So Elton John (a man very much in need of our prayers) has once again spoken about Jesus and "gay marriage" and once again shown his total ignorance of Scripture.
Let's analyse his comments:
"The new Pope has excited me so much by his humanity," John said. "He's stripped it down to the bare bones and said it's all basically about love and taking everybody in, inclusiveness."
Well, I won't get in to whether this Pope has preached the true Gospel to it's fullness with regards to sodomy - whilst I don't think he has Elton has clearly twisted the Pope to seem like a modern liberal, something he is certainly not.
Let's look at the second part. Was Jesus about taking everybody in? Well, yes and no. He certainly calls everyone to His Kingdom but the way Elton John speaks is as if he simply accepted all with no conditions and this is false. Remember John chapter 8, the woman who was "caught in the act of adultery?" Yes, he condemned those who wished to condem her but then told her "Go away, and from this moment sin no more". This is not the inclusiveness that Elton believes in where all are simply accepted for who they are and no matter what they do. The love that Christ shows us is not an inclusive love but a call to repentence (Mark 1:15) and to follow God's commandments: with the adulterous woman see the sixth commandment.
"He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and trying to bring people together, and that is what the church should be about"
Matthew 10:34 would suggest otherwise: 'Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword".
Again as stated before. Christ is NOT about simply bringing people together - this is a principle of humanism which is condemned - but about calling people to holiness, calling them to turn from the flesh to a life guided by the Holy Spiriy and to take up their cross and follow Him. Elton John has no concern for any of these but simply wishes to promote his own sodomite agenda by cherry picking phrases he thinks fit his ideas.
Now for the most ridiculous comments:
"We live in a different time. If Jesus Christ was alive today, I cannot see him, as the Christian person that he was and the great person that he was, saying this could not happen"
"He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and trying to bring people together, and that is what the church should be about."
Wow. Now alarm bells should be ringing for any right minded Christian after reading this. He is using a very subtle but dangerous ploy which can be found all over the modern neo-pagan media. He took a true statement "He [Jesus] was all about love and compassion and forgiveness" and then twists it to mean what he wants.
So let's analyse his comments. "We live in a different time". This seems to suggest that Christ's teaching are mutable and changing. Hebrews 13:8 should be enough to refute this: "Jesus Christ is the same today as he was yesterday and as he will be for ever". It should also be noted that Christ is GOD MADE MAN. He was not bound by the times, and all of his actions were chosen not accidental so to suggest that Christ would conform to our modern society is simply false.
"If Jesus Christ was alive today, I cannot see him, as the Christian person that he was and the great person that he was, saying this could not happen" [speaking about allowing gay clergy to marry]
Well, luckily for us Christians the faith is not a personal one in the sense of interpretation and whatever Elton thinks is really irrelevant as we have Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium to guide us and not the personal views of this man.
As I've already shown Christ's teaching according to Scripture are not bound by time and circumstances. However, the big problem is that Elton seems to have fallen in to the modern fallacy that Christ never spoke about gay marriage. Well, actually he did and did so very clearly. Christians should memorise this verse to fight the perversion of the "inclusive gay Christ" that we hear of so often. The following verses completely refute the idea that Christ "would have supported gay marriage":
Matthew 19.
3 Some Pharisees approached him, and to put him to the test they said, 'Is it against the Law for a man to divorce his wife on any pretext whatever?'
4 He answered, 'Have you not read that the Creator from the beginning made them male and female
5 and that he said: This is why a man leaves his father and mother and becomes attached to his wife, and the two become one flesh?
6 They are no longer two, therefore, but one flesh. So then, what God has united, human beings must not divide.'
Mark 10:6 "But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female".
So you see, Christ did speak specifically about marriage (and divorce incidently) and defined it precisely as being between one man and one woman (Genesis 1:27) as "from the beginning" they were made "male and female". How much more clear could he possibly be?!
Interestingly, Christ goes back and teaches us to follow how it was from the beginning also showing us that we shouldn't bow to what society believes is right at any given time - especially a godless one such as ours.
For you see, Elton John's kind of "love" is one where everything is tolerated. One where sins of the flesh are fine as long as everyone is "nice" and "tolerating", where sin doesn't really exist and the only sin is "intolerance". You see, Elton does not really care about Christ, he doesn't care about finding the true Gospel, about seeking out the truth but only about his own self interest and looking to justify his own sodomite behaviour - or to put it another way: making god in his own image.
The problem is that Elton's doctrines are all based around the word "love". Love, without a true Catholic definition, is simply a word that can be twisted to justify all kinds of evils; Abortion (the killing of a child) is a "loving" act; Euthanasia is the "loving" thing to do; Divorce and remarriage is the "loving" thing to do. To truly love is to follow God's commandments and we must cling fast to them with a spirit of prayer if we aren't to be corrupted by this evil society where views like Elton's are praised and accepted.
I will leave you with two further quotes, both which I'm sure Elton would rather taken out of the Bible altogether:
1 Corinthians 6
9 Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitute, nor sodomites 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God
Romans 1
26 That is why God abandoned them to degrading passions:
27 why their women have exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural practices; and the men, in a similar fashion, too, giving up normal relations with women, are consumed with passion for each other, men doing shameful things with men and receiving in themselves due reward for their perversion.
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