if being gay is such a terrible sin...why is jesus silent on the subject in the bible?

Answer 1

perhaps because he was not a media man and he was not given to making a mountain out of a mole hill

Answer 2

Leviticus 18:22 (New International Version)

22 " 'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

Leviticus 20:13 (New International Version)
13 " '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.

1 Kings 14:24 (New International Version)

24 There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

1 Kings 15:12 (New International Version)

12 He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his fathers had made.

Romans 1:26-27 (New International Version)
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In 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 in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

1 Corinthians 6:9 (New International Version)
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

Where is it silent in the Bible???

Answer 3

What are you hoping to get from this question? Do you live by the Bible? Do you believe in God? Do you see it as a sin? Do you really care what others think? The Bible says men laying down with men is wrong. You can one accept it and live your life either in sin or not. You can deny it and make your own choice. But if your looking to be accepted in a book inspired by god that has been around forever to change to fit your needs well that just isn't going to happen.
Personally I do not care what you are, I will love you like a brother, I would offer you food and shelter. I will even pray for you if you want me to. But to tell you it is ok to do something I believe to be a sin. I just will not do.

Answer 4

I see you have not read your Bible, If you have, you have not believed it.. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Word. He was the one that inspired all the writes of the Bible to write what was written. To have sexs with one of the same sex is not only a sin against God but it is also a sin against nature. No other animal on the earth does this only humans and they do it because they are sinners. Here is what the Lord Jesus Christ thinks about being gay. Romans 1: 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Romans 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: Romans 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. Romans 1: 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Answer 5

From a website on Judaism and the "abomination" of homosexuality at http://urj.org/ask/homosexuality/


<... There are those, not all, who believe that the traditional laws against homosexuality originated in a more ritual context, since, for the most part, the word "abomination" was applied more in the ritual sphere of life than in the ethical. The Torah seems to see homosexual relations in a cultic context rather than something more parallel to the interpersonal context of heterosexual relationships.

Although the sin of Sodom and Gemmorah is apparently homosexuality, later Jewish tradition, including the Biblical prophets, makes no reference to homosexuality and see the sins of Sodom and Gemmorah as cruelty and lack of hospitality to the "stranger" - xenophobia, as it were.

Reform Judaism, for the most part, seems to view the traditional prohibitions against homosexuality as mores from a bygone age, mores now replaced with clearer understandings of the reality of gender orientation as something which is ... beyond simple individual "preference."

... Since we now have more and better knowledge about homosexuality and no longer see it either as an abomination nor as mental illness, we have reason to reevaluate the tradition's negative posture vis-à-vis homosexuality.

... Many, if not most, Reform Jews seem to be willing to make no great distinction between homosexual and heterosexual relationships...>

Answer 6

Jesus is NOT silent on the subject of homosexuality.

Here are some verses that say so:

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NIV): "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters, nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."

Leviticus 18:22 (KJV): "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind it is abomination."

Leviticus 20:13: "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."

Romans 1:24-32:
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
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:
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.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 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.


Perhaps you should read your Bible before making such a claim.

Answer 7

For a similar reason why the US Supreme Court is silent on requests to review decisions by lower courts -- when the Court is silent, it means that it is letting the lower-court ruling stand.

In Jesus' case, He's silent on homosexuality because He's letting the "lower court ruling" -- the Old Testament prohibitions against homosexuality -- stand.

With regard to other issues, Jesus says and does things that replace and supercede things on the O.T.

But His silence with regard to the O.T.'s teachings against homosexuality means that He's not superceding or replacing them. He's letting these teachings stand.

Answer 8

There aren't any levels of sin as in one worst than another. Sin is sin. I am sure that there are a lot of topics that Jesus covered in His three years of ministry that were not recorded in the Bible, but the bible does talk in detail about homosexuality.

Answer 9

There is no commandment thow shall not be gay. In the 10 commandments either. All we have is words that have been copied and recopied by men to show the views of the time.

Answer 10

He wasn't. The New Testament talks several times about Jesus casting all sorts of unclean spirits out of people.

Answer 11

Because, secretly, Jesus was a closet Homosexual.

Look at it. He hung around with 12 other single guys and told them to eat him..... what a f*g!

Look one spot above me.....He taught to obey all of God's commandments... Sweet! Where can I go pick up my slaves?!?!?! Cuz, God is totally cool about slavery - even if I beat the crap outta them! I only need not to kill them, and I am cool in God's eyes!