What Scripture Says about Same-Sex Attraction

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What Scripture Says about Same-Sex Attraction
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• Genesis 126-28 Then God said, Let us make human
  beings in our image, to be like us. They will
  reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the
  sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the
  earth, and the small animals that scurry along
  the ground.
• So God created human beings in his own
  image.    In the image of God he created
  them    male and female he created them.
• Then God blessed them and said, Be fruitful and
  multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign
  over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky,
  and all the animals that scurry along the ground.

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• Genesis 218-25 Then the Lord God said, It is
  not good for the man to be alone. I will make a
  helper who is just right for him. So the Lord
  God formed from the ground all the wild animals
  and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to
  the man to see what he would call them, and the
  man chose a name for each one. He gave names to
  all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and
  all the wild animals. But still there was no
  helper just right for him.
• So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a
  deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God
  took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the
  opening. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from
  the rib, and he brought her to the man.

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• At last! the man exclaimed.This one is bone
  from my bone,    and flesh from my flesh!She
  will be called 'woman,'    because she was taken
  from 'man.'
• This explains why a man leaves his father and
  mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are
  united into one.
• Now the man and his wife were both naked, but
  they felt no shame.

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1. Marriage, the Original Picture

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• Marriage, the Original Picture
• Source God's Image

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• Marriage, the Original Picture
• Source God's Image
• Purpose Procreation

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• Marriage, the Original Picture
• Source God's Image
• Purpose Procreation
• Participants Man and woman

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• Marriage, the Original Picture
• Source God's Image
• Purpose Procreation
• Participants Man and woman
• Plan Exclusive relationship

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• Marriage, the Original Picture
• Source God's Image
• Purpose Procreation
• Participants Man and woman
• Plan Exclusive relationship
• Focus Worship God

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• Marriage, the Original Picture
• Source God's Image
• Purpose Procreation
• Participants Man and woman
• Plan Exclusive relationship
• Focus Worship God
• Gay marriage is counterfeit marriage

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1. Attacks on God's Picture

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• Attacks on God's Picture
• Discounting the Old Testament

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• Attacks on God's Picture
• Discounting the Old Testament
• Doubting God's Word

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• Genesis 31 The serpent was the shrewdest of all
  the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day
  he asked the woman, Did God really say you must
  not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the
  garden?

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• Attacks on God's Picture
• Discounting the Old Testament
• Doubting God's Word
• We get in trouble when we

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• Romans 118-32 But God shows his anger from
  heaven against all sinful, wicked people who
  suppress the truth by their wickedness. They know
  the truth about God because he has made it
  obvious to them. For ever since the world was
  created, people have seen the earth and sky.
  Through everything God made, they can clearly see
  his invisible qualitieshis eternal power and
  divine nature. So they have no excuse for not
  knowing God.
• Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him
  as God or even give him thanks. And they began to
  think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a
  result, their minds became dark and confused.
  Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter
  fools. And instead of worshiping the glorious,
  ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to
  look like mere people and birds and animals and
  reptiles.

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• So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful
  things their hearts desired. As a result, they
  did vile and degrading things with each other's
  bodies. They traded the truth about God for a
  lie. So they worshiped and served the things God
  created instead of the Creator himself, who is
  worthy of eternal praise! Amen. That is why God
  abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even
  the women turned against the natural way to have
  sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
  And the men, instead of having normal sexual
  relations with women, burned with lust for each
  other. Men did shameful things with other men,
  and as a result of this sin, they suffered within
  themselves the penalty they deserved.

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• Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God,
  he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and
  let them do things that should never be done.
  Their lives became full of every kind of
  wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder,
  quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and
  gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God,
  insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new
  ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents.
  They refuse to understand, break their promises,
  are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God's
  justice requires that those who do these things
  deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse
  yet, they encourage others to do them, too.

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• Attacks on God's Picture
• Discounting the Old Testament
• Doubting God's Word
• We get in trouble when we
• We focus on creation instead of on the Creator

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• Attacks on God's Picture
• Discounting the Old Testament
• Doubting God's Word
• We get in trouble when we
• We focus on creation instead of on the Creator
• Think we know better than God

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• Attacks on God's Picture
• Discounting the Old Testament
• Doubting God's Word
• We get in trouble when we
• We focus on creation instead of on the Creator
• Think we know better than God
• Develop a false ranking of sins

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• Matthew 1011-15 Whenever you enter a city or
  village, search for a worthy person and stay in
  his home until you leave town. When you enter the
  home, give it your blessing. If it turns out to
  be a worthy home, let your blessing stand if it
  is not, take back the blessing. If any household
  or town refuses to welcome you or listen to your
  message, shake its dust from your feet as you
  leave. I tell you the truth, the wicked cities of
  Sodom and Gomorrah will be better off than such a
  town on the judgment day.

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• Matthew 1120, 23-24 Then Jesus began to denounce
  the towns where he had done so many of his
  miracles, because they hadn't repented of their
  sins and turned to God. And you people of
  Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you
  will go down to the place of the dead. For if the
  miracles I did for you had been done in wicked
  Sodom, it would still be here today. I tell you,
  even Sodom will be better off on judgment day
  than you.

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• Attacks on God's Picture
• Discounting the Old Testament
• Doubting God's Word
• We get in trouble when we
• We focus on creation instead of on the Creator
• Think we know better than God
• Develop a false ranking of sins
• There are worse sins than homosexual behavior

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• Attacks on God's Picture
• Discounting the Old Testament
• Doubting God's Word
• We get in trouble when we
• We focus on creation instead of on the Creator
• Think we know better than God
• Develop a false ranking of sins
• There are worse sins than homosexual behavior
• There are sins as bad as homosexual behavior

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• Greed Insolent
• Hate Proud
• Envy Boastful
• Murder Disobey their parents
• Quarreling Break their promises
• Deception Heartless
• Malicious behavior Have no mercy
• Gossip
• Backstabbers
• Haters of God

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• 2 Chronicles 714If my people, who are called by
  my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek
  my face and turn from their wicked ways, then
  will I hear from heaven and will forgive their
  sin and will heal their land.

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