Jesus talks about homosexuality
Does Jesus Ever Talk About Homosexuality?
I was in my mids living in San Diego. I joined some people from a nearby church and went to a Pride parade to pass out water, present hugs, and hold signs saying “We are sorry the church hasn’t loved you the way Jesus would” (or something along those lines). All of a sudden, I was descended upon by a film crew with a microphone asking me what Jesus had to tell about homosexuality. I was not expecting this, but I was giddy to share the love of Christ and talk about how we are all sinners saved by grace and how Jesus never singled out homosexuality as worse than any other type of sexual immorality. In the middle of my sentence (which I had been certain would be received with amazement, tears, and more questions about how to understand this Jesus guy), the film crew interrupted me and said, “NOTHING. He said nothing about homosexuality.” And then they walked away without a pos, off to find their next “interview.”
I sat there dumbfounded. What had just happened? And was it true that Jesus never said anything about homosexuality? And if not, why not?
Spoiler alert: Jesus really doesn’t ever address homosexuality specifically, and in our curre
Bible Verses about Homosexuality
What does the Bible say about Homosexuality? Scriptures on Same-Sex Relations
There are some key Bible verses about homosexuality to get the biblical view of gay relations. The most commonly quoted Bible verses are Leviticus and Leviticus , which state that it is an abomination for a man to lie with another bloke as he would with a woman. In Romans , Apostle Paul says that homosexuality is contradictory to God's natural organize and results from rejecting God. Additionally, 1 Corinthians lists homosexuality as one of the sins that will prevent someone from entering the Kingdom of God. While the Bible is clear in its view of homosexuality, it is essential to retain that God loves all of his creation and offers forgiveness to those who repent and twist away from their sins.
Top 10 Bible Verses about Homosexuality
Leviticus ~ You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus ~ If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have dedicated an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Jude ~ Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulg
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Silence Equals Support?
In a article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?1
The article was occasioned by a story about a queer teenager in Ohio who was suing his upper school after school officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.”
Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the expression on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes,
While it’s reasonable to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would contain disapproved of gay sex, there is no write down of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself suggest an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.
Oremus seems to propose that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not have been very concerned about it.
There are at least two reasons that we should be skeptical of this view.
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If homosexuality is a sin, why didn’t Jesus ever mention it?
Answer
Many who sustain same-sex marriage and same-sex attracted rights argue that, since Jesus never mentioned homosexuality, He did not evaluate it to be sinful. After all, the argument goes, if homosexuality is bad, why did Jesus treat it as a non-issue?
It is technically authentic that Jesus did not specifically address homosexuality in the Gospel accounts; however, He did speak clearly about sexuality in general. Concerning marriage, Jesus stated, “At the beginning 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[.]’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, grant no one separate” (Matthew –6). Here Jesus clearly referred to Adam and Eve and affirmed God’s intended design for marriage and sexuality.
For those who follow Jesus, sexual practices are limited. Rather than take a permissive view of sexual immorality and divorce, Jesus affirmed that people are either to be single and celibate or married and devoted to one spouse of the opposite gender. Jesus considered an .
If homosexuality is a sin, why didn’t Jesus ever mention it?
Answer
Many who sustain same-sex marriage and same-sex attracted rights argue that, since Jesus never mentioned homosexuality, He did not evaluate it to be sinful. After all, the argument goes, if homosexuality is bad, why did Jesus treat it as a non-issue?
It is technically authentic that Jesus did not specifically address homosexuality in the Gospel accounts; however, He did speak clearly about sexuality in general. Concerning marriage, Jesus stated, “At the beginning 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[.]’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, grant no one separate” (Matthew –6). Here Jesus clearly referred to Adam and Eve and affirmed God’s intended design for marriage and sexuality.
For those who follow Jesus, sexual practices are limited. Rather than take a permissive view of sexual immorality and divorce, Jesus affirmed that people are either to be single and celibate or married and devoted to one spouse of the opposite gender. Jesus considered an
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