where in the bible does it specifically say you can not be gay?

Question

is there a quote or something that specifically says it? Or is it a presumtion?

dont you guys see.. i dont read the bible.. i prefer to read non-fiction and sometimes a harry potter book if i feel like fiction.

Im asking this question to get the specific quote, not sodomy and gorilla...

Seem's I've got one, but the rest of you tell me to read the bible, yet you arent giving me the answer I am looking for... who's the one not reading it?? If you are so christian, you should know your fiction inside and out!!!!!!!


EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL PEOPLE...

Answer 1

I went thru a time when I asked myself this and basically did a lot of research on the subject. My ultimate feeling is that it's an assumption based on how the current translation is but remember, the bible was translated by men. Based on men's understanding of things at that time in their lives in their culture.

There are just six or seven verses out of the Bible’s
million verses that refer to same-sex behavior in any
way, and none of them refer to homosexual orienta-
tion as we understand it today.

The info below comes from REV. DR. MEL WHITE a homosexual and Christian. I highly recommend his book about this subject. He used to write sermons for Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson. He learned Greek and Hebrew in college so he can go back to the original language to understand the true meaning as it was written in that time.

History:

The word "homosexual" wasn't created until the 1930's or 40's. It wasn't in print until the 1940's - first used in a newspaper in New York.

The word "effeminate" was translated from a word that meant does not do what men are expected to do....it doesn't specify sexually or have that conotaion in the original language. The translators chose effeminate to use in 1 Corinthians 6:9 which was later changed to homosexual when that word became known.

Genesis chapter 19 is the story of Sodom which is where we developed the word sodomize referring to a crime not totally related to homosexual acts involving consenting adults. Reading chapter 19 you may get the impression it actually means the men of the village wanted the stranger to "know him carnally" but then go to Ezekiel 16:48-49 which refers and summarizes what we are supposed to understand about the sins of Sodom:
“This is the sin of Sodom; she and her suburbs had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease,but did not help or encour-
age the poor and needy.They were arrogant and this was abominable in God’s eyes.”

Leviticus chapter 20:13 "“A man who sleeps with another man is an abomination and should be executed.”
Leviticus is a holiness code written 3,000 years ago. This
code includes all those sexual laws we’ve already disagreed
with and a lot more. It includes prohibitions against round
haircuts, tattoos, working on the Sabbath, wearing gar-
ments of mixed fabrics, eating pork or shell fish, getting
your fortune told, even playing with the skin of a pig. (There
goes football!)

Answer 2

no, it does not. The word homosexual (which gay is slang for) wasn't even invented until 1869, so the original bible wouldn't have any mention about homosexuals(gays) at all. The word homosexual first appeared in revised versions of the bible in the mid 1900s, but would God want you to follow an altered version of the original bible? about the word arsenokoitai that Mk6 mentioned read the source below. It was a new word that Paul seems to have been trying to coin, but nobody today really knows what he was actually referring too.

Answer 3

In reality the Bible says nothing against homosexuality as a modern, monogamous and loving relationship between two people. In the original language (Greek) and context of the world of two thousand odd years ago, the terminology applied meant something considerably different. In the Old and New Testaments the words that we've come to understand to mean homosexual actually meant sodomite, pedophile and eunuch. Now, obviously, Sodomy or anal sex is what gay men do. But, in the Biblical context it was referring to a specific type of it used in the worship of a Canaanite or Babylonia god called by various names (Astarte, Baal and a few others). In this cult, men would engage in gay sex to give of themselves to the god or would do something even worse: mutilate themselves. A eunuch is a man that has been castrated for purposes of worship. In one process of doing so for the gods, a high priest would lay a man onto an altar, castrate him on the spot and penetrate him anally to commune with the goddess. As you can imagine, this disgusting and bloody sight was so offensive to the Jews that they were against it and in the Old Testament, this is the type of gay activity the writers were speaking of. Not two men in love. In the New, this type of activity is spoken of. But, in the book of Romans, the words of the Apostle Paul speak of paedorasti, or pedophilia. A common practice in the Roman world (both east and west) was the cohabitation of a young man or boy with an older, more learned one in which the older man would mentor the younger. In many cities, it was illegal the pair to have sex. But, in others, it wasn't and much of this practice was endorsed by the local religious (Pagan) authorities. Making it even worse. There is no mention of two men in a legitimate relationship being wrong anywhere in the Bible. In fact, gay marriages were sanctioned by the church right up through the beginning of the Spanish Inquisition in the fifteenth century. A pair of saints were apparently lovers, several known rulers and it even had its own offices.

http://queerhistory.blogspot.com/2010/09/basil-i-of-byzantium-867-886.html

Answer 4

For starters try 1 Corinthians 6:9 and1 Timothy 1:10

Answer 5

NO, it does not specifically say "You will not be Gay" Because they never called it "being Gay" until the 1960s, but it does say however, "Man shall not lay down with Man, and Woman shall not lay down with Woman" do you really think that meant "sleeping"?. It also says "Go forth and multiply", did you think they meant to do arithmetic? how do two men get pregnant? how do two women have a baby? "Immaculate Conception" only worked once, or did it? so you figure it out. If you want to try to justify your actions by saying "it did not say I couldn't put my dog in the microwave" so that must mean its OK, then that is your business.

Answer 6

It doesn't say you can't be "gay".

It says that if you do homosexuality you can forget all about heaven or anything remotely like it, because it is an abomination.

Much of the reason people won't offer quotes on demand is simply because, if the individual asking the question is too bone idle to carry out the research for themselves, they see no reason to do the job for them.

And out of curiosity, where does that twee little comment about equal rights for all people end?

Paedophiles? Rapists?

Where?

How about changing it to:

"EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL WHO DESERVE THEM"?

Answer 7

Here's one:
1 Corinthians 6:9 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society



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

Answer 8

Here: 17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch

Oops! Sorry, that's the part where people come from nowhere.

Here: 29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

Nope...that the part showing how much healthier people were back then!

30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Here it is! Hot darn!!! I can't believe I just got a b@ner reading the Bible!!! Oh no wait, this is the part that teaches children it's ok to fornicate with your parents and have babies from their seed.

Here? 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister

Nope...that's the part that says it's ok to marry your sibling. OK, the South makes more sense to me now...


Oh well, I give up. It's too hard to find!

Answer 9

Cards have been laid, the Romans verse does imply, but I would like to say that the SODDOM and Gamora didnt fall due to homosexual acts (only).

It was their - not being hospitable to God's angels and other sins. The people were not only males but the word "men" refered to all the people, children and woman alike. AS most bibles have been translated into contemporary words, the direct meaning of the words have become vague.

It could be incest, gluttony and others , as all sins weigh the same.

Answer 10

Romans 1:26-27 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 recompence of their error which was meet.

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.