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With these assumptions in mind let us turn to the Bible, noting first that nowhere does it say anything about homosexuality as a sexual orientation.

The scriptures actually say nothing about homosexuality as a psychosexual orientation.

So, once again, I am convinced that this passage says a lot about God, but nothing about homosexuality as we understand it today.»

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I will no longer engage the biblical ignorance that emanates from so many right - wing Christians about how the Bible condemns homosexuality, as if that point of view still has any credibility.

This would mean repealing anti-sodomy laws, permitting homosexuals to serve in the military on the same terms as heterosexuals, including lessons about homosexuality in public school sex - education programs, and legalizing homosexual marriage and divorce.

Largely I would echo what Christine has already said about the way in which we feel accepted within our community, but if you'll bear with me for a little bit, I'd like to attempt to explain to Trey in particular what I see as the difference between this type of acceptance and the attitude of the many Christians who view homosexuality as sinful such as what you have encountered with your sister.

Regardless, we are not even under the law according to Judaism — we follow the Noahide ideals... and there is no Noahide law about homosexuality (we may use the Torahnic ideals as a guide — which is basically what I am doing above).

In addition, one can find from Protestant churches statement after statement about certain problems or quandaries that may impinge upon the family, such as abortion, gender - roles conflict, and homosexuality.

The underlying assumption of this notion, as Christian D. von Dehsen, who helped research this article, has pointed out, «is a form of moralism about homosexuality which, in essence, supplants the gospel.»

On the «Day of Silence» in April 2012, about 90 students wearing white T - shirts printed with «break the silence» attended a campus - hosted discussion about homosexuality, such as whether Wheaton can be considered a «safe place» for gay students.

Viseral you could argue that Jesus did speak about homosexuality and bestiality as its in the word and scripture is the inspired word of God Jesus is God As God he inspired that word so he did speak it.or spoke it through otheras its in the word and scripture is the inspired word of God Jesus is God As God he inspired that word so he did speak it.or spoke it through otherAs God he inspired that word so he did speak it.or spoke it through others?

Jesus may not have said anything about homosexuality but the parable of the woman caught in adultery is not so much about her sin but is a universal call to all sinners to turn from sin and trust him as he is the one who saves us as he did the woman once saved we should go and sin no more.That applies to both straight or gay brentnz

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

Steven thanks for your testimony I agree with your view that homosexuality is not an orientation we are not born that way but its a choice.We can choose to live by what our flesh dictates or we can live by what God reveals through his word and by his holy spirit.If we are serious about following God we chose to follow him so it does nt matter whether gay or straight our choice is to follow God with all our heart.I have never been gay but have battled and was overcome by my fleshly desires not until i turned from them and asked the holy spirit to help me have i been changed for that i will always be grateful to the Lord.So in that sense we are no different our testimonys are important and are powerful.Thank you for your witness and may the Lord continue to use you as his vessel to touch lives and hearts for him.brentnz

(I believe the OT verses do as well, but there has been some dispute as to their meaning) Finally Luke said the story of Sodom isn't about homosexuality.

Christians should care about as much what the Bible says regarding homosexuality as they do about how it commands parents to stone their disobedient children to death.

It is also true that much social change in Ireland has come about as a result of strong pressure from E.U. institutions, for example, the decriminalization of «homosexual acts» in 1993 (homosexuality as such was never illegal in Ireland, but «homosexual acts» were).

Books such as Homosexuality, which incessantly talk about the fears, frustrations, angers, and depressions involved in being homosexual, inadvertently reinforce the reasons why parents hope their children will not be homosexual.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

Rev Barry Trayorn who worked as a gardener, but volunteered in the chapel, fell into trouble after delivering a talk to prisoners about homosexuality and sin.

The title sets the question of Christian evaluation of homosexuality in a different context from a title such as: «What does the Bible Say about Homosexuhomosexuality in a different context from a title such as: «What does the Bible Say about HomosexualityHomosexuality?»

The first is that Christian denominations that have taken this form of liberalism most to heart are also those that seem to be experiencing a serious crisis of confidence, as evidenced by declining membership, intra-denominational splits over issues like homosexuality, and ¯ in some cases ¯ increasing discomfort with core Christian beliefs about Jesus Christ and the Trinity.

This means that, so far as we know, Jesus never spoke about homosexuality, and we simply have no way of determining what his attitude toward it might have been.

In so far as that is the dominant view of law in America, «gay marriage» says nothing about the morality of homosexuality one way or the other, it simply guarantees that all «domestic partnerships» (an alternative term considered for «civil unions») are treated equally.

Believing what the Bible says about homosexuality will hurt your reputation and will be hard to defend as a «good and right» view in society.

