2007-11-26 18:31:48 · 36 answers · asked by autumn 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
well im doing a debate for a speech class and I was told that I needed to know all of the religious points of view so I have been looking and havent found much....
2007-11-26 18:36:33 · update #1
Christ defined marriage as being between one man and one woman.
Christ said any sex (even in your mind) outside of the marriage contract is adultery.
Adultery is sin.
Mr Derp - Romans chapter 1 is very clear, as is my point above.
2007-11-26 18:43:54 · answer #1 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is not wrong, is that what you want to hear? No there is no such verse that say it is wrong but it did point indirectly that it is a sin to God. Happy?
Those that are Homosexual should not worry about what the Bible says. Live your life and enjoy your preference sex life and don't feel guilty of it. Unless, of course that you join Christianity which you are subjected to it's doctrine.
It is the religious people that put the chain on you and have convince to the world that your preference sex life is sinful while yet you are of the world. They took your rights. Bluntly says, they BULLY you and make you the scrape goat . It makes them a saint to their people.
It is better for you people to be united and present your case to the Big Brothers to get back your rights, than finding evidence.
Know your rights first, than you will be free.
2007-11-26 19:00:52 · answer #2 · answered by Kingdomchild07 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Romans 1:26-27
1 Corinthians 6:9
1 Timothy 1:9-11
2007-11-26 18:39:02 · answer #3 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Check out Tiina's answer. I have a King James Bible printed in 1966. In the verse that Tiina quotes, first Corinthians 6: 9 and 10, the word "Homosexuals" is never mentioned. Do you see the deception that's slowly taking place? I hope so!
2007-11-26 19:05:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think a point that needs speaking out here that that we as the Christian community don't, well at least speaking from a biblical stand point, don't hate homosexuals. We do not like the sin they commit, but we love them as Christ has commanded us. I mean we should as the church never turn away a homosexual person, but should love them and show them that what the they are doing God does not want them to.
2007-11-26 18:56:11 · answer #5 · answered by guymandude 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Biblical evidence about homosexuality is very limited. Jesus had nothing to say about it. Obviously it was not important to him. But he has a lot to say about love and justice.
The Old Testament passages are found in a complex series of laws that contain what to do about adultery, nakedness, bestiality, incest, dietary considerations, etc.
See Leviticus chaps. 18-20. The homosexual reference is in chap. 20: 13. The death penalty is ordered. Since we don't do that, the reference has no meaning except for a very ancient world, 3000 years ago. But something does apply according to Jesus "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Leviticus 19:18. Note the whole context vs. 15-18.
What the Apostle Paul says in his Letter to the Romans, chap. 1: 26-27 about homosexuality requires that the whole context must be read. The historical context had to do with pagan Greek rites in the Temple to the goddess Astarte on a cliff overlooking the city of Corinth. Woman wore male clothes and men woman's. They danced and caroused before the god mocking homosexual men and women. It is a form of idolatry. It along with everything that breaks the first 4 commandments of the 10 is sin in the Greek world (chapters 1:18 to 32); in the philosophers' world (chap. 2:1-16) and in the Jewish life and religion (chap. 2:17-3: 20). The conclusion is: "There is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (chap. 3:22-23). Idolatry is the direct opposite of God's glory. That means for ALL.
In Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, Paul also refers to idolatry in the reference to homosexuals (2 words, one refers to the woman's cross dressing and the other to anal sex (sodomy). Paul still has the Temple to Astarte in his memory along with a lot to say about marriage and family.
What we know now about the genuine love that one gay man for another or one gay woman for another, fits Christ's law of love and Paul's also (see I Corinthians, chap. 13). Many, many homosexuals are Christians. They like all human beings have Christ's love and they deserve church weddings if they desire. The United Church of Christ (the Congregational Churches) perform gay marriages and open the ministry of the Church to gay persons, celibate or not.
This is the point of view of many ministers, priests, and rabbis.
I have a Ph. D. in Biblical languages and literature from Princeton Theological Seminary and I am a practicing psychotherapist and marriage and family therapist.
