He sure had a problem with people judging others.....
2006-12-26 16:13:30 · 25 answers · asked by John 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus didn't say one single word on the subject... so I guess he didn't mean to condemn it at all!
2006-12-26 16:15:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
There is not account recorded of Jesus meeting a homosexual. But, everytime he did meet someone he offered salvation freely and said "sin no more."
Others have rightly quoted that Jesus did not come to do away with the law but rather to fullfill it. He did leave us many capable men to teach us all the way of life. Remember Christ told the disciples "what I tell you in secret shout from the roof tops" (near enough in translation) So it is safe to say that the NT references and even the OT can be applied. But, it is not just about homosexuality. Too many people make sin hiearchy but to God sin is sin is sin and non is more or less repulsive to him.
Now, some say homosexuality is a genetic trait. I do no believe this to be true. People are always looking for a scape goat so they can live and do as they please and say they are innocent. But, let us say this might be true, it would be like having a disease or a disability. You must overcome it and live rightly and great your reward in heaven will be as you have overcome great hardship.
Finally, too many people say "judge not." Well I am here to tell you there is more to the verse. Once read you will see that if and when you do judge you must do so realizing that the same measure will be used upon you. So if you do so with love and reverance for the person's soul you will be fine. But, if you are a "Homo's go to Hell" you will not fair so well.
Matthew 7
Judging Others
1"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
2006-12-27 00:34:26 · answer #2 · answered by crimthann69 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when the rich christians sell all of their goods and give the money to the poor so that they can follow Jesus into heaven...
(actual instructions from Jesus.... Luke 18:12 AND Mark 10:21)
... then and only then can they start cherry-picking their bigotry from Levitticus...
which, it should be noted.... also includes such "rules" as: no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15:19- 24....
Lev. 25:44 states, one may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations....
know someone working on the Sabbath? Exodus 35:2 states he should be put to death.
eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10....
Lev. 21:20 states that you may not approach the altar of God if you have a defect in your sight...
and anyone who gets their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, should know that this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. BARBERS are RUINING AMERICA!!!!
this whole issue is just gross. I'd prefer a gay couple next door over a raging christian couple any day....
2006-12-27 00:31:48 · answer #3 · answered by Jonny Propaganda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus did not mention homosexuality. I suppose that means that *gasp*! There isn't anything wrong with it. It never ceases to amaze me how people quote things from the new testament. Odd, because those were written several years after Christ's life. The verses they quote condemning homosexuality : they are not Jesus' words, but the words of the authors.
2006-12-27 00:35:10 · answer #4 · answered by The Pope 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ “and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?’” (Matt. 19:4.)
What law was Jesus born under? What law did He live under? Answer: The Law of Moses (cf. Gal. 4:4.) Did Jesus endorse and follow the Law of Moses? What did the Law of Moses say about homosexuality? (Lev. 18:22; 20:13; Deut. 23:17.)
“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” (John 5:46-47.)
People are far too consumed with what goes on in a homosexuals bed and not nearly consumed enough about what is going on in a homosexuals heart and mind.
2006-12-27 00:23:26 · answer #5 · answered by sheepinarowboat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus had a problem with people judging others HYPOCRITICALLY, but if a person has a clear conscience before God, than one has not only the right, but the obligation, to confront sin.
Jesus wants believers to deal with their own sin first, then they will have the spiritual authority to deal with the sins of others.
And yes, homosexuality IS sin.
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2006-12-27 00:21:47 · answer #6 · answered by revulayshun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think He forgot? Jesus is one with the Father, so that means He mentioned it in the Old Testament and also later through Paul in the New Testament. And your judging others comment is off base. Not judging others has nothing to do with something being a sin or not. It means that we as humans do not take it upon ourselves to claim to be holier than thou or point out faults in others. But sin is sin. If God calls something a sin, it is not judging to scripturally point that out. But we do not have the right to claim someone is bound for hell or not, we never have that ability.
2006-12-27 00:23:48 · answer #7 · answered by The GMC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Jesus did not forget.
His Word's are the Old Testament and the New Testament.
("Jesus Christ; the same yesterday, today, and forever.")
As for judging others? Uh, He's the only one judging righteously.
Maybe you should read ALL of Matthew 7 regarding judging others.
2006-12-27 00:18:02 · answer #8 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are just a few scriptures condemning homosexuality:
(1 Corinthians 6:9-11) Â What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. And yet that is what some of YOU were. But YOU have been washed clean, but YOU have been sanctified, but YOU have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God.
(Romans 1:26-27) That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error.
(Leviticus 18:22) And you must not lie down with a male the same as you lie down with a woman. It is a detestable thing.
(Leviticus 20:13) And when a man lies down with a male the same as one lies down with a woman, both of them have done a detestable thing. They should be put to death without fail. Their own blood is upon them.
2006-12-27 00:36:54 · answer #9 · answered by Liz R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matt. 19:6 - after referring to God's divine plan for man and woman, Jesus says a husband and wife become one flesh, which ultimately reflects God's union with humanity through the Church. Homosexual unions pervert this divine truth of God’s love for and union with the human race.
2006-12-27 00:29:29 · answer #10 · answered by Gods child 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
From what I've read, he didn't condemn anyone. If he'd had something to say against them or walked around smacking them with a stick, you can bet that would have made it into the scriptures.
Lisa
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2006-12-27 00:17:05 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