Can someone tell me an exact biblical verse that says being gay is wrong?

Question

And don't give me the Sodom and Gamorah crap either. It never says in the bible that they were gay.

Answer 1

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The Christian Perspective
by Lehman Strauss,

Q. What is ty?
is the manifestation of ual desire toward a member of one's own or the activity with a member of the same . (The Greek word homos means the same). A is a female . More recently the term % " has come into popular use to refer to both es who are s.
Q. How does one determine if the practice of ity is right or wrong?
That depends upon who is answering the question. The Christian point of view is based solely upon the Bible, the divinely inspired Word of God. A truly Christian standard of ethics is the conduct of divine revelation, not of statistical research nor of public opinion. For the Christian, the Bible is the final authority for both belief and behaviour.
Q. What explicitly does the Bible teach about ity?
This question I consider to be basic because, if we accept God's Word on the subject of ity, we benefit from His adequate answer to this problem. I am concerned only with the Christian or biblical view of ity. The Bible has much to say about sins in general.
First, there is ery. ery in the natural sense is ual of a married person with someone other than his or her own spouse. It is condemned in both the Old and New Testaments (Exodus 20:14; I Cor. 6:9, 10). Christ forbids dwelling upon the thoughts, the free play of one's imagination that leads to ery (Matthew 5:28).
Second, there is fornication, the illicit acts of unmarried persons which is likewise (I Corinthians 5:1; 6:13, 18; Ephesians 5:3).
Then there is ity which likewise is condemned in Scripture. The Apostle Paul, writing by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, declares that ity "shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (I Corinthians 6:9; 10). Now Paul does not single out the as a special offender. He includes fornicators, idolators, erers, thieves, covetous persons, drunkards, revilers and extortioners. And then he adds the comment that some of the Christians at Corinth had been delivered from these very practices: "And such were some of you: But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God" (I Corinthians 6:11). All of the sins mentioned in this passage are condemned by God, but just as there was hope in Christ for the Corinthians, so is there hope for all of us.
is an illicit by God. He said to His people Israel, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22). "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 ; their shall be upon them" (Leviticus 20:13). In these passages ity is condemned as a prime example of sin, a ual perversion. The Christian can neither alter God's viewpoint nor depart from it.
In the Bible is a synonym for ity. God spoke plainly on the matter when He said, "There shall be no of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel" (Deuteronomy 23:17). The and the sodomite are in the same category. A sodomite was not an inhabitant of Sodom nor a descendant of an inhabitant of Sodom, but a man who had given himself to ity, the ed and unnatural vice for which Sodom was known. Let us look at the passages in question:
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house around, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. (Genesis 19:4 8)
The Hebrew word for "know" in verse 5 is ya„da`, a ual term. It is used frequently to denote ual (Genesis 4:1, 17, 25; Matthew 1:24, 25). The message in the context of Genesis 19 is clear. Lot pled with the men to "do not so wickedly." ity is wickedness and must be recognized as such else there is no hope for the who is asking for help to be extricated from his ed way of life.
Q. You said that ua1 outside of marriage is condemned in the Bible. How do you explain marriage ceremonies in which two persons of the same are united by an officiating clergyman or justice of the peace?
There are cases on record where a marriage license was issued to persons of the same . I recall one such incident in Phoenix, Arizona. A marriage license was issued in the Maricopa County clerk's office to two men 39 and 21 years old respectively. The two men are reported to have "married" in a private ceremony.
However, to call a union of two persons of the same a "marriage" is a misnomer. In the Bible, marriage is a divinely ordered institution designed to form a permanent union between one man and one woman for one purpose (among others) of procreating or propagating the human race. That was God's order in the first of such unions (Genesis 1:27, 28; 2:24; Matthew 19:5). If, in His original creation of humans, God had created two persons of the same , there would not be a human race in existence today. The whole idea of two persons of the same marrying is absurd, unsound, ridiculously unreasonable, stupid. A clergyman might bless a marriage but God won't.
Q. A Jesuit Priest, John J. McNeill, reportedly said in a conference (Christianity Today, June 3, 1977), "There is no clear condemnation of activity to be found anywhere in the Bible." How does a church leader arrive at such a conclusion?
This particular Jesuit priest, like some other supposedly Christian theologians, have totally ignored the Scriptures as the guidelines for Christian behaviour in regard to ity. McNeill does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, but for a small segment of priests who, having vowed themselves to celibacy, that is, to abstain from marriage and ual , have found ual gratification in acts.
However, religious s are plentiful among protestants. Protestant leaders on both sides of the Atlantic have gradually eased away from the Scriptures. In England men like Bishop John Robinson, in his book Honest to God made a play on the term "The New Morality," which in reality was a plea to open the door to immorality making it respectable and thus acceptable. The Bishop went so far as to describe the unscriptural erous relationship as "a kind of holy communion." This modern concept of Christian ethics rejects totally the precepts laid down by God in His Word. It is blasphemous and atheistic.