2007-11-26 19:29:28 · answer #6 · answered by teiddarhpsyth 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm no bible thumper, but there is a verse about man lying down with a woman and not another man. Something to that effect. Remember, in the biblical times our fourteen year old daughters would be married and giving birth. Roll with the changes.
2007-11-26 18:36:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Leviticus 18:22 and Romans 1:22-28 are good places to start looking.
2007-11-27 05:51:46 · answer #8 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of good Bible answers there. But I still go with Genesis 1 where God made Adam and Eve male and female. And that was the marriage. God put those two together as man and wife. And Jesus reaffirms this sexual union in Matthew 19:4-6 ".4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a]them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’[b] 5 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’?[c] 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
All the above scriptures show that God has never changed his mind. God condemns any other kind of human sexual relationship.
2007-11-26 18:50:05 · answer #9 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Romans 1:24-27 Therefore God, in keeping with the desires of their hearts, gave them up to uncleanness, that their bodies might be dishonored among them, even those who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and venerated and rendered sacred service to the creation rather than the One who created, who is blessed forever. Amen. 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.
1 Timothy 1:8-11 - Now we know that the Law is fine provided one handles it lawfully in the knowledge of this fact, that law is promulgated, not for a righteous man, but for persons lawless and unruly, ungodly and sinners, lacking loving-kindness, and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, manslayers, fornicators, men who lie with males, kidnappers, liars, false swearers, and whatever other thing is in opposition to the healthful teaching according to the glorious good news of the happy God, with which I was entrusted
2007-11-26 18:36:43 · answer #10 · answered by Juggernaut 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1Corinthians 6:9 Don’t you know that evil people will not receive God’s kingdom? Don’t be fooled. Those who commit sexual sins will not receive the kingdom. Neither will those who worship statues of gods or commit adultery. Neither will men who are prostitutes or who commit homosexual acts. 10 Neither will thieves or those who always want more and more. Neither will those who are often drunk or tell lies or cheat. People who live like that will not receive God’s kingdom. 11 SOME OF YOU USED TO DO THOSE THINGS. BUT YOUR SINS WERE WASHED AWAY. YOU WERE MADE HOLY. YOU WERE MADE RIGHT WITH GOD. ALL OF THAT WAS DONE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD.
SOME OF YOU USED TO DO THOSE THINGS… They ARE NOT PERMANENT.
BUT YOUR SINS WERE WASHED AWAY... They CAN BE FORGIVEN.
YOU WERE MADE HOLY… You CAN GET THROUGH IT.
YOU WERE MADE RIGHT WITH GOD… No matter what you’ve been through -- NO ONE IS “TOO BAD.”
BUT… THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY THIS CAN HAPPEN.
ALL OF THAT WAS DONE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
JESUS CHRIST AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD.
... Some will claim that the meaning of the original Greek word translated here as "who commit homosexual acts" is uncertain. That is NOT a valid assessment. The word is actually rather explicit and could be accurately translated by a common vulgar description of gay sex. Lesbianism gets mention also, is isn't just gays:
Romans 1:26 So God let them go. They were filled with shameful longings. Their women committed sexual acts that were not natural.
27 In the same way, the men turned away from their natural love for women. They burned with sexual longing for each other. Men did shameful things with other men. They suffered in their bodies for all the twisted things they did.
The phrase "In the same way" at the beginning of verse 27 clearly identifies and explains "not natural" of verse 26 as lesbian sex. This passage lacks the more explicit terminology for gay sex used in 1Corinthians, but is none the less a clear condemnation of homosexual activity.
... Dennis Jernigan, a friend and popular Christian singer, song writer, and worship leader, was FORMERLY homosexual. http://www.dennisjernigan.com/about.htm is a page from his web site that tells some about him.
Psyberfox:
Interesting choice for your fictitious verse citation there:
THE REAL Micah 6:8:
"The LORD has shown you what is good.
He has told you what he requires of you.
You must treat people fairly.
You must love others faithfully.
And you must be very careful to live
the way your God wants you to."
2007-11-26 18:35:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