I have repeatedly been warned by Professional Faith  Merchants that "Jude -- 'the Lord's brother' -- condemned homosexuality!"

Some Christians encouraged by their Professional Faith Merchant, the 20th Century antichrists, use the book of Jude as added proof that homosexuals and homosexuality is condemned by God.  However, is this really so? Let's rely on the Spirit of God, not the Spirit of Satan, to analyze this Book.

Who was Jude?

Was Jude condemning homosexuality?

The scripture cited is,

Jude 1:7-8

7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha (sic), and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8 ¶ Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

First, who was Jude?

Was he an ordained Apostle of Jesus Christ?

No!

Was Jude the brother of Jesus Christ?

No! But what difference would that make! Relationship doesn't automatically mean the conveyance of authority? Jude himself, says who he was,

Jude 1:1
 1 ¶ JUDE, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, [and] called:

THE BROTHER OF JAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! READ and WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD, UNDERSTAND!

Jude was “the brother of James, and one of the ‘brethren of the Lord,’” meaning that he was a believer and follower of Jesus Christ. He had no commission nor authority to write a record of binding scripture. The Book of Jude is simply a record written by a follower of Christ with or without specific knowledge of the things he wrote about and in no way, is to be interpreted as binding on all Christians! Simply put, the Book of Jude is the personal opinion of Jude not binding on any Christian!

As a fellow Christian and maybe of questionable authority in Christ’s church, the principle purpose of Jude’s letter was simply to admonish Christians to stay steadfast in and maintain their faith in Jesus Christ. Jude was not an Apostle and there is no record of his being ordained to any position in the Church, as such, Jude had no ecclesiastical authority from Christ or the other Apostles to make or enunciate doctrine for Christ’s church.  However, in this short letter Jude pleads with believers to refuse to compromise or water down the faith that they had received from the apostles and not give in to the antichrist among them. Rome was becoming increasingly important in their lives and all types of sexual perversions like bestiality were commonplace.

Today, we are living in a day when many churches are not only compromising and watering down the historic biblical faith as irrelevant and too hard to adhere to however their Professional Faith Merchants are adding their favorite commandments of men to which Christ never even, so much as, hinted.  Many churches no longer preach the gospel of Christ, they distort the meaning of the cross, and preach that man is saved only by grace without having to repent or bothering to define what that grace or the extent of that salvation is and is not. They distort and bastardize the other fundamentals (basics) of the Biblical Christianity.

There are countless churches and denominations in the land that were at one time spiritual beacons, lighthouses of the gospel are  now are merely religious tombs mouthing religious platitudes but with little or no life-giving, life-sustaining message.  Their message is void of God's love.  God's love is found in the gospel of Jesus Christ and in the message and purpose of the His life not in the distorted writings of that antichrist Saul of Tarsus who sought to and did destroy the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

“Preachers,” Professional Faith Merchants, who should know better often water down their message so as not to offend their big contributors, because they don’t understand the message of the gospel themselves. These “Preachers” take the easy way out after graduating from Theological college and rely on what they were taught by other men rather than using it as an  educational tool, a discipline with which to reach out and seek God.  They seek to be all things and to teach all things to everyone, hence they are of little use to God in their compromising positions.

STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH IS VERY SIMPLE AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND COMPREHEND! Therein lies the problem! THE TRUTH is too simple and too easy to understand and liked the pagan Catholic church, they must mystify and make unintelligible to the common man! That was not Christ's Gospel! It is man’s nature to complicate simplicity! With the help of his Professional Faith Merchant, man seeks to heap unto himself diverse contentious spirits and doctrines of Satan!

Jude's letter begins according to the paraphrase of the Professional Faith Merchant,

"Dear friends, although I was eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints [believers]."

Jude 1:3

 3 ¶ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Clearly Saints are not beatified but are just your everyday, common, ordinary believer in the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Continuing, the Professional Faith Merchant's paraphrase or revision, "For certain people whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you.  These are godless people, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord."

Jude 1:4

 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
 

Organized Churches, as in this day, abounded with false teachers who are in the ministry for reasons other than teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Today, some have come from seminaries and colleges that are filling the pulpits of their churches with ministers of error, untruths and ungodly messages and their pews with sheep that take Christ's analogy literally and refuse to think for themselves but must be spoon fed all their beliefs.  Sound Biblical doctrine is completely out of step and foreign to with many evangelicals today.

Some of these Professional Faith Merchants have sized up their profession stating that even with their theological degrees, many preachers, denominational leaders and church leaders do not measure up to the Biblical standards and as a result they have either introduced or legitimized immoral behavior in the churches.

But what is immorality?

The word, “immorality” or “morality” is not found in the Bible! It wasn’t even a word until it was coined by the Catholic Church after the time of Christ as some sort of scripturally based concept of purity. Christ didn’t preach some noble, high and mighty platitudes or clichés but used examples or parables that common people could relate to in their everyday lives. Christ gave man practical examples of the TWO (2) COMMANDMENTS He reiterated for and gave man to observe,

Matthew 22:36-40

  36 Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?

   37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

 38 This is the first and great commandment.

 39 And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour (sic) as thyself.

 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Read Verse 40 again. “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets,” which is to say that ALL THE LAWS and ALL THE PROPHETS since the beginning of time were given to man for the expressed purpose of teaching and getting man to adhere to these two commandments only! All other verbiage is simply commentary, some of which are the commandments of men he teaches for doctrines of God!

In essence, with God, Christ, there was no immorality but that of not loving your neighbor as yourself and thereby not loving God!

