short-term sunspot cycle. However, much longer variations may also exist. There is evidence that such variations have a substantial effect on earth’s climate.”[18]

Although greenhouse gases like methane, water (H₂O), and CO₂ add a little as well—and thank goodness—without these effects the earth’s temperature would be significantly lower to a point that life may not be possible![19] Again, a great balance on the part of God’s design even in a sin-cursed world.

But here is the crux—in the Climate Cult, man is blamed for global warming and changes because we’ve adding greenhouse gases like CO₂ to the atmosphere. This neglects the fact that the manmade additions of CO₂ and methane are only considered minor contributions to the overall influx of CO₂ into the air.[20] 

Furthermore, the primary greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is water! About 95% of greenhouse effects are from water. CO₂ and methane are not the powerhouse like water is. Our atmosphere is made up primarily of these 4 gases:

·        Nitrogen 78.08%

·        Oxygen 20. 95%

·        Water—up to 4% (fluctuates)

·        Argon 0.93 %

After these, there are trace gases like Carbon Dioxide (0.04%) and then hydrogen, helium, neon, and methane—all having less than 0.00182%:

It was pointed out that CO₂ production by man is dwarf by natural means of CO₂ production. So, what else produces CO₂ naturally? Massive sources of CO₂ come from outgassing from oceans, venting volcanoes, fungi, decomposing vegetation and other biologicals, wildfires, and animals. These sources produce most of the CO₂ in our atmosphere. Of course, the amount of CO₂ released go up and down as well.

Greenhouse gases are essential and they too fluctuate because of natural production, while man’s contributions are actually minimal by comparison. All the while, the earth is designed to balance things out and that is what we observe.

Have Climates Changed?

Yes. Bible believers believe this and it surprises people! Originally, the earth was designed perfectly and very good (Genesis 1:31[21], Deuteronomy 32:4[22]). The earth was designed in such a way that man—without wearing clothes—should have been able to inhabit the entire world (they were commanded to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, Genesis 1:28[23]).

After sin in Genesis 3, God cursed the ground and the animals (which were under man’s care) and sentenced man to death. The world changed. Then there was the Flood of Noah’s day which was the largest climate disaster ever—even rearranging continents, coastlines, and mountain ranges to what they are today. Of course, there has been minor changes since then as well.

The Flood triggered an Ice Age (in caps usually denotes the single Ice Age that followed the Flood as opposed to “ice age” or “ice ages” in the secular story going back for eons). This major climate change also includes warming and cooling periods like the medieval and Roman warm periods and the Little Ice Age (1300-1800) as ice retreated and came back again in ebbs and flows.

An Ice Age causes fluctuations in sea level and affects global weather patterns (by taking water out of the seas and lakes resulting in less water for the global water cycle). This in turn likely caused certain droughts that may have been in correlation with certain famines in Scripture (Abraham’s day, Joseph’s Day, and so on).

So yes, there was definitely climate change—but note this was not because of burning fuels in the industrial revolution—which are minor additions when compared globally. 

Biblical Response to Climate Cultism

 As Christians, we want to take care of the earth, but not worship it. We also want encourage those who have been caught up in the Climate Cult to realize that it is the biblical worldview that gives us a basis to take care of the earth (i.e., have dominion)—not secular religions.

It is also a biblical worldview that explains why the earth is broken, even though it still balances things out fairly well. We need a new heaven and a new earth due to sin and the curse.

The only solution is through Jesus Christ, the Creator Himself, who died for our sins (our rebellions against God’s law). Christ took the punishment we deserve and offers the free gift of eternal life through His death, burial, and resurrection. We hope those trapped in the Climate Cult will come to repentance through Jesus Christ.

 

 

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[1] John Berry, Climate Cult, John Berry Ministries, October 2020, p. 47. 

[2] Karen Harp, How do volcanoes affect world climate?, October 4, 2005, Scientific American, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-volcanoes-affect-w/.

[3] Volcano Hazards Program Editors, Volcanoes Can Affect Climate, USGS, Accessed April 16, 2024,  https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcanoes-can-affect-climate.

[4] Editors, 1816 - The Year Without Summer, National Park Service, US Department of the Interior, accessed April 16, 2024,  https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/1816-the-year-without-summer.htm.

