Is Homosexuality a Sin in this Age?

[shelbysatine]

I've been studying gender roles in the Bible, and in the process I've stumbled across the problem of homosexuality. In the same chapter of Leviticus (18) that asserts, "‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable," the Lord tells Moses that touching a woman while she's menstruating makes her husband unclean. We clearly do not hold that second command today.

Romans 1:26 states, "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual 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 committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error." Some have interpreted this verse to mean that the men and women, who were naturally attracted to the opposite sex, intentionally perverted their own sexuality out of lust.

Another idea is that homosexuality has been a sin circumstantially. The Bible declares sex outside of marriage (fornication, adultery, bestiality, etc.) as sexual immorality (a sin against God). Obviously, the time and cultures in which the books were written never would've imagined nor accepted same-sex marriage as valid, so any form of homosexual behavior was adultery/fornication by default. Today, however, it's possible for two men or two women to become lawfully married. If they're married, is it still considered immorality?

Some may also argue that men and women were created to be complementary to one another, which can be backed up with verses. However, Paul commended those who chose celibacy and Jesus himself never married. If a man can thrive spiritually even without a woman, what if he could thrive with a man?

Let me know what you think! Thanks.

 

[Note]

One man + one woman. That has always been what God wanted for people, but people think they know better.

 

[TuxAme]

Firstly, being homosexual isn't a sin in itself, it's only when it's acted on that there is sin.

Secondly, being ritually unclean isn't the same as having sin. They're two different things.

Thirdly, God doesn't exactly care for what our society might find "acceptable". He hasn't changed His mind because a lot of people in the 21st century have. Sin is sin, even if society tries to say otherwise.

Lastly, you can't take St. Paul's praise for celibacy as an acceptance of an unnatural romantic relationship. A man can thrive spirutually without a wife (or a woman, a husband) because, as Paul says, it frees one to focus solely on how to please God.

 

[Kaon]

I've been studying gender roles in the Bible, and in the process I've stumbled across the problem of homosexuality. In the same chapter of Leviticus (18) that asserts, "‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable," the Lord tells Moses that touching a woman while she's menstruating makes her husband unclean. We clearly do not hold that second command today.

Romans 1:26 states, "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual 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 committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error." Some have interpreted this verse to mean that the men and women, who were naturally attracted to the opposite sex, intentionally perverted their own sexuality out of lust.

Another idea is that homosexuality has been a sin circumstantially. The Bible declares sex outside of marriage (fornication, adultery, bestiality, etc.) as sexual immorality (a sin against God). Obviously, the time and cultures in which the books were written never would've imagined nor accepted same-sex marriage as valid, so any form of homosexual behavior was adultery/fornication by default. Today, however, it's possible for two men or two women to become lawfully married. If they're married, is it still considered immorality?

Some may also argue that men and women were created to be complementary to one another, which can be backed up with verses. However, Paul commended those who chose celibacy and Jesus himself never married. If a man can thrive spiritually even without a woman, what if he could thrive with a man?

Let me know what you think! Thanks.

Homosexuality is shameful because of what it represents spiritually. It is, at best, confusion. Androgynous Adam, and the androgynous angels have no need to marry, yet the Most High split Adam into his parts, and the angels took appropriate forms and mated with women.

Adam was in unity as Adam and Eve. The Most High split him into male and female, and told them to join to each other to create one flesh - binity as opposed to duality (what the entire world is chasing.) Adam joining to Adam is a dead end spiritually and even carnally (physically).

Man does not live on bread, water or (wo)men alone, but by the Word of God. Homosexuality is a distortion of Godly same-sex relationships. Affection can be shown between the same sex, but when it crosses into the dimension of sexual expression it becomes a problem.

 

[Note]

Firstly, being homosexual isn't a sin in itself, it's only when it's acted on that there is sin.

Secondly, being ritually unclean isn't the same as having sin. They're two different things.

Thirdly, God doesn't exactly care for what our society might find "acceptable". He hasn't changed His mind because a lot of people in the 21st century have. Sin is sin, even if society tries to say otherwise.

Lastly, you can't take St. Paul's praise for celibacy as an acceptance of an unnatural romantic relationship. A man can thrive spirutually without a wife (or a woman, a husband) because, as Paul says, it frees one to focus solely on how to please God.

My favorite part: sin is sin.

 

[DavidFirth]

It's always sin. The word of the Lord changeth not.