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Against Nature

• What the Bible Teaches
• About Homosexuality

2
How Some ChristiansJustify Homosexuality

• Neglect Bible verses (ignore the clear verses
  against homosexuality)
• Selective Bible verses (focus in on the verses
  about love and forgiveness)
• Reinterpret Bible verses (explain away these
  verses as not really condemning homosexuality)
• Substitute Bible verses (appeal to science and
  genetics instead of the Bible)

3
Arguments from the Old TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Help meet in Genesis 218 means companion
  which is what a homosexual partner is.
• Answer God created a female, a wife for
  Adam. One must not ignore who God made to be a
  help meet.

4
Arguments from the Old TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• The sin of Sodom was inhospitality (Lk. 1012).
• The sin of Sodom was pride
  (Ezek. 1649 Isa. 39 Jer. 2314)
• The sin of Sodom was nonconsensual, homosexual
  rape.
• Answer No, the sin was giving themselves over
  to fornication and going after strange flesh
  (Jude 7 see 2 Pet. 26). Also, know (Heb.
  yadah) in Gen. 195,8 refers to sexual
  intercourse (see NIV and Gen. 41,17,25 2416
  3826 Num. 3117,18,35 Judg. 1139 1925
  2111-12 1 Sam. 119 1 K. 14 Mt. 123,25 Lk.
  127,34)

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Arguments from the Old TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Leviticus 1822 condemns the passive role in
  homosexuality, not the active role.
• Leviticus 1822 condemns homosexuality in
  connection with idolatry.
• Answer No, this passage is condemning the
  homosexual intercourse of both parties (see Lev.
  2013), not a specific role (posture) of one
  party while engage in the intercourse. This
  passage speaks of immoral personal behavior, not
  just idolatry.

6
Arguments from the Old TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Ruth and Naomi were lesbian lovers (Ruth
  114-18)
• Answer No, both women were married to men (Ruth
  12 413).

7
Arguments from the Old TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• David and Jonathan had a homosexual relationship
  (1 Sam. 181-3 2030,41).
• Answer First, love and kiss in the Bible do
  not always imply erotic, passionate, sexual
  desire. Second, David was married to Michal,
  Sauls daughter (1 Sam. 1827-28). He had a
  problem with adultery (2 Sam. 11), not
  homosexuality! Third, 1 Sam. 2030 refers to the
  shame a foolish son brings to his mother (Prov.
  101 1520 1725).

8
Arguments from the New TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Jesus said nothing about homosexuality.
• Answer First, he spoke of the condemnation of
  Sodom. Second, he spoke positively about what God
  desires for a man and a woman (Mt. 193-9).
  Third, he spoke through Paul against
  homosexuality (1 Cor. 69-10 1437) Note It is
  important to point this out to those who follow
  the red letter edition of the New Testament.
  Fourth, Jesus said nothing directly about incest,
  rape, pedophilia, or bestiality? Are these
  practices ok?

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Arguments from the New TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Jesus said marriage between a male and female is
  not for everyone i.e. a eunuch (Mt.
  1912) therefore, a man can be with a man a
  woman with a woman.
• Answer Jesus is contrasting marriage (between a
  man and a woman), and celibacy not
  heterosexuality and homosexuality.

10
Arguments from the New TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Jesus healed the centurions boy, but he did
  not condemn their homosexual relationship (Mt.
  86,8).
• Answer The Gr. pais is translated child,
  maiden, son young man, or servant. Lukes
  account makes it clear that this child was a
  servant (Lk. 72ff). There is no hint of
  homosexuality between the two.

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Arguments from the New TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Jesus was a homosexual because it is said that
  he loved some man (Jn. 1136 1323 2120).
• Answer The love (Gr. agape and phileo) of
  Jesus toward other men was not errotic,
  passionate love (Gr. eros).

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Arguments from the New TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Against nature in Roman 126 simply means
  those that are naturally heterosexual trying to
  be homosexual i.e., inversion.
• Answer No, the Greek phusis (nature) means
  the order of nature. Paul is talking about that
  which is abnormal, perverse and contrary to Gods
  created order of things the way He made man and
  woman from the beginning (Gen.
  218-25)

13
Arguments from the New TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Against nature in Roman 126 is the same in
  Romans 1124, and there it is not condemned.
• Answer What God did with the Gentiles was indeed
  against nature (grafting a wild olive branch
  onto a domesticated olive tree), but Gods
  actions here are not described as immoral as they
  are in Romans 126-27.

14
Arguments from the New TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Paul is simply condemning homosexuality that is
  tied with idolatry.
• Paul is simply condemning perverted
  homosexuality (homosexual rape, child
  molestation), not the loving, compassionate
  kind.
• Answer No, homosexuality (in Rom. 1 and 1 Cor.
  6), and the other sins listed are sinful because
  they are immoral. Are the other sins listed here
  ok as long as they are not tied with idolatry,
  and are the loving, compassionate kind?

15
Arguments from the New TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Paul and other Bible writers were culturally
  conditioned against homosexuality, and therefore
  condemned it.
• Answer First, Paul and all other Bible writers
  were inspired by God directly to write what they
  did (Gal. 111-17 2 Tim. 316). Second, Peter
  was conditioned against Gentiles, but was told
  to change (Acts 10 Gal. 211-14). If being
  conditioned against homosexuals is wrong, God
  would have told Paul so.

16
Arguments from the New TestamentUsed to Justify
Homosexuality

• Strange in Jude 7 refers to sexual intercourse
  with angels (Gen. 62).
• Answer No, Jude was talking about the events of
  Genesis 18-19 (2 Pet. 26-9). There is no record
  of sexual intercourse with angels in Sodom.
  Strange (Gr. heteros) refers to flesh of a
  different kind i.e. flesh of another man, and
  not a wife (Gen. 223-25).

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Homosexual Rights

• Homosexuals have a right to
• Know that God regards their activity, not as a
  disease or sickness, but as a sin
  (1 Cor. 69-10)
• Know that they were not born homosexual, but that
  they chose their abnormal conduct (Rom.
  126-27)
• Know that they will suffer the consequences of
  their sin (Rom. 126-27)

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Homosexual Rights

• Homesexuals have a right to
• Know the truth of the gospel (Mk. 1615-16)
• Know that they can repent, change, and stop their
  sin (1 Cor. 611)
• Know that they can be put away by their lawful
  spouse for their sinful activity (Mt. 199 Jude
  7)
• Know that they can have a happy heterosexual
  marriage (1 Cor. 71-2)