[5] To get a global temperature, local temperatures were recorded and then used to build estimates of global temperature. Today we use more data points including satellites to be more accurate than the “old days”. So, there may be a higher level of error in older data; Jason Lisle, Global Warming’s Solar Connection, Answers Magazine, July 1, 2010, pp. 52-55,  https://answersingenesis.org/environmental-science/climate-change/global-warmings-solar-connection/.  

[6] Josef Joffe, The Cult of Climatism: The religion of global warming preaches doom and punishment, even as its own high priests hedge their bets. Meanwhile, its fearful, furious dogmas make a cooperative response to climate change all but impossible, Hoover Digest, Issue 2, Spring 2020, https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA633468968&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=10885161&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E527252f1&aty=open-web-entry.

[7] Ken Braun, Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: Glacial Recount, Capital Research Center, February 13, 2023, https://capitalresearch.org/article/al-gores-30-years-of-climate-errors-part-1/ (first of a several part series).

[8] Finance and Justice (Climate Action), United Nations, Accessed April 16, 2024, https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/raising-ambition/climate-finance#:~:text=Since%202009%2C%20global%20climate%20talks%20have%20agreed%20on,as%20well%20private%20funds%20generated%20by%20public%20interventions.

[9] Mark Perry, The Climate Change Cult: 10 Warning Signs, AEI, April 20, 2019, https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-climate-change-cult-10-warning-signs/.

[10] John Berry, Climate Cult, Chapter 4: The Anti-Human Agenda, John Berry Ministries, October 2020, pp. 65-71.

[11] John Berry, Climate Cult, John Berry Ministries, October 2020, pp. 58-64.

[12] Romans 1:25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen (NKJV).

[13] Isaiah 65:17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. (NKJV)

[14] Isaiah 66:22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the LORD, “So shall your descendants and your name remain. (NKJV)

[15] 2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. (NKJV)

[16] Revelation 21:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. (NKJV)

[17] Jason Lisle, Global Warming’s Solar Connection, Answers Magazine, July 1, 2010, pp. 52-55,  https://answersingenesis.org/environmental-science/climate-change/global-warmings-solar-connection/.

[18] Ibid.

[19] Ibid.

[20] Ibid.

[21] Genesis 1:31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (NKJV)

[22] Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. (NKJV)

[23] Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (NKJV)

The Religion Of Sexual Humanism

 The Religion Of Sexual Humanism

Bodie Hodge, M.Sc., B.Sc., PEI

Biblical Authority Ministries, October 7, 2024 

A Fall From Grace

 

·        “Transgender kids being mutilated.

·        Drag queen story hour in libraries.

·        Female identifying biological males attack women in restrooms.

·        Homosexual “marriage” codified in US Law.

·        “Transgender” attacks and murders kids and teachers in a Christian school.

·        Why is infidelity so common?

·        Abortions increase in the U.S., reversing a 30-year decline

These types of headlines have caused many Christians to scratch their head wondering how the United States, which had been blessed by God in the past, has bowed to such madness of morality and ethics in such a relatively short time.

The United States (USA) was born out of a Christian nation (technically an Anglican nation—a protestant denomination that came out of the Reformation of the 16th century). The King or Queen of England is still the head of the Anglican Church to this day (the official Church of England).

A USA history textbook from the late 1800s and early 1900s said that the colonists were mostly protestant, along with a small percentage of Roman Catholics.[1] In 1892, the US Supreme Court Justice David Brewer ruled that the USA was “a Christian nation”.[2] In 1931, the Supreme Court again ruled that “We are a Christian people”.[3]

Mid-twentieth-century presidents like Harry Truman[4] and Dwight D. Eisenhower (who led the military defeat of the evolutionary Nazi’s in Europe) openly discussed the Christian God and His blessings on America. But today, precious few politicians would dare say such a thing!

Don’t get me wrong, there have been plenty of non-Christians—including leaders and early American fathers who were not fully on board with the Christian faith.[5] But notwithstanding, the point is that Christian morality held a strong sway in hearts and minds of many people not just in the United States but across the Western World for a long time. Yet the elderly in every Western nation today have seen Christian morality fall like a tree that was suddenly cut off at its roots.

It’s no surprise that many liberal (non-conservative) cities in the USA have been repeatedly compared to Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19)![6] But again, this is not just a problem in the United States. Sexual immorality, including homosexual actions and gender dysphoria, has now infected much ground in the Western World—England, France, Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Australia, Spain, New Zealand, Portugal, and the list goes on!

