Why is homosexuality condemned in the Bible?

[Aletheia4u]

We know that homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, but why?

Some Christians say it is because God's plan was for man and woman to join in the sacrament of matrimony, and be fruitful and multiply.

So, homosexuality, by that logic, is not condemned because of what it is, it is condemned because it diverts a person from doing what they are commanded to do, which is be fruitful and multiply.

But then, there's a question.

Why does the Catholic faith command certain persons to remain celibate and/or chaste in order to serve God?

Would not a life of celibacy and/or chastity be just as sinful as a life spent in the homosexual lifestyle?

And on a broader note, are all men and woman who never marry living a sinful life?

I think we need a serious discussion, so let's not have the usual malarky.

God told the Hebrews to keep his ways that He has designed them to be. To show everyone how it was at the beginning.
When sinned entered. That it has distorted everything. Causing everything to become displaced. Men were in sexual relationships with other men, close kin and animals, And they were also in sexual relationships with many women, without any devotion to one another. Which the Bible calls that porneia.
It says that God doesn't allows anyone to divorce unless they were in a porneia relationship. Then it is okay to divorce, only when the relationship is out of the realm of God.
Everyone thinks that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah was just only having homosexual relationships. But they were doing all sorts of sin like the city of Nineveh. They were lawless cities.
But we are not allowed to divorce. Because it causes the women to go and find another relationship. Because in those days, a woman marries for support. And if she marries another for support, that she will be committing adultery. The only way a woman can remarry. That is if her husband has past away, which it will free her from the covenant that she made with her husband. And so then, the laws allows her to remarry that is if her husband dies so that she will be free from the law.


Matthew 5:32
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Good question OP. Interestingly enough, one of the main verses that is pointed to is the part in Leviticus where it says that if a man lies with another man, it is an abomination. But, interestingly enough, most people don't know that Levi is a book for those of the Jewish priesthood, i.e. the Levites. And yeah, if the priests are having sex in the temple with each other, that is taking their focus away from being a priest in the service of God.

Interestingly enough, there are only 2 places where God gave specific commands to mankind. It's in the 7 Noahide Commandments, and then again, in the 10 Commandments that were given to Moses. Generally, those are what is considered to be "sin", because they are Gods laws. Not one of them says "thou shalt not be homosexual".

But, if you're interested in what the religious scholars of various faiths think about being homosexual, here's a link to a place called Sacred Texts Archive, the LGBT section. It's a site where a whole bunch of scholars write about what various religions say.

LGBT Texts

And, here is what it says that Christianity says about homosexuality...........

The Bible

There are about half a dozen direct references to what we today term homosexuality in the Tanach and NT, and a few others which are relevant but not direct. Two of the most negative passages are found in the book of Leviticus, alongside a mass of ancient Jewish food and incest taboos, purification rituals and medical protocols. In the New Testament, there are several instances in the Epistles where Paul disparages homosexuality. Notably, at no point in the Gospel narrative does Jesus condemn homosexuality.

Another point to note is that there was no word for homosexuality, in the sense that we now use the term, in ancient Hebrew or Greek. So the text of the Tanach and NT uses circumlocutions or eumphemisms in these passages.

As far as lesbianism goes, the Bible is silent. There is no explicit mention (or condemnation) of female homosexuality in the Tanach, and it turns up only once (very tangentially) in the NT.

The King James Version
King James I, who commissioned the King James Version translation, was undoubtedly homosexual. It was whispered that "Elizabeth was King: Now James is Queen."

James I was responsible for reaffirming the Buggery Act of 1533, which criminalized sodomy in the UK. However, James I had several well-documented homosexual relationships. Although he had eight children with his wife, Anne of Denmark, they eventually decided to live apart. In 1607 he met Robert Carr, then age 17, at a joust, and had an on-going relationship with him for nearly a decade, which ended in a messy breakup. In 1614, he started a relationship with George Villiers, a commoner, eventually making him Duke of Buckingham in 1623. In 1624, James wrote Villiers a letter in which he asked "whether you loved me now...better than at the time I shall never forget at Farham, where the bed's head could not be found between the master and his dog."

 

[emilynghiem]

We know that homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, but why?

Some Christians say it is because God's plan was for man and woman to join in the sacrament of matrimony, and be fruitful and multiply.

So, homosexuality, by that logic, is not condemned because of what it is, it is condemned because it diverts a person from doing what they are commanded to do, which is be fruitful and multiply.

But then, there's a question.

Why does the Catholic faith command certain persons to remain celibate and/or chaste in order to serve God?

Would not a life of celibacy and/or chastity be just as sinful as a life spent in the homosexual lifestyle?

And on a broader note, are all men and woman who never marry living a sinful life?

I think we need a serious discussion, so let's not have the usual malarky.

