As I have said many times before, I have no college degree.  Most of what I have learned about God has come from church, listening to preachers on TV, and just simply reading the Bible. 

However, if there is one thing that is obvious, if there is one thing that most Bible scholars will likely agree with me on, the one thing God hates more than anything else, it is defiance.  It is what causes a man to say in his heart that, “I don’t care what You want.  I am going to do it my way and You’re not going to stop me.  I don’t care if it is sin, I don’t care if it is bad.  It’s my life and I’m going to live it the way I want and no one is going to stop me.”

Defiance manifests itself primarily in at least two ways, though I suspect it shows up in a few other ways as well.  The first is pride.  It is the sin of Satan, himself when he defied God and attempted to ascend to His throne.  Ever since, he has been trying to get man to follow his example.  And so it is that, at one time being, probably, the most powerful of the angels, he has dropped to being the most horrid.  Still with great power and authority, his time is limited and he knows it.

More than that, God hates pride because it acts as a shield between Him and the sinner.  It is impossible for a man who thinks he is perfect to be saved.  He must first admit his sin, an imperfection.  Anyone knows that it is impossible to admit sin when a person thinks so highly of himself.

Another way that defiance shows its ugly self is in homosexuality.  God hates that sin so much that he destroyed 5 cities because of it.  Actually, he annihilated them to the point that, after all these years of searching, no one can find any evidence that they ever existed.  The only way we knew for years was the written Word of God.  From what I understand, they have found texts from other civilizations recently of their existence.

I say it is a sin of defiance because, as with pride, they have said that I don’t care how God meant it to be.  They defiantly say that they will do as they want and no one is going to stop them.  At one time, they said, “What we do in our bedrooms is no one else’s business but our own.”  However, it is no longer, what they do in their bedrooms.  Defiantly, they march down Main Street with their banners and other things.

And now they have, defiantly, before God, man and children, created something they call gay pride… to the point they celebrate it during the entire month of June.  It has combined, homosexual acts and pride, the two things God dislikes most of men, combined and in His face.  They stand, defiantly shaking their fist at God and say, “I don’t care what you say.  I don’t care what you do to me.  I’m going to do what I want to do and when and where I want to do it.”

There is no doubt that what they do and what they have done is wrong.  All one needs to do is read the Bible to verify it.  They need not come to me and call me homophobic.  I was not around when God built this world.  I was not here when he laid down the laws and established them before men.  I did not make them nor can I change them.

If the homosexual has a complaint, don’t come to me.  He just might try complaining to God about it.  But then if he did that, he would admit there is a God and that they are trampling underfoot the sanctity marriage.  Then too, if they did complain to God, what would they do if He replied.  Now that is something they certainly don’t want.

And so it is, they go on their rampages, hating God and hating those who represent Him.  Indeed, they even hate those who try to help them, though many of them are beyond help.  They have become so full of their pride that they will NOT listen perhaps to God Himself.

Ironically, the God they hate most loves them and will forgive them in an instant.  All they need do is set their pride aside for a few minutes, long enough to hear the plan of salvation.  However, it would seem to be the one thing they fear the most.  If they were saved, then they think they will need to set the sin aside and worship the God they hate, even though many refuse to admit His existence.

God has given them a choice.  It is theirs.  No one will take it from them until they breath their last.  I don’t know.  Maybe even then, some of them might remain defiant, perhaps for a thousand years or so.  I can’t imagine it would be long after that when they realize that maybe they made a real mistake.  Just maybe, then they would really like another chance.