If people are no longer standing on Christian morality—which gives us the standard for sexuality—then the obvious question to ask is “what religious standard are they now embracing?” This brings me to the religion of Sexual Humanism.

Sexual Humanism—The Religion

Sexual Humanism is a sub-branch of the secular forms of humanism (e.g., Secular Humanism or its various manifestations). Before we get lost in terminology, allow me to explain humanism first so that you can better understand the religion of Secular Humanism and thus its daughter Sexual Humanism.

The religion of humanism views man as the highest authority, not God. In other words, in this religious framework, man’s ideas/opinions/beliefs are elevated to supersede God and His Word (the Bible) as the supreme authority. If you have ever heard the famous mantra “man is the measure of all things”, then you’ve heard humanism preached.

Another way to put it, humanism is preached anytime man’s ideas are elevated to allegedly be greater than our omniscience (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful), and omnipresent (all-seeing) God of truth.  Even if you were to take all the people who have ever lived and combine them together, we have an infinitely small amount of knowledge and power compared to the infinite God of the Bible, who created and sustains our very being into existence. 

And yet, people have the audacity to think man—and hence man’s ideas about religion, history, morality, science, and so on—is somehow greater than God! Now to break this down further, foundationally, there are only two religions in the world—just two: God’s religion and “not God’s” religion (otherwise known as “man’s” religion or humanism). Thus, the battle is really just Christianity vs. Humanism, in its broadest aspects.

All other religions (which are technically sub-religions of humanism) that do not come from God and His Word (all 66 books of the Bible) have elevated man’s ideas, one way or another, to ultimately take people away from God and His Word. Even if a religion is satanic or demonic, it still comes through the mind of man and is therefore, humanistic.

Humanism consists of many sub-religions. In addition to elevating pagan or secular ideas as the ultimate standard, some of these religions can be based on various beliefs and ideas of ancient sages. Other religions can also come from distortions of God’s Word, such as from alleged “prophets” (outside the Bible), adding books to the Bible, taking them away from the Bible, trying to change the Bible, and so forth. But regardless, in each case, they take man’s variant ideas and neglect what God has to say on the subject—whether it’s about origins, God, salvation, afterlife, morality, et cetera.

All false religions are humanistic because in every one of these religious systems, man’s ideas, either directly or indirectly, have been used to deceive people into false beliefs. Some of these humanistically influenced religions deviate only slightly from the Bible, whereas others deviate a lot. In general, there are four philosophical categories of humanism[7]:

1.      Secular [humanistic]/atheistic (i.e., materialistic/naturalistic religions that believe only matter [mass/energy] exist in the natural universe, where everything is purely governed by natural laws, and thus reject anything “supernatural”).

2.      Transcendental Mysticism, otherwise known as Eastern religions (e.g., spiritualistic religions that believe all is spirit, all is one, all is god, and thus there is nothing physical, where one’s mind can be deceived into thinking something is physical).

3.      Immanent Moralistic religions (i.e., some sort of moral code, not revealed from a god(s), but rather derived by man—they may or may not even have a god(s), but if they do, it is definitely not the true God of the Bible).

4.      Counterfeits of Christianity (e.g., religions that look or act like Christianity, which essentially pay “lip-service” to the Bible but deviate from it by being based on false beliefs, such as polytheism (e.g., Mormonism), pseudo-messianic (e.g., having false Christs) or Unitarianism (e.g., Judaism, Islam, and Jehovah’s Witnesses). These religions usually appeal to a new prophet/prophecies/prophetess and/or change the Bible to mean something else by adding books, interpretations, or subtracting books from Scripture.)

In some cases, some of these religions try “mixing” or “syncretizing” their view with another sub-religion or even with the Bible (called “syncretism” or “compromise”). But the man-made beliefs tend to supersede the plain reading of Scripture in these examples. Simply put, in each instance of humanism intermixing, God’s Word is not the absolute truth/standard in one or more areas. 

 

Sexual Humanism comes out of the secular forms of humanism (being another subset of this secular religion—a “denomination” if you will). Sexual humanists not only devote themselves to living sexually immoral lives but also to promoting these sexual sins in the culture. In many instances, they try to force others to hold to their religious views of sex and immorality in every area of culture, ranging from politics to classrooms to public company support. This is a very aggressive religion that pushes their sexually deviant agenda on all ages (including young kids and teens), governments, media, business, and even Christian churches.

