Love and Affection for One's Fellow Man is a far cry from homosexuality!!

Shalom to you, my readers:

Like the title says, love and affection toward one's fellow man is a far cry from homosexuality.

Even though Judaism teaches, "Treat and love your neighbor perfectly as you would like to be perfectly treated," there is no sense of depravity in this commandment.

Homosexual conduct has been going on in random places for thousands of years. This random conduct is strictly based on one's own ill-directed free-will, a choice people choose for themselves in order to fill a long-term or short-term void. Whether that void is merely for quick gratification or for long term companionship. In some cases, some people lie about their "acts" of homosexuality (sodomy) claiming to be doing it strictly for money, as in the case of the porn industry. However, if one really had no desire for someone of the opposite gender, that person would not be aroused in order to be able to commit the "act;" and therefore, proving such a person to be a lair.  

When I have a love and affection for my own children, this does not mean I should all of a sudden go across the threshold of perversity. Judaism teaches a proper love for others and a directed desire for the opposite sex for deeper love and gratification. When one turns from mere affection and friendly love for their best friend, to a choice of want and desire toward that person, this is a choice of unfocused and undirected curiosity and desire which is more than just "unbecoming." It is a choice of perverse and despicable acts, a warped kind of thinking. I can understand the need or desire for a person to be gratified, but to choose to be gratified with someone of the same gender is a "disconnect" of rational thinking and proper conduct.

Homosexuality is not to be celebrated, but frowned upon and condemned. This is because we shouldn't ever celebrate one's ill-directed desires to be gratified or satisfied for, like I said, to fill a gap of loneliness, or mere sexual gratification.

The God of Israel and of the whole entire universe has made man and woman with great desires for closeness; with a great lust, desire and thirst for the one to touch and feel the other of the opposite sex; and to have a rich passion for one another [of the heterosexual couple] to climax with one another in the sexual union of marriage. NOTE: Even in a fornicative herterosexual relationship, the thought process of yearning for the opposite gender is normal and correct in their direction, even though the act of fornication is sinful in the eyes of heaven.

Because people's desires are so great, yet, their patience is so low many heterosexual couples have fornicated oftentimes before ever getting married, if they got married at all. In the same context of "lack of patience," yet, coupled with "ill-direction" based on the lack of moral clarity, integrity, or a strong will, many males have become demented once they chose to go across that ill-directed threshold.

From an early age a young man must, not just should, be taught to crave and desire the female and be told why. In the process of this teaching, the child must be taught how to direct his passions and desires, if those precise directions are not clear, it can lead to great depravity.

Yes, it is true that in Judaism homosexuality is a capital offense, because it is a manner of conduct where individuals have strayed from proper conduct. Because of the person's depravity and influence upon others which promotes that it is "Okay" and "Wonderful" and "fun" to be gratified in this manner, such people must be eliminated from society altogether. When the homosexual is eliminated from the society, the news of it is supposed to broadcast abroad so that others can be warned by this awful example, versus just being taught properly when growing up.

Judaism by the way was not just a religion, but it was a thriving culture back in biblical days, versus what you see in America and even in Israel today, or anywhere else for that matter. Judaism was the very culture of the society. All rules found in the Torah were the rules of the land and it was only those rules that were used unless a prophet or a high priest would introduce something new from the God of Israel. Keep in mind that the government of ancient Israel was a monarch-theocracy. The king was to enforce the rules of the prophets and anything that the High Priest might have received from the God of Israel.

I find it amazing that people would dare to be so ignorant to say, "America was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics." America is based on "Roman" and "Greek" culture, not Judaism, nor on the teachings of Jesus. If one wants to say it was founded on Pauline-ism I would probably go along with that since his doctrine is "saved" without law, unlike what Jesus taught and what Judaism teaches.

Judaism is very clear in its ethics, morals, the type of government a society is allowed to have and....

Here are some examples of Judaic ethics:

I must always have a love for my fellow man. To watch his back, to correct him [if I can] if he is in the wrong, to give him what he needs, to never be rude to him or her and so forth.

When I have a "best friend" these qualities are in more detail and more personalized and affectionate, instead of just having a generalized, blanketing love for all. This love and affection for my best friend or anyone of the same gender, must always be directed properly so that one does not ever go across, nor come near the threshold of depravity. One must always be wholesome and normal.

Regardless of whether or not people outside of Judaism acknowledge that our God is the only God in all of existence, He, nonetheless is the One that made female and male animals and humans to have unique and individual "plumbing" functions and purposes. Like a car is not made to get you from point A to point B in or through a body of water, a person must "see" their gender in the correct light as well, instead of just wanting to do anything they want with their body. If a person should dare drive his car into the ocean and say, "I am going to Cuba," everyone would simply know that such a person would be "off [as in 'off the mark']" in their thinking. Yet, for some reason, when it comes to homosexuality thousands of people don't consider such ways to be just as demented as the person wanting to "drive" to Cuba, though the vast majority of people loathe homosexuality. 

