Why are people so afraid to condemn sin, especially the sin of homosexuality? I just can’t understand why people are afraid to condemn same sex marriage. Are we not commanded to oppose evil, and to shun the very appearance of it (1 Thessalonians 5:22)?
I am so tired of people saying there's nothing wrong with same sex marriage, or being a homosexual. People, Romans 1:26-27 is not hard to understand! “For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against woman, And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.” On every hand, we are being pressured to accept homosexuality as just another life style. Proponents of homosexuality have tried to remove the force of this passage by suggesting that either Paul was expressing his own uninspired opinion, or he was merely laying the groundwork for his teaching on grace. So he was mainly concerned with idolatry and not any sin in particular. WRONG! Although a biblical writer’s opinion might appear in Scripture (e.g., 1 Corinthians 7:7), the suggestion that Romans 1:26-27 represents Paul’s uninspired opinion and is at variance with the rest of the Scripture, is untrue. Paul meant exactly what Christians have long thought he meant – that homosexual behavior is sin; it is condemned! The physical acts between those of the same sex is that which God calls being “against nature.” Homosexuality flies in the face of God, and flaunts God’s laws established in the very beginning (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4-6). To desire another man is hereby implied to be UNNATURAL. Nature is even defined for us in the text: a man desires a woman. Homosexuality itself is sinful and unnatural and we shouldn’t be afraid to stand against this sin! Sexual perversion is neither a medical nor cultural problem; it is a moral evil! It is condemned in the Old Testament (Genesis 18:20ff; Leviticus 20:13) and New Testament alike (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 1 Timothy 1:9; 2 Peter 2:6-8; Jude 7). Such wickedness is a natural consequence of refusing to have God in one’s knowledge (Romans 1:28).
Homosexuals have come out of the closet and now parade in our streets, and I’m supposed to like it? Wrong! The President and Congress are trying to give them equal rights just like “other” minorities. Rights? They never had the right in the first place to marry; “Have ye not read, that he who made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall become one flesh? So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Matthew 19:4-6).
Years ago, President Clinton promised in his in his campaign to cure AIDS! Cure it? He promoted it! Like President Clinton and so many people today, they throw the ones guiltiest of spreading AIDS in our faces and demands that we employ them and accept them and then mourn the AIDS epidemic. The majority of good people in this country have demonstrated their disgust with “gays” and in “gay bashings”. I do not endorse violence; however, what else can we expect when the immoral men who are in control shove them into the faces of people who detest this sin? God said it is an abomination to Him; it makes him sick (Leviticus 20:13).
Please President and congress, give me book, chapter, and verse, one Scripture favorable for homosexuality? What Scripture can be presented that legitimizes homosexuality? Please give one verse that shows support for homosexual marriage, or for in favor of “loving homosexual” relationships?” They can’t! In fact, that concept is foreign to the Scriptures.
Oh Jimmy, you have no compassion. Don’t you know that Jesus never said a word about homosexuality? Where does Jesus condemn homosexuality in any form in the New Testament? The Old Testament was nailed to the cross (Colossians 2:14). Jesus’ silence on the issue is no argument that He approved of homosexuality. He never specifically addressed the issues of pedophilia, bestiality, or any number of other sexual perversions. So, does this mean that Jesus permitted of whatever He did not condemn by name? Are we to think that as long as people feel love, it doesn’t matter what they do? The Lord Jesus ALWAYS spoke of sexual relations in heterosexual terms (Matthew 19:4-6). Also, in Matthew 19:9, Jesus used the word “fornication.” Fornication is a broad term that includes homosexuality. This is so for two reasons: (1) fornication refers to illicit sexual behavior; and (2) all sexual behavior that violates, is contrary to, or in addition to, the heterosexual behavior by a monogamous marriage, and is illicit.
Notice Jude 7, “Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are (WHAT? JP) set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.” Fornication here implies “excessive indulgence” or “to commit much fornication.” Strange flesh here means “out of the order of nature,” “contrary to nature,” “that which was unnatural,” “a departure from the law of nature.” One version reads, “And don’t forget the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, all full of lust of every kind, including lust of men for other men…”
Also, I want you to remember what Paul wrote, “Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). The Greek word relating to homosexual acts is malakos, defined by Arndt-Gingrich as “soft; soft to the touch, delicate." Malakoi; a form of malakos, is found in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and is translated "effeminate”; (KJV)“homosexual” (NKJV). The same apostle wrote: “If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 14:37). Jesus condemned this sin! And He did not lack compassion!
The conclusion is this: every time homosexual behavior is mentioned, it is condemned. The Bible is not homophobic, and people who stand with God are not homophobic; they are people who are not afraid to call sin, sin! You just remember of all opposition to truth and perversions of it, truth remains truth and all must stand or fall by it (John 12:48). “The scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35).