Did jesus ever address homosexuality
If homosexuality is a sin, why didn’t Jesus ever mention it?
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Many who support same-sex marriage and gay rights argue that, since Jesus never mentioned homosexuality, He did not consider it to be sinful. After all, the argument goes, if homosexuality is bad, why did Jesus manage it as a non-issue?
It is technically true that Jesus did not specifically address homosexuality in the Gospel accounts; however, He did speak clearly about sexuality in general. Concerning marriage, Jesus stated, “At the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will exit his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will turn into one flesh[.]’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate” (Matthew –6). Here Jesus clearly referred to Adam and Eve and affirmed God’s intended design for marriage and sexuality.
For those who follow Jesus, sexual practices are limited. Rather than take a permissive view of sexual immorality and divorce, Jesus affirmed that people are either to be s
&#;Jesus Said Nothing About Homosexuality&#; (REBUTTED)
Once again, does that mean all we can safely and responsibly conclude about Jesus&#;s silence on incest, bestiality, or youth sacrifice? Is that Jesus was silent on those issues? No, because you can know what someone thinks about a particular issue if you understand enough about that person&#;s foundational views, and when it comes to Jesus&#;s foundational views on sexuality, we know that he was the furthest right arch conservative of his day. Jesus literally made the Pharisees look appreciate a bunch of liberals. First, Jesus rooted himself in the morality of the Old Testament, and we know the Elderly Testament&#;s prohibitions of gay behavior are part of the perpetually binding moral law rather than a temporary ritual law. Leviticus that condemns homosexual acts is placed between moral laws, not ceremonial ones, verse 20, condemns adultery, verse 21, condemns minor sacrifice. And verse 23, condemns bestiality. Leviticus also prescribes capital punishment for this crime, which it doesn&#;t do for mere violations of the ritual law.
What the New Testament Says about Homosexuality
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Mainline Christian denominations in this country are bitterly divided over the question of homosexuality. For this reason it is vital to ask what light, if any, the New Testament sheds on this controversial issue. Most people apparently consider that the Recent Testament expresses powerful opposition to homosexuality, but this simply is not the case. The six propositions that track, considered cumulatively, head to the finding that the Fresh Testament does not provide any straight guidance for kind and making assessments about homosexuality in the modern nature.
Proposition 1: Strictly speaking, the Modern Testament says nothing at all about homosexuality.
There is not a single Greek word or statement in the entire New Testament that should be translated into English as “homosexual” or “homosexuality.” In fact, the very notion of “homosexuality”—like that of “heterosexuality,” “bisexuality,” and even “sexual orientation”—is essentially a latest concept that would simply have been unintelligible to
This article is part of the What Did Jesus Teach? series.
Silence Equals Support?
In a article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?1
The article was occasioned by a story about a same-sex attracted teenager in Ohio who was suing his upper school after school officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.”
Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the declaration on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes,
While it’s reasonable to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would possess disapproved of gay sex, there is no log of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself provide an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.
Oremus seems to recommend that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not have been very concerned about it.
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