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==Transgressing the Created Order==

==Transgressing the Created Order==

As can be demonstrated, for example in case of [[homosexuality]], by scientific device of [[thought experiment]], people in [[society]] can transgress the created order only to their own detriment. That's why the homosexual acts are universally condemned by the whole biblical tradition.<ref name="Kuby"/> The [[perversion]] of the created order is also referred to as 'an [[abomination]] against God' and it may be expected when men put the creation in place of the [[Creator]]<ref name="Stott1998"/> and when they rebel against Him in their [[Nimrodian aspirations]], i.e. when they exchange the truth of God and reality of creation for lie, and end up in [[idolatry]] and self-deluding illusions. An attempt to change the created order of [[nature]] is recorded in the Bible as the story of [[Sodom]] and the second century [[B.C.]] ''Testament of Naphtali'' refers to it as the disorderliness of idolatry.<ref name="Stott1998"/>  

As can be demonstrated, for example in case of [[homosexuality]], by scientific device of [[thought experiment]], people in [[society]] can transgress the created order only to their own detriment. That's why the homosexual acts are universally condemned by the whole biblical tradition.<ref name="Kuby"/> [[Apostle Paul]] uses the [[Greek]] adjective ''physikos'' (‘natural’) and expression ''para physin'' ('against nature' or ‘unnatural’) in his [[Epistle to the Romans]]. Natural (''Physis'') means God's created order. To act ‘against nature’ means to violate the order which God has established, whereas to act ‘according to nature’ means to behave ‘in accordance with the intention of the [[Creator]].’ What this original intention was [[Genesis]] tells us and [[Jesus]] confirmed: God created humankind male and female; God instituted marriage as a union between one man and one woman; and what God has thus united, we have no liberty to separate. Moreover, we have no liberty to misinterpret the noun ‘nature’ as meaning ‘my’ nature, or the adjective ‘natural’ as meaning ‘what seams natural to me’.<ref name="StottRomans">{{cite book |title=The Message of Romans: God's Good News for the World |author=John Stott |publisher=InterVarsity Press |year=2001 |chapter=4.Deprived Gentile society |pages=76-78 |isbn=978-08308-12462 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeHbAgAAQBAJ }}</ref>       

 

The [[perversion]] of the created order is also referred to as 'an [[abomination]] against God' and it may be expected when men put the creation in place of the Creator<ref name="Stott1998"/> and when they rebel against Him in their [[Nimrodian aspirations]], i.e. when they exchange the truth of God and reality of creation for lie, and end up in [[idolatry]] and self-deluding illusions. An attempt to change the created order of [[nature]] is recorded in the Bible as the story of [[Sodom]] and the second century [[B.C.]] ''Testament of Naphtali'' refers to it as the disorderliness of idolatry.<ref name="Stott1998"/> The history of the world confirms that idolatry tends to [[immorality]]. A false image of God leads to a false understanding of sex. Illicit sex degrades people's [[human]]ness; sex in [[marriage]], as God intended, ennobles it. A homosexual partnership, however loving and committed it may claim to be, is ‘against nature’ and can never be regarded as a legitimate alternative to marriage. When standards disappear, the whole variety of antisocial practices together lead to the breakdown of human community and in the end the society disintegrates.<ref name="StottRomans"/>

The [[Nazi]] resister [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]] claimed that unnatural can have its way at a time, but the life is always on the side of natural. Due to the vitality and power of natural life forms, the attempts for suppressing them will, sooner or later, suffer setbacks. That's why, in long time perspective, if the life will survive the turmoil and distortions of life forms temporarily imposed by unnatural, it will still ultimately prevail.<ref name="Bonhoeffer:Ethik">{{cite book |title=Etika (Ethics, in the German original 'Ethik') |author=Dietrich Bonhoeffer |publisher=Kalich |place=Prague |year= 2007 |chapter=Přirozené (Natural) |pages=145–189 |language=Czech}}</ref> The only question is at what cost. According to A.Mohler, many lives of victims of LGBTI [[ideomotor effect]] taking the heavy toll in [[HIV]] deaths could have been spared if [[Christian]]s would have had more courage to impose their natural views on the rest of the society. The fundamental truth of created order runs counter not only to the [[homosexual agenda]] but to the rampant sexual immorality of the age. Most modern ideologies are basically just efforts to rationalize unnatural sexual behavior. E. Michael Jones defines the modernity as ''"rationalized lust."''<ref name="Mohler2015"/>

The [[Nazi]] resister [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]] claimed that unnatural can have its way at a time, but the life is always on the side of natural. Due to the vitality and power of natural life forms, the attempts for suppressing them will, sooner or later, suffer setbacks. That's why, in long time perspective, if the life will survive the turmoil and distortions of life forms temporarily imposed by unnatural, it will still ultimately prevail.<ref name="Bonhoeffer:Ethik">{{cite book |title=Etika (Ethics, in the German original 'Ethik') |author=Dietrich Bonhoeffer |publisher=Kalich |place=Prague |year= 2007 |chapter=Přirozené (Natural) |pages=145–189 |language=Czech}}</ref> The only question is at what cost. According to A.Mohler, many lives of victims of LGBTI [[ideomotor effect]] taking the heavy toll in [[HIV]] deaths could have been spared if [[Christian]]s would have had more courage to impose their natural views on the rest of the society. The fundamental truth of created order runs counter not only to the [[homosexual agenda]] but to the rampant sexual immorality of the age. Most modern ideologies are basically just efforts to rationalize unnatural sexual behavior. E. Michael Jones defines the modernity as ''"rationalized lust."''<ref name="Mohler2015"/>