Re-defining things that are proscribed in Bible sets up a collision with God

(The letter can be read here: ‘Gay marriage opponents take note: just because a practice is ancient doesn’t make it OK’)

Sound very Utopian, but is it really? The reality is that God has laws that trump any made by man, and that only in following those can man truly live, love and be happy.

The Bible declares that ‘the word of the LORD endureth forever (I Peter 1:25)’ and ‘I, the LORD, do not change’.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Societal norms may change, but not God. There is no shadow of turning with Him. We can only clearly define was is good or bad because even in the New Testament it says that ‘sin is a transgression of the law.’

There is no grey area. To merge concepts and redefinitions into society, and even the church, of things clearly proscribed in the Bible means running headlong into a collision with the God of creation, and His people who honour His commandments.

Glyn Roberts (‘Belfast Sundays should be different,’ March 7) writes about Sunday trading hours, which highlights a typical example between keeping a tradition or commandment of men, as opposed to doing what it actually says in the Fourth Commandment in regard to keeping the seventh day (Retail NI boss: Sunday mornings in Belfast city centre should be different,’ March 8) holy as with the Scriptural example of St Patrick and even Jesus Himself.

City councils and parliaments are keeping alive the decree of Roman Emperor Constantine who in 321 forbade work on the venerable day of the sun, or Sun-day, which honoured the sun, not the Son. The Church happily merged the day. Yeshua, or Jesus, remains, in His own words, Lord of the Sabbath, not of Sun-day.

His words endure forever.

Colin Nevin, Bangor