Dear Blackrook
A.
In general, where homosexual attractions and relations involving COVETING and unnatural "Lust in one's heart (for people other than one's spiritual partner)" or ADULTERY, that is against the basic nature or design of human nature and relations including spiritual partnerships.

NOTICE: The Ten Commandments cites COVETING and ADULTERY but not "homosexuality" specifically. It should be enough to abstain from Coveting and Adultery / Unnatural Lust and that would cover any number of types of "unnatural lust".

B. As for homosexuality specifically, my understanding of where these attraction or relations come from is spiritual karma or "generational" issues and conditions passed down and manifested in future generations.

So it is better to be AWARE where such conditions come from, and not just act on them and repeating karmic conditions or patterns.

Christian healing prayer has been applied to help people remove themselves from these patterns of influence and change how they operate.

As long as people are fully healed and reconciled with past issues, then their relationships should be healthy and free of any negative or unnatural influences or conditions from the past or from past generations.

So God would rather have us return to and restore our natural health and relations, not continue to repeat or project any negative, unhealthy or unnatural conditions from the past.

 

[Hawkins]

It's simple. Analogy is that you are going to build a large building with 1000 large apartments. You then will invite all your friends and relatives to live in free of charge. However, some of your friends and relatives may cause chaos or may try to lead your sons and daughters astray, or making loud noise after midnight, etc. As a result, you have to set up rules for them to follow such that you and they can live in peace.

God did the same in order to build an eternity which we call heaven. That's how God's Law is originated in a form. It's said that God is completely incompatible with sin. This means His Law is much stricter than what you expect. If it's said in His Law that homosexuality is not legal. It means that He dislike the misuse of His design this way, for whatever the reason.

On the other hand, homosexuality existed for thousands of years, why do you have to make the voice loud right now but can choose to live a low profile live in the past thousand years? It's more about a rebellion led by Satan. The topic homosexuality is just a tool to achieve the rebellion. That said. Living a low profile live and continue to repent remain a choice for you to not to join the rebellion camp.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It's simple. Analogy is that you are going to build a large building with 1000 large apartments. You then will invite all your friends and relatives to live in free of charge. However, some of your friends and relatives may cause chaos or may try to lead your sons and daughters astray, or making loud noise after midnight, etc. As a result, you have to set up rules for them to follow such that you and they can live in peace.

God did the same in order to build an eternity which we call heaven. That's how God's Law is originated in a form. It's said that God is completely incompatible with sin. This means His Law is much stricter than what you expect. If it's said in His Law that homosexuality is not legal. It means that He dislike the misuse of His design this way, for whatever the reason.

On the other hand, homosexuality existed for thousands of years, why do you have to make the voice loud right now but can choose to live a low profile live in the past thousand years? It's more about a rebellion led by Satan. The topic homosexuality is just a tool to achieve the rebellion. That said. Living a low profile live and continue to repent remain a choice for you to not to join the rebellion camp.

What a gross post. I can't believe peole still think that way in 2019.

 

[ABikerSailor]

It's simple. Analogy is that you are going to build a large building with 1000 large apartments. You then will invite all your friends and relatives to live in free of charge. However, some of your friends and relatives may cause chaos or may try to lead your sons and daughters astray, or making loud noise after midnight, etc. As a result, you have to set up rules for them to follow such that you and they can live in peace.

God did the same in order to build an eternity which we call heaven. That's how God's Law is originated in a form. It's said that God is completely incompatible with sin. This means His Law is much stricter than what you expect. If it's said in His Law that homosexuality is not legal. It means that He dislike the misuse of His design this way, for whatever the reason.

On the other hand, homosexuality existed for thousands of years, why do you have to make the voice loud right now but can choose to live a low profile live in the past thousand years? It's more about a rebellion led by Satan. The topic homosexuality is just a tool to achieve the rebellion. That said. Living a low profile live and continue to repent remain a choice for you to not to join the rebellion camp.

The only rules God ever gave mankind were either the 7 Noahide Commandments, or the 10 Commandments. Where does it say "thou shalt not be homosexual"?

 

[deanrd]

We know that homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, but why?

Some Christians say it is because God's plan was for man and woman to join in the sacrament of matrimony, and be fruitful and multiply.

So, homosexuality, by that logic, is not condemned because of what it is, it is condemned because it diverts a person from doing what they are commanded to do, which is be fruitful and multiply.

But then, there's a question.

Why does the Catholic faith command certain persons to remain celibate and/or chaste in order to serve God?

Would not a life of celibacy and/or chastity be just as sinful as a life spent in the homosexual lifestyle?

And on a broader note, are all men and woman who never marry living a sinful life?

I think we need a serious discussion, so let's not have the usual malarky.

