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What does the Bible say about homosexuality?
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In some people’s minds, being homosexual is as much outside one’s control as the color of your skin and your height. On the other hand, the Bible clearly and consistently declares that homosexual exercise is a sin (Genesis 19:1–13; Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10). God created marriage and sexual relationships to be between one male and one woman: “At the origin the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’” (Matthew 19:4–5). Anything outside of God’s intent and blueprint is sin. The Bible teaches that Christians are to live for God, deny themselves, pluck up their cross, and follow Him (Matthew 16:24), including with their sexuality. This disconnect between what the Bible says and what some people experience leads to much controversy, debate, and even hostility.
When examining what the Bible says about homosexuality, it is essential to distinguish between homosexual behaviorand gay inclinationsor attractions. It is the difference betwe
The Bible and alike sex relationships: A review article
Tim Keller, 2015
Vines, Matthew, God and the Homosexual Christian: The Biblical Case in Assist of Same Sex Relationships, Convergent Books, 2014
Wilson, Ken,A Letter to My Congregation, David Crum Media, 2014.
The relationship of homosexuality to Christianity is one of the main topics of discussion in our culture today. In the descend of last year I wrote a review of books by Wesley Hill and Sam Allberry that take the historic Christian view, in Hill’s words: “that homosexuality was not God’s unique creative intention for humanity ... and therefore that queer practice goes against God’s express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.”
There are a number of other books that take the reverse view, namely that the Bible either allows for or supports same sex relationships. Over the last year or so I (and other pastors at Redeemer) have been regularly asked for responses to their arguments. The two most read volumes taking this position seem to be those by Matthew Vines and Ken Wilson. The review of these two books will be longer than usual because the topic is so contested today and, wh
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24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged organic relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.29They were filled with all conduct of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are complete of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.32Though they know God’s righteous
Does St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans condemn homosexuality as an “orientation”?
LGBTQ Christians are sometimes made uncomfortable when they read or hear the first chapter of St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans (1:26-27), especially when people throw the passage at them as a judge “throws the book” at someone guilty of a crime.
Romans 1:18-34, especially verses 26-27, is often interpreted as a global condemnation of homosexuality. But, as I notice it, this is not precise. The Apostle Paul (as adv as the entire Bible) does not consider homosexuality as an “orientation,” that is, something which people do not choose but which they discover in themselves (usually early on in life) and which they are called to integrate into their character.
Paul in v. 27 is almost certainly speaking of queer acts in the context of “sacred prostitution,” which was practised in some Greek and Rome temples of the time, which the Apostle may have noticed during his many missionary voyages. As for verse 26, which speaks of women who swap “natural” relations for “unnatural” ones, it also refers to temple prostitution.
The Apostle Paul (as well as the entire Bible)