Ohh, bait! Get some undercover cops in there! If you know where the drug dealers are going to be, it’s a perfect place to collect evidence. Send in the cop with a wire, buy drugs, and arrest the dealer as soon as the crowd has dispersed.

Original Sin
When the peoples of earth do not understand the third chapter of Genesis, the story of Adam and Eve, and the sin that was forbidden for each and every one of us we cannot understand God, goodness, holiness, or the rest of the Bible.

Departing from God and following the ways of Satan is established in Genesis and revisited throughout every story in Scripture. In the Garden there are only two powers available for man to serve. And today, as it has been since Eden, there are only two powers. This truth is restated in the story of Noah and those in the flood – the population of the earth divided into two groups. If Adam and Eve were placed in the story of Noah, they would not be in the Ark with righteous Noah. Adam and Eve would be in the water for they were deceived by Satan. It was a sexually perverse generation in the water at that time and so it is today. And the land was filled with violence as our land is today.

If placed in the story of just and righteous Lot, the first couple would not have been delivered with just Lot. Adam and Eve would have been citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah. An understanding of this first sin that spread so rapidly is critical for the salvation and well being of mankind, for all sorrows ultimately come from the continuation of original sin.

I believe oral sex was the sin in Eden. Adam and Eve had no one to sin with except each other. Romans 1:28-31 describes men with men and all those who give up the natural use of the body to do that which is not natural. This includes all the sexually perverse: same-sex partners and heterosexual partners married or unmarred who engage in oral and anal sex.

This Scripture goes on to tell us what comes out of the minds of those given to the sex forbidden by God. “Being filled with” means their minds are filled with the list of evils that is then listed. Below is the list of what fills the minds of those given to unnatural sex.
All unrighteousness: (If no one had sinned this first sin in Eden, the earth would still be an Eden with no need for ten more commandments.)
Fornication: (The name of the sexual activities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Gentiles, and Babylon.)
Wickedness: (the opposite of righteousness.)
Covetousness: (Greed)
Maliciousness: (Spiteful and cruel.)
Full of envy: (Greedy and resentful.)
Murder: (All murder comes from the minds of the sexually perverse. If no one had committed original sin, oral sex, we would still be in a paradise without pain and suffering. When sin ends murder will also end. War will end. Original sin is the root of all that is wrong, all the evils that are committed. It is the root of society’s problems, and until the root of all sin is acknowledged and removed these atrocities will continue. I am not saying all sexually perverse people will commit murder. But all murders come from the minds of those who commit unnatural sexual acts.)
Debate: (Their main debate is with God, rebellion against God. They debate truth, leading to all the religions and divisions in religions.)
Deceit: (Lying, injustice, corruption. All corruption in the church, in the business world, and at every level of government comes from those who have disregarded this first law for all mankind.)
Haters of God: (Regardless of what they claim; they hate God.)
Proud: (This is the pride God hates. God never walks in a gay pride parade. He never attends a same-sex marriage.)
Boasters: (We have all seen this demonstrated.)
Inventors of evil things: (This would include pornography, sex gadgets, group sex, etc.)
Without natural affection: (Today, many are given to unnatural affection as was the perverse generation in the days of Noah as demonstrated in the molestation of children, rape, same-sex relationships, pornography, prostitution, the high divorce rate, gangs, physical and verbal abusiveness, and the demeaning of women, etc.)
Unmerciful: (In the darkness original sin creates those captured by Satan cannot see that they do not care about others. When the Bible says “woe to you,” that does not mean “God will get you.” It means we will have woes: sorry, pain, sickness, injustice, and unhappiness if we as a people choose to sin. Yet, those given to unnatural sex prefer to please their own desires even if it brings all the evils listed above. The greatest commandment is to love God and one another. But those given to the forbidden sex of Eden actually are showing hate for God, self, and also for others. Original sin comes from Satan, and Satan is hate. Those who want sin to continue do not love God or self. And they have little mercy for their fellow brothers and sisters.

Read the list again and analyze how a nation could put an end to every evil on that list. Isn’t the answer simply by putting an end to all unnatural sex? Wouldn’t it be much more advantageous to begin a campaign of actions designed to end this so very popular sin rather than to condone, defend, practice, bless, and spread it as many organizations, churches, and our government are doing? However, it is the responsibility of Christianity and not the government to bring an end to sin. A holy Christianity will bring an end to sin. The end of sin will bring heaven to earth.

