Bible Scripture and Homosexuality
Both the Old Testament and the New Testament, have much to say about the act of sodomy...
The Holy Bible is clear that God has declared such acts to be a sin. For instance, God calls the homosexual acts committed by the men of Sodom “very grievous” (Genesis 18:20). He also calls those perverse sexual acts “filthy”, “wicked”, “ungodly”, and “unlawful”
(2Peter 2:6-8). In the book of Jude, verse 7, God explains that the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for “fornication” with “strange flesh”. In this, God contrasts homosexual sex acts with sexual relations between one man and one woman in His created, holy institution of marriage where the two become “one flesh” God has forbidden and cursed all fornication, the joining of human beings as “one flesh” in a sexual union outside of marriage, Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:5-7, Mark 10:8, and 1Corinthians 6:16
In 1Corinthians 6:15-20, He condemns the sexual acts men commit with women prostitutes because the two become “one flesh” outside of marriage. Homosexual acts are especially evil in that they are “fornication... [with] strange flesh.”
1Corinthians 6:15-17, Our Bodies are Members of Christ
15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid. 16What? know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
1Corinthians 6:18-20, The Body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit
(See Also: Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 3:16-18)
18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20For ye are bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Throughout the Holy Scriptures, the homosexual wickedness of Sodom is referred to and used as a sort of a benchmark for evil.
Because the Scriptures use the phrase “to know” when speaking of that famous incident when a crowd of sodomites demanded to have sex with two men visitors staying in Sodom, some have tried to say the sodomites only wanted to become acquainted with those visitors, who were in reality angels! This is a ridiculously poor Biblical scholarship. The Hebrew verb 'yada' which translates to the English verb “to know” is used in several scriptural contexts, including to denote sexual intercourse as in Genesis 4:1: “And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bare Cain...” No, the sodomites attempting to break down Lot’s door did not simply want to shake hands with his visitors! That is as foolish as saying that Sodom was destroyed because its inhabitants did not care for the poor! That particular claim is founded in a distortion of Ezekiel 16:48-50. In this biblical passage, God’s people were being warned that they were acting worse than the people of Sodom had by the very fact that they were God’s chosen people and yet were committing abominable sins!
The verses contain a short chronological account of how the citizens of Sodom, which was located in a “well-watered” area, became lazy and selfish in prosperity. Eventually, they also became “haughty” and committed “abomination”, a reference to sodomy and other homosexual acts. At that point, God judged and destroyed the town. Yes, the citizens of Sodom were selfish, and that was wrong.
However, Sodom was clearly destroyed by God because it had become a sodomite culture.
Still, some pro-homosexual champions claim the Holy Bible does not condemn homosexual acts. Yet, it does so from cover to cover.
The Holy Bible condemns homosexual acts in the strongest of terms and even by describing the acts themselves. Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13 both graphically forbid sexual acts between two men. Leviticus 18:22: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.”
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Romans 1:26 forbids sexual acts between two women, labeling “lesbianism” unnatural, saying that women who do those things “change” the natural for that which is “against nature”. 26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
So much for the “born that way” argument!
The very next verse: Romans 1:27 condemns sexual acts between men and men. Verse twenty-seven begins with “And likewise also the men...”
27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
In 1Timothy 1:8-11 instructs on the lawful use of the law to punish persons who commit acts such as murder, perjury, and sodomy.
Here homosexuals are graphically described as “them that defile themselves with mankind”.
1Timothy 1:8-11, Warning against False Teaching
8But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 11According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
The passage 1Corinthians 6:9-11 is a warning against the deception that one can live in open rebellion to God’s law and still be a Christian headed for heaven.
1Corinthians 6:9-11, 9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (malakos), nor abusers of themselves with mankind (arsenokoites), 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
In that passage, sodomites are accurately and plainly called “abusers of themselves with mankind”.)
These descriptive words, like all New Testament references to those guilty of committing sodomy, are faithfully translated from Strong's Concordance word # 733 ARSENOKOITES, a male engaging in same-gender sexual activity, a sodomite, pederast.
The Greek word which describes homosexual sex acts, is Strong's Concordance word # 3120 MALAKOS which describes something as (a) soft, (b) of persons: soft, delicate, effeminate.
Greek was the language in which the New Testament was originally written.
Until recent times, no one had ever attempted to claim that the Holy Bible does not condemn and outlaw homosexual sex. That may be in part because one must play the part of a fool to do so, as in Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools…
Consider for a moment a few more of the desperate excuses, which have been concocted as of late to justify sodomy and other homosexual acts. Some smugly overlook all the biblical condemnations and prohibitions of homosexual acts other than those occurring in the book of Leviticus where those acts are called “abomination”. They then state, “So what if God calls homosexual acts an abomination in the Bible; He also calls the eating of shellfish an ‘abomination.’”
