What is Truth? Scripture or my Desire?

Some Saducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and questioned Him: "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, leaves his wife behind, and leaves no child, his brother should take his wife and produce offspring for his brother. There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring. The second also took her, and he died, leaving no offspring, and the third likewise. So the seven left no offspring. Last of all, the woman dies too. In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be, since the seven had marries her."
Jesus told them, "are you not deceived because you don't know the scriptures or the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven. Now concerning the dead being raised- haven't you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: ' I am the God of Issac and the God of Jacob?' He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are badly deceived." Mark 12:18-27

Jesus nails the crux of the problem when He said: "You are badly deceived!" These men foolishly believed an error and tried to make Scripture fit their foolishness. We must listen to this and learn truth.

In the now debate around same sex marriage I have seen many distort the scriptures to justify their beliefs. They are badly deceived. Jesus would give them the same verdict. Scripture is Scripture and it does not lie or deceive.

When Scripture disagrees with us we need to go to the Cross and ask the Lord for His truth, instead of inventing own own to fit our carnal appetites.

 Can a twice divorced man or woman now tout a new man/woman yet the last marriage ended in the spouse choosing to live by themself, committed to God, because of the breakdown in their relationship. The previous spouse has not committed adultery but chosen to live separate. Scripture tells us the man/ woman is not free to remarry.  Do we, the church, in our 'compassion' decide to agree with the divorcee because we want them to be happy? This is how easy it is to distort scripture. We cannot bend scripture to the times we live in, we must bend.

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