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| style="padding:15px;" |''"As the sun and the stars do not change their order, so the tribe of Naphtali are to obey [[God]] rather than the disorderliness of [[idolatry]]. Recognazing in all created things the Lord who made them, they are not to become as Sodom, which changed the order of nature."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— The second century [[B.C.]] ''Testament of Naphtali''<ref name="Coleman1980">{{cite book |title=Christian attitudes to homosexuality |author=Peter Everard Coleman |publisher=SPCK |place= |year=1980 |pages=71 |isbn=978-02810-37568 |quote= |url=http://books.google.com/books?redir_esc=y&id=M7QPAQAAIAAJ}}</ref>
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God has established a norm for sex and marriage by [[creation]]<ref name="Stott1998">{{cite book |title=Same-Sex Partnerships? A Christian Perspective |author=John Stott |isbn=978-08007-56741 |publisher=Baker Book House Co. |location=Grand Rapids, MI |year=1998 |pages=44-8 |url=http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/same-sex-partnerships/219040}}</ref> and has given to humans a bodily structure unique to the man and the woman.
[[Scripture]] clearly defines human beings as male and female, not by accident, but by [[divine]] purpose. It also refutes any theory that promotes gender as only social construction ot that human beings are free to define themselves in a way different than the way God defined them in the act of creation.<ref name="Mohler2015">{{cite book |title=We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong |author=R. Albert Mohler, Jr. |publisher=Harper Collins |year=2015 |pages=107-8 |isbn=978-07180-32487 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jNhhCAAAQBAJ |quote=}}</ref>
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