These people may or may not realize that the ban on the eating of shellfish was part of the Mosaic dietary law which was set aside by God when Jesus Christ instituted a new covenant through His shed blood (Luke 22:20). They also may be ignorant of the fact that the word rendered as “abomination” in the Old Testament comes from six different closely related Hebrew words.
When the Holy Bible says that eating shellfish is an abomination under the Mosaic dietary rules, “abomination” in that case is rendered from the Hebrew word SHEQETS, which means filthy. Under the Mosaic dietary laws, the Hebrews were to consider shellfish filthy, which is unclean food.
On the other hand, the Hebrew word, that describes homosexual acts, is TOEBAH. Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (c.1984) accurately states that toebah “...defines something or someone as essentially unique in the sense of being ‘dangerous’, ‘sinister’ and ‘repulsive’...”
The Holy Bible tells us that God judges sodomy to be toebah.
When it comes to those two verses in the book of Leviticus, which condemn men and women sodomizing each other. Some homosexual apologists disingenuously state that those verses only condemn “cultic sexual acts between men” but that those verses do not condemn “loving gay relationships”. That particular argument goes up in smoke rather quickly in light of the rest of the Holy Bible.
When one considers that, the Leviticus prohibitions on homosexual acts are smack dab in the middle of prohibitions on other perverted sexual behaviors such as bestiality and incest. If God is only condemning “cultic homosexual acts” in the Leviticus passages, then it would follow that He is also only condemning “cultic sex with animals” and “cultic incest”.
There is no such thing as legitimate sexual relations between a person and an animal or between a parent and a child, any more than sexual relations between man and man or woman and woman are legitimate. God, in His Word, condemns all sexual activity other than that between a man and a woman in the holy estate of matrimony.
As already noted, God’s Word is crystal clear and extremely strong in the condemnation of homosexual acts.
In Judges 19:22, homosexuals are referred to as “Sons of Belial”; and in Judges 20:13, they are called “Children of Belial”.
The Hebrew word Belial denotes individuals who are ungodly, worthless, and wicked. It represents an evil force that opposes God and seeks to lead people astray from His path. That is exactly how God views those who engage in homosexual acts.
Therefore, it is true; from cover to cover, the Word of God condemns homosexual acts such as sodomy.
This should not be surprising since those acts are a complete repudiation of God’s created order and represent a graphic rebellion against the Creator and Lawgiver of the universe. Homosexual acts go even beyond the sin which “is common to man” (1Corinthians 10:13) and launch off into sin which is “unnatural” (Romans 1:26-27).
Consequently, homosexual acts are incredibly destructive to the individual who commits them (Romans 1:27-28 and Galatians 6:7) and to the nation that allows and condones them. Concerning the latter, God’s Word has made it clear He will judge and destroy a nation that allows homosexual acts.
It may be popular in today’s culture to defend and promote sexual perversion in the name of “tolerance” and “diversity”; but the truth is, God hates such acts and judges them severely. Homosexuals do not need, and must not be given, encouragement to continue in their destructive, sinful behavior. Following the “Laws of Nature’s God” (Declaration of Independence), homosexual acts must be recriminalized by thecivil government. (1Timothy 1:8-11, Romans 13:4). Upholding true law in such a way is also showing true love.
Ecclesiastes 8:11: “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” Homosexuals should be told that they, as all sinners, are lost and headed for hell unless they repent, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and are saved as believers in Christ. (Romans 10:13)
REAL Christians must stand against the New Sodom, which has sprung up in our midst!
At the same time, we must share the Gospel with the sodomites and pray that some will be born again and justified by faith in Jesus Christ (John 3:3, 1Corinthians 6:11). Now you know what God’s revealed Word, the Holy Bible, says about homosexual acts.
For your own sake, I hope that you will not try to change the meaning of His words or add to them, as in:
Proverbs 30:6: Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Whether you quote from the KJV, Geneva Bible, Douay-Rheims Bible, or any other valid Holy Bible, the position of Jesus on homosexuality is very clear.
(There have recently been several blasphemous and heretical “bibles” that were purposely rewritten for the use of those who have been seduced by the homosexual “lifestyle”.)
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"They have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean" (Ezekiel 22:26).
We are to hate the sin but love and teach the sinner the errors of his ways.
Upon your reading this above, (Bible Scripture and Homosexuality) YOU have now been taught!
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