All forms of sexual immorality (also called “unchastity”) are lumped under the religion of Sexual Humanism. This religious system can be further broken down into the following various tenets:

1.      Fornication

2.      Sexual Predation

3.      Homosexuality

4.      Adultery

5.      Transgender

6.      Rape

7.      Pedophilia

8.      Sodomy

9.      Bisexuality

10.   Sterilizations/Mutilations

11.   Prostitution

12.   Drag

13.   Exhibitionism

14.   Incest

15.   Pornography

16.   Sex Slavery/Trafficking (forced prostitution)

17.   Pederasty (forced homosexual sex with a castrated child)

18.   LaVeyan Satanism (a largely pro-sexual deviancy religion)

19.   Abortion (to cover sexual deviancy’s repercussions)

20.   Lust

21.   Polyamory

22.   Bestiality

23.   Sexual Harassment

24.   Infidelity

25.   Etc.

Different sexual humanists often hold to various tenets of the above listings and to various degrees as well—some are actively involved and others are merely allies (i.e., giving approval). The Bible condemns both equally in Romans 1:24-32.

Brief History of Sexual Humanism

Sexual Humanism is an ancient religion that began after sin entered the world in Genesis 3. Prior to sin, sex was perfect (Genesis 1:31) within marriage between Adam and Eve. After sin, sexual immorality began. As a point of note, marriage between close relatives was originally acceptable as Cain, Abel, and Seth (three of Adam and Eve’s many children) could intermarry with their female siblings (Genesis 5:4).[8]

Noah’s grandchildren could intermarry as well after the Flood. At the time of Moses (about 1400-1500 BC), God forbade close intermarriage (now called “incest”) in Leviticus 18.

We also see the following certain instances of sexual immorality in Scripture:

·           Sodom, Gomorrah, and the Five Cities of the Plain (Genesis 19)

·           Canaanites (Leviticus 18)

·           Benjamites (Judges 19-21)

·           Absalom (son of David) taking his father’s concubines (2 Samuel 15-20)

·           Greeks (1 Corinthians 5)

·           Romans (Romans 1)

As you can see, Sexual Humanism is often mixed in with many other false religions, and even the godly can be enticed into its practices. Though Sexual Humanism is not unified into a single organized body, there are many clubs and organizations that propagate this religion today.

Historically, pagans, in various forms, often had rampant sexual sin. Islam has child brides (pedophilia/cross generational sex), wife for a night (prostitution), and so on. Modern LaVeyan Satanism (the atheistic form) is loaded with sexual sin and pornography. 

The modern movement of deviant sexuality has increased the religion of Sexual Humanism to the forefront in our culture. Following the progression outlined in Romans 1 of being turned over to immoral lusts, the Western World has gone through the following stages in history:

A.        The Sexual Revolution (beginning in the 1960s)

B.        The Homosexual Revolution

C.         The Gender Revolution[9]

This brings us to today, the rampant worship of deviant sexual practices, transgenderism, and attacks on biblical marriage and family. God says,

“A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.” (Deuteronomy 22:5 NKJV)

In our culture, not only do we see cross dressing, but we see the futility of sinner’s minds go so far as to have surgeries and try to alter their own bodies by mutilations to appear as the opposite sex! Such things are a sign of judgment on the unbeliever who has being given over to a debased mind that cannot think properly (Romans 1:18-28, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 4:17-19, Titus 1:15-16, 2 Timothy 2:23-26). 

Syncretism in Churches

 Mankind was created to be fruitful and multiply, within marriage, and fill the earth (Genesis 1:28). But because we are in a sin-cursed and broken world (Genesis 3), mankind throughout history has been enticed to sexual sin. And sadly, this has had profound effects even on many local church congregations, ranging all the way from pastors to laymen.

As a result, we have seen many pastors and Christian leaders fall from grace into sexual sin—and in some cases, we’ve seen whole congregations go so far as to promote Sexual Humanism in their local congregations. Sadly, many local churches and denominations toss aside God’s Word on the subject (usually by heavily reinterpreting the plain meaning of various passages of Scripture) to support sexual sin like homosexuality, fornication, and transgender ideologies. Some “pastors” or “reverends” even go so far as to outright deny Scripture (reject God’s authority) in order to justify deviant sexual lifestyles![10] In doing so, God’s Word is demoted, thus allowing certain tenets of Sexual Humanism to be proclaimed from the pulpit!

