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by zazzy_one on November 20th, 2006

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It is my belief that there is no biblical passage that outlaws homosexuality and that the ban is created by haters. Can anyone cite to any biblical ban on homosexuality?

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  • by Perryman on November 20th, 2006

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    In unmistakable language, both male homosexuality and lesbianism are condemned by the inspired apostle Paul in God's Word, the Bible:
    "God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error." Romans 1:26, 27.
    Paul also wrote: "Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God's kingdom." (1 Corinthians 6:9, 10) New World Translation

    Other Bible translations render the expression "men who lie with men" in various ways, as follows: sodomites, perverts, sexual perverts, homosexual perverts, homosexual perversion, and just plain homosexuals.

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  • by Roger Kovaciny on November 28th, 2006

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    Leviticus 18:22. "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." There are other places I could quote, but I just want to make the point that you're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts, and the facts are that homosexual behavior is prohibited in the Bible and only by the most astonishing gymnastics can an outfit like the Metropolitan Community Church change all these passages into their opposite.

    We don't hate gays. Quite the contrary. When you do a little Net research on homosexual mortality rates, you'll see that you can expect to die in your forties or fifties if you go gay. Christians don't hate gays any more than we hate smokers, drunks and druggies. It's not hate when you warn someone he's likely to destroy a good-sized chunk of his life.

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  • by ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. on May 19th, 2007

    ...trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

    Leviticus 18:22 and Romans Ch.1. I don't hate homosexuals and neither does God because He sent His Son Jesus to die for them so that they could be saved from damnation; so that all of us could be saved from damnation because we're all sinners. But God does hate the sin itself because He called it an abomination and a homosexual act, in the Old Testament, was punishable by death. (Levitcus 20:13) Please read this online tract if you are interested: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5003/5003_01.asp
    I hope that this is helpful.

    -In the service of the Master.
    Thank you and God bless you!

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  • by intuitive_demands on November 27th, 2006

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    Actually, the bible never says homosexuality. Unless thats another "translation" that came out. It says perversion, which can be any interpretation one person decides it to be. AS with the whole thing.

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  • by ChrisDC on May 3rd, 2009

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    Your "belief" on the question of what the Bible says is wrong. The message is pretty clear -- and it's out there for anyone to read. (The verses have been cited extensively in other answers.)
    When posing a question, it's always a good idea to focus your opinion on an argument rather than on a statement of fact that can be independently disputed.
    As a very happy gay guy, and a Methodist, I don't believe that those verses are any more relevant to life in the 21st century than the ones that would condemn me for the barbecued pork sandwich I just had for lunch.
    So, I don't agree with them -- but they are there.

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  • by Moongrim on May 3rd, 2009

    Moongrim

    Leviticus 18:22 only forbades men from having sex like you would with a woman. (Missionary). It doesn't expressly forbid gay sex, like it expressly forbids eating shellfish.

    Conversely:
    It is good for a man not to TOUCH a woman (1 Co r. 7:1)

    http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2002-June/021603.html

    How many sinning Christians expressly break the law against eating shellfish? All of them!

    http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/about.php

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  • by HelloRe is anxious on June 12th, 2009

    HelloRe is anxious

    Passage 1 Corinthians 6:9:
    9Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality

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  • by brianturnerca on May 3rd, 2009

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    the answer he gave was a response by paul to the annointed, ie 144,000 mentioned in revelation. it does not apply to us. also the verse in romans is discussing people who "changed their natural affection for females to violent lust toward males" indicating that the condemnation is for straight people who willingly become gay after they have a female mate.

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  • by gsxrracer on June 3rd, 2009

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    Romans 1:18-32

    logical flow: "all other deparvities follow from the radical rebellion of the creature against the Creator" and "moral perversion is the result of God's wrath, not the reason for it" (MVNT, 384-385).


    1:19-20
    1:21-23, 25, 28a
    1:18, 24a, 26a, 28b
    1:24b, 26b-27, 28c-32

    knowledge of God (power, nature)
    rebellion against God; refusal to worship; idolatry
    divine wrath and abandonment
    moral perversion and ignorance


    1:26-27: What is behavior contrary to nature (ten para physin)?
    against the way God intended? against the created order? against what ought to be? (Cf. physis in 1 Cor 11:14)
    has Paul imported a Stoic ideal into the discussion?
    Could this be limited to sexual acts that violate one's sexual orientation?

    http://www.answerbag.com/profile/?id=99847

    The main problem is homosexuality has been frowned upon since before the romans or even the corinthians.. However it has also been over dictated. Its your body, its your right. Im not a homosexual, but I sure as the hell wouldnt allow an outsider to judge my moral values of women. The bible also boarderlines sex before marriage... how many of us follow those rules>?

