Bible verse that says gay is bad
What the New Testament Says about Homosexuality
The Fourth R Volume May-June
Mainline Christian denominations in this land are bitterly divided over the question of homosexuality. For this reason it is important to seek what light, if any, the New Testament sheds on this controversial issue. Most people apparently consider that the New Testament expresses strong opposition to homosexuality, but this simply is not the case. The six propositions that follow, considered cumulatively, advantage to the conclusion that the New Testament does not provide any lead guidance for understanding and making judgments about homosexuality in the modern planet.
Proposition 1: Strictly speaking, the New Testament says nothing at all about homosexuality.
There is not a single Greek word or phrase in the entire New Testament that should be translated into English as “homosexual” or “homosexuality.” In fact, the very notion of “homosexuality”—like that of “heterosexuality,” “bisexuality,” and even “sexual orientation”—is essentially a modern concept that would simply have been unintelligible to
What does the Bible say about bisexuality?
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The Bible nowhere directly mentions bisexuality. However, it is distinct from the Bible’s denunciations of homosexuality that bisexuality would also be considered sinful. Leviticus declares having sexual relations with the alike sex to be an abomination. Romans condemns sexual relations between the matching sex as abandoning what is instinctive. First Corinthians states that homosexual offenders will not inherit the kingdom of God. These reality apply equally to bisexuals and to homosexuals.
The Bible tells us that a person becomes double attraction or homosexual because of sin (Romans ). This does not necessarily signify sins the person has committed. Rather, it refers to sin itself. Sin warps, twists, and perverts everything in creation. Bisexuality and homosexuality are caused by sin "damaging" us spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Sin is the plague, and bisexuality is simply one of the symptoms.
Many Christians mistakenly highlight on bisexuality and homosexuality as particularly evil sins. The Bible nowhere describes homosexuality
What does the Bible say about being a lesbian?
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Some are under the assumption that, while the Bible condemns gay sex between men, it nowhere condemns creature a lesbian/lesbianism. Leviticus and bring up men having sex with other men, but say nothing of women having sex with other women. In the Sodom and Gomorrah account in Genesis 19, the men of the cities wanted to gang rape other men. First Corinthians mentions effeminate men, very likely referring to homosexuals, but does not state lesbians. So, does the Bible in fact condemn male homosexuality, but not lesbianism?
Romans puts this invalid assumption to rest: “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men involved indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion” (emphasis added). Clearly, this alley puts lesbianism on equal soil with male homosexuality. Lesbianism is described
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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 instinctive 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 behavior of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are packed of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, dis