BORN THIS WAY

Lady Gaga sang about homosexuals “Born This Way.” At first glance, that seems to oppose scripture; after all God created mankind in His Image, did He not? And God would not create an abnormality. As such, as a so called “child of God” the typical homosexual would consider him or herself like God.

However, something destructive happened during the interlude in the Garden of Eden; Adam’s kind (mankind) changed; no longer were the male and female of God’s dominant species glorious, and in perfection, but sinful.

Sin causes the common man to “come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). That gloriousness was the Image of God that was breathed unto Adam (Gen 1:27) to make him and his kind, not just “very good” (Gen 1:29) but immaculate, or glorious. Although male and female were both perfect, sin made them come short of perfection. As the Hebrew reveals, the first sin changed children of God unto children of the Devil (John 8:44), to wit: “You are of your father, the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do.”

None of us are any longer in the Image of God; we are all “born this way.” What way is that? We are not children of God, but like Cain, we are of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

The other day some man sincerely asked me why I called homosexuality “evil.” He asked, “So, now homosexuality is evil?” Not only now, but it always has been. Since Cain, we are all born this way. What way is that? King David said it best, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51:5).

Therein is a new word for you — “iniquity” (it is depravity). Mankind had degenerated in one generation because of original sin.

The term “original sin” is not in the Bible as a phrase. However, the third chapter of The Book of Genesis is all about the original sin and its consequences. Because Eve sinned, no longer was mankind like the man (Adam in the Hebrew) but like the woman, ‘Issa in the Hebrew.

Adam, once man, became ‘Is in the Hebrew (pronounced eesha and eesh, respectively.) Common men and women are no longer Adam’s kind but ‘Is-kind. Because there was some type of intercourse going on with the original sin, Cain was a child of the Devil, and his mother was beguiled.

Don’t take that lightly. Guile is cunning (slick deception). Eve was beguiled by the “Serpent” (Gen 3:13). The Devil (Serpent) apparently passed along its countenance (Gen 3:1) to the woman, and woman became “Eva,” meaning that she was the mother of all living (Gen 3:20).

It is to be noted that Eve received the countenance of the Devil in her genesis and the origin of sin. Hence the word “original” comes from the word, “genesis” and sin came from the deception of the Wicked One. (As a sidenote, the “Serpent” would not have been an animal, but the seed of Lucifer sown within the womb of the woman, as the letter nun indicates in the word, nahas.)

The prophet Isaiah’s word for “serpent” was more identifiable — serap. The seed of a seraph angel would have gotten into the woman to change her. Lucifer would have gotten into the genetics of the woman, and as Eve was the mother of all living, the Devil is the father of all the living.

The Devil is called the “Beast” and as such common men are no longer perfect without sin but come short of the glory of God. All of mankind except for Abel became beasts except for Seth who replaced Abel after he was murdered (Gen 4:25). Seth was the “son of God” but then he failed with coitus with Grigori demons in the days of Noah (Gen 6:4).

The point is that mankind has degenerated… all of us, and because it is genetic from original sin, like King David said, we all were shaped in iniquity in our mothers’ wombs, hence we are more beasts than glorious. What do beasts do? Whatever they want to do! Indeed, we are born this way.

Earlier the term “lusts of our father” was used. “Father” in that passage is not our immediate fathers but the “father” of us all — the so called, “Devil,” meaning Satan, or Lucifer.

Sin is therefore genetic and in each of us from “original sin” coming from the Wicked One through Eve who is our mitochondria-giver. We all have guile in us.

Now if you believe in God and that the Bible is the very words of God, then you must accept the idea, that “all have sinned” just as it is written. Other words for “guile” are iniquity, evil, and wickedness. Because we are born of Eve and the Wicked One, we all have guile in us. Because of guile, deceivers self-justify their actions.

As such sinners self-justify (rationalize) their sins. Sin is always a choice derived from temptations. Although at birth none have sinned, once in the world, sinning becomes natural. What I call, “the birth canal crawl” reveals that sin that has laid dormant in the womb. We are all born this way and the way we go is the lust of the Devil we will do.

The flesh is our weaknesses. Jesus said about us all, “Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Mat 26:41). The Spirit of God lies dormant within us because the flesh is weak to temptation. For some men, temptation reveals itself in a beautiful woman and most often the inclination is this; I must have her despite God’s will for me.

For other men, the inclination may be different; I must have him despite the will of God.

Prison life has revealed that without the presence of women for men, men will do. The flesh is that strong! Without proper relationships, as God intended, like Cain long before, common men and women stray to this day, going and doing whatever inclines them.

