Martin Mwango.
Thanks to Europe that Christianity came to our continent and to be specific to our mother Zambia, but we have to be frank that not only good things came from Europe but bad habits too. There has been a tendency to imitate the western world and lately not only our music has been influenced but also our customs and we tend to justify them… Every truly Christian does not hate homosexuals as well as any other person.
According to the teachings of Christ, is never acceptable to mockery, slander, violence or hatred toward the homosexual or anyone else. Although a Christian should treat the homosexual as any other person, he must also be Biblically honest.
Today, Zambia a Christian nation is facing this issue of homosexuality in societies as a new political and Christian question to be answered.
Some voices under ground are saying; Homosexual has to be accepted even in the Christian church and approve it as a lifestyle or as a sexual preference like any other… It is a political concept, which has no any psychological foundation in a human being.
However, those who, on the basis of moral or religious, oppose it, they are usually portrayed as ignorant bigots and racists, the “homophobic” the bearers of prejudices etc… It is true that in the world there have existed and there are people who hate homosexuals, basing the reasons on human law.
I would like to briefly explain the difference between act and orientation. Many homosexuals say: “I was born homosexual – God made me this way. So, my thoughts, desires, and lifestyle, should be recognized. Though this practice is not justified before God.
The fact that every human being is born with an orientation or inclination to do what is wrong in God’s eyes, does not justify those desires or behaviors. The Bible says that all liars are born (Psalm 58:3), and yet it says that lying is a sin (Exodus 20:16, Deuteronomy 5:20), and that liars will not enter the kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27) Certain feelings or desires are inborn, inevitable, and therefore they are not sinful. Of course, being tempted is not a sin (Jesus was tempted as we are, yet did not sin; Hebrews 2:18). What is unfortunate is when a person who cultivates what is attempted, fantastic and makes plans on how to implement that behavior.
The Bible clearly teaches that sin is not just commit to do what God forbids, but also the desires and immoral thoughts. As Martin Luther once said: “I can’t prevent the birds to fly over my head, but I can’t allow it to make a nest in my hair”
In the early days of creation, God created a man and a woman. He did not create two men, or two women. The creation of a man and a woman to be husband and wife is the model or paradigm of the base of approval by God and by nature.
Jesus quotes too this same model (Genesis 2:24) when he explains that polygamy and divorce are condemned by God, because He disapproves sexual relations outside marriage and monogamous heterosexual – so even homosexual relationships, adultery and so on. In the Old Testament, God says to his people: “ you shall not lie with a male like you lie with a woman” (Lev.18:22) The New Testament confirms this: “For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions, for even their women have changed the natural use into that which is against nature. In the same way the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men committing indecent acts with men and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due” (Romans 1:24)
Therefore, Zambia as a Christian Nation also Biblically honest and ruled by ten commandments, shall remain island on the issue of homosexuality as it has remain a Christian Nation among the few nations in the world.
At the same time Zambia will never accept mockery, slander, violence or hatred toward the homosexual nor anyone else. The Zambian fraternity will ever stick to the slogan “One Zambia one nation”.
mwebe
April 23, 2013 at 10:11 am
A well written article,the bible is very clear on this issue,so thoso advocating for it should go to hell!
l
April 23, 2013 at 7:05 pm
thats for brainwashed dunderheads..
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." John 8:32
April 24, 2013 at 8:39 am
It may take some time to “de-program” yourself from what we were all taught by well-intentioned, God-fearing people, many of whom we love dearly. It took a long time for many people to “de-program” from what they had been taught about black people – that they were inferior to whites and that the Bible supported slavery.
Alfred
April 23, 2013 at 10:16 am
I didn’t get your clear point on this 1, but i hope your views represent your own opinion as 4 me what is bad will remain bad regardless.
jcool
April 23, 2013 at 10:39 am
read Genesis 19 and u’ll find out that the Bible has no room for homos,i think we’ll commit murders in Zambia,i’ll personally shot any gay
Elton John
April 23, 2013 at 11:58 am
Huh? and that makes you a better christian who thinks he is God’s own avenging angel??? Judgement belongs to the lord!!!
borngay
April 23, 2013 at 7:12 pm
No one chooses to be gay, but you choose to be a religious, bigoted, small-minded individual.
Be prepared to kill your own children first.
May you be blessed with gay children!!!
ben2020
April 23, 2013 at 10:40 am
I need to read those Bible scriptures to confirm my view on homosexual.
maikalange
April 23, 2013 at 10:49 am
ok
Isaac
April 23, 2013 at 10:52 am
No justification from any one on this planet will make homosexuality a thing to go by. May be if God Himself can create another planet where these pipo with heinous characters.
