Homosexuality?

Question

With all the attention on gay rights, I have a question. Other than the fact that the Bible says it is a sin, how can something as beautiful as love be a sin?? No matter who it is between, it's love! I just don't get it. Does anyone else ever think this way? I am just so perplexed over this. I just don't get it and will probably always doubt this, but I've heard that answer a million times, but no one ever has an answer for me. All I get is, "It just is." But how?????

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Ok. A lot of you started branching off into so many sub-topics: molestation, rape, adultry, etc. This is question is meant to imply a consentual relationship between 2 ADULTS of the same sex.
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As for the guy who wrote "The function of the sex organs is reproduction and homosexuality is never procreative and God said go forth and procreate.," I have a question. So, sex with your spouse after a tubal ligation or vasectomy is a sin?? What about in my case; I am a happily married woman who's ovaries do not work, have never worked, and never will work, is it a sin for my husband and I to have sex---since it's for pleasure and not to procreate?

Answer 1

The bible was written(and re written) for the needs of the followers. Many things were given as laws were in fact very early heath alerts. without refrigeration pork( the split hoof) was dangerous. Lie not with a man as you would a woman, in health terms means bi-sexuality was high risk and without even the most basic safety tools(condoms, anti-bacterial soap or antibiotics) this behavior could have destroyed by disease the beginnings of the tribes. I hope that helps, cause God is love, man is hateful.

Answer 2

The best you will get other than "cause the Bible says and it's God's word", is a discussion about homosexuality violating God's creative intent. The function of the sex organs is reproduction and homosexuality is never procreative and God said go forth and procreate.

Numerous attempts at novel exegesis have been made to reinterpret both the OT and NT taboos on homosex, none very convincing, and in my mind none very necessary.

The Bible is a book written for a nation devasted by war and deportation and trying to rebuild its numbers. You would expect hostility toward "wasted seed" in the writings of its leaders. After all the Bible is simply some man telling other men what to do, and instead of arguing why they rationally should, just ending debate with, "Because God says so!" Of course no one has yet produced God to testify that He said so. We just have a book that says he says so, and we have many other "holy" books that completely contradict it.

Be at peace with all men and women so much as you are able. Let the sin sniffers worry about who's doing who with which body part. People are dying in wars, floods and famines. We got bigger fish to fry than worrying about someone else's sex life.

Answer 3

Love, whether it's between a man and a women, two men or two women, is Wonderful, Beautiful, and Holy by virtue of it being Love.

The problem arises with the translation of the Bible from languages at least 2,000 years old into our languages; and, tranliterating cultures at least 2,000 years old into our cultures.

Way back then, it was a common practice for boys to be dedicated to the service of the temple. The priests of those ancient times, just as the priests of our times, often used these boys (most were castrated and, therefore, effeminate) for sexual gratification. The Books of the Law, put down by Moses, classifies sex with temple prostitutes a sin for the preistly order to commit. This has been translated as anyone, priestly and non-priestly alike, to commit a sin if they have sex with the same gender.

As for Sodom and Gomorrah, their sin wasn't homosexual Love, but homosexual RAPE. Think about it. Read the scripture, feel the impending violence against the guests of Lot. Homosexual love isn't violent. Homosexual rape is violent.

Answer 4

What nonesense! Homosexuality is wrong beyond what is said in the bible. It is counternature, and it, in practical terms, harmful to the body as evident in male homosexuality. A lot of people respond back that heterosexuals also use anal sex. That does not make it any harmless or right to do it.

Until the early 1970's, homosexuality was classified as a psychological condition. A professor out of the University of Kentucky led the way to declassify homosexuality as a psychological matter. He became a hero for the gay community. In 1999, the same professor admitted that he made a terrible mistake, and that if given the chance to go back in time, he would have fought to continue homosexuality as a psychological condition that it is. He has been shunned by the gay community, and is not allowed air time by the, clearly, very liberal media and the support of Hollyweird.

Homosexuality is wrong, and is reversible, as is proven time and time again by individuals who have been through it. Of course, gay groups which have been forcing the gay agenda down our throat (no pun intended) for over a decade plus do not want you to know nor agree to it, as it would make the agenda and its leaders useless and obsolete.

