HOMOSEXUALITY

Is it true that the Scriptures don't really have anything

to say about homosexuality and the legalization of gay
marriage? I've heard this argument advanced many
times – so often, in fact, that I've become seriously
confused about the issue. What's your perspective?

HOMOSEXUALITY
” malakoi” = The soft ones
Is it true that the Scriptures don't really have anything
to say about homosexuality and the legalization of gay
marriage? I've heard this argument advanced many
times – so often, in fact, that I've become seriously
confused about the issue. What's your perspective?

HOMOSEXUALITY
 Sin is described in the Bible as
transgression of the law of God (1
John 3:4) and rebellion against God
(Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18)
Leviticus 20:13

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have

committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their
blood is upon them.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom
of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor
thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will
inherit the kingdom of God. ()
1. Homosexual sin is serious. Paul says the active and unrepentant homosexual, as with all active, unrepentant
sinners, will not enter God’s kingdom. Paul urges his readers not to be deceived on this point. He assumes
there will be those who deny this teaching, and argue that some forms of homosexual conduct are acceptable
to God. But Paul is clear: homosexual conduct leads people to destruction. This is a serious issue. 

2. Homosexual sin is not unique. Paul’s list includes other forms of sexual sin (sexual immorality and adultery),
and it includes non-sexual forms of sin (drunkenness and theft, for example). Homosexual sin is incredibly
serious, but it is not alone in being so. It is wicked, but so is, say, greed. We must not imply that homosexual
sex is the sin of our age. If we are to be faithful to Scripture, we must also preach against theft, greed,
drunkenness, reviling, and defrauding others, many of which are also trivialised in our society, and all of which
also characterize the unrighteous. 

3. Homosexual sin is not inescapable. Paul continues in verse 11: “And such were some of you. But you were
washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God”
(1 Corinthians 6:11). 

The law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the
unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, for the sexually immoral,
men who practise homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound
doctrine. (1 Timothy. 1:9-10)
Romans 1:26-28
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women
exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 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. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile
to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that
they do what ought not to be done.

1 Timothy 1:8-11
8 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 9 We also know that the law is
made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the
unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for
the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and
perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11 that conforms to
the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
Mark 10:6-9
6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this
reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8 and the
two will become one flesh.’So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore
what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Ephesians 4:13-15 New International Version (NIV)

13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and
become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and
blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness
of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we
will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head,
that is, Christ.