Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel – Sexuality and Marriage | Rapp Report Daily 0146 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Looking at the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, available for you to read and sign at statementonsocialjustice .com.
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- Article number 10, Sexuality and Marriage, states, We affirm that God created mankind, male and female, and that this divinely determined distinction is good, proper, and to be celebrated.
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- Maleness and femaleness are biologically determined at conception and are not subject to change.
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- The curse of sin results in sinful, disordered affections that manifest in some people as same -sex attraction.
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- Salvation grants sanctifying power to renounce such dishonorable affections as sinful and to mortify them by the
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- Spirit. We further affirm that God's design for marriage is that one woman and one man live in a one -flesh covenantal sexual relation until separated by death.
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- Those who lack the desire for opportunity for marriage are called to serve God in singleness and chastity.
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- This is as noble a calling as marriage. We deny that human sexuality is a socially constructed concept.
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- We also deny that one's sex can be fluid. We reject gay Christian as a legitimate biblical category.
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- We further deny that any kind of partnership or union can be properly called marriage other than one man and one woman in a lifelong covenant together.
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- We further deny that people should be identified as sexual minorities, which serves as a cultural classification rather than one that honors the image -bearing character of human sexuality created by God.
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