Homosexuality has caused great damage to society, with kids growing up confused about their own sexuality. You want to be a homosexual, fine. Just do not ask for rights to be so. That is outrageous and wrong.

Answer 5

First off, you really shouldn't dismiss offhand the Bible as a source. It is the most important book you'll ever read in your entire life. It gives you the infallible, inerrant, inspired word of the living and true God. Secondly, homosexuality is not love, it is lust and a deviant mindset caused by one of two major origins. One, the person was abused (most likely sexually) by a trusted loved one of the opposite sex while still very young and therefore developed a deep mistrust in people of the same, and a misplaced, misguided attraction grows from that.

Or two, the person was born with a hormonal imbalance, i.e.; a male with more estrogen than testosterone, will become effiminate, and want to do things and have as a career that which is traditionally female-oriented, like hairstyling, ballet, decorating, etc. and be attracted to males for the same reasons chemically that females are.

God is very clear in the Bible, especially in the book of Leviticus, where man shall not lie with '"strange flesh" meaning in the original Hebrew text, same sex. Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed because of the level of this activity that was going on. In the beginning, God created man, and saw that he needed a mate, so He made Eve. Not a man and a woman and asked Adam to choose which he felt more attracted to. Later God told them to be fruitful and multiply. Two people of the same sex cannot biologically do that either.

There is good news though. As you are reading this and wondering, "well, if this is true, how does one become 'normal'"? The Bible also has the answer for that. Just as Jesus hung on the cross and shed His innocent blood for the remission of our sins, He also bore stripes (savage beating) in our place so that we could be healed and delivered from any and all diseases and sicknesses. But God lovingly made us free-will beings. He wants us to come to Him freely and sincerely, so He can intervene and clean up the mess we made with and of our lives. Our "goodness" is "as filthy rags". We can never attain a level high enough of our own goodness or do enough "work' to get into heaven. Jesus already paid the price with His blood and life. All we have to do is come to Him and ask Him to forgive our sins and renew our minds so that we can be more like Him, full of forgiveness, compassion, love, and peace. God's love is unconditional, however His blessings are conditional, upon obedience to the same Word of God. Sin is sin, some carry heavier penalties, but all are forgivable and it is never too late to turn from them, until you have taken your last breath. God bless and thank you for reading this.

Answer 6

People will often hide behind the Bible or their religious beliefs in order to continue their prejudicial attitudes about people who are different. This is against every principle for which religion stands.

Am I a sinner? Yes. Is that because I'm a homosexual? Not in a million years. Homosexuals have no corner on sin.

People who talk a lot about how evil and wicked homosexuality is ( it is neither, by the way) are never able to give a rational answer to why they hold this position. It's always something along the lines of "it's in the Bible", or "it just is." Don't these people have brains?

Answer 7

I agree. How can love be considered a sin if it's between two guys or two women, but not if it's between a man and woman? You ask why people think it's a sin, they say "Cause the bible says so" or "Because it's unnatural". The unnatural doesn't even make any sense. And just because the bible says so doesn't mean everyone has to abide by it. In short, I don't get it either.

Answer 8

who is defining 'something as beautiful as love'. man should not lie with another man is what the book says. could a child molester make the same argument as what you wrote in the Q - 'but it is beautiful to me to molest a kid'. Hell no. evil and wrong .....an abomination. so it isnt that love is a sin - it is the lying with a man that is a sin. like how preists may be gay and as long as dont act on impulses then doesnt matter - no sin done. (not that there is anything wrong with being gay)

Answer 9

The Bible spells what you are talking about different than you do. It spells it L U S T. Just accept what the Bible says, and you admit, that it is a sin and deal with it as a sin, recieve forgiveness from God and deliverance and go on as God intended for you to live.

Answer 10

If two adults fall in love, and they are not married to other people or not blood relatives--it's nobody elses business what they do behind closed doors. The End.

P.S.--Unless it's two hot chicks who fall for each other. Then they should let me watch.