Umwina Nkana
April 23, 2013 at 11:33 am
Can you imagine a day when a beautiful mansion you have sweated to built in a beautiful residential area all of a sudden begins to argue even with you the owner that it is a graveyard!!
That’s a homo mentality for you!!
nymphomaniac.
April 23, 2013 at 7:14 pm
*****
nymphomaniac.
April 23, 2013 at 7:14 pm
ID!OT
Mwana Mfumu
April 23, 2013 at 12:24 pm
We do hate the homos. Jesus died for them too. So they should accept Jesus and turn around.
You do hear of thieves asking for rights to steal do you?
lol
April 23, 2013 at 7:17 pm
Jesus loves gays. That’s why His father created so many arseholes for him to enjoy!
Zambia needs prayers
April 24, 2013 at 3:17 am
Repent.
Pope Joan
April 24, 2013 at 8:15 am
use your brains dunderhead
Tribalism source of Evil
April 23, 2013 at 12:43 pm
abash homo
bm
April 23, 2013 at 1:14 pm
dnt even waste our tym writing dis article,der z only 1 solution,we shall kill pipo practicn these bad habits.
Isaac
April 23, 2013 at 1:26 pm
I think carrying extrajudicial killings on them is the only way. How can a man fall in love with another man or woman with another woman? I haven’t seen any creature on this planet not even an ant behaving in such heinous queer manners.
Facts
April 23, 2013 at 3:06 pm
Lions are also homosexual. Male lions often band together with their brothers to lead the pride. To ensure loyalty, they strengthen the bonds by often having sex with each other. The most well-known homosexual animal is the dwarf chimpanzee, one of humanity’s closes relatives. The entire species is bisexual. Sex plays a conspicuous role in all their activities and takes the focus away from violence, which is the most typical method of solving conflicts among primates and many other animals.
You are just ignorant, Kolwe iwe!!
jay
April 24, 2013 at 8:09 am
its not about being ignorant if an animal practices homosexuality must you act like one
human beings are diferent from animals they are created in the image of GOD they must act differently
God love gays
April 24, 2013 at 8:18 am
Im GOD and i love Gays
Kblundell
April 24, 2013 at 2:10 am
If you’re going to be a tool to this foum, at least be a literate reasoning one,rather Han one hiding their own inhibitions, hope you understand the meaning of heinous when it comes to sexual activity between two consenting male adults in their own privacy is not exactly heinous.
Ba Mpika
April 23, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Not in zambia, we shall never allow it,,, hill to any politician who will name it in parliament…
Bullseye
April 23, 2013 at 2:59 pm
bakolwe baku mpika ubututu!!
john
April 23, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Proudly zambian and gay.. :p
Kabwe
April 23, 2013 at 5:19 pm
Ba prudly gay, ba prudly John,,, ah ah ah ah you are even shy to finish ur sentence, just give a challenge to the article,,, you may quote as well your books as homo or any sychological book that will make you prude of being homo… if you find 1 send ur article here, we shall read it… Martin you have given them an challenged ba kolwe.
jay
April 24, 2013 at 7:43 am
you nid jesus my freind
Gay Pride
April 23, 2013 at 7:20 pm
Love you john =D
patrick
April 23, 2013 at 7:28 pm
=B^)
Mwanza
April 23, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Messiah
April 23, 2013 at 2:55 pm
Homosexuality did not come from europe. Even bushmen who has never set eyes on Europeans have their own gays and lesbians.
Homosexual behaviour is natural in the animal, human and plant kingdoms. Do your research!
About 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many others.
Male big horn sheep live in what are often called “homosexual societies.” They bond through genital licking and anal intercourse, which often ends in ejaculation. If a male sheep chooses to not have gay sex, it becomes a social outcast. Ironically, scientists call such straight-laced males “effeminate.” Giraffes have all-male orgies. So do bottlenose dolphins, killer whales, gray whales, and West Indian manatees. Japanese macaques, on the other hand, are ardent lesbians; the females enthusiastically mount each other. Bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives, are similar, except that their lesbian sexual encounters occur every two hours. Male bonobos engage in “penis fencing,” which leads, surprisingly enough, to ejaculation. They also give each other genital massages. As this list of activities suggests, having homosexual sex is the biological equivalent of apple pie: Everybody likes it. You name it, there’s a vertebrate out there that does it. This whole idea or argument that same-sex relations are unnatural is grossly untrue as biological science of “natural” animals clearly shows this.
“Among the apes it is the females that create the continuity within the group. The social network is maintained not only by sharing food and the child rearing, but also by having sex. Among many of the female apes the sex organs swell up. So they rub their abdomens against each other,” explains Petter Bockman and points out that animals have sex because they have the desire to
Afreakan
April 23, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Anyone who still has archaic ideas about homosexuality being an unnatural and repulsive clearly demonstrates that you have no grasp of metaphysics, science and the Bible for that matter.