Recently in America ten ly oriented religious organizations, comprised of men and women from more than a dozen denominations, and from seventeen states and Canada, met at Kirkbridge, a retreat and study center near Bangor, Pennsylvania. The retreat was entitled, % and Christian." But the two terms, % " and "Christian" are mutually exclusive, incompatible, incongruous.
Representing the women at that retreat, Nancy Krody a , spoke on "The Christian Experience." Here again is a misnomer. A practicing Christian, from the biblical viewpoint, will not be a practicing . Of course, I make the distinction between a professing Christian and a practicing Christian. Calling one's self a Christian does not make one a Christian.
Malcolm Boyd speaks about "The Male Christian Experience." Boyd, a protestant clergyman, says he has been a secretly for years. Only recently he made a public announcement of his ity. He claims that his public announcement of his ity has brought him back to the church. Boyd does not tell us what he means by the "church"!
Following is one point on which the speakers at Kirkbridge agreed: "A monogamous relationship characterized by fidelity, honesty and love is possible, desirable, and honoring to God."
Any evil condemned in Scripture cannot be honoring to God. religious leaders attempt to smooth over the breaks and rough places with Christian terminology so that a euphoria predominates, but God is not in it. A truly born again person, who loves and understands the Bible as God's revelation to him, will not condone an evil that God condemns. "If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him" (I John 2:29). "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are His. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity" (II Timothy 2:19). Practicing s are engaged in a divinely evil.
Q. Why do s refer to themselves as % "?
The word % " means merry, exuberant, bright, lively. More recently it has been adopted by s. In its original use it did not have this double meaning. The clever adaptation of the word % " by s has robbed it of its pure meaning, thereby corrupting a once perfectly good word. I never use the word % " when referring to s. There are many bright, exuberant, merry people in this world who are not ual s.
Q. You made reference to First Corinthians 6:9 11. What is the meaning of the word "effeminate" in verse 9?
There are certain words in every language that can be used in a good or bad sense. In the context of this verse the use of "effeminate" is obviously in a bad sense. It is listed among other evils which are condemned. It describes feminine qualities inappropriate to a man. It is normal and natural for a woman to be ually attracted to a man; it is abnormal and unnatural for a man to be ually attracted to another man. Many male s are effeminate, but not all. Nor are all s unduly masculine.
Q. Are there other Scriptures in the New Testament which deal with ity?
Yes. Romans 1:24 27; I Timothy 1:10 and Jude 7. If one takes these Scriptures seriously, ity will be recognized as an evil. The Romans passage is unmistakably clear. Paul attributes the moral depravity of men and women to their rejection of "the truth of God" (1:25). They refused "to retain God in their knowledge" (1:28), thereby dethroning God and deifying themselves. The Old Testament had clearly condemned ity but in Paul's day there were those persons who rejected its teaching. Because of their rejection of God's commands He punished their sin by delivering them over to it.
The philosophy of substituting God's Word with one's own reasoning commenced with Satan. He introduced it at the outset of the human race by suggesting to Eve that she ignore God's orders, assuring her that in so doing she would become like God with the power to discern good and evil (Genesis 3:1 5). That was Satan's big lie. Paul said that when any person rejects God's truth, his mind becomes "reprobate," meaning ed, void of sound judgment. The ed mind, having rejected God's truth, is not capable of discerning good and evil.
In Romans 1:26 31 twenty three punishable sins are listed with ity leading the list. Paul wrote, "For this cause God gave them up into 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 one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet" (Romans 1:26, 27). These verses are telling us that s suffer in their body and personality the inevitable consequences of their wrong doing. Notice that the behaviour of the is described as a "vile affection" (1:26). The Greek word translated "vile" (atimia) means filthy, dirty, evil, dishonourable. The word "affection" in Greek is pathos, used by the Greeks of either a good or bad desire. Here in the context of Romans it is used in a bad sense. The "vile affection" is a degrading passion, a shameful . Both the desire % ing after) and the act of ity are condemned in the Bible as sin.
Q. There are those persons who say that ity, even though a ed form of the normal, God ordained practice of , is a genetic problem, constitutionally inherited. Is there evidence to support this view?
I read in a periodical that in June, 1963 a panel of specialists in medicine, psychiatry, law, sociology and theology participated in a conference on ity called by the Swiss Evangelical Church Union. That group reached the conclusion that ity is not constitutionally inherited, it is not a part of one's genetic makeup. The ill-founded and unverifiable myth that ity results from genetic causes is gradually fading away.
There are possibly a number of different ways in which practices could begin. When boys and s reach puberty and the genital organs develop, it is not uncommon for boys to experiment with boys, and s with s. In prisons where men and women are denied access to persons of the opposite for long periods of time, some are introduced to ity for the first time.
