By E. CALVIN BEISNER Published on June 27, 2022 via The Stream
Why are many LGBTQIA+ people far more likely than “straight cisgenders” to be socialists? In Isaiah 5:1–5, God offers the start of an answer:
Let me sing now for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. He dug it all around, removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine. And He built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it; then He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only worthless ones. … [Now the Beloved speaks:] So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.
This led to a long series of woes, culminating in verses 20–23: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight! Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant men in mixing strong drink, who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!”
Distinctions are Real: The Church is Not the World
A fundamental Biblical doctrine is that there are real, abiding distinctions. Hinduism, Buddhism, animism and spiritism say all is one. They deny distinctions at the root of reality.
Not Biblical Christianity. One is not two. Evil is not good. Light is not darkness. Bitter is not sweet.
The Bible insists that there are distinctions between church and world. So, when God’s vineyard becomes indistinguishable from the wild vines around it, He tears down its hedge. He will not sustain a false distinction. That is why God insists that evil and good, light and darkness, sweet and bitter not be confused.
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There is only one place where the truth of our existence can be found, and that is within the pages of Holy Scripture.
So, when Jesus said, “Seek ye the truth, and the truth will set you free”, we can surmise that that’s what He meant. All else is misdirected human foibles.