Homosexuality is a social phenomenon and is most widespread among animals with a complex herd life. If homosexuality is natural in the animal and plant kingdom, then there is the question of why evolution hasn’t eliminated this trait from the gene pool, since it doesn’t lead to reproduction. One thing that does seem to be exclusive to humans is homophobia. The funny thing is that people say homosexuality is unnatural, that non-humans do not engage in homosexual behaviour, but that’s not true. It seems clear that homosexuality is just as natural in humans as it is with other animals and plants. Same-sex behaviour is a nearly universal phenomenon in the animal kingdom, common across species. If homosexuality was unnatural why would God allow plants, animals and humans for the matter to engage in such indiscretion His natural kingdom
Kamwanya
April 24, 2013 at 6:11 am
Am sure you are one of the pipo who like commenting without reading articles… the author said, the fact that u have that behavour in u by nature does not justify your action b4 God…. Besides, give us a scripture where homosexuality is discuses as u have put it…. the author has given us scriptures..
Shortcake
April 23, 2013 at 4:42 pm
A Psychologist said that young males who grow up without a father figure usually grow up looking for that fatherly love which manifests or is misinterpreted into a “s***xual attraction” towards a fellow male. In the US you will find that most gay males grew up with their mothers.When they reach their teen years they will start looking for a father figure and most cases they young males will fall prey to perverted older males who will intiate them into this kind of behaviour. So being gay is more of a psychological problem.So this is to all single females with with young sons, look for a responsible STRAIGHT male figure who will help you teach and nurture the young males to be MEN
borngay
April 23, 2013 at 4:57 pm
I didn’t choose to be gay, but you choose to be a religious, bigoted, small-minded individuals.
Kaole
April 24, 2013 at 6:15 am
It is a political concept, which has no any psychological foundation in a human being… where did you read that homosexuals are born?
God love gays
April 24, 2013 at 8:24 am
I’m the living proof! Do you want an imaginary white man to come an tell you that for you to believe. Maybe its best if one of your own children is born gay then you’ll understand gays.
Austin
April 23, 2013 at 7:42 pm
I am married to a woman only to hide my sexuality because of stigma, what i really feel inside me is love for the same sex. i have children a wife but i sneak out to spend real quality time with my real love, Another married man.
Zambia needs prayers
April 24, 2013 at 3:19 am
Zambia needs prayers
"Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own?" Rom. 8:33a
April 24, 2013 at 8:29 am
pray for yourself not every one believes in that bullcrap.
Toka
April 24, 2013 at 6:52 am
What is wrong is wrong no matter how much people what to justify homosexuality. Even the gay themselves know that what they do is wrong. If homosexual was normal, God would have made men to conceive and have children.Since this cannot happen it goes to show that the act is abnormal. One of the reasons people have sex, is for procreation. Imwe ba gay mwilakubwa abana babanenu, you choise to be the way you are. when these gays grow older that is when they realise they made a wrong choice of their way of life.
Zambia shall remain a Christian nation. Twakulamu pepelako limbi muluse lwa kwa lesa kuti mwapusuka mwaishiba Yesu Kristu
Yesu Kristu
April 24, 2013 at 8:25 am
GOD LOVE GAYS AND SO DO I
Jesus Loves Me. This I Know . . . Even If I'm Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgendered
April 24, 2013 at 8:45 am
There is no word in biblical Greek or Hebrew for “sodomy”. A Sodomite was simply an inhabitant of Sodom, just as a Torontonian is an inhabitant of Toronto.
Jesus loves ESPECIALLY His GLBTIQ children
mwewa
April 24, 2013 at 8:55 am
u pipo y do u want to do wat an animal can do? from the beginning (genesis) God gave man power over all animals meaning a man should be different from animals,go to hell homosexuals yo sphincters will be destroyed and faeces will be coming out any how sex between a man and woman is natural and its purity you will never succeed homosexuals you just need deliverance all of u!
ok
April 24, 2013 at 11:40 pm
popopopopopopo teti bomfwe abasungu ifyaku ibelivisha fyalifula
K.M.T
April 25, 2013 at 11:15 am
This article can be understood clearly by someone who understand clearly the english language.
Get the point clearly and comment guy’s.
Man you a man of wisdom and i recommend you as a very intelligent person keep it up, Zambia shall never at wholecost allow homosexuality.
Muleba
May 1, 2013 at 11:01 pm
Mwewa! U have a funny way of saying things. Lol
Muleba
May 3, 2013 at 12:52 am
Martin u are a good writer