Passages in the Bible that relate to Homosexuality?
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Lev.18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Lev.18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Lev.18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: \n\nLev.20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.\n\nAbomination (Hebrew, toebah) disgusting morally, an abhorrence.\n\nAbhorrence, a feeling of repugnance or loathing.\n\nDeut.23:17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Deut. 23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.\n\nSodomite (Hebrew, qadesh) male prostitute, licentious, unclean.\nDog (Hebrew, keleb) male prostitute, (dog) position.\n\nJob 36:14 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. \n\nUnclean (Hebrew, qadesh) male prostitute, licentious.\n\nLicentious, lacking moral discipline especially in sekual conduct. \n\nRom.1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. \n\nBecame vain (Greek, mataioo) foolish, morally wicked.\n\nRom.1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, \n\nBecame fools (Greek, moraino) literally were fooled by their perverted mind.\n\nRom.1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: \n\nUncleanness (Greek, akatharsia) impurity, physically or morally\n\nRom.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: \n\nVile affections (Greek, atimia) passions of infamy (disgrace).\n\nRom.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. \n\nUnseemly (Greek, aschemosune) indecency, shame.\n\nRom.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; \n\nReprobate (Greek, adokimos) rejected, worthless, castaway.\n  \nRom.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. \n\nI Cor.6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,  I Cor.6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. \n\nEffeminate, having qualities or characteristics more often associated with women than men.\n\nNor abusers of themselves with mankind (Greek, arsenokoites) sodomite.\n\nI Tim.1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;\n\nDefile themselves with mankind (Greek, arsenokoites) sodomite.
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http://www.godmademegay.com/letter.htm\n\nI challenge every Christian to study the above with an open mind, if that is remotely possible.
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You make some very good points. The bible was written in a time when homosexuality wasnt very common, people read into it much too far and take something out of it that could very well be not true.
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Hmm. Wicca, Buddhism I think... hmm. Can't think of any others right off the top of my head. Unitarian Universalism, too...\n\nAh, here's a link that explains this issue with the major religions. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_religion
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Absolutely -- and in every case they are specifically condemned as gravely sinful.\n\nSee Leviticus 16, for example, in the OT.\n\nSee Romans 1 for a NT example.\n\nThere are lots of things in the OT that are replaced or superceded by new "rules" in the NT.  \n\nBut homosexuality is not one of them.  With regard to that, there's nothing in the NT that replaces anything in the OT.  Rather, the NT reaffirms and repeats the OT teachings against homosexual conduct.
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Neither the Torah nor the rabbinic tradition has much to say concerning lesbian relationships. It is the male's "spilling of seed" anywhere other than in the usual "place" that is seen as a sin. \n\nThe Torah seems to see homosexual relations in a cultic context rather than something more parallel to the interpersonal context of heterosexual relationships.\n\nLater Jewish tradition, including the Biblical prophets, makes no reference to homosexuality regarding the sins of Sodom and Gemmorah; these are seen as cruelty and lack of hospitality to the "stranger" - xenophobia, as it were.\n\nReform Judaism, for the most part, seems to view the traditional prohibitions against homosexuality as mores from a bygone age, mores now replaced with clearer understandings of the reality of gender orientation as something which is beyond simple individual "preference." As a whole, the Reform Movement, both the "lay people" and the rabbis have come out very strongly in favor of civil rights for gays and lesbians.
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1. sin\n2. sin, unless mother's life is compromised\n3. sin - no one has a right to decide whether one's actions deserve death or not - but Allah Himself\n4. supported by islam and by myself personally\n5. disagree strongly\n6. corrupted by mass euphoria\n7. brothers and sisters\n8. brothers and sisters\n9. life given by God and therefore not to be wasted\n10. i'd rather not comment that one :)\n\nhope this helps, although u're right - morals and beliefs do vary\n\nEDIT: i just wanted to add that even though i consider homosexuality a sin, i would never judge ones .......... simply coz it's a part of my religious belief that i have no right to judge - only Allah has that right
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The Master taught Love.\n   If you look at the laws of the Old Testament, and you read Genesis or the chapters that come before the laws are given - things were out of control - completely out of control. Take a journey then, and if you pass through many of the towns in those days (not just Sodom - but many) - there was a very good chance part of your reception is either you or your wife getting gang-raped - straight or gay. i promise if you read it, it's there. The circumstance happens again and again in Genesis, and continues after Israel is created. So that's what people did acceptably at that time and it was way out of moral or legal control -- so these laws came in that said no homosexuality - but also addressed all of these other sexual issues too - no adultery, no sex within the family etc. etc. The mistake is people single out one law and don't cross-reference all the others given on the topic - which is sexuality. If there are laws for adultery and homosexuality, and they are in the same category - then nobody really has the right to toss stones at anybody.\n   More importantly - neither is an unforgiveable sin.\n   There is lust, and there is Love, and Yeshua Messiah is about Love - and caring that we don't hurt one another (Love your neighbor as yourself), because naturally in the process hurt ourselves.\n   Read the Psalms - they're incredible. read the New Testament - it's about Love - and the fact that this subject not reallytalked about in the New Testament tells us that by then, people had calmed down from the outrageously immoral days of the Old Testament - and Jesus cares about what's in your Heart above all, which is his measuring rod - and it's 100 applicable to anyone, straight or gay, because Jesus himself said so.\n   God's Blessings, my friend.\n   God Loves you.
