Dear
reader the following question was posed:
“I would like to know what the bible says about Homosexuality. Just to clarify I
myself am not gay. Can you also give me corrsponding passages. Thanks ________.”
The following is
my reply:
Dear ____________,
Thank you for asking about Homosexuality. It is a sin and those who practice
such will suffer the vengeance of eternal fire. The following is an article
that I wrote exposing the so called "acceptable" gay Christian. After
the article I have listed some additional verses from the Bible for you to
consider. You may also go to our website: http://www.cybertrails.com/churchofchrist .
THE TRUTH IN PRINT, November 1999
A Publication of the Valley Church of Christ, Yuma, AZ.
Vol. 5, Issue 10
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"HATING" HOMOSEXUALITY & LESBIANISM
By Bob W. Lovelace
We’ve all read about the meeting
between Jerry Falwell and the so called gay
Christians. That’s exactly the way the press presented them. It said they were
gay Christians meaning that they were practicing homosexuals and lesbians. The
purpose of that meeting was to reduce violence and hatred toward homosexuals.
I'd like to comment on some things I read about this from a religious point of
view.
A BIBLE CONTRADICTION
The gay minister Mel White and the
200 gays and lesbians he brought with him to the meeting might see and promote
themselves as "good standing" Christians but such is a contradiction
of the Bible. The only Christian mentioned in the New Testament said to be
"practicing" homosexuality is a disobedient Christian and stands to
lose his soul. Christians are warned not to be deceived into thinking that
the sexually immoral are acceptable to God: 1 Cor. 6:9-11,
"Or do you not know that the
unrighteous shall not inherit the
THE CHURCH AT
The church at
"But now I have written unto
you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator,
or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. [12] For what have I to do to
judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? [13] But them that are
without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among
yourselves that wicked person."
TRUTHFULNESS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY
Is one full of hatred and prejudice
because they object to homosexuality? One is not guilty of sinful hate just
because they tell the truth about Sin. We are taught that God hates all workers
of iniquity (Psalms 5:5) and that includes more than the homosexuals (Proverbs
"Do not I hate them, O
LORD, that hate thee? and am
not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? [22] I hate them with
perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies."
Man here is as right as God there (above).
You are not guilty of sinful hate when you detest what God detests, nor when you
speak the truth about the sin of homosexuality. There is a vast difference
between being evil and being truthful about sin and its consequences. We are
taught to abhor evil and love the good (Amos
TOLERANCE & DIVERSITY INSTRUCTION
Many young people are taking
acceptance, tolerance and diversity instruction to mean that there is nothing
wrong "morally" with being gay. You will hear them say, "What’s
wrong with being gay?" Such I believe is the aim of the homosexual
activists. Tell your children that being taught "tolerance" does not
make sinful acts right. It changes nothing! Such instruction in school should
never leave the impression that one should not, cannot or does not have the
right to hold the conviction that homosexuality is perversion.
HOMOSEXUAL "MARRIAGES"
Nor does God join two of the same
sex together just because they say they truly love each other and do not abuse
each other. We’re hearing that as long as they love each other and don’t abuse
one another it’s Ok. Even the Travel Channel has shown two homosexuals getting
married. There seems to be no place where they do not desire
today to hold this perversion up before our people. The Bible offers
adequate instruction refuting the very concept of God joining two of the same
sex together in "marriage." God never has and never will do such for
it is against His law: Matthew 19:4-6,
"And he answered and
said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made
them male and female, [5] And said, For this
cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and
they twain shall be one flesh? [6] Wherefore they are no more twain, but
one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put
asunder."
If two homosexuals are "living
together" or should even be "joined" as partners by some state
law and one or both desire to become a Christian then they are required by
God’s law to sever their unlawful relationship. Repentance
and obedience to the Gospel demands such. Were the apostles full of hate
for making such a demand? No! And such a demand does not separate what God had
anything to do with to begin with for He never approves of such! Such concepts
as homosexual and lesbian "marriages" show just how far man has taken
this perversion. Where will it stop? They can’t procreate so they have to
proselyte and recruit. They claim they have the right to raise children so they
impregnate (women) themselves by fornication and artificially. Think about that
one. They commit perversion with each other but then must turn to the natural
order of a man and woman in order to have a child! And even the men want to
adopt a child to raise it up in their so called "home." This is
confusion. It comes from perverted hearts and minds that work against God
and His plan for mankind.
THE GOSPEL IS FOR ALL MEN
The Bible teaches that homosexuals
have the privilege of hearing the Gospel, believing, repenting and obeying it
just as all men do. In
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ADDITIONAL VERSES:
1. Romans 1:26-27 (KJV)
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.
2. 1 Tim. 1:10 (KJV)
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;
3. 1 Cor. 6:9 (KJV)
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
4. Jude 1:7 (KJV)
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the
cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and
going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the
vengeance of eternal fire.
a. Note: To read about the destruction of
FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT:
1. To read about
2. Leviticus 18:22-28 (KJV)
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as
with womankind: it is abomination. [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. [24] Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the
nations are defiled which I cast out before you: [25] And
the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the
land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. [26] Ye
shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of
these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: [27] (For all these abominations have
the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) [28]
That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile
it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
3. Deut. 23:17-18 (KJV)
There shall be no whore of the daughters of
4. Judges 19:22 (KJV)
Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men
of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at
the door, and spake to the master of the house, the
old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine
house, that we may know him.