David Kyle Foster |
This is what David Kyle Foster has to say:
For over 10 years I lived the homosexual lifestyle, and for 34 years I have not. And there are very good reasons for that difference. To those who suggest that I never was homosexual, my response is, "Does sleeping with over 1,000 men count?"
For over 10 years I lived the homosexual lifestyle, and for 34 years I have not. And there are very good reasons for that difference. To those who suggest that I never was homosexual, my response is, "Does sleeping with over 1,000 men count?"
Oh yes. I was
homosexual, though like most, I never wanted to have such attractions. I saw
the narcissism and arrested emotional development all around me, and in me.
Guys flitting around like Peter Pan were sometimes cute and funny, and
certainly non-threatening, but I wanted to be a grown up. I wanted to be a man.
I wanted to be strong, solid, stable and reliable. Continue...
I recognized the
obsession with youth and beauty that drove their fantasies and lusts and knew
that once I entered my thirties, the thrill of being wanted would quickly come
to an end. I cringed at the epidemic of perverse sexual behaviours commonly
practised and celebrated by gay culture and wanted nothing to do with them.
Such behaviours
were so obviously perverse. Simple anatomical design declared it. A man was
designed to interact sexually with a woman. That's the design. And when sex is
practised outside of that design, physical damage and a legion of diseases are
unleashed—not to mention the judgments of the Lord described in Romans 1:24-32:
"God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual
immorality ... God gave them over to shameful lusts ... receiving into
themselves the due penalty for their perversion ... God gave them over to a
depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done," and in 1 Corinthians
6:9-10: "the sexually immoral ... those who practice homosexuality ...
will not inherit the Kingdom of God."
God created a man
and a woman to become one flesh in a lifelong covenant of love (i.e.,
"marriage"), and to be fruitful and multiply when possible. God
invented marriage. He designed it as a prefigurement of the marriage between
Jesus and His Bride, the Church (Ephesians 5:31-32), and laid out its
parameters from the dawn of time. Even cultures that do not know Him have
followed that design from the beginning. There is no ambiguity about His design
nor His description of it in the Scriptures. Indeed, every departure from that
model is universally condemned and forbidden by Him, for what it does to our
bodies, our souls and to the image of God that is stamped into the one flesh,
marital union of male and female.
Having same-sex
desires is a great trial—there is no doubt about it. The feelings have as great
an intensity as those found in the alcoholic for alcohol, the drug addict for
drugs, the smoker for nicotine. And in all such cases, it seems unfair to the
natural mind that God would allow us to have such intense desires yet not allow
us to act on them.
The idea floated
by so-called "gay theology" that God created people to be homosexual
(i.e., that He is the cause for such desires) is as ridiculous for the
homosexual as it is for the drug addict. The Scriptures are clear about what
God designed and what He desires. They are also clear that because of the
sinful actions of our forebears, we are born with a sin nature that pulls us
strongly in various destructive directions. Homosexual desire, born from a
complicated convergence of our fallen nature, idolatry, rebellion, temperament,
environment, experiences and developmental factors is just one more way that
happens.
It does no good to
pretend that it is good and natural and holy. That's called denial. Statistics
overflow with evidence that homosexual sex causes damage to body, soul and
spirit. It actually damages the body of the partner. It tears at the body in
ways that result in homosexual sex being the number one risk factor for
contracting AIDS in this country. In fact, an entire cottage industry of
scientific study and medical care has arisen from the proliferation of gay sex
in our modern culture.
Homosexual
behaviour also tears at the soul, causing much higher rates for substance abuse,
suicide, depression, domestic violence, early death—even in the most
gay-friendly regions of the globe. Why? Because active homosexuals are trying
to find something through gay relationships that can never be found there. The
happiness that they seek can only be found in submitting their sexuality to the
Lordship of Christ and allowing Him to bring healing to the broken areas that
have caused their homosexual desires. Yes, it's a slow and sometimes arduous
path to take, just as it is for the addict, but the only one that leads to joy,
peace and eternal life with God.
All that to
say—the term "gay marriage" is an oxymoron. It is an invention of
broken man in defiance against the expressed desire and design of God for
mankind. It is the fallen creature trying to tell the omniscient Creator how
things should be. Even the misnamed "gay Christian"—those who
practice homosexuality without repentance and therefore are not Christian—are
examples of man praising God with his lips while his heart is far from Him
(Matt. 15:7-9)—calling Him Lord, Lord, while refusing to do what He says (Matt.
7:21-23; Luke 6:46). To invent a form of marriage that defies the natural and
spiritual order is insanity and can only lead to the destruction of those
involved, and according to Scripture, even the society that allows it to happen
(Gen. 19:1-29; Jude 5-7; Rom. 1:32).
We all know that
marriage is in a bad state these days. Our population has laid the groundwork
for faux marriages by practising adultery and in other ways rebelling against
the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage. But inventing and sanctioning
homosexual marriages is a logarithmic jump in rebellion and consequent disaster.
In a high
percentage of marriages these days, the children will spend a part of their
childhood without their original mother or father, and that is very sad and can
be very harmful for them. But in so-called "gay marriages" you are guaranteeing that the children will grow up without
a mother or father in the home. You are guaranteeing it!You are
state-sanctioning that deprivation and becoming a co-conspirator in the
consequent damage to their well-being.
And yet the
gay-supporting media presses on with its relentless drumbeat, promoting
homosexual behaviour, relationships and so-called marriage just as ferociously
as it promotes the destruction of children in their mother's wombs.
A newly released
two-hour documentary called Such Were Some of
YouSuch Were Some of
You attempts to
counter that agenda with truth. In it, 29 former homosexuals expose the facts
about homosexuality, its causes and how Jesus has set them free from it.
The film opens
with people on the street giving their opinion about claims that are made by
activist homosexuals in the press, followed by expert teaching on those same
questions by Christian leaders like Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Neil T. Anderson,
as well as theological correctives from the worlds top scholar on the biblical
texts concerning sexual behaviour, Dr. Robert Gagnon.
But what makes
this film so powerful are the moving stories of being saved, set free, healed
and delivered from the brokenness of homosexuality by those who have gone
through that great trial. With love and sensitivity for friends still trapped
in the gay lifestyle, they also describe the process by which God has brought
healing to the brokenness that created their same-sex desires in the first
place.
As the Scriptures
promise in Revelation 12, they have overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by
the word of their testimony. God also says in Rev 21:6-7: "I am the Alpha
and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to
drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will
inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son."
And to the reader,
hear the word of God found in 1 Corinthians 6:11 (speaking of practising
homosexuals, among others): "And such were some of you. But you were
washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
Click here to
see the trailer of Such Were Some of You.
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