Does jesus condemn homosexuality

Leviticus

“You shall not recline with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”[1] It is not a surprise that this verse seems to say that homosexual male sex is forbidden in the eyes of God. The dominant view of western Christianity forbids same-sex relations. This verse is one of the clobber passages that people cite from the Bible to condemn homosexuality. This essay first looks at the various ways the verse is translated into the English Bible and then explores some of the strategies used to create an affirming perception of what this channel means for the LGBTQ community. More specifically, it presents the interpretation of K. Renato Lings in which Lev. refers to male-on-male incest.

While Lev. is used to condemn homosexuality, we must realize that the term “homosexuality” was only recently coined in the English language. So did this term be in ancient Israel? Charles D. Myers, Jr. confirms that none of the prophets in the Hebrew Bible mention homosexuality.[2] He also contends that in ancient Israel same-sex relations were viewed as an ancient Near East challenge. The ancient Near East tradition included pederasty and relations between an older man and a male child, which was

Why Jesus Doesn&#;t Need to Speak About Homosexuality

Question:

Is there anywhere in the Bible where Jesus condemns homosexuality?

Answer:

Remember first that Jesus and the Church distinguish between homosexuality—a psychological disorder for which a person does not bear guilt—and acting on that inclination, with the related acts always involving grave matter and, if done with packed knowledge and full permission, constitute “acts of morbid depravity” (the Catechism ; see , ).

Some argue that Jesus never condemned homosexual misbehavior, at least in what’s recorded in the Gospels. Yet Jesus refers to his heavenly Father’s moral verdict against Sodom and Gomorrah on two occasions (Matt. , ), a judgment that stemmed from the inhabitants’ inquiring to have sex with two angels whom they thought were men (Gen. ). The term describing queer misbehavior—“sodomy”—is derived from this historical event recorded in the Bible.

Proponents of “same-sex marriage” also miss some very fundamental points about Jesus and his ministry. Remember that Jesus is Jewish and therefore tells us that he comes to fulfill the statute, not abolish it (Matt. ), which includes affirming legitimate marria

What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?

What Does The Bible Express About Homosexuality?

Introduction

For the last two decades, Pew Research Center has reported that one of the most enduring ethical issues across Christian traditions is sexual diversity. For many Christians, one of the most frequently first-asked questions on this topic is, “What does the Bible say about attraction to someone of the equal sex?”

Although its unlikely that the biblical authors had any notion of sexual orientation (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even coined until the tardy 19th century) for many people of faith, the Bible is looked to for timeless guidance on what it means to honor God with our lives; and this most certainly includes our sexuality.

Before we can hop into how it is that Christians can maintain the authority of the Bible and also affirm sexual diversity, it might be helpful if we started with a short but clear overview of some of the assumptions informing many Christian approaches to understanding the Bible.

What is the Bible?

For Christians to whom the Bible is God’s very written word, it is widely understood that God produced its contents through inspired

This article is part of the What Did Jesus Teach? series.

Silence Equals Support?

In a article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?¹

The article was occasioned by a story about a same-sex attracted teenager in Ohio who was suing his tall school after school officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.”

Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the expression on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes,

While it’s reasonable to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would hold disapproved of gay sex, there is no log of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself suggest an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.

Oremus seems to recommend that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not have been very concerned about it.

There are at least two reasons that we should be skeptical of this view.