The Romance of Semantics and Deception.

There is an individual and corporate habit in the world…

It’s fueled by at least these four things.

1. Good, honest intent to enlighten & inform.
2. Manipulation & control.
3. Reactionary responses to challenged heart felt convictions.
4. Lack of teachability and patience to hear one’s side.

There are so many conversations taking place all across the globe on so many issues, some great, some small. All of them are important to the human heart for so many reasons; because backgrounds of pain, tears, sorrow, anger and life experiences that have been engraved in the minds and hearts of each person’s perspective on any given subject.

The problem behind each conversation, is semantics; or the intended meaning behind the words expressed, and the chain of events that explode and implode due to the emotional reaction to what was conveyed vs. how and what was received.

I would love to use the subject of President Obama, George Bush, 9/11, the economy and the war on terror…. but I have to use a much more basic subject to prove my point, and let you do the math. The current situation in the nations is so complex, I have to start in places less complex, yet it contributes to these more present, corporately felt wildfires.

I hate to come off the wrong way to anybody who reads this when I mean every word in this post to be honest, but tender, and in no way attacking the subject in which I’m using as the example.

Part One:
HOMOSEXUALITY & MARRIAGE
Why the first part on homosexuality? Just because, and I think polarized subjects & its semantics must be clearly conveyed before bothering to converse about them. It’s not the first thing that came to mind, but was just one of many. But mostly because along with abortion, the people in question are often sympathized and often persecuted.

The fires created by the media, the homosexuals, the church, other religions, and new religions all come from the lack of having a real conversation. In the bible, Jesus says “truth will set you free.” So, we’ll see how that goes as I attempt to describe what the truth is & what the deception is while highlighting the areas where semantics are confusing both sides into a frustrating, reactionary, emotional, seemingly endless conversation.

To say my point simply, lawful marriage has been called many things, but in the end, what marriage has become in America, is truly a piece of paper, it often gets lost, torn to shreds, burned by an angry spouse, stuffed away for 50 years, taken up by tornadoes in the midwest, and argued upon by heterosexuals and homosexuals for decades, maybe longer. What this paper means, is at its root, is that it is an identification card for the government to affirm a couple as partners in life, with tax benefits, and intent to be something more than an just one person as an individual.

The identity crisis of both sides, seems to come down to a “need” for the government to affirm our identities as human beings who choose to love someone for the rest of our life. If we wanted to resolve the conflict, all we’d have to do is completely remove the institution of marriage, not let a government define what true marriage is.

When someone says “I think marriage is between a man and a woman” it does accurately convey one part of the their belief, but fuels the fire in confusing the semantics of what the word MARRIAGE and LOVE means to a homosexual or heterosexual. Marriage is about a covenant between two people, in which you choose to love someone with all your heart, mind and soul. It is a sacred, meaningful, weighty choice that must be taken seriously. The word LOVE, is yet another word that is so poorly used and widely misunderstood. When you choose to get married, for it to be meaningful & romantic and it must be about the labor of love with the history of choosing to trust eachother, and stick together through the journey. Most people mistake the word LOVE for “deep affection” or “romantic feelings (or even naively just attraction).” While deep affection and attraction are part of the romance and story of love, it is not the meaning of love.

Biblical, righteous marriage is between one man, and one woman. “Worldy” marriage, (a biblical term that can be taken as condescending rhetoric) is exactly how they want to define it, not bound to biblical law and what the Christian church feels compelled to stand up for, by the Holy Spirit).

So what seems to be a conversation about homosexuals and marriage, is truly about something else, the identity of a homosexual as a human being with a desire for a companion to care for in the same manner as a heterosexual, just completely against the nature and design of producing offspring. For some reason, the piece of paper from the government is the driving force of the rage that is unleashed on both sides.

The piece of paper has no value when the heterosexuals, especially the church, are unfaithful, or unable to embrace the meaning of the word LOVE, and they choose to not stick together through the rough roads of life, and they even seek justify a divorce when the spouse has not been unfaithful. O, the grass looks soooooo green on the other side… for the self seeking escapist.

When a heterosexual couple chooses sexual immorality together with other people involved, it destroys the sacred nature of a covenantal marriage, which is a pillar in biblical, righteous marriage that is expected of the church, not by man, but by God. So when this house of heterosexual marriage stands against itself morally, it WILL NOT STAND.

I personally believe that a marriage will not reach the highest of heights, nor the deepest depths of meaning and substance without Christ as its center. In other words, you must be Christian. Now even the word christian has its issue in semantics. Most people look at the word Christian and either cringe and think of its hypocritical members in the Church, or scoff in unbelief in the existence of God because of the mystery of His infinite nature, and some even take the title as their own as some sort of honorary title for doing good deeds. Christianity is simple, yet so weighty; the belief that Jesus is fully God and fully man, who was made manifest to make everything wrong, right, and to save us from ourselves, at the cost of complete separation from the Father, although completely free of injustice and sin, then to resurrect 3 days from his death on the cross, as a fulfillment to prophecy, and to establish hope in the human heart that God is not far off, and His plan to restore all things. Jesus is the only thing that can fuel a relationship to fight on. A legacy of love without Christ can still be romantic, but it is a vapor in the wind, and will suffer in vain, yet God gives us the choice, and gives us what we want.

My next post will be “The Romance of Semantics & Deception – Abortion”