The following is something I posted on a homosexual forum. The thread was “spirituality’:

The homosexuals kept saying that unless I could give them first-hand evidence, I could not prove anything I was saying. According to them, the Bible was only tradition handed down from unreliable witnesses. Every time I would use the Bible as source, they would say, “Prove it,” meaning they require immediate, experimental, proof. In their hypocrisy, they were demeaning the King James version because they had sources from Amazon.com that King James I was also a homosexual like them:

Prove it. Prove to me there was a King James I. Prove to me what he was and what he did. Let me shake his hand. Give me some videotape. You can’t prove he ever drank one drop of royal drink. All you can do is cite one authority after another. You don’t have first-hand proof. These authorities just stand to make a little money off book sales. That doesn’t prove anything except you choose your authorities only to prove your opinion.

The foregoing sounds stupid, doesn’t it? That seems to be your argument regarding the Bible and its account of kings and curs. You keep telling me to go check the public library, because I must be ignorant of Amazon.com. Well, I went to a Public Library today just to see if there were really books in there like you keep saying. Amazing, you were finally right! Boy, there were there a lot of books. It was hard to figure out where to start. I started in the northwest corner and worked my way south. I went through about three thousand books before I came to one on kings.

Actually, I went in there to look up how to start a non-profit Christian corporation, but instead I found myself looking through books on Britain, Christianity, kings, Bible history, you know, the kind of stuff you avoid. It was pretty clear about King James I. They said he was an arrogant little king and perversely argumentative. This would lead one to immediately speculate he was a homosexual. Yes, some of them pointed out his homosexual tendencies. So if he really existed, as you claim, he was king who was just a pawn in the hands of God. Much the same way God uses anyone who is wicked and unrepentant.

But the Nonconformists and Puritans got him to squeak up a new Bible. He did not write it; he had nothing to do with it except he appointed scholars to revamp the Bishop’s Bible and the Geneva Bible (a scholar is a person who studies things before he becomes an expert like yourself). James wanted a new Bible for political reasons; the common man needed a Bible he could read: the rest is history. He never did authorize it, but he allowed it to be used along with many other versions (you see, the arrogant king thought he was

God’s only authority and allowed or disallowed everything). The common folk really didn’t like him at all, because of rumors about his habits and preferences.

If you knew anything about manuscript evidence and other ways of proving things besides personal experience, you would understand that it wasn’t really necessary for you to have been there for proof that this is how it happened. But maybe they didn’t teach you that in school. Maybe they taught you that the only way to prove you cannot fly is to jump from the Golden Gate. It seems to me you just want to pick out certain things in history to justify your sexual preference, historically condemned.

Anyway, I’m sure that if you don’t like some of the conclusions other historians came up with regarding the Bible, Great Britain, the kings of England, etc, then you can pick up some speculative rag that comes close to your beliefs (if you have any). If not, I’m sure you can make up your own history and who knows, sell it on Amazon.com. I won’t bother reading it.

By the way, I have no idea how well researched these books on King James and his penchant for boys are. They may be scholarly and well documented.  But that still proves nothing, if we are to stick to your criteria for proof. I wasn’t there, and neither were you.  Neither can I read every book or listen to every expert out there. Most of us think that the more information we collect the better we can decide what is true and what isn’t. Then sadly, we die without having read the latest “findings.”  And really sadly, no matter what they read, most people will never believe the truth regarding their destination after this world bids them goodbye.

Even though Jesus did many miracles among them, still they would not believe, because it was told beforehand by Isaiah, “Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” They couldn’t believe, because Isaiah said again, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes and perceive with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.” Isaiah said such things because he saw the Lord’s magnificence and spoke forth what he saw and heard.

Some of the people (even rulers) managed to believe in Jesus, but they did not speak up and confess Jesus because the Pharisees wouldn’t like that and they’d get thrown out of church. You can read about this in John Chapter 12, but you won’t find it in most schools.

- Chris Simonson

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