by Leonard V Johnson
We pray and hope that this article will help you better understand this question that many have.
Let me explain what I mean──the other day I heard on a television program, “The God of the Old Testament was hard; the New Testament God is much nicer!” They go on to say, “The God of the Old Testament would have you killed for breaking the holy Sabbath!”
Today, many worldly churches are promoting and teaching ideas that… according to the LORD God are immoral—such as the inclusion of people that are “immoral.” They go on to ask, “Why does the Bible reflect prejudice rather than love—a timeless principle?”
God’s living eternal word does not reflect prejudice; it reflects flawed and immoral people. The very idea that we are supposed to be all-inclusive with immoral people is supposing that the LORD God’s definition of what is and is not moral has somehow changed, so that the timeless principle of love has somehow changed.
It has not──God is love (1 John 4:8).
Notice this blasphemous statement from a liberal pro-LGBTQ+ female bishop of the United Church of Christ ──
Yvette Flunder—UCC bishop out of Oakland, head of “The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries” 🤮 —stood up with a mic and said what a lot of people whisper but won’t admit out loud. She said the New Testament is not the Word of God. Said the Bible is “problematic.” Said we need a “Third Testament.” Said if certain pages offend—rip them out. Pour them out. Rewrite the thing.
Well, in truth, God’s living word DOES NOT allow for female bishops! And, I know that this is a controversial subject──why, I do not know; God’s living word is clear──let me just add… God’s word presents a clear pattern in which men occupy the pastoral office of elder/overseer, specifically tasked with governing and doctrinal responsibility within local congregations. However, at the same time, God’s word also shows us that women were mightily used by the LORD God in various teaching services, hospitality, and leadership capacities that do not equate to the pastoral/elder/overseer office.
Of course, this false minister is also a lesbian, which is considered abominable to the LORD God ──
“Therefore A MAN shall leave his father and mother and be joined to HIS WIFE [note today’s societies have even changed the definition of wife! Note Webster’s definition of “wife” – “a woman acting in a specified capacity. A female partner in a marriage.” 1], and they shall become ONE FLESH.” – Genesis 2:24.
And yes, it’s equally sad that many today don’t properly know the definition of “woman” ── “an adult female person. A woman belonging to a particular category (as by birth), a distinctively feminine nature.” 2
That one verse is enough to show us that “one flesh” undergirds the LORD God’s view that marriage and sexual intimacy were designed for a male-female union. The absolute prohibition of same-sex activity among men (Leviticus 18:22, “’ You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.’”) reflects the overarching principle that sexual relations outside of the LORD God’s established male-female covenant are not in harmony with His design for mankind.
Romans 1:26-27 directly references women engaging in same-sex relations, “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.” His inspired words conclude here that such behavior stands outside of the LORD God’s original intention for sexuality.
So, this vile Yvette Flunder desiring a “Third Testament” so that one can rip to shreds God’s inspired word should come as no surprise since she is a faithful servant of Satan himself, ‘transforming herself into a minister of righteousness, whose end will be according to her works.’ – cf. 2 Corinthians 11:13-15. She outright refuses to accept the LORD God’s living word!
She, who claims to be a Christian, DOES NOT believe the following from our beloved Apostle Paul ──
“ALL SCRIPTURE [the whole of the 66 Books of the Inspired Holy Bible!] is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17) that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” – 2 Timothy 3:16-17.
Minister Fred R. Coulter had this to say in his commentary ──
“Indeed, the Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians that he was to help ‘complete the Word of God’ with his epistles (Col. 1:25). Paul also wrote to Timothy concerning the Old Testament … Paul is showing that salvation involves not only faith in Christ and New Testament teachings, but that the Old Testament teachings are necessary as well. Paul then shows that ALL SCRIPTURE ── Old and New Testament ── is inspired by God. …” 3
Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us ──
“ … ‘It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY WORD that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” – Matthew 4:4.
The Holy Bible ── which surely, in Yvette’s Bible, has whole passages marked out, and pages torn out! WARNS US ──
“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2) For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3) unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4) traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5) having a form of godliness but denying its power! And from such people turn away!” – 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
He goes on to say that such people are “always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” vs. 7.
“But evil men [and I add editorially, and women] and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” – vs. 13.
Truly, “’ There is no [reverent] fear of God before their eyes.’” – Romans 3:18.
Yet, sadly, her abominable statement about a “Third Testament” is not uniquely her own ── the World Economic Forum (WEF) (which I’ve spoken about in the likes of “Connect With Jesus ── Only $1.99 per minute”) stated something similar ──
June 10, 2023WEF Calls for AI to Rewrite Bible, Create ‘Religions That Are Actually Correct’A top official with the World Economic Forum (WEF) has called for religious scripture to be “rewritten” by artificial intelligence (AI) to create a globalized “new Bible.”Yuval Noah Harari, the senior advisor to the WEF and its chairman Klaus Schwab, argues that using AI to replace scriptures will create unified “religions that are actually correct.”(https://slaynews.com/news/wef-ai-rewrite-bible-create-religions-actually-correct/. Retrieved April 14, 2026).
