What sin, according to Christianity, is about as bad as Homosexuality?

Question

I mean, I'm sure that there are many sins that Christians think are as bad as being Gay. But I just need one so I can have a comparison in an argument I'm having with someone.

Answer 1

I didn't see "thou shall not be gay" in the 10 commandments.
so I think murder, theft, adultry, etc are probably way up there above it.

Answer 2

all sin is sin, but i don't think all sin is equal. other christians will disagree, but this is why i think what i do; 'Jesus answered, “You could have no power at all against Me unless it had been given you from above. Therefore the one who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.” ' John 19:11 (NKJV) ''But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.'' 1 Timothy 5:8 (NKJV) see the comparisons? that's why i don't think all sins are equal- ''greater'' and ''worse'' are relative terms. the massive opposition against divorce came thirty years ago or so, back when there was a low divorce rate. right now, gay marriage is a hot topic, so there will be some protest. it won't come from me though. i'm sitting here enjoying a nice menthol cigarette (smoking is a sin, since i've allowed my body to be ''mastered''), so even if i *did* want to cry out against it, i'd have to ''remove the plank from my own eye'' (or cigarette from my own lips) before i could do that.

Answer 3

Eating lobster, shrimp, and shellfish is also an "abomination" by the same chapter...

Also having sex with a woman when she's on her period is as bad (this is a couple passages away from the leviticus homosexuality thing), also if children are disobedient it's as bad a sin as homosexuality (virtually on the same page) and they should be punished by death... indeed killing rebellious children is so important the bible mentions it at least 5 times, with Jesus reinforcing it twice (one of them in Mark 7:9-10).

If you sell your daughter into slavery make sure she's sold to do woman's work or sexual favors - a woman doing man's work is as big a sin as homosexuality...

Wearing mixed fibers in your clothing is about as bad...

There are plenty of things. I could go on for hours probably.

Answer 4

All of them. Read 1 Corinthians 6:8-10.

Sexual immorality, greed, idolatry, slander, swindling, adultery, and theft are all mentioned in the same verse, along with homosexual acts.

So all sins are equal in the eyes of God, and no matter how "bad" we think they are, even the "smallest" sin takes us away from God.

Sorry if this isn't the answer you're looking for, but it's the truth.

Answer 5

The Bible does not describe homosexuality as a “greater” sin than any other. All sin is offensive to God. Homosexuality is just one of the many things listed in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 that will keep a person from the kingdom of God. According to the Bible, God’s forgiveness is just as available to a homosexual as it is to an adulterer, idol worshipper, murderer, thief, etc. God also promises the strength for victory over sin, including homosexuality, to all those who will believe in Jesus Christ for their salvation (1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17).

Recommended Resource: Coming out of Homosexuality by Bob Davies and 101 Frequently Asked Questions About Homosexuality by Mike Haley.

Answer 6

Artificial birth control is as bad, for then the most sacred center of a person's being is disabled or distorted, which is his or her sexuality.

The pill essentially effects a chemical mutilation on a woman's reproductive system, and the condom prevents physical contact where it should be most intimate - thus both things are in reality forms of castration.

To give an example, the most intimate thing a man can do is give his seed to a woman, but in a vascectomy, there is no seed given.


This sort of thing is accepted in our society because pleasure and appearances have taken the place of *reality* - thus empiricism has eclipsed our proper view of reality, for it has been forgotten that an appearance to the senses must be an appearance of *some existing reality,* that is, an appearance of some actually existing being, for we cannot have phenomena in a vacuum, as if that is sufficient to sustain us, but there has to be a reality that is behind the phenomena, that is, it has to be a phenomena of *something.*

Now that is forgotten when people exercise the sexual act as if feeling alone were its essence - for sex is not a mere exchange of pleasures, but is a union of persons, and the pleasures flow from that, sex is not mere pleasure in some sort of vacuum - now when people use condoms, birth control pills, and mutilate their bodies with vascectomies and tubals, they have forgotten this, as they destroy or badly distort the being (which is the integrity of their persons and the sexual act), with what is artifical and contrary to human nature for the sake of the pleasure that they want - such a thing cannot have but evil consequences.


Now if two unmarried persons who are in love have sexual relations, as a Christian, I would have to say that that is wrong, but at least what they are doing is natural, and the act considered in and of itself is a good (it is only the *circumstance* of it being outside the bounds of matrimony that makes it wrong)

Such a thing is far less serious and far more understandable and forgivable by God than the above mentioned, as His judgment may not even be a condemnation, but an exortation that if they truly love each other, they would want to be with each other for life (for if you say that you love someone now, but perhaps not in three years, then it is not love), that they should formalize their relationship so that everything is perfectly right in the relationship - even the Bible seems to say this as only perverted forms of sexuality are condemned, but unmarried persons are merely urged to get married - of course sin is sin, but it must be made neither more nor less serious than it is.





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Answer 7

A sin , is a sin is a sin- - if a person is a homosexual , or a heterosexual having pre-marital sex it is all sin in the eyes of God- you would think as a human would, that murder would be worse- well in our eyes yes- in the eyes of Almighty God, any sin separates us from God- that is why we need Christ as payment for our sin. No sin is ok in the eyes of God. Let us not compare ourselves to ourselves but to the holiness of God- since I said that I will probably be deleted again- oh well, truth is truth

Answer 8

In Christianity all sins a bad.

Answer 9

There is no argument you can give.

All sin is offensive to God so that there is none worse than any other. Stealing a dime is as bad as stealing a million dollars. Thou shalt not steal is the command that is broken. The dollar amount is negligible.

Homosexuality is just one more sin, and like stealing, dying without repenting of it can send a person to the Lake of Fire.

Answer 10

A word-study in the Bible for "Abomination(s)" will reveal that all sin is an abomination to the Lord. God hates all of it equally.
It is mankind that assigns levels of sin.

Talk to Westboro Baptist Church and they'll tell you homosexuality is the worst. What they won't tell you is that pride is equally abominable.

Answer 11

Actually, the Bible says more about divorce than it does about homosexuality....

Actually, the Bible says more about most sins, than it does about homosexuality.

It's just that gay people are easy targets because they are few in numbers....

Churches don't want to alienate their primary monetary contributorus, so would never to think to rail against the divorced, gluttons, bankrupt, idolaters, etc...eventhough, all of these sins will send you to hell too...if you do not turn from them...according to a literal interpretation of the Bible.