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  • by Eddie Cairns on June 5th, 2009

    Eddie Cairns

    The true church is composed of those led by the Holy Spirit. (Romans 8) However, Jesus warned that there would be false prophets and false brethren amongst christians. You know them by their fruits. (Matthew 7) These grow together until the harvest. (Matthew 13)Those who advocate homosexuality in churches are contradicting God's word, which refers to homosexuals as unrighteous, unholy, profane, ungodly, etc. (1 Timothy 1) Such unrepentant sinners will not inherit the Kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6)As for those who openly sin, congregations are instructed to expel them to prevent the evil spreading. 'You shall put out the evil person from amongst you'. (1 Corinthians 5)
    There is nothing modern or new about sexual perversions. They were the reason for the Canaanite tribes being wiped out. (Leviticus 18)Those tribes had defiled themselves by indulging in incest, homosexuality, bestiality etc. The land itself had become defiled by these practices and it 'spewed them out'.
    Best wishes,
    Eddie Cairns.

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  • by Opinion-man on June 12th, 2009

    Opinion-man

    The Bible should NOT be an authority on this topic. It is NOT "God's Word." People who claim that do so because it gives them comfort or, (curious logic) they claim it's "Self-authenticating."
    It was written at a particular time and place with cultural values that influenced. There's plenty in the Bible we don't adhere to today, nor should we. The same is true of homosexuality. There are just a few places where it is referred to, and it's clear that it's a plain ol' cultural prejudice, one we should have moved beyond by now. Compare the number of times MONEY and GREED and INJUSTICE are mentioned in the BIble to the number of times homosexuality is. It's not even close.
    If you insist that the Bible be given that kind of authority, consider the things Jesus had anything to say about homosexuality: ZERO.

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  • by thatsJustme on June 12th, 2009

    thatsJustme

    "it is MY belief" first mistake we make with LOGIC, REASON and UNDERSTANDING of God.....it's not 'OUR belief ' we are to be ' reasoning logically' with in the first place, but HIS....it does not matter what WE believe or want to believe...:)

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  • by Kommandor Kody on May 4th, 2009

    Kommandor Kody

    Who cares? I mean whats the big deal if an author of a book bans homo activity or condones it in print? Lets say your neighbor, 'Jimmy Belinski', down the street from ya publishes a book condemning homo activity. It's his book to publish & he can say what he believes in his publication. You can do the same without reprisal as long as you have a Constitutional right to do so as Americans do with the protection of the 1st amendment to their Bill of Rights.
    I do not understand why this homo agenda keeps popping up??? I mean short of muslim countries no nation on earth outlaws homo activity in any way shape or form. Am I missing something or just alone in this world?

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  • by thatsJustme on June 12th, 2009

    thatsJustme

    Leviticus/the Laws...18:22 homosexuality is ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN , for it is an enormous sin. 23 A man shall have no sexual intercourse with any female animal,thus DEFILING himself;and a woman must never give herself to a male animal . to mate with it; this is a terrible pervision.24 do not DEFILE yoursel in any of these ways ,for these are things the HEATHEN do; and because because they (heathen, uncivilised and unGodly) do them "I" am going to 'cast them out' from the land(Canaan, the Promised Land) into which u are going.25that entire country is DEFILED (SODOM AND GOMORRAH) with this kind of activity ; that is why "I" am PUNISHING the people living there, and will throw them out of the land....
    26 you must strictly OBEY all MY laws and ordinances, and you must NOT DO ANY OF THESE 'ABOMINABLE THINGS': these laws both APPLY to you who are born in the nation of ISRAEL and the foreigners living among you.(it is not acceptable behavior ,for them or strangers among them)
    sexual realtions with like gender and with an animal are ABOMINATIONS to God , THEN and NOW....there was no reason for CLARIFICATION , not even from Jesus...it was an UNDERSTANDING that was never to be changed or misunderstood....:)
    but there are plenty of references throughout the Bible heathen(unspiritual and uncivil) practices:idol worsipping, having false gods, sodomy, beastiality....things God will never ACCEPT and we can't accept either....

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