Homosexuality's "psychological genesis remains largely unexplained?"

[Geremia]

How can the Catechism of the Catholic Church say that homosexuality’s “psychological genesis remains largely unexplained” (2357) when St. Paul writes this:[bibledrb]Romans 1:21-32[/bibledrb]

 

[ThomasToo]

How can the Catechism of the Catholic Church say that homosexuality’s “psychological genesis remains largely unexplained” (2357) when St. Paul writes this Romans 1:21-32 [full quote removed for brevity]

Because the Bible is not a psychology textbook; in fact the very notion of science (soft or hard) postdates the Bible by more than a millennium and a half so it is impossible for the Bible to have a scientific (i.e. psychological) explanation for homosexuality.

 

[vera_dicere]

Because the Bible is not a psychology textbook; in fact the very notion of science (soft or hard) postdates the Bible by more than a millennium and a half so it is impossible for the Bible to have a scientific (i.e. psychological) explanation for homosexuality.

Exactly!

OP, look at it the same way with Adam and Eve, it was a story used to explain to a very simple and primative people the existance of God and being teh creator.

They were ancient desert goat herders, they couldn’t know of evolution, such a theory of being descended from other forms of animals would have been repugnant to them.

The same with homosexuality, they had no real way to understand those desires so, given they were sinful and unnatural, they accepted either sin or God turning His back on them.

 

[chrysostim83]

24 Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie; and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.

I agree with the above two posts. Just wanted to add that this passage doesn’t actually explain where a homosexual orientation comes from. The text says “God gave them up to the desires of their heart,” and “God delivered them up to shameful affections.” But if the desires of their heart and the shameful affections were not already present before the idolatry, there would have been nothing for God to give them up to: in short, idolatry explains God’s giving up, but the desires remain totally unexplained in this passage.