Can anybody tell me where in the Christian Bible it says Homosexuality is a sin.?

Question

I know the old testament rules that Moses wrote for the Hebrew nation condemned it, as it did masterbation and cooking meat and milk together. I want to know where it says in the new testament that it's a sin. My understanding is that Christ released us from the old testament rules when he died for our sins. My understanding from Christ's words is that the big 10 are the rules to live by (first 4 being man's relationship to God and the last 6 being Man's relationship to man). I would like to know where in the bible it says it....

Answer 1

Go to this site. It will give a different view of the bible's statements on homosexuality, or lack thereof. I wish every Christian would read this and challenge themselves to really study it, but, unfortunately most won't.
http://www.godmademegay.com/letter.htm

Answer 2

If you are a literalist (I am not, and for a good solid understanding of why, I suggest the new book "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Erhman from Harper Collins -- its an excellent layman's explanation of why nearly all top theologians are non-literalists) but if you are a literalist, then the only scriptures that will normally be quoted from the New Testament are from the Pauline Writings, and those are open to heavy interpretation, even for literalists.

May I suggest a couple of websites that you might find helpful to you. The second one listed in the source group will take you to a page where you can download a pdf publication. The first is Soulforce and the last is the United Church of Christ -- these are pages that agree with your basic premise in the question -- the idea that God accepts all people.

Kind thoughts,

Reynolds Jones
http://www.rebuff.org
[e-mail]

Answer 3

Leviticus 18:22, You shall not lie with a male as with a woman, it is an abomination. NRSV Christ also said "I have come to fufill the law not destroy it" When God made male and female he made us to complement each other. Man and his free will and sinful nature corrupt the order of things.

Answer 4

from old to new here is just one example'
Ro 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:
Ro 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 recompense of their error which was meet.

Answer 5

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them. [KJV Genesis 19:4-5]


Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. [NIV Leviticus 18:22]


If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. [NIV Leviticus 20:13]


There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abominations unto the Lord thy God. [KJV Deuteronomy 23:17-18]


Because of this, God gave them over to their own shameful lusts. Even their women exchanging natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received themselves the penalty for their perversion. [Romans 1:26-27]


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 mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. [KJV I Corinthians 9:19]

Answer 6

Actually, it doesn't say homosexuality is a sin. It says the act of it is a sin. That's where "Hate the sin, not the sinner" came from.

Answer 7

In the book of Romans: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/rom/1.html#24
And Corinthians: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/1cor/6.html#9

And some others: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/gay/long.htm

Answer 8

Just because the people who wrote the bible were ignorant and judgemental, does not mean what is written is "right".

Answer 9

if you know the story of sodoma and gomora ,both cities were burnt completely by God because they were raping all the travelers