Can someone answer these questions for me?
1) How many individual and unique times does the bible say homosexuality is a sin or wrong.
2) Who (which bible guy, like John, Matthew, etc.) said this.
3) How many unique guys said it.
Thanks.
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Can someone answer these questions for me?
1) How many individual and unique times does the bible say homosexuality is a sin or wrong.
2) Who (which bible guy, like John, Matthew, etc.) said this.
3) How many unique guys said it.
Thanks.
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Who cares?
All sexual activity outside of that between one man and one woman within the bonds of a marital union is forbidden, so whether the bible talks about man and man or woman and woman sex is completely irrelevant. ALL sexual activity other than as permitted between a man and his wife is prohibited.
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At least two guys directly address this topic in both testaments literally thousands of years apart. As far as I know, just about every writer of the NT covers it.
For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived? ~ Deuteronomy 5:26
If you're not prepared to risk your very life for your "enemy" you have no right to speak to him of love. ~ Daughter
Many say they are called... but I am pretty convinced that with many of them it was the wrong number. ~ Project Peter
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Hi, kenw232.
Here are some references.
OLD TESTAMENT
- Leviticus 18:22 - "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable."
- Leviticus 20:13 - "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
NEW TESTAMENT
Here's a good read with some of the same scriptures (I got them from here) a couple of suggested commentaries.
- Romans 1:24-27 - "Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural 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 indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - Do 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 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
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There are twelve mentions of homosexuality in the Bible:
- 2 refer to rape (Genesis 19:5, Judges 19:22
- 5 refer to cult prostitution (Deuteronomy 23:17-18, 1 Kings 14:23-24, 15:12-13, 22:46, 2 Kings 23:6-8)
- 1 refers to prostitution and pederasty (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
- 4 are nonspecific (Leviticus 18:21-22, Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:26-27, 1 Timothy 1:8-10)
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Paul especially spoke out. Loud and clear!
Romans 1:24-32
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
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:
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.
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;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
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.
My favorite scripture: Malachi 3:16
"Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name!" (Every time we speak of the Lord, or even THINK of him--its written down in a book of remembrance!)
I live here!
Would you consider Deut 22:11 to be a gay reference in the Bible?Originally Posted by Firefighter
That's a little joke for FireFighter.
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The only one that I can think of, apart from the ones already mentioned is Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19).
Genesis 19: 4 Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. 5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.” (NIV)
Genesis 19:12 The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, 13 because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
Every sin has death in it
God said it. PERIOD
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I don't get it. Do you think God doesn't mean what He says the first time around?
Would you consider Deut 22:11 to be a gay reference in the Bible?
That's a little joke for FireFighter.
For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived? ~ Deuteronomy 5:26
If you're not prepared to risk your very life for your "enemy" you have no right to speak to him of love. ~ Daughter
Many say they are called... but I am pretty convinced that with many of them it was the wrong number. ~ Project Peter
Formerly moonglow
I think he is probably asking this because someone asked him (or her) this...don't you think?
God bless
"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson
<--Bluebird of Happiness
Well, he or she did not say that someone asked them. I thought he (or she) was asking, wanting to know for themself. (Below is actually what was said.) But, it doesn't matter. Good to know scripture references, I think, and be ready. Just in case.
My favorite scripture: Malachi 3:16
"Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name!" (Every time we speak of the Lord, or even THINK of him--its written down in a book of remembrance!)
Formerly moonglow
True...
My intent was to hopefully calm posters down..so many getting so hostile over the question. Why not just answer it without posting so angrily? Why jump all over a brand new member like this?If I were the OP I sure wouldn't want to come back and ask anything else!
"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated?" - D A Carson
I miss Pluto
Good point. Speak the truth in love, everybody, so that we can grow to be the mature body. (Eph. 4:14-16)True...
My intent was to hopefully calm posters down..so many getting so hostile over the question. Why not just answer it without posting so angrily? Why jump all over a brand new member like this?
".....it's your nickel"
<--Bluebird of Happiness
I didn't see any hostility........
My favorite scripture: Malachi 3:16
"Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name!" (Every time we speak of the Lord, or even THINK of him--its written down in a book of remembrance!)
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