The woman is only meant to receive and to bear children, and the male is meant to only give, never to receive. Likewise, a woman is only meant to receive in the proper place. Sodomy even with one's wife is "off the mark" thinking in Judaism as well. It is ill-directed desire.

Furthermore, despite what other cultures allow, Judaism frowns upon dung or human waste and deems it very unclean. People in ancient times, as those of today who keep [or have kept] the Torah in its raw written form observe [or observed] the commandment that is found in Deut 23:12-14, that states this:

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: For YHWH thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that He see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

I am quoting this verse to display how filthy dung is, so for a man to misdirect his passions with his wife and to commit sodomy with her is really demented. How much more demented was the man if he committed sodomy with another man; or worse - with an animal?

Homosexuality is a desire based on ill-directed lust and desire. It is not some "birth defect." That would be like saying, "I have some "birth defect" that causes me to run naked in the middle of an open crowd." Non-sense!! If I dare be so immoral, that would be my choice, not that I was born with the urge to run around naked before people. All is a choice, homosexuality is a bad choice and such unions must always be condemned, not embraced, let alone rewarded by allowing such folks to have marriages and social benefits.

To somewhat change the subject, Judaism allows a man or woman to masturbate in order to satisfy their passions for instant gratification (as in the case if one is not married yet, or when a married spouse is not available.) Yet, even in this, one's thoughts must be directed in a proper manner, not directed in a manner that is not allowed in the eyes of the God of Israel Who sees all and Who knows the very thoughts of all.

To read about masturbation in the world of Biblical Judaism, please go to my following link HERE.

Thank you,

HeShallGovern

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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

When I hear certain people talk, whether they are citizens that direct their passions normally or whether they are "ill-directed" citizens [homosexuals] of pagan societies, often times when the topic of homosexuality is discussed, the story about a man named Lot in the book of Genesis is mentioned. Lot was the nephew of the patriarch Abraham and the two of them [Lot and Abraham] amassed great wealth between them. Because of this wealth [livestock and servants], Lot decided to down to the Jordan River Valley where a  walled city named Sodom was. Many times, but no where close to half of the time, when this story is invoked, people erroneously claim that the city was not destroyed by fire because of homosexuality, but because of other sins.

This particular story is found in Genesis 19. While it is true that the overthrow of Sodom and Gororrah was not strictly based on homosexuality, it did contribute to the factoring in the decision to overthrow it. If you read the story, it is very clear that the men of the city wanted to have intercourse with the two "men [angels]" Lot welcomed into his home. However, Lot tried to turn them on to his daughters instead, which would have obviously been better. I am assuming, because Lot was a righteous man, that Lot did not mean for the men to rape his daughters, but to have two of them marry them, for that would be allowed in the eyes of heaven. The men of Sodom did not care about Lot's daughters and then became very violent over the matter "and came near to break the door." At this point the men of Sodom found out that the two men visiting Lot were not mere men, but angels for the angels cursed them with blindness.

In essence, the men never did commit the "act" of sodomy with the angels, but they sure did try. Again, if you read the story, "all" the men of the city surrounded Lot's house or at the very least, "very many" did. I say, "very many" because the Hebrew word, "kal" also means "most" or "many" and not just "all."

When the men of Sodom acted so violently against Lot and those in his house, it only confirmed what was being said of them in heaven [Gen 18:20-21]. Because of this, the angels [19:21-22] destroyed the cities of the plain, which were Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim [Deut 29:23]. The angels would have also destroyed the city named "Zoar," but this is the place where Lot desired to flee to [Gen 19:21-22].

While arguing with bible believers, homosexuals will say, "Sodom was not overthrown because of homosexuality, but because of their violence." This is both false and also somewhat true. Their homosexuality and their high level of unfulfilled ill-directed passions lead them to the violence in the particular case with Lot. But that event only confirmed what was being said of them long before the angels arrived. Jeremiah talks about Jerusalem in comparision to Sodom in Jer 23:14, "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."

Many homosexuals will use Ezekiel 16:49 as a sort of defense for their homosexuality by saying, "homosexuality is not mentioned in 'why' Sodom was overthrown, but it was because of other reasons, thus, the bible does not condemn homosexuality." The thing that these same people don't realize is that Ezekiel is not talking about Sodom in this particular verse, but the Kingdom of Israel of whose capital was Samaria which was overthrown by the Assyrians years before Ezekiel was born.

As far as condemnation goes, Judaism and the Tanach [the Jewish Scriptures] are very clear about hating and condemning homosexuality and homosexuals in general. In Leviticus 20:13 this is what the Torah says, "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them."

This is the truth of what Judaism teaches, if people have a problem with it, they must condemn Judaism as a whole versus a mere person that practices Judaism. That is because even if one condemns me, Judaism lives on that will breed such believers as myself.

Thank you,

HeShallGovern