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Some people place an inordinate focus on a handful of passages from the Bible (which, as far as literature goes, is terribly overrated) that condemn homosexual behavior as an "abomination."\n\nBecause the Bible is full of contradictory nonsense, what people often do is they pick and choose which parts they will listen to. Like the part about stoning one's children to death if they talk back to you - no one really pays attention to that, or to the passage about how eating shrimp and lobster is an abomination. That would just be too inconvenient.\n\nSo when people already don't like gay people - which is what they pick up from this wonderfully homophobic culture of ours - all they have to do is flip open the Bible and find the passage in Leviticus that agrees with them, and then they can feel perfectly justified in their bigotry. Indeed, they often begin to force this hatred upon others, such as with that awful Fred Phelps and his grotesque little cult in Kansas.\n\nHere's the thing, though: if people do not choose to be gay, but in fact are born that way, what would that say about God? And what would that say about the Bible?\n\nReligious people will either plug their ears or run fleeing from anything that threatens their dearly-head beliefs. It's how they organize their entire thought process about the world and the other people in it, after all. So there is no way they could ever acknowledge that the Bible is mistaken, because God doesn't make mistakes. And if being gay is a mistake, then it must be because people choose to be that way.\n\nBut I look at it like this: those who take the Bible as the inerrant and literal word of God are choosing to be ignorant. Which is also why they continue to think the Earth is only 6,000 years old, was created in six days, and Adam rode a pterodactyl to work.\n\nGive me gay over stupid any day. Cheers!
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Beats me. One of the biggest things that turns me off to Christianity.\n\nThe Bible does speak of homosexuality being wrong. I have a problem with that. \n\nBut, it also speaks of those who follow it loving others as themselves, and that he who is without sin should throw the first stone.
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I believe you're right. I personally don't believe in the Bible because I don't believe the writings came straight from God himself. One place that speaks about homosexuality is the book of Leviticus, which is, in my opinion, a large compiling of BS. Another section that speaks out against homosexuality (supposedly) is the story of the Sodomites. However, I don't believe that story revolvs around rape and not homosexuality.\n\nI do know there's another one that blatantly says homosexuality is wrong, but because I don't believe the Bible is truth, I don't believe it's correct.\n\nIF homosexuality is a sin, then who is to say it's worse than any other sins?\n\nGod does love gay people, and that's it. Who's to say they know anything more about "Judgmenet Day" than anyone else? If someone's gay and someone else lies, which one gets the worse punishment? Nobody knows, and anyone who says they know are fooling themselves.
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You are very right.  When people cut things out of the Bible, they start with Rev  22:18.  ; )  But almost everyone actually just chooses which things to follow, there are VERY few groups that obey everything in the Bible (keeping kosher, not eating shellfish, not allowing men to have long hair, treating their slaves well, etc.).  Really it's all just a buffet.
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Depends on who you ask, but neither is. If you read the oldest and purest form of the bible it says nothing about being gay. It is true that the old testament talks about spilling the sperm and wasting, but you have to understand the science (or lack thereof) of the time. They believed that the whole baby was in the sperm and the womb was just an incubator. There for any time a man climaxed out side of a woman, it was killing a child. Many laws in the old testament were built off this belief. \nAnd also note that all the law about this are in the old testament, when Jesus came he said because of his death, the old laws were void. As for the new testament, remember that most of the  books were written by more then person, some books by many of different people. Their students (their intentions may have been good) pieced together teaching and  beliefs from themselves and the disciples. \nMy advice would be to do a lot of research on both sides of the argument, and look with yourself. There is a good book called "Gay theology with out apology" I don't know the author. good luck.