When Christianity is mixed with another religion, especially with one like this religion, God’s clear teachings are being mocked. Fundamentally, it is no different than when the Israelites began mixing their godly worship of the one true God with other false gods like Baal, Molech, and other similar false gods. Even Solomon began offering sacrifices to pagan gods due to his sexual deviancy with pagan women who then influenced him to deny God’s Word. God was not happy with him (Nehemiah 13:26).

For clarification, this term pagan and paganism is an overview term. It is not just one religion but encompasses many types of religions, such as mythological and polytheistic religions (e.g., Baal Worship, Roman Mythology, Germanic/Norse Mythology, etc.) as well as pantheistic religions (where the universe or cosmos is all that supposedly exists). Secular religions, like naturalism or materialism, are pantheistic and so, by definition, they are pagan too. Famous secular atheist Carl Sagan used to open his show “Cosmos” with his mantra, “The universe is all that is, ever was, and ever will be”. This statement is outright pantheism, hence paganism.

In fact, when a local church or denomination accepts any form of secular religious views into their church (again, called syncretism) like big bang, millions of years, evolution, sexual immorality, etc., they are defending paganism and false secular beliefs associated with paganism. Why would a church do this? Consider what God said in Hosea:

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. (Hosea 4:6 NKJV)

Many false religions tend to deviate on sexuality one way or another anyway. Many were saved out of such horrible situations (1 Corinthians 12:2). Like the ancient pagan religions of the past, the modern secular religious movements commonly deviate regarding sexuality. It is a sad indictment on the church when secular humanistic sexuality (e.g., Sexual Humanism) is promoted in the church in defiance of God and His Word.

What Else Does Scripture Say (NKJV)?

 Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

·        Leviticus 18:22 ‘You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

·        Leviticus 18:23 ‘Nor shall you mate with any animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.

·        Leviticus 20:13 ‘If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

·        Romans 1:24-32 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

·        1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner — not even to eat with such a person.

·        1 Corinthians 6:9-11 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, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

·        2 Peter 2:6  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;

·        Jude 1:7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

·        [In the context Hell] Revelation 21:8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

·         [In the context Heaven and Hell] Revelation 22:14-15 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

Jesus Christ is absolutely clear in His Word—recall that Jesus Christ is the Creator God (John 1, Hebrews 1, Colossians 1) and His Word—the 66 books of the Bible—are His written Word by the power of the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21).

Some critics may respond that these are “clobber passages”. But note that this is only done in an attempt to deceive Christians into simply tossing these biblical passages aside; and thus, view the arbitrary and fallible opinions of sinful man as superior to God and His Word (again, note the religious aspect of humanism). In other words, it is a subtle method to convince people, especially Christians, to deny God in this particular instance and instead follow the religion of sexual humanism.

But actually, if we look at this claim logically, the term “clobber passages” is just an epithet/emotive language fallacy.[11] There is no logical reason to toss the Bible aside regarding these passages. These passages, which are essential to understand what God is saying on the subject, are not to be tossed aside. The fact is that it is better to be clobbered with the truth in a gentle and humble effort to help someone come to repentance by the power of the Holy Spirit (e.g., 2 Timothy 2:24-26) than for that person to spend an eternity in Hell with the infinite wrath of God enduring for all eternity.

Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (1 John 2:3-4 NKJV)

Let’s look at this from another biblical perspective—God commands purity. Regarding sexuality, we are to be pure and keep sexual activity within marriage between a naturally born man and naturally born woman.[12]

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Hebrews 13:4 NKJV)

Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. (1 Timothy 4:12 NKJV)

 “But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:28 NKJV)

The Newest Established Religion of the USA—Sexual Humanism

In Government Schools

Today, we’re seeing the religion of Sexual Humanism being promoted with little restriction at state schools (schools that are funded by the state and public tax dollars). A dead giveaway—LGBT flags—are waved in grade schools and grammar schools! And with the increasing number of LGBT clubs, homosexuality and transgenderism are not only being encouraged but now also being imposed as standard beliefs at many state schools.

