What, and where, exactly does the Bible talk and say about gays?

Answer 1

Gays shall not 13:10 verse 8

Answer 2

The Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek originally and none of the original manuscripts of the Bible have survived. Instead, what we have today are copies of copies. The oldest surviving manuscript of a portion of the Old Testament so far discovered dates from the third century B.C. The earliest extant New Testament manuscript is a fragment from the Gospel of John that dates from the early second century A. D. We have no idea what the original manuscripts of the Bible said! There is an entire section of biblical study dedicated to tracking down textual variations from copy to copy. The variations from sentence to sentence in many of the Bible books are vast! Many scholars admit that we may never know if we have any of the original words or the original message that the Bible writers meant to transmit to us. The Bible is not error free by any stretch of the imagination.

Couple that bit of truth with the fact that every translation of the Bible into English has been done with a set, usually political, agenda. King James had his agenda ... so did the interpreters of every other version. The reason you read "homosexual" in a passage today has very little to do with what the Bible writers intended, and everything to do with what the interpreters intended. In fact, the word "homosexual" was not even coined until the 1800s. How then could the Bible writers use such a word? In short, they didn't. Nowhere in the copies of the copies of the original manuscripts will you find the word "homosexual." It's simply not there. Why? Because the word didn't exist. The interpreters put it in there, not the Bible writers!
So, your uneducated Bible reader will certainly say the passages condemn homosexuality ... and that's the danger of showing biblically uneducated people a passage that YOU have already decided condemns homosexuality. Of course they're going to agree because they don't have the knowledge needed to disagree! Read any of the reputable biblical scholars out there and you'll find that most of them agree that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality as we know it today.
My point: an honest review of relevant verses would clearly show the Bible saying a huge amount of things about bad heterosexual sexuality but nothing about homosexuality - good or bad - at all. A Christian with a cool head and a warm heart would never, in my opinion, call the love between two human souls evil or against God's will. We're speaking mature, consenting, loving, adult souls here, of course. Nowhere in Scripture is homosexuality mentioned, and even more importantly there is no commandment given by God the Father or by Jesus Christ that forbids same-sex couples from genuine loving relationships. Close attention to the Bible enables us to develop a deeper and more intimate relationship and understanding of God and all who study its words.

Answer 3

Romans 1:18-32, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, 1 Timothy 1:9-11, also in Genesis chapter 19

Answer 4

1Corinthians 6:9-11

1Co 6:9 Don’t you know that evil people will not receive God’s kingdom? Don’t be fooled. Those who commit sexual sins will not receive the kingdom. Neither will those who worship statues of gods or commit adultery. Neither will men who are prostitutes or who commit homosexual acts. 10 Neither will thieves or those who always want more and more. Neither will those who are often drunk or tell lies or cheat. People who live like that will not receive God’s kingdom. 11 Some of you used to do those things. But your sins were washed away. You were made holy. You were made right with God. All of that was done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Read Verse 11. It is NOT permanent!

I see someone added a comment about judging. See 1Corinthians 5:12 - Is it my business to judge those outside the church? Aren’t you supposed to judge those inside the church?

It is the job of the church to try and keep one another living upright lives so that the church does not "lose face" in the community.

lewkarg: The verse used the Greek word "arsenokoites." This is a very explicit description of homosexual activity.

Answer 5

Here is what you are asking for:

1 Corinthians 6 v 9 and 10

9 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 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

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Answer 6

It doesn't matter. If you're a Christian and you're worried about it being a sin, it's not. The only thing you have to do is believe in Jesus. If you're not a Christian, don't worry about what they say.

A true Christian is a person who has put his or her faith and trust in the person of Jesus Christ and the fact that He died on the cross as payment for sins and rose again on the third day to obtain victory over death and to give eternal life to all who believe in Him. John 1:12 tells us: “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” A true Christian is indeed a child of God, a part of God’s true family, and one who has been given new life in Christ. The mark of a true Christian is love for others and obedience to God’s Word (1 John 2:4; 1 John 2:10).

3. Jesus alone is the One who bore our sins so that we could have forgiveness and be saved from them (Isaiah 53; Matthew 1:21; John 1:29; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Corinthians 15:1-3).

4. Jesus is the only Way to the Father (John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:5); there is no other.

Answer 7

Leviticus 18:22 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.

Deuteronomy 23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

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.

1 Corinthians 6:9 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...


I hope this answers your question.

Answer 8

In the Old Testament, the Bible says something about gays being an abomination, but in the New Testament, Jesus came and a lot of things changed. We stopped offering sacrifices, for one, and He told us to love one another. I never read the part that said "love one another...unless they're gay."

Answer 9

One of the old testament books says a man who lies with another man like man lies with a woman shall surely be put to death. But then Jesus came and completed ALL the laws of the Old Testament so we can eat pork now and women don't need to be locked outside the gates of the city during certain time periods and since Jesus never once mentioned homosexuality we can be sure He did not think it was a sin any more, either. He was much more into PEACE and TAKING CARE OF THE POOR.

Answer 10

Leviticus 18:22. Look up the word used here for greater clarity, "abomination."

*Romans 1:24-*26, *27. Homosexuality is its very own punishment, in and of itself (*27...receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due."

God is a God of order and homosexuality is unnatural. Look at the animal kingdom. Do animals mate and attempt to have sex with those of the same sex? Can conception take place for life to continue unless two of different sexes come together?

He created woman for the man, as the help meet, as man's mate.

This is what the Word of God states on the matter.

Hope this helps. -

Answer 11

1 Corinthians 6:8-10 (New International Version)\
8Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers.

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 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

sorry I hate to just cut and paste the bible. This is the answer you were looking for? why do you ask? there are other places too.