A young Christian woman came to our office in Detroit for counseling. She became involved in ism when her marriage began to fail. She was introduced to her first experience by a divorcee who was her neighbor. After six months of practicing ism she was convicted of her sin and sought help. We were able to show her from the Bible that she was sinning and that God stood ready and willing to forgive and cleanse her. She confessed and forsook her sin, and continues to this day to live a happy, normal Christian life.
must be accepted for what God says it is-- sin. Some s will attempt to circumvent the plain teaching of the Bible with the insipid reply that they are the way God made them. There is not the slightest bit of evidence in Scripture to support this false concept. God never created man with a so called % need." No baby is born a . Every baby is born male or female. In every place the Bible refers to ity, the emphasis is upon the perversion of uality. The practicing is guilty of "leaving the natural use of the woman" (Romans 1:27), meaning that his behaviour is "against nature" as in the case of the (Romans 1:26). Inasmuch as ity is opposed to the regular law and order of nature, the genetic concept must be ruled out completely. If ity were a genetic problem, there would be little hope for the simply because there is no way that the genes in a person can be changed.
Q. Are there contributing factors to ity for which a might not be responsible?
Yes, I believe there are. I have not done much research in this area, however, studies made by others showed varied deviations from the average or normal parent child relationship. For example, clinical cases show that some s have not had a normal or natural relationship with the parent of the same . In some instances there has been a wide gap between father and son. There are those boys who have been neglected by their unaffectionate fathers. The boy who has not had a good and wholesome relationship with his father could have an unfulfilled need for a father relationship with a man. Now that need will not start out as a ual one, but there are cases on record in which the ual relationship has developed. I know one case of a who seduced a 13 year old boy whose father had forsaken him. Before the boy's contact with the older man he had no knowledge whatever of ity. The older man seduced the boy.
ism has been known to follow this same pattern. Some mother daughter relationships are not conducive to a normal social and ual development. One young woman came to her pastor seeking help. She had gotten involved with a in the community where she lived, a woman twenty one years her senior. The 's parents had a defective marriage which ended in divorce when the daughter was ten years old. Her mother became bitter and resentful against all men. She convinced her daughter that men were not to be trusted, and that man's one goal was to exploit women ually. The daughter grew up with a fear of men, a fear totally unwarranted. She was an easy victim of the seductive older . The good and wise pastor showed the counselee from the Bible that ity was sinful and that God condemned it. She confessed her sin to God and received Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord. Today she is happily married to a fine Christian man.
Q. Do you believe that the controversy is causing problems for the churches of America?
Evil in any form is a problem in the church. It always has been. The greater problem, however, is the church's failure to discipline evil when it arises. Karl Menninger's book, Whatever Became of Sin?, deals directly with that point. There are ministers, priests, and rabbis who never talk about sin. There was a time when the minister of God's Word preached the whole counsel of God. Today many pulpits are silent on the sin question. Sin has become fashionable and therefore acceptable. When sin gets its victim into serious difficulty, the psychiatrist and psychologist tell him he is sick. The church must face the fact of sin squarely.
Q. Does the Bible tell us how the church should deal with ual sins?
In Old Testament times in Israel God dealt severely with s. He warned His people through Moses, "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 ; their shall be upon them" (Leviticus 20:13). Every Jew knew that ity was an abomination, a disgusting practice to be loathed, d. This was God's attitude toward that evil practice. He d it to the extent that He considered it worthy of punishment by . Now God loved His people Israel dearly, and it was from His great heart of love that He chastened them. The Epistle to the Hebrews says, "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth" (Hebrews 12:7). When God issued His law forbidding ity, and the punishment for those persons who violated that law, He did so in order to prevent them from sinning. However, when anyone broke the law, the offender paid the penalty due him. God is a holy God who s and judges sin. Parents who love their children will not refrain from warning them of prevailing evils, nor will they fail to chasten them when they disobey. The church today not only tolerates sin but in some instances condones it. God does neither.
In the New Testament the principle of discipline was applied with apostolic authority. In the church at Corinth the young man who was committing fornication with his step mother was excommunicated. Paul instructed the church to take that action "in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ . . . and with the power (i.e. the authority) of our Lord Jesus Christ" (I Corinthians 5:1 8). In Romans 1:21 32 where Paul shows the Gentile world in its downward plunge into sin, including the sin of ity, verse 32 concludes with the words, "who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of . . . " Worthy of , yes. But today we are not under law but under grace. People used to hear and heed the Gospel truth, the message that God is holy, man is a sinner, and that through faith in the substitutionary and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, sinful people can be born again and thereby delivered from the guilt and penalty and practice of their sins.
Q. Do you have any suggestions or recommendations for the church?