Stop for a moment. Ponder this. Adults are talking to underage kids about sex and encouraging it—usually without the parents’ knowledge! Sometimes it is done to help “keep it a secret” from parents. Normally, such people are called sexual predators. But if it is done with the label of “teacher”, and it’s backed by administration, then it’s (somehow) called being “loving” or “compassionate” to the student!

Look at the parallel of this—what if an intermediary manager at a company was talking and encouraging odd sexual activity and pushing their employees—often privately—to engage in strange sexual activities…and then that manager told them not to inform their supervisor? This is called sexual harassment, which normally results in people getting fired and companies getting sued.

Yet, state schools do it openly with underage children and many times principals and school boards encourage imposing this on unsuspecting children. Sexual abuse is rampant in state schools by the way. Research done in 2015 in the USA revealed some shocking statistics:

• “Of children in 8^th through 11^th grade, about 3.5 million students (nearly 7%) surveyed reported having had physical sexual contact from an adult (most often a teacher or coach). The type of physical contact ranged from unwanted touching of their body, all the way up to sexual intercourse.” [13]
• “This statistic increases to about 4.5 million children (10%) when it takes other types of sexual misconduct into consideration, such as being shown pornography or being subjected to sexually explicit language or exhibitionism.”[14]

Note, these stats do not include senior year, when many of the kids are turning 18, but surely this abuse doesn’t suddenly just stop then! So as a conservative number, 1 out of every 10 children in state schools in the United States were sexually abused—bear in mind that these were the students that weren’t afraid to speak up. If you include the proclamation of sexual deviancy, like homosexuality or transgenderism, then this number would likely shoot up drastically. This statistic also doesn’t include peer-to-peer issues, merely teachers, coaches, and instructors.

When looking at sexual harassment in state schools, statistics conducted by American Association of University Women published 2022 state:

·        “Unfortunately, sexual harassment and violence continue to be prevalent in elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States. According to AAUW’s own research, nearly half of students in grades 7-12 experience sexual harassment.”[15]

At a undergraduate college level, it doesn’t get any better:

·        “Sexual harassment and assault are also shockingly prevalent on college and university campuses. AAUW’s own research revealed that two-thirds of college students experience sexual harassment. Studies have also found that approximately 26% of all female undergraduate students and 6.8% of all male undergraduate students have experienced sexual assault.”[16]

It doesn’t take a genius (it’s not rocket science!) to figure out that teachers talking to kids about all sorts of sexual activity can easily lead to sexual harassment and abuse from both teachers and their peers who are now thinking sexually about those surrounding them. The fact that state-funded government schools are encouraging underage sexuality and LGBT beliefs on children of all ages is a recipe for sexual predation. Parents beware what you are sending your children to at a government funded elementary, middle, high school, and college/university level. 

If you don’t want your children eaten by lions, then don’t throw them into a lion’s den. Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it? So, why do so many parents who say they don’t want their children sexually abused and taught homosexuality and transgenderism send them to state schools where such wicked things are rampant?[17] [18]

Codified In Law

Law is a biblical concept. God is the ultimate Lawgiver and He has imposed certain laws for man, for our good.

But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust. (1 Timothy 1:8-11, NKJV)

It has been like this from the beginning. Even deeper to ponder is that God upholds the laws of nature and the laws of logic for existence to be possible (Hebrews 1:3). Being made in the image of a law-giving God, He also gave us dominion over the world to which we can rule over (Genesis 1:26-27).

When man sinned in Genesis 3 and committed high treason against God, we became corrupt in every part of our being. In man’s unrighteousness, it led to judgment with a global Flood (Genesis 6-8). After this, man’s heart was still hard (Genesis 8:21). God gave the Law through Moses—Genesis through Deuteronomy. The Law is defined in detail with judges, executives, inheritance laws, marriage laws, laws against sexual immorality, and so on. The Law of Moses is often summed up in The 10 Commandments (from Exodus 20, NKJV):

3  “You shall have no other gods before Me.

4  “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

5  you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

6  but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

7  “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

8  “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9  Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

10  but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

11  For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

13  “You shall not murder.

14  “You shall not commit adultery.

15  “You shall not steal.

16  “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17  “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

 However, the Law can be further summed up as Matthew 22 says (NKJV),

 

35  Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,

36  “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

37  Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

38  “This is the first and great commandment.