Of course, now they are denying saying it! 4
Having certainly discovered that AI like Alexa+ can provide wrong answers to not only historical questions with theological connections (there is a clause at the bottom of the Alexa+ app in very small letters, “Alexa may not always get it right”), having AI rewrite a Bible or blasphemously pretend to be Jesus should not sound like a good idea to anyone who is rightly seeking the living truth of the LORD God!
God’s living word, that is alive, clearly warns us ──
“There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death [speaking of the second death].” – Proverbs 14:12.
The types of immorality that people are justifying in their own eyes will ultimately lead them to death! This so-called “new morality” ── where people are doing what is right in their own eyes (Deuteronomy 12:8) ── well … in truth, most people simply DO NOT CARE what the LORD God says!
We are at the 11:59 Hour, where more and more people want to censor God’s living word ── the Holy Bible ── a world that, like in the television show Young Sheldon, wants to make Christianity a butt-of-a-joke, wants to make anyone who believes in a Creator “crazy” and “irrational.” I found his comments highly offensive and inappropriate on that show! Prophet Isaiah was inspired to warn the rebellious children of God ──
“’ Woe to the rebellious children, ‘Says the LORD, ‘Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, … 8) Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to come, Forever and ever:
9) That this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear the Law of the LORD; 10) Who say to the seer, ‘[You’re outta your mind! Your very belief in a God is dumb!’] And to the prophets, [‘You’re not speaking the truth, America was founded upon the belief that all people are welcome!’ 5]. Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel [because, as they like to say, ‘We have a different God, not the God of the Old Testament!’] To cease from before us.’
12) Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel [our Lord Jesus Christ is the same God of the Old Testament!]: ‘Because you despise this word, And trust in oppression and perversity, And rely on them, 13) Therefore this iniquity shall be to you Like A BREACH READY TO FALL …’”
And let us think of the United States of America today; it’s interesting to think that President Donald Trump’s border wall could be thought of as a metaphor for the BREACH THAT IS READY TO FALL once he leaves office! If you can honestly imagine this “breach,” think about what the United States would have been like under a Harris Administration!
… ‘A BULGE IN A HIGH WALL, Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
14) And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel, Which is broken in pieces; He shall not spare. So there shall not be found among its fragments A shard to take fire from the hearth, Or to take water from the cistern.’” – Isaiah 30:1, 8-14.
YES! The LORD God is holding back this BREACH THAT WILL COME! The same as the LORD God has postponed the evil Islamic Regime of Iran from creating or obtaining a nuclear weapon! The great damage to Jerusalem is coming! The utter further decline of our societies and of the United States as a whole ── and even the loss of our sovereignty ── is coming! And much of it will be directly tied to this so-called “modern morality”!
The LORD God has created TIMELESS ETHICAL PRINCIPLES!
Now, it is true that many of the LORD God’s statutes were for the governing of the physical kingdom of Israel. The specifics are not wrong; they are simply in conflict with this new “modern morality.” Various penalties for wrongdoing ── some penalties required even death ── were placed into law by the LORD God to dissuade and discourage others from wrongdoing and criminal acts. Let me give you a couple of examples ──
“Now while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks ON THE SABBATH DAY. 33) And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. …” ── now, the people had already been told by the LORD God, ‘the person who does anything presumptuously, whether he is a native-born or a stranger, that one brings reproach on the LORD, and he shall be cut off from among his people.’ “ … 34) They put him under guard, because it had not been explained what should be done to him. 35) Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘The man must surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.’ 36) So, as the LORD commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.” – Numbers 15:32-36.
“’ If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep. … 4) If the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he shall restore double.’” – Exodus 22:1, 4.
We know from our history that there used to be public hangings in the United States. It was used in order to try and dissuade the behavior for which the criminal was being hanged. In an article I posted a while back, “Personal From… Capital Punishment,” of which I mostly speak concerning corporal punishment of children, I wrote ──
Does God use capital punishment?To properly understand God’s kingdom, we must first study His Way of governing people. And we can learn this from the Way that He dealt with ancient Israel in the past. We also need to learn how God deals with us even now, and what He will do in the immediate future. You are going to need and use this vital information.The administration of the civil government of ancient Israel actually reveals to us God’s method of dealing directly with unconverted, fleshly, sinning people. To be factual – the government of ancient Israel had church and state combined – though it was physical, the administration of civil and religious statutes and ordinances was combined. Bear in mind ── ancient Israel was NEVER promised salvation at that time. The promises under the Old Covenant were material – cf. Leviticus 26:3-12. They were not converted, nor did they have God’s Holy Spirit; hence they could not understand spiritual things. They were like the majority of people today. God dealt with them in a purely physical manner – PUNISHING THEM FOR THEIR CRIMES.
Most people will surely disagree, but the LORD God will implement these types of punishments again upon the establishment of His kingdom. The LORD God’s statutes—His laws, commands, and decrees—are portrayed in Scripture as eternal, unchanging, and universally applicable. Yet, we know that the LORD God will place within people ‘a new heart and put a new spirit within [them]; will remove [their] heart of stone and give [them] a heart of flesh.’ – cf. Ezekiel 36:26. So, I pray that those harsh punishments will not be necessary in His holy and righteous kingdom.
