Morality
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It is lawful for Christians to fornicate, to commit adultery, and to
practice homosexuality and child adult sex |
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David
Berg (also known as Moses David, who was born in 1919 and died in 1994),
founder of The Children of God (also known as The Family, and Family of
Love), taught a doctrine called ‘flirty fishing’. According to this doctrine,
which is still taught and practiced by his followers, it is acceptable for a
Christian woman to have sexual relations with outsiders in order to lead them
to the Lord Jesus Christ. Here is what David Berg taught and how he tried to
justify this doctrine: ‘Do you really believe that 'to the pure all things
are pure' (Titus |
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‘Flirty
Fishing’ is just part of the ‘Law of Love’, a peculiar doctrine taught by
David Berg, which is still taught and practiced by his followers, according
to which whatever is done in pure love, the Love of God, unselfish love, for
God or others, is lawful. Here are some statements made by David Berg about
the ‘Law of Love’: ‘When Jesus came, He abolished all other laws but Love! He
gave only one law which fulfills all the laws of the Bible, both old and new,
and that is Love! -- For God and fellow man!’, ‘Jesus said the Law of Love is
all the law, as well as all the prophets! (Matthew 22:37-40). That's pretty
broad coverage! That takes in the entire Old Testament, the law and the
prophets. … [J]esus said that's the whole works, the whole Bible, that's all
the law -- love.’ Among the things which are allowed according this so called
law of love, are fornication, adultery, female
homosexuality, sex between children and sex among teenagers and even incest
and child adult sex. Here is what David Berg wrote: ‘"Is sex a sin?
Well, if there's anything I've tried to preach and tried to show the world,
we're one of the few, if not the only religion of the world which doesn't
teach that sex is sinful! Think of that! Isn't it horrible to think that
nearly every other religion -- even if it doesn't actually directly teach so
-- gives the impression by their practice that sex is sinful and somehow
wicked?’ ‘Adam and Eve enjoyed sex before they ever fell, and before the Fall
they were commanded to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth, and
were created with sexual organs to do so in the very beginning! -- So how
could sex be sinful, if they were commanded to do it before the Fall?’ ‘Sex
was created and instituted by God in the very beginning, and [was] the
subject of His first commandment: 'Be fruitful and multiply!' (Genesis |
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Confutation |
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The
Holy Scripture teaches that fornication, adultery, homosexuality and child
adult sex are sins in the sight of God, and thus every Christian must abhor
and flee them. |
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Concerning
fornication – that is, sex between unmarried people -, the Scripture says:
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he
that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” (1 Corinthians
6:18). Fornicators will not inherit the |
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Concerning
adultery, that is, the act of being unfaithful to one's wife or husband by
voluntarily having sexual intercourse with someone else; the Scripture says
that those who commit adultery will not inherit the Kingdom of God (cf. 1
Corinthians 6:9). God will judge adulterers (cf. Hebrews 13:4). According to
the law of Moses, both the adulterer and the adulteress (who were caught in
adultery) had to be put to death (cf. Deuteronomy |
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Concerning
homosexuality, that is, sexual intercourse between people of the same sex;
the Scripture defines it as a sin against nature, for Paul wrote to the
Romans: “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their
women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the
men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one
another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in
themselves the penalty of their error which was due” (Romans 1:26-27 – NKJV).
As you can see, according to the Scripture, both gays and lesbians are people
who give themselves over to vile passions for they have exchanged the natural
use for what is against nature. They commit an abomination in the sight of
God. Male and female homosexuals will not inherit the |
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Concerning
child adult sex, God condemns it just as it condemns fornication, adultery
and homosexuality, for according to God sex is permissible only within the
bond of marriage between a husband and wife. Incest and adult-child sex are
specifically prohibited in Leviticus 18:9-17. All those men and women who
have ‘a sexual orientation’ toward children and have sex with them commit an
abomination in the sight of God. These people are perverted, and thus they
will certainly be turned into hell. When Jesus said: “But whoever causes one
of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if
a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of
the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but
woe to that man by whom the offense comes!” (Matthew 18:6-7 – NKJV), He
referred also to these perverted people who sexually abuse children to give
vent to their vile and deceitful passions. |
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Brothers,
I urge you to beware of the Children of God, for they hold and practice
doctrines of demons. Let no one of them deceive you with empty words. They
lie against the truth, they hate the truth, they
trample the truth under their feet. Rebuke them, refute them, warn them, and
urge them to turn from their evil ways to the Lord. |