Bishop Edir Macedo: Jesus Never Talked about Homosexuality
By Julio Severo
Protestant denominations are
divided, especially in the United States, between the liberal stance, prevalent
among mainline Protestant churches, supporting the gay agenda and the conservative
stance, prevalent among evangelical, Pentecostal and charismatic churches,
countering this predatory agenda.
Other mainline Protestant
denominations are also embracing a liberal stance regarding the homosexual sin.
In Brazil, the only neo-Pentecostal
exception has been the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), which
does not criticize the liberal stance, but has attacked the conservative
stance.
“There are many evangelicals, ministers and
churches raising a flag against the homosexual movement and against homosexual
marriage. I ask: Would Jesus do it if He were living in our time? I do not
believe that He would do it, because in His time there were homosexuals and
Jesus did not speak anything. Jesus did not raise a flag, saying, ‘Look, you
should speak up against homosexuality, that it is forbidden, that it should not
be done.’”
After this comment, Macedo was
awarded the Gay Oscar 2015, from the Gay Group of Bahia, founded by Luiz
Mott,
the most prominent homosexual activist in Brazil.
Macedo could also say, “How many
times did Jesus talk about child abuse? How many times did Jesus talk about
child sex abusers? Jesus did not raise a flag against child sex abuse, saying,
‘Look, you should speak up against child sex abuse.”
Actually, Jesus never talked
against child sex abuse and child sex abusers.
Should you then remove the gay
agenda and child sex abuse from Christian concerns just because Jesus never
mentioned them directly?
Jesus just did not attack head-on
the homosexual agenda because this was not the obsession in the Jewish society
where he preached the Gospel. Each generation has its own challenges and
special attention. Without the Holy Spirit to guide us in God’s Word, it is
impossible to give an answer to these challenges and special attentions.
In this point, it is important to
give attention to Luther’s words,
“If
I declare openly, with the loudest voice and the clearest expression, each
portion of God’s truth, except precisely the tiny portion that the world and
the devil are, in this time, attacking, then I am not really confessing Christ,
however much I may cry aloud that I am confessing Him.”
The necessary question is: Why does
not Bishop Edir Macedo criticize the liberal stance, but has attacked the
conservative stance against the gay agenda?
Apparently Macedo made his
controversial comments for sheer provocation, to be not seen as imitating
Assemblies of God minister Silas
Malafaia
and other Brazilian neo-Pentecostal leaders who are spearheading (“raising a
flag”) the fight against gay “marriage” and other gay agenda’s demands,
including homosexual indoctrination of children demanded by gay predators. He
does not want to be seen as an imitator of conservative evangelicals.
But the UCKG founder is not a
pioneer when “supporting homosexuals.” The Presbyterian Church (USA) has been
doing much more than this for years. It marries homosexuals. It supports
abortion — just as Macedo does.
Even if UCKG begins to marry
homosexuals, there will not be anything new in this apostasy. The Presbyterian
Church USA is in the forefront and vanguard.
Macedo is just a cheap imitator. He
has a fancy apartment in the U.S. and he has lived several years in the U.S. It
seems that in his stay in the U.S., he chose the influence of more liberal
Protestants, even though the U.S. has many fine conservative evangelicals.
Macedo has also imitated
cessationism, a heretical doctrine predominant in the Presbyterian Church USA.
This extra-biblical doctrine teaches that God does not speak today through
prophecies, revelations and dreams. Calvinist theologians as John MacArthur in
the U.S. and Augustus
Nicodemus
in Brazil believe and promote this doctrine. Even not being a Calvinist, Edir
Macedo also believes and promotes this doctrine.
In
fact, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, where Nicodemus was a chancellor, has homosexualist professors and it is defended by gay activists.
So Macedo’s cessationist stance is
mere imitation of radical Presbyterians’ and Calvinists’ cessationist stances.
What
is left of “Pentecostalism” in UCKG is perhaps just demon-expelling. Its
prosperity gospel is totally based on “determining” with Sola Scriptura
(totally rejecting prophecies and revelations), highly reminding old Calvinism,
which actually saw prosperity as a sign of election.
UCKG
totally rejects the possibility of a Christian to hear the voice of the Holy
Spirit today because it believes in Sola Scriptura.
UCKG
totally rejects the gift of prophecy today because it believes in Sola
Scriptura.
UCKG totally rejects the
possibility of a Christian to receive revelations from the Holy Spirit today
because it believes in Sola Scriptura.
UCKG totally believes that
prophecies and revelations today are demonic because it believes in Sola
Scriptura.
UCKG says that it believes “only in
the Bible,” whose Latin translation is “Sola Scriptura” — the form preferred by
Calvinists, because it seems intellectually more elegant. At the end, UCKG and
the Presbyterian Church USA use Sola Scriptura to support what God has never
supported and will never support: abortion and cessationism.
Abortion
is to kill an innocent life in the mother’s womb. Cessationism is to kill
spiritual life in the church. No Christian has authority, theological or
otherwise, to kill what God gives.
Macedo’s pro-homosexuality and
pro-abortion stance is mere imitation of the Presbyterian Church USA’s
left-wing stances.
Even though imperfectly, the
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God is, as far as cessationism,
homosexuality and abortion are concerned, a cheap imitation of the Presbyterian
Church USA.
Coincidentally, Marcelo
Crivella, mayor of Rio de Janeiro and former UCKG bishop,
chose to head a LGBT advocacy department Nélio Georgini, a Presbyterian
homosexual activist, who has a male sexual partner. Crivella is a Macedo’s
relative.
The
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God is a syncretic chimera: It is the first
and only pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality cessationist neo-Pentecostal church
in Brazil.
Yet,
if Macedo wants to be a perfect imitator, he will have to do much more than
just “supporting homosexuals,” which for him means not to fight gay “marriage”
and other gay agenda’s demands, including homosexual indoctrination of children
demanded by gay predators. The Presbyterian Church USA has already been holding
gay weddings and it has already been ordaining homosexual ministers.
When will UCKG begin to hold
homosexual weddings and ordain homosexual ministers?
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