Can some show me in the bible where it says being gay is a sin?

Question

I'm dealing and fighting my flesh with these feelings for someone of the same sex. I need someone to show me in the bible where it says these feelings are wrong!

Answer 1

http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/IsHomosexualitySin.html

We are all born with a proclivity to sin, and thus having feelings to do something does not necessarily justify doing them. But God gives grace to overcome sin "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him." (Gen 4:7).

There are also environmental aspects as well as choices we have made that bring us to have aberrant desires, but the short answer is that you need to honestly and humble come before God in prayer and confess that are a sinner, as we all are, and that you do not want wrong feelings, and decide you want a new life in Christ. Then ask Jesus who died for you and rose again to save you as He promised, giving your sins and life to Him. And He can and will. Faith that follows Him will save you from unnecessary pain in this life, as well as the next.

(Psa 34:18) "The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."

Answer 2

Lev;18..22

Answer 3

Why is God giving you feelings for another woman if he doesn't want you to follow through with them? I don't think there is anything wrong with you; but if you need to know, the verse is in Leviticus. Silly; if a man lays with a man as he lays with woman. They don't explicitly state that they are talking about sex. And yeah, I agree; the Bible has been translated and re translated so many times its no longer the word of God. Its become so garbled through the ages.

The difference between natural cravings and those that are not. One must first take alcohol or drugs before one will have cravings for them. Regarding sexuality; one craves companionship of the same sex before experiencing it. The same could be said for any natural need of sustenance for the physical body. The need of companionship is sustenance for the soul, it is love. God helps guide you toward love.

Answer 4

I'm glad that you are concerned about God's thoughts on this particular sin. Other people have already showed you the same scriptures that came to my mind so I'll just provide a link to a tract that deals with homosexuality and tells the story of Sodom & Gomorrah.

designtwilight is assuming that God is giving you these feelings. Does God give the alcoholic or the drug addict cravings for those drugs? No, satan does.

Answer 5

Well, firstly, I think you're "trolling." Secondly, I don't think you will be condemned for feelings unless you actually act out these feelings and involve another individual.

As far as what the Bible says about homosexuality in the New Testament, try out 1 Corinthians 6, starting at verse 9 and take heed with what you can do about it in verse 11.

9Do 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 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Answer 6

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 New Living Translation


9 Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. 11 Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Answer 7

From the beginning of the world, God made a male and a female. He told them to multiply (for which you need one of each gender)

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of the sin of homosexuality (Genesis 18-19)

Leviticus 18:22
And with a man you shall not lie with as a man lies with a woman; it is an abomination.

Leviticus 20:13
If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Romans 1:26-27
Because of this [idolatry], God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
(as you can see, they were punished for their sin)

1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor practicing homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Answer 8

I believe it was in the same book that said to stone disobedient children and gave instructions on animal sacrifice and selling your daughters into slavery.

Answer 9

First of all, there is NO place in the Bible where "being" homosexual is cited as a sin.

There are places where homosexual acts are cited as sinful, however, even those are ambiguous as to whether it is sinful in and of itself, or in its practice in pagan temples.

And that is another thing. Feelings are NOT wrong in and of themselves. What you do with them and how you handle them is what becomes right or wrong.

if you are struggling with this, I really recommend that you speak with a pastor or counselor who can help you with these issues.

If it turns out that you are naturally homosexual than you have a lot of questions to work through in your faith. But remember, before you condemn yourself in any way, that God loves us all. We are all sinners, and all sin is equal in the eyes of the Lord. Us heteros are fully included in that. Also, there are SO many more mentions of use of money and gossip as possible sin accumulators than there are of homosexuality.

EDIT:

I am sorry but I have to add this on. I can't believe that I have to specify this, but apparently I do.

Sodom and Gommorah were NOT destroyed becuase of homosexuality!!!!!! They were destroyed because of all manner of sinfulness, a major factor being their denial and destruction of fundamental forms of hospitality which were extremely important to the survival and thus constituted an important and unviolable ethic of OT people.

Answer 10

Rom 1:26 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:


Rom 1:27 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.


Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;


Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,


Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,


Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:


Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.