Doesn't the bible speak against homosexuality?

Question

I have nothing against gays and lesbians as a fellow christian I am taught to love everyone but to hate the sin. Showing love for gays and lesbians has nothing to do with approving of their lifestyle and actions. With this being the case my question is how can people who call themselves christians bring themselves to openly approve of homosexuality and gay marriages?

Answer 1

It is against the word of the bible, it is easy to say why churches have changed Gods word and have not only accepted the sin, but also have even included it into thier clergy.

They merely want the many people who will join their church to belong, so they can get thier money. They care more about trying to be politically correct and accetped in the eyes of man, than teaching what God really says

Answer 2

It is a sin, I agree. You were put on this planet to love a person of the opposite sex. Not the same sex. Everyone sins. No sin is worse than another. I wouldn't approve of their marriages, but love them and guide them in the right direction. I also have met Christians who believe being gay is how you are "born" well that's not the truth. I do not know where they got the answer out of thin air? The media? But I do know that it is wrong.

Answer 3

The Bible most certainly does speak against this. There's the story of Lot and the angel guests in Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22, Romans 1:26-27, and probably a few other places that I missed.

Answer 4

I am Christian as well... but even before I accepted God and started going to church I was raised not to judge people by their race, sexual orientation, looks, etc... I realize that the Bible speaks against homosexuality, but it doesn't make sense to me why homosexuals are ridiculed for their sexual orientation... they did not ask to be attracted to members of the same sex, they were born like that. Being homosexual is not a choice, it has something to do with the brain. Perhaps if more people believed that, there would not be so much discrimination.

It's sad because two of my best friends are gay, and both of them love God, go to church... but feel so guilty for going to church because they are gay. It's not right, they should not feel that way in a house of God.

Answer 5

they cannot unless they break the second commandment and worship a god of their own imagination. Yes the bible says that homosexuality is wrong, it is an abomination and it is sinful. However, we all walk in sin and need deliverance from something. Knowing something is wrong is NEVER an excuse to be hateful or cruel or abusive to someone. Neither is it an excuse to reject or abandon someone. I do not approve of the lifestyle and I will never hide that, but I know that God loves the person and desires that they turn away from it and turn to Him. I will not tolerate the sin but will wholeheartedly love and accept the sinner.

Answer 6

If christians bring themselves to openly approve of homosexuality and gay marriages then they are not true christians. If they new what being a christian was they would try to be christ like and that is no where near being christ like. Of course chirst loves those even who sin but will not join in there beleifs and will condem them if they continue in there ways. That is why we have choices and no one is perfect. "Let he who is of no sin cast the first stone."

Answer 7

"LOVE THE SINNER; HATE THE SIN."

This is a cop out. And, though often quoted, it's not in the Bible. It's true that God tells us to love one another as he loved us. It's also true that God says he hates sin. But Fundamentalists have taken these two diverse statements and made them into a defense for mistreating homosexuals, abortion doctors, and, heaven forbid, women who want equal rights. When attacked for their judgmental attitudes against gays, for instance, this phrase becomes the catch-all defense as to why their actions are okay in "God's eyes." By denying a gay man a right to equal and fair treatment under the law, Fundamentalists aren't "hating" the sinner - they're merely showing their displeasure with the sin. By using the national media to claim that gays are sick and need healing, they aren't showing "hate" - they're merely trying to "love" them by showing they need to be "healed."

Fundamentalists forget that we're not told to "hate the sin." We're told to forgive the sin. In Matthew 18:23-35 Christ tells of a slave who was forgiven his debts (just as Christians are forgiven their sins). This slave, however, refused to forgive the debt of a fellow slave (just as Christ asks us to forgive our fellow sinners). Christ called that slave "Evil." All who call themselves "Christian" absolutely must forgive the sins of any other sinner - even the homosexual. The moment they don't, the moment they start brandishing the "love the sinner but hate the sin" argument, they are themselves condemned by the very God they say they serve.

Answer 8

Here are some quick quotes from an article I wrote called .. "Yet Another Oxymoron."

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination..." -Leviticus 20:13

"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...Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." -Romans 1:27,32

Sin’s results effects society as a whole! Individuals and families are impacted as a result of rejection of Gods’ design for the good of humanity. Devastating sexually transmitted diseases are now rampant around the world. HIV and the resultant AIDS deaths are a direct result of sodomy and Homosexuals (aka Sodomintes) intransigent demands for sexual license. Even now they refuse to limit their activities or control their lusts and are demanding more and more 'rights' such as homosexual 'marriage', adoption, and removal of age of consent laws and restrictions.

Answer 9

Yes the Bible does speak against homosexuality. Because it says that it is an abmonation to God. He didn't create homosexuality the devil did. I don't know if you know that God and the devil are at war with each other. But every bad thing that goes on in this world the Lord does speak against. Why would He honor something that He says in His word He does not like. He will never go against His own word. Please remember that.

Answer 10

Then they cannot in all honesty call themselves Christians if they approve of a practice that God condemns. Those who practice it will not inherit God's Kingdom.( 1 Corinthians 6:9,10 also Romans 1:24-32)

Answer 11

Why do you personally feel you need to disapprove of homosexuality...nobody needs your opinion or your disapproval and it achieves very little but a lot of disharmony in the world..what is your end game really?...what do you expect to achieve from professing your disapproval?


Of Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams:
"It is "imperative to give the strongest support to the defence of homosexual people against violence, bigotry and legal disadvantage", while at the same time believing that he must support laws (which are what the canons of the Church of England are) that ban practising homosexuals from the priesthood. He will believe that it is right to share the communion table with Archbishop Akinola of Nigeria, who wants jail sentences not just for homosexual behaviour but even for advocating gay rights, and wants to exclude from his communion priests who bless gay partnerships. Yet he will continue to insist that discrimination against homosexuals is "anathema", to use one of the archbishop's earlier phrases, and that combating it is "imperative".
Andrew Brown
Thursday June 29, 2006
The Guardian