The only way to grow a religion is to have as many babies as possible. And in those days seven out of every 10 babies died.
It was all about growing the religion.
These days, Republicans just hate gay people. Who knows why. They hate so many different people.

 

[Picaro]

We know that homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, but why?

Some Christians say it is because God's plan was for man and woman to join in the sacrament of matrimony, and be fruitful and multiply.

So, homosexuality, by that logic, is not condemned because of what it is, it is condemned because it diverts a person from doing what they are commanded to do, which is be fruitful and multiply.

But then, there's a question.

Why does the Catholic faith command certain persons to remain celibate and/or chaste in order to serve God?

Would not a life of celibacy and/or chastity be just as sinful as a life spent in the homosexual lifestyle?

And on a broader note, are all men and woman who never marry living a sinful life?

I think we need a serious discussion, so let's not have the usual malarky.

Obviously homosexuals have some sort of mental illness then as they do now; it's a form of sociopaths behavior and narcissistic emotional infantilism similar to chronic criminal neuroses that weren't welcome in tribal societies that had little room for such 'individuals', unlike the urban anonymity of modern times, or in big cities in general. They're obviously a public health menace and a serious threat to children; they make up less than 3% of the population, yet account for over 40% of child molestations, and somebody has already covered some of their filthy health issues.

 

[Picaro]

The Bible condemns homosexuality because God knew that homosexuality is a temptation of the flesh and a sad, sick lifestyle. Our PC-peddling media refuses to talk about all the evidence that shows this. Just a couple of years ago, the CDC was attacked for including the statistic that gay men accounted for a hugely disproportionate percentage of new STD cases. Talk about an "inconvenient truth." But, to its credit, the CDC has not stopped including stats on homosexual (what it calls MSM) rates of STDs. For example:

MSM accounted for 68.2% of reported P&S syphilis cases among women or men with information about sex of sex partners in 2017. Among men exclusively, MSM accounted for 79.6% of reported cases with information on sex of sex partners. (STDs in Men Who Have Sex with Men - 2017 Sexually Transmitted Diseases Surveillance)​

Gay men account for maybe 7% of the population, at the most, yet they accounted for over 2/3 of syphilis cases in 2017. You would think that, just as a matter of public health, our media would be talking about these facts in order to warn people. But, nope, because, gee, someone might get the crazy idea that perhaps gay sex is dangerous and even unnatural.

As an alleged 'Community' they obviously have no compunctions at all about infecting each other with diseases, no matter how deadly; the only thing that slowed the AIDS epidemic down was the death tolls reducing the population of homos, and this despite billions spent on 'education n Stuff', and incredibly they convinced a bunch of morons that 'faggot marriage' was the solution to AIDS'.

 

[Hawkins]

The only rules God ever gave mankind were either the 7 Noahide Commandments, or the 10 Commandments. Where does it say "thou shalt not be homosexual"?

That remains your shallow understanding, or your choice of living in denial. The whole Bible is regarded as the Word of God, not just the 10 commandments.

 

[Hawkins]

What a gross post. I can't believe peole still think that way in 2019.

Your reply here is an assertion with no argument. Is that all you can do!

Humans can (sometimes can only) get to a truth by human witnessing. The Bible is made of testimonies of claimed eyewitnesses accounts. Whether it's true of false, this remains the only way humans can get to a truth of this kind (as long as the god behind has a good reason to hide from humans).

In the extract year of 2019, atheists are brainwashed (mainly by their secular education) that humans can only get to a truth by evidence, which is a joke! The fact in this reality (of the year 2019 and history of humanity) humans in majority never rely on evidence to get to a truth of any kind! That is, your perception of this reality itself is yet another joke (a bigger one)!!!

Take science (not to mention other truths such as human history) as an example, how many humans (in terms of percentage) have the evidence of the existence of black holes before they came to realize that it's a TRUTH! Get a clue! In a nutshell, you are brainwashed, too brainwashed to even figure out the simplest!

That said. I am not surprised when it is said that some people will wind up in hell, as they are stupid but without being realized by themselves.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Your reply here is an assertion with no argument. Is that all you can do!

Yes,you figured me out after one post. Okay, whiner. Oops, there's another one....

That post was sick and immoral. And if you believe that nonsense, so are you, and you should probably drop dead and go see Jesus.

 

[Polishprince]

We know that homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, but why?

Some Christians say it is because God's plan was for man and woman to join in the sacrament of matrimony, and be fruitful and multiply.

So, homosexuality, by that logic, is not condemned because of what it is, it is condemned because it diverts a person from doing what they are commanded to do, which is be fruitful and multiply.

But then, there's a question.

Why does the Catholic faith command certain persons to remain celibate and/or chaste in order to serve God?