As stated, there are only two powers available for man to serve, God or Satan. Everyone on earth stands with one or the other and so it will be at the end of this age. In Isaiah 1:9, that truth is stated this way, “Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom and like unto Gomorrah.” There is no fence to sit on, no other group to claim to be a member of, and no place to hide. A remnant is left at the end and at that time almost everyone will have been deceived just as the couple in the garden was. In this darkness many will believe oral sex is not sinful.
The Remnant:
A few
The undeceived
Believe in God
The narrow way
No unnatural sex
Truth
Wheat
Lambs
Good
God
Christ
The Just

Sodom and Gomorrah
The masses
Deceived by Satan
The broad way
Unnatural sex
Lies
Tares
Goats
Evil
Antichrist
The unjust

Adam and Eve were the first to be deceived by Satan and if placed in this illustration they would be part of Sodom and Gomorrah. They would not stand with the remnant who believe in the ways of God. There is no other explanation for the sin in Eden. By removing original sin (the root of all other sins) from the earth all other evils will eventually come to an end.

I can understand why many heterosexual couples who engage in oral sex believe two people of the same sex can marry. After all, the heterosexual and the homosexual couple are committing the same acts. I believe this is why so many heterosexual couples are in favor of same-sex relationships, marriage, and ordination of the homosexual. One major problem is that our society does not see oral sex as sin for each and every one of us.

Three verses speaking of marriage.
Mark 10:6-9, “But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” From the beginning marriage was designed to be between a male and a female. To disagree with this is to disagree with God. The following two verses give a man and his wife instructions not to sin.

Ephesians 5:21, “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” The fear of the Lord is to hate evil as simply stated in Proverbs 8:13, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.” A man and his wife are capable of committing evil when submitting in a sexual way. However, they should not commit evil with each other.

Colossians 3:18, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as (R) it is fit in the Lord.” Husband and wives can do what is unfit. Oral and anal sex is forbidden and unfit for husbands and wives. The cross reference to “as it is fit in the Lord,” sends me to Ephesians 5:3, “But fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you.” And in Jude 7 we learn that the sex of Sodom and Gomorrah is called fornication, “Sodom and Gomorrah giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth for an example.” So we can see that God forbids men and women, husbands and wives, to use their bodies for fornication, the sex of Sodom and Gomorrah.

The purpose of Jesus.
1 John 3:8, “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” The purpose of Christianity should be the same as the purpose of Jesus, to put an end to the sin that began in Eden. The end of sin will bring heaven on earth. My prayer is that Christianity will some day unite, speak with one voice to put an end to sin.

INDEPTH: DRUGS
Point for point: Canada’s needle exchange programs
CBC News Online | Oct. 27, 2004

Needle exchange programs exist to provide clean needles and syringes for injection drug users. Health experts say hypodermic needles can harbour more than 20 blood-borne diseases, including HIV, and hepatitis B and C. Almost half of the country’s new HIV infections were among injection drug users. It’s estimated an injection drug user will inject about 1,000 times a year.

The first official needle exchange program in Canada began in 1989 in Vancouver. Within a few months, similar programs sprouted up in Montreal and Toronto. Over the years, community health groups, helped by provincial and federal funding, have created more than 100 exchange programs in the country. Ontario has the most comprehensive network of programs with 16.

Critics of such programs say they encourage people to use illegal drugs and result in more needles being dumped in public places.

According to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), which looked at several surveys, needle exchange programs (NEPs):

* Reduce the transmission of disease in drug users.
* Do not increase injection drug use.
* Do not increase the number of needles discarded (NEPs collect more needles than they give out).

A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in August 1997 concluded that providing sterile needles is an inexpensive means of preventing greater health-care costs. Researchers at McMaster University examined the needle exchange program in Hamilton, which provided more than 14,200 clean syringes to 275 drug users in 1995. The authors of the study estimated the program prevented 24 new HIV infections over five years. The study said the cost of treating HIV and AIDS over a person’s lifetime could total $1.3 million in direct costs to the health system.

“What this shows is that [NEPs] are really positive because they are reducing HIV and, secondly, saving money,” said Michelle Gold, one of the study’s authors.

Sometimes, HIV rates remain the same. Marliss Taylor, executive director of Edmonton’s Streetworks needle program, says programs can’t control what drug users do.

