IS HOMOSEXUALITY WRONG?
The rejection of homosexual behavior that is found in the Old Testament is well known. In Genesis 19, two angels in disguise visit the city of Sodom and are offered hospitality and shelter by Lot. During the night, the men of Sodom demand that Lot hand over his guests for homosexual intercourse. Lot refuses, and the angels blind the men of Sodom. Lot and his household escape, and the town is destroyed by fire "because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord" (Gen. 19:13). Throughout history, Jewish and Christian scholars have recognized that one of the chief sins involved in God’s destruction of Sodom was its people’s homosexual behavior. But today, certain homosexual activists promote the idea that the sin of Sodom was merely a lack of hospitality. Although inhospitality is a sin, it is clearly the homosexual behavior of the Sodomites that is singled out for special criticism in the account of their city’s destruction. We must look to Scripture’s own interpretation of the sin of Sodom. Jude 7 records that Sodom and Gomorrah "acted immorally and indulged in unnatural lust." Ezekiel says that Sodom committed "abominable things" (Ezek. 16:50), which could refer to homosexual and heterosexual acts of sin. Lot even offered his two virgin daughters in place of his guests, but the men of Sodom rejected the offer, preferring homosexual sex over heterosexual sex (Gen. 19:8–9). Ezekiel does allude to a lack of hospitality in saying that Sodom "did not aid the poor and needy" (Ezek. 16:49). So homosexual acts and a lack of hospitality both contributed to the destruction of Sodom, with the former being the far greater sin, the "abominable thing" that set off God’s wrath. But the Sodom incident is not the only time the Old Testament deals with homosexuality. An explicit condemnation is found in the book of Leviticus: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. . . . If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them" (Lev. 18:22, 20:13).
Confirming this fact is the New Testament’s forceful rejection of homosexual behavior as well. In Romans 1, Paul attributes the homosexual desires of some to a refusal to acknowledge and worship God. He says, "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. . . . Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them" (Rom. 1:26–28, 32). Elsewhere Paul again warns that homosexual behavior is one of the sins that will deprive one of heaven: "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" (1 Cor. 6:9–10, NIV). All of Scripture teaches the unacceptability of homosexual behavior. But the rejection of this behavior is not an arbitrary prohibition. It, like other moral imperatives, is rooted in natural law—the design that God has built into human nature.
This leads to another question. What about human nature? The way to find out right and wrong in most cases is to look at it at its extreme condition. In this case by doing so also leads you to believe it is not only morally wrong as the scriptures show but by nature it is wrong and devistating. If everyone became homosexual then there would be no life on the earth humanly speaking 120 years from now. Only a male and female can produce life as we all know.
Socially it is also harmful. Not only does it cause confusion in weak vulnerable people it also disrupts the social and family stability factors. The main cause for this behavior is most always due to the fact that a fathers love was missing in the home wiether male or female.
Homosexuals also drink, smoke, and do prescription or non prescription drugs at a much higher percentage than heterosexuals. Is this because of a mental weakness?
They also stay monogamous at a lot shorter time span than heterosexuals. This also causes not only a rise in sexualy transmitted diseases but also in once again the social structure of a home and its environment. If you look at societys who have high populations of such behavior, the economy is also weakened. Wiether this is Gods doings or self inflicted results is not 100 percent clear but the facts do cause us to question the behavior in all aspects of its consequences.
In most societys you have the choice to live out any sexual orientation you want but the results are there. Its wrong clearly not only by our conscious proclaiming it but our societys, nature, and the word of God cry out this truth. Its plain and simply a sinful disease destroying anyone or its surroundings it gets in.
Homosexual activists often justify homosexuality by claiming that ten percent of the population is homosexual, meaning that it is a common and thus acceptable behavior. But not all common behaviors are acceptable, and even if ten percent of the population were born homosexual, this would prove nothing. One hundred percent of the population is born with original sin and the desires flowing from it. If those desires manifest themselves in a homosexual fashion in ten percent of the population, all that does is give us information about the demographics of original sin.
Confirming this fact is the New Testament’s forceful rejection of homosexual behavior as well. In Romans 1, Paul attributes the homosexual desires of some to a refusal to acknowledge and worship God. He says, "For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. . . . Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them" (Rom. 1:26–28, 32). Elsewhere Paul again warns that homosexual behavior is one of the sins that will deprive one of heaven: "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" (1 Cor. 6:9–10, NIV). All of Scripture teaches the unacceptability of homosexual behavior. But the rejection of this behavior is not an arbitrary prohibition. It, like other moral imperatives, is rooted in natural law—the design that God has built into human nature.
This leads to another question. What about human nature? The way to find out right and wrong in most cases is to look at it at its extreme condition. In this case by doing so also leads you to believe it is not only morally wrong as the scriptures show but by nature it is wrong and devistating. If everyone became homosexual then there would be no life on the earth humanly speaking 120 years from now. Only a male and female can produce life as we all know.
Socially it is also harmful. Not only does it cause confusion in weak vulnerable people it also disrupts the social and family stability factors. The main cause for this behavior is most always due to the fact that a fathers love was missing in the home wiether male or female.
Homosexuals also drink, smoke, and do prescription or non prescription drugs at a much higher percentage than heterosexuals. Is this because of a mental weakness?
They also stay monogamous at a lot shorter time span than heterosexuals. This also causes not only a rise in sexualy transmitted diseases but also in once again the social structure of a home and its environment. If you look at societys who have high populations of such behavior, the economy is also weakened. Wiether this is Gods doings or self inflicted results is not 100 percent clear but the facts do cause us to question the behavior in all aspects of its consequences.
In most societys you have the choice to live out any sexual orientation you want but the results are there. Its wrong clearly not only by our conscious proclaiming it but our societys, nature, and the word of God cry out this truth. Its plain and simply a sinful disease destroying anyone or its surroundings it gets in.
Homosexual activists often justify homosexuality by claiming that ten percent of the population is homosexual, meaning that it is a common and thus acceptable behavior. But not all common behaviors are acceptable, and even if ten percent of the population were born homosexual, this would prove nothing. One hundred percent of the population is born with original sin and the desires flowing from it. If those desires manifest themselves in a homosexual fashion in ten percent of the population, all that does is give us information about the demographics of original sin.
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