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You won't go to hell just for being a lesbian.\n\nNowhere in the bible does it mention lesbianism is wrong. There are passages that possibly refer to gay men (depending on the translation one reads) but none of them refer to women.\n\nConservative religious zealots only refer to sections of the bible that they find serve their needs anyway. Examples of commonly ignored scripture:\n   How many houses of these people have parapets? (Deuteronomy 22:8)\n   How many wear clothing of mixed fabrics? (Leviticus 19:19)\n   How many adulterers are stoned to death? (Deuteronomy 22:22)\n   How many trim their beards? (Leviticus 19:27)\n\n\nSo, if you are devout, know that just by being a lesbian, you won't go to hell. If you are attracted to women, be true to yourself.
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It also says to stone people to death, kill them, slavery, all kinds of nasty things.  See the following link.  Yet people CHOSE to pull the one about homosexuality out and use it to be intolerant.  Here are some examples with the verses...\n\nGenesis\n\n"God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." He purposefully designed a system that ensures the suffering and death of all his creatures, parasite and host, predator and prey. 1:31 \n\nGod likes Abel's dead animals better than Cain's fruits and vegetables. Why? Well, no reason is given, but it probably has something to do with the amount of pain, blood, and gore involved. 4:3-5 \n\nBecause God liked Abel's animal sacrifice more than Cain's vegetables, Cain kills his brother Abel in a fit of religious jealousy. 4:8 \n\nGod is angry. He decides to destroy all humans, beasts, creeping things, fowls, and "all flesh wherein there is breath of life." He plans to drown them all. 6:7, 17 \n\nGod repeats his intention to kill "every living substance ... from off the face of the earth." But why does God kill all the innocent animals? What had they done to deserve his wrath? It seems God never gets his fill of tormenting animals. 7:4 \n\nGod drowns everything that breathes air. From newborn babies to koala bears -- all creatures great and small, the Lord God drowned them all. 7:21-23 \n\nNoah kills the "clean beasts" and burns their dead bodies for God. According to 7:8 this would have caused the extinction of all "clean" animals since only two of each were taken onto the ark. "And the Lord smelled a sweet savor."  8:20 \n\nTo free Lot from captivity, Abram sends an army of slaves to pursue and smite his captors. 14:14-15 \n\nGod tells Abram to kill some animals for him. The needless slaughter makes God feel better. 15:9-10 \n\nHagar conceives, making Sarai jealous. Abram tells Sarai to do to Hagar whatever she wants. "And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled." 16:6 \n\nLot refuses to give up his angels to the perverted mob, offering his two "virgin daughters" instead. He tells the bunch of angel rapers to "do unto them [his daughters] as is good in your eyes." This is the same man that is called "just" and "righteous" in 2 Pet.2:7-8. 19:7-8 \n\nGod kills everyone (men, women, children, infants, newborns) in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining "fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven." Well, almost everyone -- he spares the "just and righteous" Lot and his family. 19:24 \n\nLot's nameless wife looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. 19:26 \n\nGod threatens to kill Abimelech and his people for believing Abe's lie. 20:3-7 Gen.16:5-6) and tells Abraham to 'cast out this bondwoman and her son." God commands Abraham to "hearken unto her voice." So Abraham abandons Hagar and Ishmael, casting them out into the wilderness to die. 21:10-14 \n\nGod orders Abraham to kill Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham shows his love for God by his willingness to murder his son. But finally, just before Isaac's throat is slit, God provides a goat to kill instead. 22:2-13 \n\nAbraham shows his willingness to kill his son for God. Only any evil God would ask a father to do that; only a bad father would be willing to do it. 22:10 \n\nDinah, the daughter of Jacob, is "defiled" by a man who seems to love her dearly. Her brothers trick all of the men of the town and kill them (after first having them all circumcised), and then take their wives and children captive. 34:1-31 \n\nThe sons of Jacob trick Shechem into getting circumcised. Then they murder him, his sons, and all the males of the city, while taking their wives captive. 34:24-29 \n\n"The terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them." 35:5 \n\n"And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight o
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He calls homosexuality unnatural and an abomination.\n\nLeviticus 18:22: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."\n\nRomans 1:26-28: "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;"
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Not at all! I back them up actually. If God wanted to promote homosexuality, then he would allow man-man woman-woman realationships, but he doesn't. He actually destroyed 2 cities (Sodom and Gomorrah) with a rain of fire because they were practising homosexuality.