Would not a life of celibacy and/or chastity be just as sinful as a life spent in the homosexual lifestyle?

And on a broader note, are all men and woman who never marry living a sinful life?

I think we need a serious discussion, so let's not have the usual malarky.

If you look at history, you can see why.


The Gay Community in the city of Sodom really pissed off Almighty God when they tried to recruit two of His holy angels into the orientation.

The people of Sodom really loved sodomy, that's why they chose that name for their city, to honor the sex act their were so proud of.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The people of Sodom really loved sodomy, that's why they chose that name for their city, to honor the sex act their were so proud of.

Haha, I do enjoy coming here to see who can be the biggest moron. You win today.

 

[Penelope]

We know that homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, but why?

Some Christians say it is because God's plan was for man and woman to join in the sacrament of matrimony, and be fruitful and multiply.

So, homosexuality, by that logic, is not condemned because of what it is, it is condemned because it diverts a person from doing what they are commanded to do, which is be fruitful and multiply.

But then, there's a question.

Why does the Catholic faith command certain persons to remain celibate and/or chaste in order to serve God?

Would not a life of celibacy and/or chastity be just as sinful as a life spent in the homosexual lifestyle?

And on a broader note, are all men and woman who never marry living a sinful life?

I think we need a serious discussion, so let's not have the usual malarky.

If you look at history, you can see why.


The Gay Community in the city of Sodom really pissed off Almighty God when they tried to recruit two of His holy angels into the orientation.

The people of Sodom really loved sodomy, that's why they chose that name for their city, to honor the sex act their were so proud of.

So the holy angels could be enticed?

 

[Polishprince]

We know that homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, but why?

Some Christians say it is because God's plan was for man and woman to join in the sacrament of matrimony, and be fruitful and multiply.

So, homosexuality, by that logic, is not condemned because of what it is, it is condemned because it diverts a person from doing what they are commanded to do, which is be fruitful and multiply.

But then, there's a question.

Why does the Catholic faith command certain persons to remain celibate and/or chaste in order to serve God?

Would not a life of celibacy and/or chastity be just as sinful as a life spent in the homosexual lifestyle?

And on a broader note, are all men and woman who never marry living a sinful life?

I think we need a serious discussion, so let's not have the usual malarky.

If you look at history, you can see why.


The Gay Community in the city of Sodom really pissed off Almighty God when they tried to recruit two of His holy angels into the orientation.

The people of Sodom really loved sodomy, that's why they chose that name for their city, to honor the sex act their were so proud of.

So the holy angels could be enticed?

No, the angels were enticed, but they were offended and that got Almighty God really angry after He received their report on what came down in Sodom.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

Because Adam and Eve were told to have lots and lots of kids. You can't do that in homo relationships.

So how did Adam and Eve have a bunch of kids who weren't totally inbred at the grandchild level, because all they'd have to fuck would be their siblings at that point.

Because Adam and Eve were told to have lots and lots of kids. You can't do that in homo relationships.

So how did Adam and Eve have a bunch of kids who weren't totally inbred at the grandchild level, because all they'd have to fuck would be their siblings at that point.

Well that explains why you’re the way you are. Thank you.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

We know that homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, but why?

Some Christians say it is because God's plan was for man and woman to join in the sacrament of matrimony, and be fruitful and multiply.

So, homosexuality, by that logic, is not condemned because of what it is, it is condemned because it diverts a person from doing what they are commanded to do, which is be fruitful and multiply.

But then, there's a question.

Why does the Catholic faith command certain persons to remain celibate and/or chaste in order to serve God?

Would not a life of celibacy and/or chastity be just as sinful as a life spent in the homosexual lifestyle?

And on a broader note, are all men and woman who never marry living a sinful life?

I think we need a serious discussion, so let's not have the usual malarky.

I am not judging but it is gross. Yuck

 

[toobfreak]

Because it was written by backwards people from the iron age.

So the Iron Age was 2,000 years ago?

 

[Dick Foster]

We know that homosexuality is condemned in the Bible, but why?

Some Christians say it is because God's plan was for man and woman to join in the sacrament of matrimony, and be fruitful and multiply.

So, homosexuality, by that logic, is not condemned because of what it is, it is condemned because it diverts a person from doing what they are commanded to do, which is be fruitful and multiply.

But then, there's a question.

Why does the Catholic faith command certain persons to remain celibate and/or chaste in order to serve God?

Would not a life of celibacy and/or chastity be just as sinful as a life spent in the homosexual lifestyle?

And on a broader note, are all men and woman who never marry living a sinful life?

I think we need a serious discussion, so let's not have the usual malarky.

Because queers can't begat and beget.
As far as celibacy and the Catholic chuch, so we'd have plenty of child molesters that we could stone to death. I guess they just didn't see the demise of stonings coming.