Homosexuality in scriptures
May 17, 2008
Homosexuality is an issue that I would rather not discuss, but which I believe an instructor in bioethics has a serious obligation to consider. There are only a few scriptural references which deal with homosexuality at all: Genesis 19:1-5, 12; Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:24-27; Ephesians 5:3, I Timothy 1:10. There is some controversy over the meaning of these. Homosexuality in scriptures critics state that Genesis 19 is about gang rape, not homosexuality; that the passages in Leviticus and Romans aren’t relevant for today’s practices, because they condemn unnatural acts by heterosexuals, while today’s homosexuals are doing what is natural for them; I Corinthians and I Timothy are against pederasty, not the homosexuality of today. (The Bible itself, in at least one place, does not use Genesis 19 as relevant to homosexuality–Ezekiel 16:49-50 lists the sins of Sodom, starting with arrogance, but does not include an explicit mention of any sexual sin.
Romans 1 is really about unbelief–sexual sins are described as the result of unbelief.) There is probably some relevance to some or all of these arguments, but it is the view of the instructor that there is a biblical argument against homosexual activity. Homosexuality in scriptures it is mostly not direct, from the texts cited above, but comes from the overwhelming scriptural portrayal of heterosexual fidelity as God’s ideal for humans, as shown consistently from the earliest parts of Genesis to the portrayal of the church as the bride of Christ in Revelation. (See Genesis 2:18-24; Exodus 20:14; Hosea 1-3; Matthew 19:4-6; I Corinthians 6:9-20; Ephesians 5:21-33; Revelation 19:6-8)
After centuries of spiritual bondage, lesbians and gays are rising to reclaim the liberty that belongs to every disciple of Jesus Christ. Yet rare is the homosexual, bent beneath the frightful load of religious condemnation, who feels completely free. The “good news” of the Gospel is truly a message of renewal and of reconciliation with God. More often, the modern
Church as a joyless sentence presents it from God upon homosexuals that withhold both the ability to reverse the orientation and the possibility of consummating it. This is out of harmony with the spirit of Christ’s message. Well-acquainted with the ideological tyranny which established religions are wont to exercise, Jesus gave lesbians, gays, and all of us a valuable piece of advice. “…Ye shall know the truth,” he said, “and the truth shall make you free”. (John 8:32)
In the Bible sodomy is a synonym for homosexuality. God spoke plainly on the matter when He said, “There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel” (Deuteronomy 23:17). Homosexuality in scriptures says that the whore and the sodomite are in the same category. A sodomite was neither an inhabitant of Sodom nor a descendant of an inhabitant of Sodom, but a man who had given himself to homosexuality, the perverted and unnatural vice for which Sodom was known. Let us look at the passages in question:
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house around, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly as stated homosexuality in scriptures
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