Inclinations change based on circumstances. In the heat of passion, cravings arise to appease the flesh and people will go where their lusts take them, just like the animals we have become.

Oftentimes, one at a time, Christians do give up sins. Others give up many sins. However, that can only occur when the spirit is willing. The problem with sin is that sinners are not so willing to give up what they crave. That is where Jesus comes in, or if that Name scares you, just think “God.”

Some sins are easy to give up but the Devil in you never gives up. Usually there is one sin that is stronger than others. Paul wrote of “strongholds”: 

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. (2 Cor 10:4-5) 

Strongholds are lusts that we cannot let go, but with Christ in us, he can defeat them. What is your “stronghold”? What is the fort you are in that you cannot see any escape because you are surrounded by temptations. Some have one stronghold while others have many. Whatever the number, you are in prisons of your own making because you can be set free from it, as Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).

What is the truth? All have sinned and come short of the glory of God… but Paul elaborated on that when he wrote: 

There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understands; there is none that seeks after God. They are all gone out of the way; they are together become unprofitable… there is none that does good, no, not one. (Rom 3:10-12) 

That is truth. To call people “evil” who go against God, is truth-telling. We all do evil in the sight of the Lord God.

First off, know the evil that you do to be made free from it. Denial is not an avenue to freedom.

If you are in prison, to deny it is a prison keeps you there. Your “prisons” may make you comfortable, sort of a malady in the manner of “The Stockholm Syndrome” wherein the captive begins to align with the captor and the lifestyles of their captors. That is how Lucifer keeps you within his hold.

“But,” you say, “the Devil is not in me!” If you are a common man or woman, yes he is! Satan is in your genetics from the original sin of Adam’s woman. She has passed her guile along to both men and women, and you are a liar within. What do liars do? Deny the truth. You have a propensity to deny your strongest sins.

If you were a homosexual, years ago, you may have kept it hidden because you would be both shamed and ashamed. The same goes for adulterers or even thieves. Sinners “justify” (sic) their evil doings by either hiding them or denying their wickedness.

Now homosexuals and sexual perverts proudly identify as queers, lesbians, gays, trans-sexual and now trans-beings. You cannot repent unless you are ashamed, and for the people to except deviations as normal, help sinners “justify” their sins. Condoning homosexuality, or any evil, allows sinners to feel comfortable in their sins to the point that they become “reprobate,” as Paul wrote:

Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not becoming (to God). (Rom 1:28) 

Having a reprobate mind is you stuck in the grip of whatever stronghold it is to the point that damnation is eminent. Damnation is not short-lived but for eternity. Damnation is eternal torments, asking yourselves, What if I… what if I… what if I? over and over again for eternity.

What if you turned to Jesus to free your minds of lusts? Then eternity would be peace and joy, rather than torments.

There is no need to self-justify — lying to yourselves. About Jesus Paul also wrote: 

Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past. (Rom 3:25) 

What is missed so often is the “remission of sins that are past.” Past sins are all the sins from the beginning of time that is the nature of us all. Jesus justified (propitiated His own blood) for the original sin that is in all mankind.

Since original sin is genetic, sinners cannot justify themselves. Jesus is the Way, Truth, and life (John 14:6), and only by His Name can you be saved from damnation (Acts 4:12).

First cease the denial. That is the first step to sanity and salvation. Admission of sin must precede repentance, and repentance precedes remission of sins (Mark 1:4). Baptism is as much clearing your minds of deception as the dipping in the water. God is not okay with your sin, and if He is not okay, you are not okay.

Sin disgusts God because evil is doing the will of the Devil by doing whatever you desire to do. Anton LeVey, a Satanist, defined evil, “Do what thou wilt is the whole law.”

So, you want to fornicate? That is the Law of Evil. So, you want to have same-sex relationships? That is the Law of Evil.

That young man of whom I wrote earlier failed to understand that homosexuality has always been evil; it is just that society has disregarded God and condoned it so long, that to the world, abnormality seems normal.

Even the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has made what was once abnormal, “normal.”  Their “Diagnostic” tool is not the Bible, but scripture is The Word of God and is the Bible.  The APA may say that you are normal, but God calls you “abominable” (disgusting).

On the other hand, fornication and such are as disgusting to God because He is not a respecter of persons. Your sin is as disgusting to God as the sins of others. We all must be born again to be saved (John 3:7) and we cannot identify however we want, but God can re-identify who we have been!