The Professional Faith Merchant who wrote the original, wrote and I quote, “Some ‘Preachers’ contend that, ‘Sin becomes a mistake and is caused by a poor environment rather than what the Bible declares sin to be; missing God's standard of perfection.’”

CORRECTION: The Bible does not declare sin to be “missing God's standard of perfection.” By definition, being "human" means "imperfection" and “missing God's standard of perfection.” The only thing Christ said was a sin was,

John 16:9

 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;

Christ taught about what has been coined as sexual immorality but it was in the context of promiscuity and heterosexual prostitution.

John 8:3-11

 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.

 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

 6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with [his] finger wrote on the ground, [as though he heard them not].

 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

 9 And they which heard [it], being convicted by [their own] conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, [even] unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Again, the Professional Faith Merchant who wrote the original, wrote and I quote, “Some ‘Preachers’ contend that, ‘Sin becomes a mistake and is caused by a poor environment rather than what the Bible declares sin to be; missing God's standard of perfection.’”

1st) He asks the reader to accept his analysis without providing any proof of what he says. Also, this same individual, is undoubtedly quick to contend that we are all “sinners” and “fall short” of the perfection of God anyway, so why is he all bent out of shape for claiming “some ‘Preachers’ contend that, ‘Sin becomes a mistake and is caused by a poor environment rather than what the Bible declares sin to be...?’”

2nd) If we were perfect as Christ was, we would no longer be here but would be translated in a blink of an eye to immortality, not tasting of death as was Enoch and Elijah.

3rd) He should thank his lucky stars that people aren’t perfect as was Christ was so humans are still living mortal lives on earth, giving him something to rail about and a profession to which he can dedicated himself!

He wrote, “Our churches need to take the exhortation of Jude seriously.  We need churches and pastors who adhere to and contend for sound biblical doctrine.  We need churches and pastors who abide by and teach biblical morality.”

We have already examined what the Christ taught about morality! But, what does he content Jude’s exhortation was? He used the following  to justify his condemnation

Jude 1:7-8

7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha (sic), and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8 ¶ Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

In verse 7 we read, "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha (sic), and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. "

What is “strange flesh” and what was Jude referring to?

Some Professional Faith Merchants contends that is homosexuality! But is it?

What is so strange about human flesh to another human?

What is natural about bestiality?

If Jude was referring to homosexuality, although the word, “homosexual” didn’t exist until coined by the American Government in 1892, why  didn’t he use the wording attributed to Saul of Tarsus but later incorporated by the pagan Catholic minions of Satan doing the translation, e.g. “men lying with men?”

Is bestiality then not the “strange flesh” and not homosexuality which Professional Faith Merchants so rancorously and blasphemously use to rail against your homosexually gai fellowman? Is bestiality not loving, expressing love and showing his love for another human being? Christ said, “God is love.”

The Professional Faith Merchants contends that Jude was also addressing sexual immorality and perversion stating "in Jude’s opinion, sexual immorality and perversion is any and all kinds of sexual behavior and acts that are acted upon out of the bounds of commitment and covenant." I LOVE IT! By his own words, The Professional Faith Merchant has just condemned himself!

I have been instrumental in joining several gai couples in the bonds of a committed covenant. Gai couples should stop referring to bonding as "Marriage" because God only knows how that infuriates homosexual homophobes. I commend that gai people consider using the same term God uses when they unite together in the "BONDS OF HOLY COMMITTED COVENANT," for as God said, "whatsoever be bound on earth shall be bound in heaven," therefore it is Holy, and gai people make a covenant and commitment to each other.

Before jumping to conclusions and stating that Jude is referring to homosexuality people need to know what the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah were and why these cities were judged to be wicked.

Wisdom 19:13

¶13 the sin of Sodom was a "bitter hatred of strangers" and "making slaves of guests who were benefactors."

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Isaiah 1:9-10

 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

 10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

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Jeremiah 23:14

 14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

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Ezekiel 16:49-50

 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness (sic) of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].

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Zephaniah 2:8-11

¶8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings (sic) of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

¶9 Therefore, as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, ands the remnant of my people shall possess them.

¶10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

¶11 The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

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Matthew 10:5-15

¶5 These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

¶6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

¶7 And as ye go, preach, saying, the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

¶8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

¶9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,

¶10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

¶11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

¶12 And when ye come into an house, salute it.

¶13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace be upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

¶14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

¶15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha  (sic) in the day of judgment, then for that city.
 

Christ so much as stated that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah at that time was and would be perverted and misunderstood for financial gain in our day by, Professional Faith Merchants who teach for doctrine of God, commandments of men!

After reminding people of the ONLY TWO COMMANDMENTS of God, Christ stated,

Matthew 22:40

 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Again, “ON THESE TWO (2) -- not 10, 12 or 613 but 2 -- HANG (rest the purpose of) EVERY LAW AND EVERY PROPHET.” Or in other words, If you have or hear other commandments or laws, they are the commandments of men, your Professional Faith Merchants, who teach for My doctrine, commandments of men!

The passage in Jude, had nothing to do with homosexuality nor homosexuals.  It is, as it plainly states, addressing what has become known as sexual immorality and sexual perversion, not normal, natural, God-ordained sexuality.  Remember, our natural sexuality, whether heterosexual or homosexual, is from our Creator - God, viz. “a gift from God!” Certainly there are aspects of both homosexuality and heterosexuality that are immoral and perverse, however, no blanket condemnation is legitimate in either case.
 
 

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