You, or someone you know may have read this article, whethere online or in the print release of Newsweek.

Perhaps the sickest claim Newsweek makes about the Bible is the tabloid style scandal it raises about the friendship of David and Jonathan:

The Bible offers inspiration and warning on the subjects of love, marriage, family and community. It speaks eloquently of the crucial role of families in a fair society and the risks we incur to ourselves and our children should we cease trying to bind ourselves together in loving pairs. Gay men like to point to the story of passionate King David and his friend Jonathan, with whom he was “one spirit” and whom he “loved as he loved himself.” Conservatives say this is a story about a platonic friendship, but it is also a story about two men who stand up for each other in turbulent times, through violent war and the disapproval of a powerful parent. David rends his clothes at Jonathan’s death and, in grieving, writes a song:

I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother;
You were very dear to me.
Your love for me was wonderful,
More wonderful than that of women.

Here, the Bible praises enduring love between men. What Jonathan and David did or did not do in privacy is perhaps best left to history and our own imaginations.

At first read, this sounds irrefutable, that is if you accept that the greatest form of love is sexual union. However, the Bible does not have this assumption, and indeed does define the greatest love(and if it is the greatest love, it must, when it is demonstrated surpass even the sexual union:

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)

Jonathan put his life on the line for David repeatedly. What a friend! In light of Jesus’s proclamation of the greatest love, there is no room for Newsweek’s attempts to fashion David’s friendship to their own perverse  liking.

Also, the article outright lies, saying lesbian sex is *never* condemned in the Bible. We need only look to the first chapter of Romans to prove this false:

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. 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 recompense of their error which was meet. And 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 convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
(Romans 1:25-32)

This passage says that the men did the same thing as the women, burned in their lust towards each other. The article further goes on to claim that it may have been for condemnation for people who did everything on this list. (easily refuted again, because God hates each of those things individually, and any sin by itself  is worthy of God’s wrath).

They also proclaim my biggest pet peeve, so to speak, that choice of sex partner equals skin color:

If we are all God’s children, made in his likeness and image, then to deny access to any sacrament based on sexuality is exactly the same thing as denying it based on skin color…

This ought to make any African-American indignant. Their historical plight, that of slave ships and segregation, lynchings and a host of other horrible things– reduced to the plight of Bob Smoe, who is whining because, he can’t get the blessing of a particular church, or piece of paper, or a particular word on a piece of paper. Boo hoo! These people must have burning consciences, because they are going everywhere demanding state and church blessing on their unions. They need the blessings of everyone to squelch that little voice in the back of their head that tells them its wrong. They need to force sexual orientation, and “gender identity” into hate crimes laws so as to silence their opposition. they NEED to cling to the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King, to place the veil of moral rightness over their perverted parade.

Why does it matter on a national or state level if same-sex unions are embraced on a legal level?

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. (Proverbs 14:34)

In short, there is nothing of Biblical truth in this article. Every word, every paragraph is geared for two purposes, to undermine the authority of scripture, and to promote same-sex lifestyles.

As Christians we are to love and pray for these people, but we need never embrace or accept their lifestyle. While we were yet sinners, Christ loved us enough to die for us, though he hates sin. He reached out to a lost and sinful world, including myself.  Even as Christ prevented the stoning of the woman taken in adultery (and encouraged her to “go and sin no more”), let us bring the message of salvation and repentance to those around us. Let us stand up against those who would deceitfully twist or outright deny the clear words of scripture. Newsweek’s and Time’s many articles on Christ and the Bible are deceptive, drawing only on the perceived authority these two magazines derive from their long histories. They are devoid of any scriptural truth. Whatever you do, never let these magazines interpret God’s Holy Word!

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