 Auxiousness, trepidation, their determination and courage define the speech you're about to watch. The protagonist here is Reverend Carvin Robinson with a shining forehead glazed with drips of state fright forced out sweats. This priest would amaze you with the speech he gave at the Oxford Union. The difference between what you have ever watched in this video is that the lifeline of its concept encompasses every facet of religion and indeed the Abrahamic faith of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. So if you are a Muslim while the entire speech embodies the taste of Christianity it reserves very incredible lessons for you. For context it seems the loss of faith that has plagued the Christian religion in recent years affects the Anglican church the most. Our societal changes take their toll on conservative ideas. The church and indeed Christianity is finding itself on a very rocky and hot place especially on the issues of LGBT. The Anglican church particularly has been shifting ground in recent times to affirm same-sex activities ever since the publication in 2003 of a book by the Bishop of Oxford Richard Harris where he obviously argued that the church should be more accommodating or accepting of same-sex relationship. This was controversial made. It opened up a debate within the church about the nature of marriage. This was followed by the announcement that the church would allow gay men to become bishops in 2013. In 2017 it went nuclear declaring a radical new Christian inclusion of same-sex marriage or people. 2020 saw the church affirm transgenderism with the requisite pronouns. 2023 ended the entire argument with a law endorsing the blessing of same-sex union right inside the church. Who is calling for Islam to embrace gay marriage? Who is calling for the Quran to be updated to modern societal norms? For a Muslim what is the meaning of all this? Assalamualaikum brothers and sisters welcome to another episode of the open-minded thinkers show. As it is our tradition please like and share this video subscribe to Hepos Grove. The speech of this Reverend Anglican priest may well sound so Christian but it holds tremendous symbolic light for every Muslim. Why do I feel anxiety about this? Well we are up against the authorities. Three bishops from the established church that means either I am wrong and Christians have been teaching incorrectly for the last 2000 years or and Jews and Christians for the last four to six thousand years or we have church leaders attempting to drag the church into apostasy. Thomas Aquinas in his summer theological quite clearly identifies matrimony as being between one man and one woman beneficial for begetting of children and for the good of offspring for both educational and developmental purposes. Paul describes marriage as therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife and they become one flesh in which he is mirroring the language of Genesis where God tells man and woman to be fruitful and multiply. Both Aquinas and Paul refer to matrimony as a sacrament a holy mystery in which one man and one woman are joined together in conjugal union with the potential to be blessed by the grace of God with children. If we look wider abroad to the church Catholic which defines in the catechism of the Catholic church matrimony the matrimonial covenant by which a man and a woman established between themselves a partnership of the whole life is by the nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring. This covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament. Yes that's what matrimony means on paper in the church. Nevertheless Reverend be reminded that Allah made this quite clear in the Quran. Please check out Surah An-Nisa chapter 4 verse 1 where Allah states and I quote O mankind fear your Lord who created you from one soul and created from it its might and the spurs from both of them many men and women. In the hadith Sunnah ibn Majah 1846 it is narrated that the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him says and I quote marriage is part of my Sunnah and whoever does not follow my Sunnah has nothing to do with me. So Islam aligns with the views that heterosexual and marital relationship are completely exceptional. There's no way someone can explain this better. If marriage is no longer between one man and one woman are we open to the idea of polygamy. We disregard the heterosexual aspect so why not the monogamous aspect too. If love is love as we keep hearing who is to say that three men loving each other is not more love the two men loving each other. And I'm sure someone in this chamber has echoed the words love is love tonight and this is not about love being love this is about marriage the sacrament of holy matrimony it is directly connected to love but it's not the definition of love. Too many people utter those words and confuse the meaning of love. Agape the biblical context of love is a divine love it's a sacrificial love it's not lustful people often conflate sex with love it's very disingenuous we've heard quite a bit of that but then of course atheists often pirate the words God is love and we've heard that one tonight too again without any understanding yes God is love but he sets the terms not us. Another one we've heard plenty of is inclusivity should the church be more inclusive again it's a play of words it's it's virtue signaling it's to appear good rather than to be good the church should absolutely be inclusive. Christ spent time with tax collectors and prostitutes but it is they who went away changed not Christ. To this reverend it has been altered or watered down all the Islam hoed me. The trap that we're falling into in this debate is looking at the church through the eyes of the world rather than through his kingdom. In the secular world we already have equality in law people can enter civil partnerships or even gay marriage outside of the church and that's their prerogative however the faith is inherently discriminatory God is discriminatory he sets conditions on us entering his heavenly kingdom it is not a free for all we must turn away from sin repent and follow Christ and I want to specify it is the sin that is the problem not the sinner every single person is loved by God and God forgives all of us of our depravity but we have to turn away from our sins and turn toward him. Well not to embrace not to affirm not to gratify sin has been one of the selling points of Islam in the west in Islam this is not the case mate there are boundaries and nobody is allowed to overstep them Islam doesn't change the Quran or hadith to fit anybody it's either you accept it the way it is or you face the consequences hereafter who is calling except my good friend here for Islam to embrace gay marriage who is calling for the Quran to be updated to modern societal norms it is the same patronizing attitude of people of other treats other faiths patronize other faiths while being intolerant towards Christians at the same time it's a shame but in the words of St Athanasius of Alexandria if the world is against the truth then I am against the world thank you very much. We should be proud of being Muslims you can tie with us or our faith only Christianity our religious leaders are faithful with the tenets of Allah's religion and that of his messenger this is the attribute of God he doesn't change with time rather time changes for God. Let's apply the break ladies and gentlemen until next time.