As we've been discussing homosexuality as part of our yearlong series on Sexuality & The Church, I've been surprised by how many readers have contacted me about their mixed orientation marriages, both past and presenAs we've been discussing homosexuality as part of our yearlong series on Sexuality & The Church, I've been surprised by how many readers have contacted me about their mixed orientation marriages, both past and presenas part of our yearlong series on Sexuality & The Church, I've been surprised by how many readers have contacted me about their mixed orientation marriages, both past and present.

The phrase, «respecting the laws of nature and of nature's God» is widely seen as being a reference to homosexuality, and many are quite upset about that (Google the phrase if you are interested).

So when we, in the Church, discuss homosexuality as though it were an issue faced by «other people» who are «out there,» when we resort to stereotypes and language about hell and judgment and damnation, we may be doing serious damage to the most precious and vulnerable among us.

The best of these are often lifted up during church services: Stories of redemption from alcoholism and drug addiction are frequent, as are those about mental illnesses and chronic sadness, and even some about premarital sexual partnerships and homosexuality.

Christians should care as much about what the Bible says regarding homosexuality as they do about how it commands parents to stone their disobedient children to death.

Even today when pressures such as «outing» seek to enforce a gay identity on all homosexuals, many of them take the view that homosexuality is just one facet of their identity - whether an advantage, or a curse, or simply a slightly awkward fact about themselves - which has little bearing on the rest of their lives outside the bedroom.

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

All I was saying was that IF you think it is a sin, we should still love and accept LGBT people, just as we love and accept people who lie, eat too much, drink too much, are lazy, are proud, etc, all of which are clearly sins (and are talked about in Scripture way more than homosexuality).

Psychiatrists and others connected with the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), however, say that the psychotherapeutic success rate with homosexuals is about the same as with other patients struggling to overcome a deep - seated problem, namely, about one - third.

A footnote refers the reader to Romans 1:26 - 28, but there is no indication of scholarly discussion among Scripture experts as to what precisely Paul is saying about the relationship between homosexuality and unbelief.

Our lord on Homosexuality In response to an item last month about the very bad argument that homosexuality must be OK because Jesus didn't say anything about it, our friend Gerry McDermott notes that Jesus did give his teaching on the matter, «albeit implicitly, when he condemned porneia (sexual sin) in MaHomosexuality In response to an item last month about the very bad argument that homosexuality must be OK because Jesus didn't say anything about it, our friend Gerry McDermott notes that Jesus did give his teaching on the matter, «albeit implicitly, when he condemned porneia (sexual sin) in Mahomosexuality must be OK because Jesus didn't say anything about it, our friend Gerry McDermott notes that Jesus did give his teaching on the matter, «albeit implicitly, when he condemned porneia (sexual sin) in Mark 7 as evil.

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

Joy itself is evangelical, and people are more easily shocked by a happy, chaste Christian than they are by hearing about statistical studies of homosexuality or even philosophical arguments, such as sexual acts having intrinsic meaning and being open to new life.

I've read a lot of the more controversial postings recently (such as the recent ones on Hell and Homosexuality as well as some older ones about the definition of the gospel) where it seems that the debates in the comment section always fail (at least for me) to help those who are trying to learn.

Similarly, as we know that homosexuality is just as natural and God - given as heterosexuality, we realize that the Biblical injunctions against homosexuality were conditioned by the attitudes and beliefs about this form of sexual expression which were held by people without benefit of centuries of scientific knowledge and understanding.

First of all, within orientation essentialism, the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality is a construct that is dishonest about its identity as a construct.

Pope Francis routinely denounces Catholic conservatives as small - minded and warns us not to «obsess» about things like homosexuality.

As some have pointed out, how can we possibly take such an immovable stand on the issue of homosexuality, but we allow women to speak in church, to go about with their heads uncovered, we no longer stone people caught in adultery, we don't crucify thieves... it's just astonishing to think people pick and choose verses and chapters from the Bible to cling to.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Louie Giglio maintains the right to speak as freely as he likes about the inauguration, about Jesus, about human trafficking and slavery, and about homosexuality.

It's about the Christian kid who lies awake each night pleading with God to «cure» him of his sexual orientation because his youth pastor denounced homosexuality as a sin requiring repentance.

It is sometimes said that Jesus said nothing about homosexuality (as if this cancels out all the other verses), but Jesus squarely condemned sexual immorality in general (Mark 7:20 - 23) and quotes the Genesis 2:24 verse in his teaching as an expression of his Father's will in creation (Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7)

In any event, I wonder about the relation between Jesus» apparent silence concerning homosexuality and Jesus as the image of authentic human liberation.

I also noticed that right after Paul talks about homosexuality in Romans 1:26, he refers to greed, envy, arrogance, and gossip as sins punishable by spiritual death.

Without getting into the issue of homosexuality, I understand what you are saying about Christians who «use» God's love as a license to live however they want to live regardless of what God may be speaking into their hearts directly or indirectly.