“God Created Adam and Eve”—a Hate Crime?

Well, one former athlete in Greece, Vassilis Tsiartas, recently “received a [10-month suspended] jail sentence and a fine” for two 2017 social media posts that cited, among other things, God’s design of “Adam and Eve” in response to proposed legislation. He was then sued by the Transgender Support Association, who believe that his sentencing is “particularly important for the transgender community.”

It’s an upside-down world today where truth is error and error is truth!

This Greek court has ruled that free speech does not apply to Tsiartas’ beliefs based on the Bible (and this is certainly not the first time this has happened). Instead, those who promote body mutilating surgeries, sterilizing hormones, and radical ideology to children and young adults are free to say whatever they want. But those who believe God’s Word, and the simple truth that we’re created male and female, are vilified and punished. It’s an upside-down world today where truth is error and error is truth! But this should not surprise us in a world that rejects God and his Word. This is a spiritual issue.

Sadly, this kind of persecution of Christians is only going to continue. Again, that’s not surprising—Jesus said the world would hate us because it hated him first (John 15:18)! But truth matters, and error has consequences! For the sake of men and women, girls and boys, all made in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), we must stand for truth and reject the lies of the world, pointing people to the hope of the gospel, not the irreparable damage of surgery and hormones. Jesus is the answer everyone needs!

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