Where is the logic in the levitical ban on homosexuality?

Question

Why is is an 'abomination'?
I have my opinions, now I'm here to listen to yours.

Answer 1

where is the logic in trying to make babies with another man?
but then you do not want logic anyway do you?

Answer 2

Sodom's angelic visitors, Genesis 19:5
Forbidden relationship, Leviticus 18:22-23;20:13
Male prostitutes, Deuteronomy 23:17
Example of homosexual conduct, Judges 19:22-24
Approved masculine love, 1 Samuel 18:1-4;20:17-41;2 Samuel 1:26;19:1-6
Eradication deviates, 1 Kings 15:12 also see (14:24)
Male prostitutes enshrined, Job 36:14
Boy prostitutes, Joel 3:3
Unnatural passion and desire, Romans 1:24-27
Homosexual activity condemned, 1 Corinthians, 6:9-10
Sexual perversion, Timothy 1:10

Here are just a few for you to read then make up your own mind and you might what to read the verses before and after to get a better understanding....

Answer 3

my opinion is that there's a logical reason behind the probhition of MALE homosexuality in Leviticus.
The Jews in the time when Leviticus was written down lived sorrounded by pagan nations who accepted male homosexual lifestyle. I don't connect this probhition to a concept of SIN. I only think the writers of Leviticus was mindful about the consequences about male homosexuality...meaning some ppl will abandon familylife and have no children. For men it's a religious duty, a fulfillment of a Torah rule to get as many children as possible.

Answer 4

Gee I don't know, homosexuality is great, I just wish I could get more of it. Abomination...no way, the only abominable part is getting none of it...perhaps that was the problem for whoever wrote such s..crap in the Bible?

Many of us gays are in monogamous relationships and we are not promiscuous or temple prostitutes so I don't think the Levitical ban applies to us at all to be honest, we are just living true to ourselves ...homosexuals being a normal human variation like height or IQ, none of us choose our sexual orientation whether we are gay bisexual or straight, we can deny it but why would anyone do that?

Answer 5

It is an abomination because it goes against the natural order of creation. Just phyiologically, whether in the plant world or the animal world male was made to mate with female.

It goes against God's purpose for sex, which was the completion of the man through his relationship with his wife
(on many other levels than just sex, but that included)

Indiscriminate sex in any form brings about problems of health just as a natural consequence of the acts. Even before HIV and AIDS it was statistically true that homosexuals tended to live shorter lives overall. And although I recognize that HIV is not confined to homosexuality, it is most pervasive there and has done the most damage among that community.

And finally, in Romans, the practice of homosexuality is said to be a result of men and women not recognizing God for who he is, and so being given up to the consequences of their own sin.

You asked. I hope that helps.

Answer 6

Because, within Christianity at least, morality is not defined by humans. It is defined by God, regardless of whether or not you believe in Him. If you do not believe, I cannot be the least bit surprised that one would question morality regularly.

I do not presume to understand "why" answers all the time, any more than I expect my 3-year-old to understand why she should not play with the grill outside. I believe I see with only a limited perspective and have chosen to trust God, just as my child chooses to ultimately trust me, even if I kick and scream a bit doing it. I can offer no human "logic" in the ban on homosexuality besides what I can merely guess at--similar statements to those already said before me.

The better followup question: Why do I choose to trust God? Ah--but that would lead to a "sermon", and no one really wants to hear those...

Answer 7

The Bible was mistranslated all over the place - for all we know they weren't talking about homosexuality at all - that's just what was on the translator's agenda. That same book discusses how to deal with blood and pus as well but you don't see people hollering about that, do you? Plus, even if they were discussing homosexuality, they only mentioned men being with men - there is no Biblical code for lesbianism. I find that to be more than a little odd.


It ticks me off when people wave Lev. around as "proof" that God "despises" homosexuality. What about the other zillion Bible verses that direct us to not judge others? There's a ton of those. Why don't we read those over a bit before we condemn others?

