Did Jesus say anything against homosexuality?

Question

Like how wrong it was, how it's against nature, etc., etc.?

Please feel free to post any NEW testament scriptures you may know of.

Someone says He did, someone says He didn't. And He implied it, yet He didn't say it actually. He meant it, but it was through an apostle. Lord, what a mess! I need a Tylenol. Thank, God, I'm not gay! This would really screw me up if I were.

Answer 1

Romans 1:26-27:

The text reads (in the King James Version):

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: 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 [sic] of their error which was meet."

This passage is unique in that it is the only place in the Bible that refers to same-gender sexual behavior by women. Bennett Sims, the former Episcopal bishop of Atlanta, believes that these verses have done more to form Christians' negative opinion of homosexuality than any other single passage in the Bible. He writes: "For most of us who seriously honor Scripture these verses still stand as the capital New Testament text that unequivocally prohibits homosexual behavior. More prohibitively, this text has been taken to mean that even a same-sex inclination is reprehensible, so that a type of humanity known as 'homosexual' has steadily become the object of contempt and discrimination." 1

Answer 2

I think that you are getting weird answers because some people don't know their Bible, nor did they really read the question.

BTW, this question gets asked all of the time. The answer is in the yahoo! archive somewhere.

In Matthew chapter 19, Jesus stated that sex, and thus marriage, was intended by God in the beginning as being between a man and a woman as a bond for life. Jesus said that anyone who cannot accept this needed to remain celibate (literally, a eunuch). Granted, the religious leaders were debating Jesus about the morality of no-fault divorce, but it seems that this statement by Jesus was intended as a catch-all that condemns all sexual activity besides that between a male husband and a female wife, because anything else would violate God's original intent.

Why didn't Jesus expressly say more about homosexuality? It apparently was not that common of a practice in conservative Israel in those days. Jesus apparently never met a homosexual, so he did not talk about it. The various apostles, such as Peter & Paul, when they went out into the more liberal Roman world, encountered homosexuality first hand, and spoke against it.

Answer 3

Jesus validated all of what was previously written regarding homosexuality (see Lev 18:22, 20:13) when He said, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.” It is also important to understand that what is written in the New Testament about homosexuality (1Cor 6:9-10; Rom 1:24-27; Jude 7) is based upon revelation from Christ. Christ selected men like Paul to write what is written. As Paul wrote, "I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. "

Furthermore, Christ is "the Word made flesh". We can not take one part of the Word and separate it out from Christ. Otherwise the very foundation of Christianity is removed. As it is written, “All Scripture is God-breathed…” God Bless.

Answer 4

None of us really know what Jesus may or may not have said about it. All we know is what the gospels tell us, and those books are not only centuries old, but they are translated and translated again. When I was young, I went to Christian church. And when I started disbelieving in the folklore, I resigned myself from Christianity. But the lessons that I took with me and carry until this day, are not to hate people, and to forgive. I think those messages are exactly what Jesus meant for us to learn. Sometimes other people make these lessons very difficult, but the right thing to do is always the more difficult thing to do. Homosexual people shouldn't be hated. Those who claim to be Christian and who hate anyone have missed the lessons.

Answer 5

All of scripture is given by inspiration of God. Jesus was God made flesh. Therefore, everything that is in the new testament is the word of God, and Jesus...not just the red letters.

Romans 1 tells about the sin of homosexuality.

Answer 6

Jesus Hung Around with the Sinners, HE was Trying to get them Saved.
Gay may or may Not be a Sin.
Depends on who you are, How much you got Messed Up when you were Born on the Earth and in What Ways you were Messed Up.

Alot of People who are Gay----It Is Not their Fault.

You can Really get Messed Up down here.
Look Up "What-so-ever" in the the Bible. GOD wants Them in Heaven too.

Answer 7

Dalma S,
From the scriptures I gather that He was with some of them. He was accused of hanging around the sinners. The Pharisees judged Him for it. I think that you are being rather judgemental right now too.

Don't forget the Gospel message.

Christians acting like they don't need a physician are playing at the devils game. Don't let yourself become the devils agent. The same Gospel that will save you, will save those you feel above.

Answer 8

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,1 Corinthians chapter 6 while it is not Jesus speaking it speaks of the law. Jesus was familiar with God's law he taught that we are free from the penalty of law yet the la is written on our hearts. If we believe that we will be resurrected with Christ we also believe that by faith the man of sin died with him on the cross. We who are dead to sin can not abide any longer therein. It does not state that we won't make mistakes but that we will not live a life of sin for no man can serve two masters. Romans Chapter 6 sex outside of wedlock was the sin of fornication therefore sex outside the bonds of matrimony which is man and woman is sin.it seldom had to be refered to in homosexual terms any and all sex outside the bonds of matrimony is sin.

Answer 9

No, Jesus Himself never did. In the Old Testament, God the Father spoke out against homosexual actions, not the orientation itself. St. Paul spoke out against those who "knew strange flesh". Many scholars believe Paul was referring to homosexual acts.

Answer 10

Jesus: No

YHVH: Sort of...It's been interpreted that way, but it more was referring to the followers of some of the Goddess worshipers in the area (kind of FemiNazi, amazonian types, men were...castrated or had to act as women)

Paul: Yeah, but I think he was a woman hater who was a closet homosexual.

What was more disliked was lewd behavior, JC didn't seem to have too much of a hangup on what your partner was, just that you had a steady partner. More against the bed-hopping lifestyle, than what you were going to bed with.

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!