Nothing is more foundationally essential for the church and the world than a return to the truth. Recently I read where someone said we are suffering from a famine of the worst kind, "a truth famine." Our modern culture is in a degenerating, deteriorating stage caused by a departure from the truth. And I must say unequivocally that truth does not exist independently of God, and His written Word the Bible, and His Son Jesus Christ. Truth is in no sense of man's imagination or contrivance. Man in his fallen state does not know truth, and that is why he continues to go on sinning. A civilization without the truth is doomed to oblivion. Every ancient civilization that ignored God and His laws has crumbled. Our present civilization is well on the road to doom. We cannot survive independently of God and His Word.
The Church must return to the truth, the whole truth, the sum total of truth founded and grounded upon Him Who said, "I am the truth" (John 14:6). In our Lord's high priestly prayer for His own He prayed, "Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth" (John 17:17). There must be in our churches the clear exposition of the Scriptures and a continuing exaltation of the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ if our civilization is to be saved from the disasters that overcame past civilizations. Any civilization with a philosophy or a doctrine which denies the real truth cannot survive.
Q. Do you see any prophetic significance in the recent upsurge?
Yes, I do. However, I would suggest caution on this point. It is not uncommon for preachers to attach a prophetic meaning to every earthquake, riot, war, moral scandal or political disaster, labeling all such events as "signs of the times."
The modern upsweep is one phase of a declining trend in morals. When the disciples asked our Lord, "What shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the consummation of the age?" He told them that "iniquity shall abound" (Matthew 24:3, 12). There is today a permissiveness and a promiscuity in ual behaviour unprecedented in the history of America. There is little restraint upon the widespread of material containing pictures and writing depicting behaviour intended to cause ual excitement. This would be included in our Lord's prophecy about abounding iniquity.
There is also a prophetic statement in Paul's Second Epistle to Timothy which has some bearing upon the subject we are discussing. Paul said, "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection . . . " (II Timothy 3:1 3). ity is an unnatural affection, practiced by persons "that defile themselves with mankind" (I Timothy 1:10), translated in the New American Standard Version % s," and in the New International Version, " s." I conclude, in the light of these Scriptures, that the rise of ity is very definitely a trend which indicates the approaching end of the age.
Q. Have you personally counseled with s?
Yes, in two pastorates over a period of twenty five years. In each instance the was a man in his thirties who had seduced teen aged boys. The seduction of younger persons is a pattern most s follow. They seem to prefer gratifying their with youth. This is a pattern typical of men who marry several wives. Men who do not respect their marriage vows pursue women younger than themselves. One man of wealth was reportedly married and divorced six times. Most of his wives were young enough to be his daughters. The two men who applied for a marriage license in the Maricopa County Clerk's Office in Arizona were 39 and 21 years old, quite a variation in ages.
Q. Do you attach any significance to the age factor you mentioned?
Yes, I do. I see a potential threat to young people who are exposed to s. Older practicing s are a threat to the youth.
Q. Do you care to make any comments on the Anita Bryant crusade in Dade County, Florida?
In my judgment Anita Bryant was justified in the action she pursued. She did not want her children exposed to the influence of a practicing in the public school classroom. Inasmuch as ity is classified in the Bible as an evil, to insist that children be exposed to teachers in the public schools would be an infringement upon the rights of parents and their children. Under no condition would I permit my children to be subjected to the influence of a . As an American citizen I consider that choice to be my right. Anita Bryant laid her career on the line in the bold and courageous stand she took. She should not have to fight the battle alone. Christians should support her.
Q. What should be the Christian's attitude toward the ?
We must always keep before us the fact that s, like all of us sinners, are the objects of God's love. The Bible says, "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Jesus Christ "is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world" (I John 2:2). The Christian who shares God's love for lost sinners will seek to reach the with the gospel of Christ, which "is the power of God unto salvation, to every one that believeth" (Romans 1:16). As a Christian I should all sin but I can find no justification for hating the sinner. The is a precious soul for whom Christ died. We Christians can show him the best way of life by pointing him to Christ. Our Lord said, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). We are obligated to take the gospel to all.
Q. How can we help Christians who get involved in the practice of ity?
We can help them by seeking to draw their attention to what God says in His Word. In a kind and loving spirit we can show them that they are wrong. However, the must admit to the fact that he is living in sin and that he has the desire to be made free from it. Without a genuine conviction of God's displeasure and a strong desire to do God's will, there is no hope. A truly born again person cannot continue to practice sin without reaping the results of miserable unhappiness brought on by loss of fellowship with God, the fear of retribution and the anxiety produced by guilt. The must ask himself, "Is the temporary gratification of the flesh worth all the penalty and losses I must suffer?"

