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What does the Bible say about Homosexuality?

In the Old Testament

God sent angels to check out the situation in Sodom

The Old Testament “Holiness Code”

Leviticus 20:13 (NIV)

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.

In The New Testament

These two lists are simply examples of continual sin

Since people continued in sin....

Romans 1:26–32 (NIV)

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.

Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.

Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.

They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.

They are gossips,

30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.

32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Both Old and New Testaments are clear

Sexual relations outside God’s intention is Sin.

according to Gen

Genesis 1:27–28 (NKJV)

27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 2:23–25 (NKJV)

23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 6:19 (NKJV)

19 And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.

animals also male and female

Genesis 8:15–19 (NKJV)

15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

19 Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.

Genesis 9:1 (NKJV)

1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

God’s has always been for Man and woman to live together and take care of the earth.

God’s “Holiness Code” and “Natural Law” must stand.

The Consequences are Clear and Severe!