Why do some people say Homosexuality is lust of the flesh?

Question

I'm not gay but was wondereing this. Why do some people say that being Homosexual is lust of the flesh? What about homesexuals who fall in love and want to get married is that lust? If being homosexual is lust of the flesh? Then what about being hetrosexual which is lust sometimes but when its not lust like its more than that? Can't homosexuality also be more than lust? What about when 2 homosexual people are in love? I hope I'm explaining this right.

Jeff: I won't delet ur answer. But how do u know for sure that they can't have real love?

Answer 1

Excuse me for being nasty but...

PENIS GOES IN THE VAGINA!!!!

NOWHERE ELSE!!!

Answer 2

Homosexuality is considered lust of the flesh because God simply didn't sanction it. God made male and female, and he intended for humans to marry that way. The Bible is against homosexuality. In Deutoronomy, the punishment prescribed for men lying with men and women lying with women was death.
Of course, one may counter that that scripture only describes the act and not the actual feeling.
To be more specific, look at near the end of Romans chapter 1, which describes God being disgusted with a certain people for their sins. In the end, he decides to give them over to a reprobate mind. There is also a brief description of what they did. Among what they did was have homosexual relationships.

Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 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 recompence of their error which was meet.

You might want to note a couple of things here. First, notice how the Bible uses the word "lust" to describe a homosexual relationship. However, in the Bible, it says something quite different about a heterosexual relationship between MARRIED people. In Ephesians 5:25, it tells husbands to LOVE their wives as Christ loved the church. It doesn't say LUST. This, along with the idea that homosexuals were punished according to the law in Deuteronomy, suggests that love is not possible in a homosexual relationship.
Finally, you would want to note the "vile affections" part. What is love? The human definition of love would be to feel affection toward a person. Well, notice how homosexual affections are described not only as such, but as VILE affections. If all homosexual affections are VILE, then one could only conclude that it is not love.
The Bible, however, defines love not as an affection, but as God. God is love (I John 4:18). If God is love, and the human definition of love is affection, and homosexual affections are vile, then is God vile? Nope. God can't be vile. Therefore, since God isn't vile, and God is love, and if homosexual affections are vile, then that means that homosexual affections are not love at all. This sort of reasoning shows you that no love can possibly occur between homosexuals because their affections are not something God supports or God is a part of.
So, yeah. All homosexual affections are lust and not love. Homosexual affections are described as vile, and if they were love, then God would be vile. God is not vile, therefore, only lust can exist in a homosexual relationship.
As for heterosexual lust, of course it occurs. Jesus said that if a man were to look at a woman in lust, then he would have already committed adultery with each other. So, that's also a problem.
I hope that helped.

Answer 3

Homosexuality is a tendency that runs deeply in a core of a person's being. It is a craving for a certain type of love an affection from the same gender. Often this tendency roots back to a deficiency in having received love from the authority figure in a person's life. For example, young men who do not receive appropriate love from their fathers can be susceptible to seeking that love out from other male figures in their lives but will end up in twisted, often destructive ways. So, in short, homosexuality can be said to be a "lust" of a person's flesh. This is predicated by the lewd forms of sexual expression homosexuality often takes on and the number of lifetime partners a homosexual has (even monogamously). The tendency is insatiable and distorts God's true plan for male/female love in marriage love.

Answer 4

All sexual beings have lust of the flesh.
When a man and a woman have sex with the intention of having a baby then there is a second reason also. They need to have some sort of sex drive otherwise they are incapable of having/enjoying sex (so does sex drive/attraction qualify as lust? It depends who you ask.).
I wouldn't say it is a term that is exclusive to homosexuality.
It sounds like you heard it being used in a derogatory way. A homosexual relationship is no different from a heterosexual relationship (in my opinion; there are a lot of people who would disagree with me). If people who are beyond menopause or who have had vasectomy's have sex knowing they can't have children are they being lustful? These are all questions you have to answer for yourself using your own moral compass. Just try to remember that homosexuals are people first; homosexuality is just one of their traits (like heterosexuality, blue eyes, or piano players).

Answer 5

The issue with that is that that love could be focused in a woman instead, if it didn't have anything to do with a fleshly interest (lust). However, homosexuals tend to be homosexuals -because- they experience a sexual stimulation around others of the same gender. You see, I love both men and women, yet I am straight. However, as God has revealed to us in the Bible, I am to be romantically interested in women strictly. Why would I take up a wife? Because God designated men and women to come together, woman to help the man.

Answer 6

All sexuality is lust of the flesh. It's up to you whether you want to consider that a good or bad thing. I personally think all lust is good, and all consentual sexuality is even better.
Is it lust for a man to want to have sex with another man? Sure. Isn't it then also lust for a man to want to have sex with a woman? You bet your hairy *** it is. Just because some people think one way is more "natural" doesn't mean it's any less lustful.

Answer 7

Because homosexuality is un-natural man and woman were created and people think that it is wrong for two of the same to be together and that people who do engage in that are just too weak to stop themselves hince lust of the flesh. I understand your point, but there are people out there that are so closed minded that they can't see anything more. (by the way I am not that way either)

Answer 8

If you read for enlightment then read The Holy Bible, any translation that makes sense to you, the book of Romans Chapter 1. Read the entire chapter and maybe that will help. Also, most mating rituals are based on 'flesh' or sexual senses ( no one looks at a woman or man and decides to 'get with them' based on whether or not they would be good parents or good providers no, their first impression is how cute they are or SEXY they are). Homosexuals can not procreate ( make babies-"Be fruitful and multiply" 1st law of nature) because they are first men, primarily by the laws of nature (Penis, facial hair, lack of defineable breast ), they are not women even though they try really hard to be ( mannerisms). Only option is sexual allure.

Answer 9

People who say that "homosexuality is lust of the flesh" are parotting what they have heard from false teachers. Your point about homosexuality being no more or less "lust of the flesh" than is heterosexuality is well taken. People tend to fear that which is different, and to many of the ... shall we say ... less intellectually nimble, homosexuality is less "natural" than heterosexuality.

Answer 10

Some people say homosexuality is lust of the flesh, because that is a "pat" answer and they don't have to think for themselves.

Answer 11

becasue there are different kinds of love, homosexuals can not have real love, like the love between a man and a woman, it's earthly, i'm a christian so my comment probably won't matter to you at all, christians call it lust of the flesh. now go on and deleate this comment.