By Jack Heckathorne author of the book, “Separation of Church and God, The Final Judgment”

Two opposing books.

In an article by Eileen E. Flynn, AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF on Sunday, October 29, 2006 she states; “Promoting his new book, "Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right," White is asking gay and straight people to take a stand against politicians and church leaders who oppose gay marriage and other civil rights for same-sex partners.”

Mr. White must have a different Bible than I do, because in mine it states:

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile (evil) affections (love): for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense (repayment) of their error which was met…” (Romans 1:26-27)

White criticizes pastors such as Jerry Falwell and James Kennedy for teaching that homosexuality and gay marriage is wrong. Well, if you teach from the Bible, it is wrong! What is White preaching from, his own lust? Should preachers ignore the Bible and say that homosexuality is alright as long as you “feel” good about it. Why don’t we start a church for drunks, and tell them that being an alcoholic is a good thing as long as it feels good. The Bible was given to us by God to correct our actions, not to condone them. I start out my book “Separation of Church and God” with these verses:

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God (believers) may be perfect (spiritually mature) thoroughly furnished unto (prepared to do) all good works.” (2 Timothy 3:16)

“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:7-9)

The article continues “White, 66, worries that gays, lesbians and other sexual minorities are threatened by increasing intolerance from socially conservative Christians. He said he recently buried a young man who wrote a $10,000 check to an organization White co-founded and then hanged himself because he felt tortured by his sexual identity. "How long do we have to bury them before American gets the idea?" White asked, his brow furrowed in frustration.”

How long will it be before people like White gets the message? If this person hanged himself because he felt “tortured” because of his sexual identity, it wasn’t the fault of Bible believing pastors or Christians—now get this—it was because he was, like all other out of control sinners, “receiving in themselves that recompense (repayment) of their error which was met.”

In other words, his sin finally caught up with him and drove him crazy to the point where he couldn’t take it any more, and his solution was not in obeying the scriptures, but to get a rope and hang himself, like Judas did.

What white is doing is promoting more of the same thing that caused this man to hang himself in the first place. Sin will never make you happy. It may seem fun and look great on the surface, and seem like the right thing to do, but in the end it will consume your very soul and cause you great misery. Sin is the devil’s trap.

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (Proverbs 14:12)