Answer 2

Ruth 1:16-17 and 2:10-11
1 Samuel 18:1
1 Samuel 18:2
1 Samuel 18:3-4
1 Samuel 18:20-21
1 Samuel 20:41
2 Samuel 1:26 ---- read it slowly & try n understand
Daniel 1:9

Read all the above verses & think about it.

From the new testament
Matthew 8:5-13
These verses describe how a Roman centurion asked Jesus to cure his pais who lay paralyzed and in great agony. The centurion stated that all Jesus had to do was to say the right words to effect the cure. Jesus praised the centurion for his faith. The Greek word pais contains the suggestion of a young male slave kept for sexual purposes by his owner. The English word "pederasty" comes from "pais". Various versions of the Christian Scriptures have suppressed the sexual component of the term and translated the word simply as a "servant boy", "serving boy", "young servant" and "my boy." A current relationship of this type would be considered child sexual abuse, a serious crime. However, such arrangements were common in the Roman Empire at the time, and were tolerated by society. It is worth noting that Jesus condemns neither the master-slave status, nor the same-sex relationship, nor the obvious abuse by an adult having sex with a minor.

Romans 1:26-27
I Corinthians 6:9
1 Timothy 1:9-10

Answer 3

The Bible in the original languages never said it was wrong to be gay, bi or lesbian. Even Lev. 18:22 is wrong in the English Bibles. (Hint: in Hebrew, the verse contains the phrase "mishkvei ishah" which means "in a woman's bed." The translators chose to twist it to mean "as with womankind.") If you really want to know what scripture originally said about homosexuality, see the site below. It's only the translations of the last 400 years that call it a sin.

Answer 4

Leviticus 18:22
Levitcus 20:13

Answer 5

In John you read, God is love, and it goes on. With a spiritual understanding of God and His reflection, man, you will come to see that gay exists after the first commandment is broken. But this will never be understood by those who are hypnotized into believing in themselves as god. Human perception defends what does not come from above and calls it good. Truly, if there was nothing wrong with it, it would be blessed and flourish, but that will never be the case. God can not bless what He did not make.

Answer 6

In the Old Test. where the laws are defined it states, "that no man should lay with another man." Of course it also states that women shouldn't cut their hair either. I think you have to take into consideration the period that this was written, and the surrounding events. No where in the bible does it make this statement regarding lesbianism. So go ahead girls its all okay!

Answer 7

Leviticus 18;22 -----Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is an abomination.
There is also something in Revelation, but I cannot think of it right now.

Don't say that Jesus came to change the law or anything like that, because he came to fulfill the law not change or cancel it.

Answer 8

Hey the bible says alot of things are wrong ,but I don't think they all are .