“While someone might be diligent in exchanging needles and having clean ones when they shoot up, they might not use a condom when they have sex,” Taylor told CBC News Online. Streetworks hands out about 835,000 needles a year to about 5,000 addicts.

Taylor says Alberta’s HIV rate dropped in 2003, with only 31 new cases. That compares to 70 new cases back in 1998 and 80 new cases in 2000. Taylor says she’s not sure what caused the drop but notes that her staff doubled from 2002 to 2003 and they were able to get more needles out in that period.

International studies have supported the creation of syringe exchanges. In Southern Australia, 55 NEPs serving about 1.2 million drug users resulted in no new HIV infections for three consecutive years. In the U.S., a 1997 National Institutes of Health survey demonstrated such programs resulted in a 30 per cent reduction in HIV transmission.

Needle exchange programs also distribute bleach kits for sterilizing needles, and provide testing and referrals for HIV, hepatitis and other sexually transmitted diseases, as well as counselling for other needs such as nutrition or housing.

Some NEPs are located in a fixed site while others have a van to bring fresh needles to drug users who aren’t able to make it to a location.

“It’s the other things that they need,” says Taylor. “Sometimes, the drug use isn’t the problem. Do they have food? A place to stay? Warm clothes?”

Despite the NEPs, HIV rates have been soaring in Vancouver and Toronto. A report prepared by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network discovered 8.6 per cent of injection drug users in Toronto had HIV in 1997/98, up from 4.8 per cent in 1992/93. In Vancouver, the HIV rate rose from four per cent in 1992/93 to an astonishing 23 per cent by 1997/98. The problem lies with the popularity of crack cocaine. Cocaine users tend to shoot up 20 to 30 times a day, frequently with groups of other users.

In September 2003, Vancouver opened North America’s only legal shooting gallery. It’s a three-year pilot project funded by Health Canada and the government of British Columbia. After one year, a report assessing the facility said it dealt with 107 overdoses and no one died. The clinic, open 18 hours a day, is located in the heart of the city’s drug corridor, the Downtown Eastside. It provides a safe place and clean “tools” for addicts to shoot up. The clinic gets an average of 600 visits a day.

Don McPherson, co-ordinator of Vancouver’s drug policy, says the numbers are a good sign.

“The more we can get inside, the better. Better in [the clinic] than in the back alleys,” said McPherson in the Globe and Mail (Sept. 24, 2004).

As for needle exchange programs, the Canadian AIDS Task Force says they work best for heroin addicts, whose behaviour is predictable. The challenge comes now in dealing with increasing cocaine use and those mixing heroin and cocaine. The task force recommends:

* Expansion of methadone programs to keep heroin users from using street drugs.
* Giving heroin users a wider berth if they stray from treatment programs; programs kick users out for just one slip.
* Treating drug use as a public health issue and not a criminal one.

Overall, cities need a comprehensive drug strategy, says Patrick Smith, director of clinical programs at CAMH. Smith points to the Vancouver example. The city commissioned a report in 2000 and it recommended a “four pillar” approach to drug use: treatment, prevention, enforcement and harm reduction. The report resulted in the opening of the safe injection site.

Marliss Taylor agrees with a broad strategy for drug use problems.

“We need to rethink a lot of things. Drug use is a complicated issue … it’s about helping people address their issues, past issues, mental health issues. They started drug use for a reason. A lot of times, they are self-medicating.”

Since the mid-1980s, most developed countries and a growing number of developing countries have introduced SEPs as a core component of an overall harm reduction strategy aimed at injection drug users. However, in some countries, such as the United States, controversy surrounds the role of SEPs as a harm reduction measure, despite seven federal government-commissioned studies reporting favorable outcomes that have called for a repeal of the congressional ban on federal funding to support SEPs.

To date, there are no peer-reviewed scientific papers suggesting that SEPs cause negative societal effects, such as increases in drug use, crime or an increase in needles discarded on the street. In the United States, opposition to SEPs is based on moral, rather than scientific, views, since the science clearly supports their implementation and expansion. In fact, clean syringe exchange is endorsed by the U.S. surgeon general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, American Medical Association, U.S. Conference of Mayors and the American Bar Association, just to name a few.

You can say all you want about the morality of intravenous drug use. But the fact remains that if you use drugs, you always have the option to quit … whereas if you become infected with HIV, you remain infected for LIFE.