39  “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

40  “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

 Romans 13:9-10 reiterates this passage of Scripture. With that being said, nations all over the world have laws. The problem is that many of these laws are not the best. When they mimic God’s law, they are good (do not murder, do not steal, and so on). When they have not been modeled around the law of an all-knowing God, they fall short.  Simply put, a nation with laws based on man’s word will always fall short compared to a nation with laws based on God’s word.  

This brings me to US laws that have deviated from God’s standard over the years. For instance, in the most powerful show of Sexual Humanistic power, our government has now demoted marriage [between a man and woman] and reinterpreted it to include homosexuality, which is sexual immorality! This is called “pseudomarriage” (or “false” marriage).

The government, in an obvious abuse of its power, is trying to force this new view of pseudomarriage on Bible-believing Christians—demanding that they acknowledge their new definition over what God says marriage is and a violation of the civil rights of Christians. This is an obvious case of the religion of humanism being imposed on the nation at the highest level. This decision was defended by the US Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26^th, 2015.

In other words, the government is demanding that Christians must bow down and worship their humanistic view of pseudomarriage and deny what God clearly says on this subject. If not, they can be sued and attacked in many ways.

My dear Christian brethren, this is no different from bowing down to the golden statue and the threat of the fiery furnace in Nebuchadnezzar’s Day in Daniel 3. Even in the New Testament, Christians in the early church who didn’t bow to government-imposed religion were often attacked, beaten, arrested, and tortured, even to the point of death. (And sadly, this is type of persecution is still happening to Christians around the world today in countries that are very hostile to the Christian faith, such as Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, North Korea, and even Canada, Poland, and the UK to a certain degree!)

Consider the plundering of the property of Christians and their early struggles and sufferings in Hebrews 10:32-34:

But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven. (NKJV)

To Christians reading this, the secular world is attacking our faith in an effort to impose secular religions on us—such as Sexual Humanism’s tenets like pseudomarriage. We must stand firm and keep our eyes on the prize of heaven, because this temporary world will one day be destroyed, and sinners will be judged for all eternity if they do not repent and turn to Jesus for their salvation. Consider the governing authorities orders in the apostles’ day in Acts 5:27-29 and 5:40-42:

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, saying, “Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this Man’s blood on us!”  But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. (Acts 5:27-29 NKJV)

And they agreed with him, and when they had called for the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. (Acts 5:40-42 NKJV)

God defines marriage, which means, regardless of what fallible/sinful mankind says, any pseudo-marriage definition is not marriage. (Rather, it’s merely a mirage!) The Supreme Court has made errors in their decisions in the past like the Dred Scott vs. Sanford decision on March 6, 1857 (regarding slavery) or the Roe vs. Wade decision on January 22, 1973 (regarding the killing of innocent children).

Thankfully, by God’s grace, these horrible decisions were finally reversed. Pray that God will reverse these horrible attacks on marriage by those who unwittingly impose the religion of Sexual Humanism from the highest positions in the US government on Christians. Bear in mind that similar laws have been imposed in other Western Nations too! Oh how our once-Christianized nations have fallen indeed.

Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. (Psalm 2:1-4 NKJV)

Every king, president, supreme court Justice, governor, dictator, and government leader of any nation that disobeys the Lord’s standards will still stand before our holy God in judgment and give an account for their actions.

Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, And rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him. (Psalm 2:10-12 NKJV)

But for Christians, those who put their trust in the Lord, be still and know that God is God. For we know that God, who is above these rulings, hates these iniquitous decrees (Isaiah 10:1-4). And remember, God still sits on His throne with all authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18). It should be a reminder that we should be crying out to God for help in all matters and continuing to pray for our leaders (Philippians 4:6-7; 1 Timothy 2:1-2)—to do good and repent of their sin and turn to Christ. 

Conclusion

 If this religion has influenced you, I want to encourage you to consider the claims of Jesus Christ, the Son of God—His death, burial, and resurrection. I also want to encourage you to repent of your sin (this means to turn from it in a humble way and sorrowfully return to God). Then find a local Bible-believing church that can help you grow in your new faith. 

The religion of Sexual Humanism is permeating our Western Culture. We have now had entire generations of kids trained in this religion—and yet many of them have no idea this religion was imposed upon them.

