Josh, your post is long, I’m not going to quote it.
Using probability theory and a dash of integral calculus I can honestly answer in the affirmative a belief in God. While I was raised Catholic, I do not self identify as Christian. More than that requires face to face or at least not my mobile.
Okay.
My limited reading of the Bible yields only one reference prohibiting male homosexuality in and of itself. This is buried somewhere in Leviticus and I am not certain offhand if it applies to gentiles. The oft quoted Sodom and Gomorrah stories are in my reading a Prohibition against rape, especially against rape hidden beneath hospitality. Culturally, the breach of the covenant of hospitality may be the bigger sin. I read no Prohibition against lesbian intercourse.
Okay. I have alot to say, please bear with me
The first thing that comes to my mind with the existance of God, is that it would seem quite clear that God created us male and female (as we didn’t evolve from nothing) and as Genesis states.
We can also refer to Matthew 19:4-6 when Jesus was teaching about divorce, he also affirmed this.
Matthew 19:4-6
4 Jesus answered, “Don’t you know that in the beginning the Creator made a man and a woman? 5 That’s why a man leaves his father and mother and gets married. He becomes like one person with his wife. 6 Then they are no longer two people, but one. And no one should separate a couple that God has joined together.”
So thus the question comes into mind, are the sexual acts of homosexuality sinful? in which following from the above it would clearly be sinful, because it means to use the bodies organs in a manner in which they were not designed to be used for.
Now it comes to advocating this kind of sexual immorality for others (same sex marriage), if we know it to be sinful, would we be loving our neighbour by advocating sexual immorality for them?
Many Christians say something like “I don’t believe in sacramental same sex marriage, but I don’t have any objections to civil same sex marriage.” However this is like me saying “As a Catholic I believe theft is immoral” and than turning around and encouraging my neighbours to steal.
SSM supporters also say “well God created homosexuals too” in which they are absolutely right, he did, he created me as well and I too as a heterosexual have many immoral desires aswell, so should we all just throw our hand up in the air, recklessly give into our every desire and say “If God didn’t want me to do this, than he wouldn’t have given me the desire to do it?”
Also when it comes to Sodom and Gomorrah. I don’t believe they were destroyed due to ONLY homosexuality as there were a whole range of other sins being commited, however homosexuality was certainly part of their immorality.
Also when it comes to Leviticus -
We all know this one -
**Leviticus 18:22
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. **
However it also say’s this -
**Leviticus 20:13
13 “‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. **
Now lets look at what Leviticus say’s about Adultery -
Leviticus 18:16
16 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.
However it also say’s this -
Leviticus 20:10
10 “‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
Now lets look at how Jesus fulfills the old testament
Matthew 5:17-20 here -
**John 8:3-11
3 The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law of Moses brought in a woman who had been caught in bed with a man who wasn’t her husband. They made her stand in the middle of the crowd. 4 Then they said, “Teacher, this woman was caught sleeping with a man who isn’t her husband. 5 The Law of Moses teaches that a woman like this should be stoned to death! What do you say?”
6 They asked Jesus this question, because they wanted to test him and bring some charge against him. But Jesus simply bent over and started writing on the ground with his finger.
7 They kept on asking Jesus about the woman. Finally, he stood up and said, “If any of you have never sinned, then go ahead and throw the first stone at her!” 8 Once again he bent over and began writing on the ground. 9 The people left one by one, beginning with the oldest. Finally, Jesus and the woman were there alone.
10 Jesus stood up and asked her, “Where is everyone? Isn’t there anyone left to accuse you?”
11 “No sir,” the woman answered.
Then Jesus told her, “I am not going to accuse you either. You may go now, but don’t sin anymore.”
**
The sexual acts of homosexuality should be seen likewise.
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