“THE WICKED WALK ON EVERY SIDE, WHEN THE VILEST MEN ARE EXALTED,” Psalms 12:8.
“Teagan MacAodhagáin: Meet Ireland’s first transgender minister who was ordained in NI”, so ran the headline in the Belfast Telegraph of Saturday 10th August. The ‘church’ into which this ‘man’ has been ordained has been known from its beginning as ‘the gay church’!
“Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) (aka The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches or UFMCC) was founded in Los Angeles, California (USA) on October 6, 1968 by the Rev. Troy Perry.
Since then, MCC has grown from a few churches in the 1970s, when we were known as “the Gay Church,” to hundreds around the world by the 1980s when we became known as “the AIDS church,” to our current configuration which many dub “the Queer Church.” As a global movement comprising churches, spiritual communities, emerging ministries, clergy and lay leaders, human rights activists and many others, our goal is to “Transform Ourselves as we Transform the World.”
The writer of the articles is a well known advocate of all things that promote the ‘LGBTQI+ community’, Gareth Hanna! I have refuted him and his claims in a letter to the ‘Belfast Telegraph’, back last year.
However, he and his like persist in their perversity, even though they are unable to answer what it is the Bible says.
What a day faces them when they meet with the AUTHOR of the Bible they cannot answer though they have lived to misrepresent its teachings!
“And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead,” Acts 17:30-31.
Latest Folly
In his latest article, Hanna reports on the ‘ordination’ of one who claims to be a ‘transgender’ though what he claims to have ‘metamorphosed’ from and what into, I cannot really be sure from Hanna’s scribblings.
The article quotes at length the attempt made by ‘Teagan MacAodhagáin’ to justify his evilly foolish claim of being a ‘transgenderised’ (yes, I just made that up) being! It is entirely futile to try and unravel the bletherings of this pervert though Hanna, with the aid of the Editor of the ‘Belfast Telegraph’, gives him full coverage, as if something substantially profitable and wise was being said!
One claim the former Roman Catholic Teagan MacAodhagáin makes, when examined, indicates how utterly without any foundation in Scripture or in simple common sense the ‘testimony’ of this poor dupe of the devil is.
The article contains this statement: “For me, none of it lined up with what I know of God. Why would God create people be they lesbian, gay, transgender or whatever, for them to be sinful just for existing?
“That didn’t make any sense to me. It seemed an unfair burden to place on anyone.
“Let’s take it to its logical conclusion. If you’re sinful just for existing, then the only thing you can do to stop sinning is to stop existing.
“The only way to stop existing is to take your own life. That’s the conclusion I came to but I didn’t think that’s what God wants people to be doing. So therefore, that can’t be true.”
First of all, The Lord did not ‘create’ ‘lesbian, gay, transgender or whatever’!
The Bible states clearly, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them,” Genesis 1:27.
The origins of ‘lesbian, gay, transgender or whatever’ is not of the Lord but rather of man’s perverted, sinful nature.
“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them,” Romans 1:20-32.
That is the origins of the perversity that Hanna and his friend, Teagan MacAodhagáin, would blasphemously claim is of God!
Secondly, the statement that ‘the only thing you can do to stop sinning is to stop existing’ is completely erroneous!
The apostle Paul. when he gave his testimony before King Agrippa, summarised the words of the Saviour when He ordained Paul as a minister of the gospel and the message that he was given to preach.
“But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me,” Acts 26:16-18.
Deliverance from sins, even those of which Hanna and Teagan MacAodhagáin acknowledge they are guilty of, is not ‘to take your own life’, but rather to heed the gospel and “turn . . . from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.”
This is what those in Corinth, who followed the sins which Hanna and Teagan MacAodhagáin glory in and seek to legitimise, did when they were faced with the gospel.
“ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God,” 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.
Repenting of sin, forsaking it, trusting in the atoning work of Christ on the cross and walking in obedience to God’s Holy Word is the gospel message.
Devil’s lie
Hanna and Teagan MacAodhagáin would have us believe that embracing depraved perversity and following it and seeking to justify it is God’s message for today.
They are preaching the devil’s lie!
Their eternal destiny, if they persist in this deception?
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death,” Revelation 21:8.
While we are angry and vexed, and justifiably so, at the astoundingly brazen defiance of God and His truth of such as Hanna and Teagan MacAodhagáin, we cannot but dread and fear for them because of the eternity they, and their like, most assuredly face.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
Monday 12th August, 2024