Some unclean meats per Leviticus 11 & Deuteronomy 14 (AI-generated)
Furthermore, let us consider that God’s word teaches us the prohibition of eating certain unclean meats. Indeed, science has proven that these unclean meats are unhealthy to a human body, often subject to being too toxic—at least a good part of the time, people in California are warned not to consume shellfish. Also, it is known that many diseases and viruses have been associated with the consumption of the LORD God-forbidden unclean animals, sea creatures──or whatever is in the waters──birds, flying insects and creeping things. So with this too, there is a timeless benefit, despite this God-ordained dietary law going against a “modern morality.” A law that is for all of humanity, not just the Jews.
Certainly, this so-called “new morality” is nothing new. It has been immoral in the eyes of the LORD God from THE BEGINNING. Let us consider some things that were considered immoral some 1,968 years ago, and are still immoral today in this 21st century present evil age ──
The Apostle Paul, writing to the Church in Rome, and to us dear saints as well ──
“For the wrath of God is REVEALED from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19) because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20) For SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and God head, so that THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE, 21) because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22) Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23) and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man ── and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
24) Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25) who exchanged the truth of God for THE LIE and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26) For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27) Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men COMMITTING WHAT IS SHAMEFUL, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
28)And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a [reprobate] mind, to do those thing which are NOT FITTING; 29) being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30) backbiters, haters of God, violent, PROUD, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,31) undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32) Who, KNOWING THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.” – Romans 1:24-32.
This so-called “modern morality” is NOT based upon the living word of the Eternal One!
Ancient Sodom Genesis 19:24-25 (ChatGPT-generated illustration for COJCOM)
In truth, it is far better for all people to obey the Commands of the LORD God than to claim that they cannot, will not, or should not!
God’s living word tells us of an early event that happened in the cities of Sodom & Gomorrah around 2065 – 1895 B.C. ──
“Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens. 25) So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.” – Genesis 19:24-25.
Why did the LORD allow this to happen?
Our beloved apostles Peter and Jude both speak of why ──
“For God did not spare … 5) … the ancient world, but … 6) … turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, MAKING THEM AN EXAMPLE TO THOSE AFTERWARD WOULD LIVE UNGODLY.” – 2 Peter 2:4, 5, 6.
“But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, … 7) as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth AS AN EXAMPLE, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” – Jude 1:5, 7.
Indeed, “sexual immorality” includes what had occurred in Genesis 19, “the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, … called to Lot and said to him, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally’” ── homosexuality (which is the term lesbian for females), what the LORD here calls “strange flesh.”
The LORD God allowed the utter annihilation of Sodom & Gomorrah 6 for AN EXAMPLE TO THOSE AFTERWARD WOULD LIVE UNGODLY! Yet, despite this grave warning, ‘that they once knew,’ many modern church ministers either gloss over this warning from the LORD God, or a great many try and deny that any sexual assault was involved in this incident! These false ministers continue to proclaim that “God was just angry over the Sodomites’ inhospitality to strangers.” In fact, when I asked AI regarding Sodom & Gomorrah, its answer was just that ── “Most scholars view Sodom’s sin as broader wickedness, especially hostile hospitality and violence against strangers.”
The context, however, is undeniable: what their intentions were – a sexual assault. In America, about 443,635 people (age 12+) experience sexual violence each year. Nearly every minute, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. Every nine minutes, that someone is a child. 7
Like what America HAS BECOME – the Sodomites were not ashamed of their social or sexual values and actions. With their smug and self-assured PRIDE, the inhabitants came to accept what to them was an “enlightened” and “free morality.” Again, they screamed in their streets, “No one has the right to tell me what to do or be!” They became enraged against Lot when he told them of their wickedness – cf. Genesis 19:9.
Our God’s word warns us of such false ministers and “scholars” that are leading people astray from His truth ──
“ … ‘O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.’” – Isaiah 3:12.
“For the leaders of this people cause them to err, And those who are led by them are destroyed.” – Isaiah 9:16.
Church leaders and scholars who blatantly ignore what the clear and plain teaching of the LORD God is leading others to destruction ── and to ultimately, their own.
Sadly, despite what most people are now claiming, this “modern morality” is immoral. And they will not come to the knowledge of the truth of the LORD God. □
Sources & Notes:
1 Webster, M. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition, Merriam-Webster’s Incorporated, 1996, pg. 1353.
2 ibid. 1, 1360.
3 Coulter R. F., The Holy Bible In Its Original Order A New English Translation, Chapter Four The Unity of Scripture, York Publishing Co., © 2009, pg. 30.
4 Source: Trela, N., False claim WEF wants to use AI to write new Bible that is 'correct' | Fact check, USA Today, 29 June 2023.
5 Thomas, C., “The Premise of Our Founding”: Immigration and Popular Mythmaking, The Panorama, 24 Feb. 2025.
6 Note: In 1973, Walter E. Rast and R. Thomas Schaub discovered or visited a number of possible sites of the cities, including Bab edh-Dhra.
7 Rainn, Facts & Statistics: The Scope of the Problem, retrieved 11 Aug. 2026.