*EDIT*
Hopewriter: So you're saying that every committed couple should have babies because that's what God intended? I know a few hetero couples who love each other to distraction yet have no desire whatsoever to have babies. Are they sinners too since they have chosen not to serve God's purpose for them?

And for heaven's sake, people - when we are discussing God or Jesus, we capitalize Him, His and He. If you love the Lord as much as you say you do, give Him the respect He is owed!

Answer 8

Whenever anything goes against the laws of nature, there is not a good conclusion. The law of nature dictates that it takes one male and one female of a species to reproduce their kind. Even the flowers, trees, hens and roosters live by this. Men and women are different not only in body but in emotional make-up. A child needs both a man and a woman to give them the different but complementary nurturing they need. Little boys need the gentle, emotional love of a woman and the male to model as he grows. Little girls need the woman to model and the man to see as a protector and keeper of the mother and children.
But when all is said and done, homosexuality is an abomination to God because He says so in his Word and that makes it the sin that it is. As Christians we are called to hate the sin, love the sinner. But to call homosexuality an "alternate lifestyle" is the same as calling a murderer, a thief, a gossiper, a child molester, or a bank robber as one living an alternate lifestyle.

Answer 9

In Biblical days, men became adults upon marriage and frequently married at age 15 or 16. One of God's commandments was to be fruitful and multiply -- those who never married never received any rights accorded adults.

If a man does not recognize his sexuality until later in life (20s or 30s), he already has a wife and children to support. Judaism is about caring for the widows and the orphans -- it would have been a major sin to leave a family without any means of support.

The laws of Judaism have evolved throughout the centuries, but the laws you read in the Bible are about the problems they encountered at the time. In today's world, we wouldn't have laws against running red lights unless people were running red lights and causing major problems! All laws, including the Bibles', are laws for problems of the day.

Shalom

Answer 10

It is no secret that God believes homosexuality is wrong. What a lot of people don't realize, though, is that a lot of his rules are just ways to keep us from being hurt.

First of all, assuming that a homosexual person would want to have a meaningful relationship just like heterosexual people, they would have certain drawbacks that straight people wouldn't. They would never get to feel the joy of creating a child together. If they were lucky enough to adopt, their child might face a lot of abuse and ridicule-more than other children that aren't in the same situation.

It's just like when a child asks a parent the reason why they have to mind. The child may not understand, so the parent replies, "Because I said so."
Men and women balance each other out...especially with personality traits. God designed us to have a partner of the opposite sex...end of story.

Answer 11

While the Old Testament’s ceremonial requirements are no longer binding, its moral requirements are. God may issue different ceremonies for use in different times and cultures, but his moral requirements are eternal and are binding on all cultures.

People have a basic, ethical intuition that certain behaviors are wrong because they are unnatural. We perceive intuitively that the natural sex partner of a human is another human, not an animal.

The same reasoning applies to the case of homosexual behavior. The natural sex partner for a man is a woman, and the natural sex partner for a woman is a man. Thus, people have the corresponding intuition concerning homosexuality that they do about bestiality—that it is wrong because it is unnatural.

Natural law reasoning is the basis for almost all standard moral intuitions. For example, it is the dignity and value that each human being naturally possesses that makes the needless destruction of human life or infliction of physical and emotional pain immoral. This gives rise to a host of specific moral principles, such as the unacceptability of murder, kidnapping, mutilation, physical and emotional abuse, and so forth.

The modern arguments in favor of homosexuality (see http://www.catholic.com/library/Homosexuality.asp ) have thus been insufficient to overcome the evidence that homosexual behavior is against divine and natural law, as the Bible and the Church, as well as the wider circle of Jewish and Christian (not to mention Muslim) writers, have always held.

The Catholic Church thus teaches: "Basing itself on sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved" (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2357).

However, the Church also acknowledges that "[homosexuality’s] psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. . . . The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s cross the difficulties that they may encounter from their condition.

"Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection" (CCC 2357– 2359).
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