Any time man’s deviant ideas about sex are elevated to supersede what God says in the Bible, a red flag should immediately go up in your mind—saying ‘this is Sexual Humanism’. It is time to get back to God’s Word in every area of life, especially when it comes to sex, marriage, and laws regarding sex and marriage.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him.  But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God. (Ecclesiastes 8:12-13 NKJV)

 Originally published here; Reprinted by Permission.

 

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[1] D. H. Montgomery, The Leading Facts of American History, Ginn & Company Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1890-1903, p. 143. 

[2] Dewey Moede, U.S. Supreme Court 1892: America is a Christian Nation, FGGAM.org, October 22, 2021, https://www.fggam.org/2021/10/u-s-supreme-court-1892-america-is-a-christian-nation/.

[3] Four U.S. supreme Court Cases Describing America as a “Christian Nation” (1844-1931), First Principles Press, Accessed December 21, 2022, https://firstprinciplespress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/America-is-a-Christian-Nation.pdf#:~:text=And%20in%20The%20People%20v.%20Ruggles%2C%20Chancellor%20Kent%2C,doctrines%20or%20worship%20of%20those%20impostors%20%5Bother%20religions%5D.%27. 

[4] In a public letter to Roman Pope Pius XII, President Harry S. Truman wrote, “Your Holiness, this is a Christian Nation.”

[5] For example, see Greg Frazer, The Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders: Reason, Revelation and Revolution, University of Kansas Press, 2012.

[6] For example, from a recent TIME article: “These Are The Most Godless Cities In America”, January 22, 2014, https://time.com/1541/godless-cities-in-america/.

[7] There are several ways to categorize false religions such as monotheistic, polytheistic, or atheistic, etc., but I’m using the philosophical method often used by presuppositional philosopher and apologist Dr. Greg Bahnsen but I’m calling secular forms as a distinct unit. For more, see the multi-volume set World Religions and Cults by Bodie Hodge and Roger Patterson, Master Books, Green Forest, AR. 

[8] For more information, see Chapter 6 of The New Answers Book 1, “Cain’s Wife”, https://answersingenesis.org/bible-characters/cain/cains-wife-who-was-she/.

[9] For more on these movements see the book, The Gender and Marriage War, Bodie Hodge, Ken Ham and Every Foley, Answers in Genesis, 2021.

[10] For a recent example, see the discussion between Apologia Church pastors (Jeff Durbin and Dr. James White) and “reverend” Brandon Robertson, discussing the so-called topic of “LGBT Theology”, in which Brandon clearly denies Scripture as being the Word of God, and thus elevates his own sexual ethics and ideas as the ultimate standard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti0FzdOHW_8&ab_channel=ApologiaStudios.

[11] Spotting logical fallacies is a very useful tool for Christians when defending the faith. Go here to learn more about how to spot common logical fallacies: https://answersingenesis.org/logic/logical-fallacies-series; and see also: B. Hodge, Abbreviated Fallacies of Reason, Biblical Authority Ministries, July 30, 2020, https://www.biblicalauthorityministries.org/2020/07/logical-fallacies.html.

[12] Definition of Man and Woman, Answers in Genesis, https://answersingenesis.org/about/definition-man-and-woman/.

[13] Sexual Abuse by Teachers is on the Rise, The Children’s Center for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Related Services, July 11, 2016, https://childrenstreatmentcenter.com/sexual-abuse-teachers/.

[14] Ibid.

[15] Quick Facts: Sexual Harassment and Violence in School, American Association of University Women, January 2022, https://www.aauw.org/app/uploads/2022/08/Sexual-Harassment-and-Violence-in-School-Quick-Facts-Jan-2022.pdf.

[16] Ibid.

[17] This is not to say parents should never send their kid(s) to state schools. But if you are a parent with kid(s) in a state school system, then you need to be aware of the humanistic (religious) indoctrination happening to your kid(s) and be prepared for it. As Voddie Baucham puts it, “We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans!”

[18] This also means we should stop using the unbiblical (and illogical) argument that children are to be “missionaries” in state schools. Like a soldier that first needs to train for battle and be properly equipped before entering a war, children need to be properly trained and equipped—fully putting on the armor of God—before they can defend against the hostile attacks from the secular culture. Much more could be said on this, but suffice to say, children cannot be proper missionaries in any worldly system without first receiving the proper biblical training.