Previously, we looked at each of the eight changes in the Queen James Version of the Bible. Except for these eight verses, this “perversion” which is now available is no different from the King James Version. Why did the “editors” perform these eight alterations? They argued that the Bible does not use the word homosexual; therefore, it could not be condemned in the Scriptures. They have attempted to set things right by removing the word from their translation. This claim is fatuous. Just because the word homosexual was not used in the KJV in 1769 does not mean that the concept did not exist in the Greek text, which it does, as seen in the previous article. When men burn in their lust one toward another, do we really need for the word homosexual to be in the text? If we were lis-tening to a radio broadcast that never used the word basketball, but we heard terminology such as dribbling, passing, shooting, fouled out, three-pointer, goal tending, top of the key, man to man or zone defense, center, forward, guard, fourth quarter, crossing the time line, full court press, referee, traveling, out of bounds, et al., would we not be able to figure out what we were listening to? Likewise, a practice can be recognizable as homosexuality even if the word was never used.
King James I
Homosexuals tend to see people and situations as corrupt as what they are; so we probably should not be surprised that they malign King James I. They say that, although he married a woman, he was bisexual—and a well-known one at that. According to them, some of his court referred to him as Queen James. In view of the fact that the editors of the QJV would not identify themselves, it is small wonder that they did not cite any sources here, either, thus proving once again that anyone can assert anything he wants.
Claims about Jesus
More than one source relates, in connection with discussing this translation, about a “vicar” in New Zea-land who put up a controversial poster outside his church building in Auckland that claims that Jesus was a homosexual. The sign says, “It’s Christmas. Time for Jesus to come out.” Jesus is in a manger that is surrounded by a rainbow halo! This action is both slan-derous and blasphemous, but such is the extent of the perversion of people like Glynn Cardy. He erroneously states, “The fact is that we don’t know what his sexual orientation was.”
Yes, we can! He was a male with the highest morality and integrity of anyone who ever lived. Evidently, Cardy does not believe 2 Peter 2:22: “Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth.” Jesus committed no sin. Yet He defined committing adultery in the heart as looking on a woman to lust after her. He did not include males in this teaching, but the same would be true of another male (Rom. 1:26-27).
Our Lord condemned fornication, period, which includes sexual relationships with anyone to whom a per-son is not married (Matt. 19:9; 15:18-20; Jude 7). But as to His sexual preference, He is a male, and He has a bride, who is described in Revelation 21:9ff. How sad—not to mention offensive—are those like Cardy who will go so far as to accuse the holy Lord and Savior of man-kind of being guilty of their perverted sin! Surely, there is a place in the very hottest regions of hell for such reprobates as he.
Another “clergyman” attempted to defend Cardy by saying he was just trying to humanize Jesus. No, he was vilifying Him, which is vastly different. The same excuse was given to justify the blasphemous movie, The Last Temptation of Christ, in which Jesus purportedly experiences a lengthy sexual fantasy while on the cross. Neither of these attempts humanizes Jesus; they transform Him into a sinner, which would ruin His qualifications as the perfect Lamb of God—the holy one being sacrificed for the sins of us—the unholy. Once Jesus is defiled by sin, He can no longer help the rest of us in overcoming sin (Heb. 4:12).
Jesus does not need to be humanized; He was human—the Son of Man. He wept at the tomb of Lazarus (John 11:35). He understood sorrows. What some mean by humanize is tarnished. He has to be sinful like the rest of us so we can identify with Him. Man is always trying to corrupt Deity, but all such efforts fail. God is holy, holy, holy (Isa. 6:8), and the puny efforts of base men will not change that.
This same defender of Cardy the Corrupt says of Jesus, “Maybe gay, maybe not. Does it matter?” Anyone who does not know the answer to that question has no business attempting to teach others Christianity, and those who have been listening to either one of these men should open their Bibles and read them immediately and then find someone who teaches the truth rather than engaging in evil surmisings. It matters that Jesus did not engage in activities that He defined as sinful. If He defined fornication, adultery, and homosexuality as sin, then He could not engage in any of those sins without being hypocritical and disqualifying Himself as the Holy Savior of the world.
A final comment was that Jesus always supported “the marginalized in society.” Yes, he was a friend of tax collectors. He talked to the woman at the well (John 4). He did not condemn (in a judicial sense) the woman taken in adultery, but He did tell her to sin no more (John 8: 11). Jesus never supported people in their sin—only if they repented (changed their behavior) of it. In fact, He died that all might have forgiveness of their sins. Without that forgiveness (based on changed behavior), we die in that sin, and the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6: 23). Homosexuality is a sin that must be given up; lame efforts to justify the practice (such as providing the QJV) will not save anyone.