(Ver 1.3)  This is “Part 1” in a series of advanced Bible lessons on the subject of “What does God think of homosexuality”.  This of course is a hot topic and one that is fiercely debated, even in churches.  There are so many controversial subjects that people just want to ignore, because they do not want to offend anyone.  I never recall Jesus avoiding any issues that were brought before Him but, I also do not recall Jesus ever directly addressing sin in any area of people’s personal lives.  People need to understand what Jesus said in John 3:17.  Jesus claimed that He was not sent into the world to condemn the world but through Him the world might be saved.  This of course, people are very quick to point out, Jesus never said anything about homosexuality and I have even heard people try to accuse Jesus of acting like a homosexual.  It is amazing how  foolish people can become when they want to justify their erroneous ways and their sinful lifestyles.  While Jesus rarely addressed sin, you will find that after He healed people, He would sometimes say, “now go and sin no more unless a worse thing come upon you” (John 5:14).  To the woman caught in adultery Jesus said “go and sin no more” (John 8:11).  So Jesus never said that sin was OK and acceptable.   Jesus never justified sin, nor would He tolerate people doing everything they wanted to do.  So it comes down to a question of the definition of what sin is and this varies tremendously from person to person.   Some think their sin is better than someone else’s sin and thus they justify themselves to be righteous in their own eyes.  The basic modern argument for homosexuality being forced down our throats is a statement that claims this is who we are.  They claim that God created us this way.  This is the only sin that I know of that makes these assertions.  So that is why I am writing about homosexuality and not about adultry today.  I have never heard someone caught in adultry say this is just who I am and you will have to accept me this way.  Therefore, I am not here to discuss all types of sin today, I just want to focus in on what the Bible says about homosexuality and see if we can determine if God thinks this is a sin, based upon the Bible and not my opinion or yours.

While some people like to claim that Jesus never said anything about homosexuality they quickly forget that Jesus was God in the flesh and that He said plenty about the subject in many other parts of the Bible.  While Jesus was walking the face of the earth in the flesh, you will notice that one of the only things that Jesus ever confronted was religious people who thought they knew more than He did and proclaim themselves to be better than everyone else.  Self-righteousness still abounds today even in the church.  We have church people protesting Homosexuals and Abortionists and in doing so, they proclaim themselves to be perfect.  As a result Christians are portrayed on TV and in the news as the hate mongers.  Christians are viewed as those who are hateful towards others and intolerant towards minorities.  Is this what Jesus did?  Didn’t Jesus tell the crowd of potential stone casters, “He that is without Sin, Cast the first stone”?   I think you could legitimately change that to say, “To Him that is without Sin, Pick up your Signs and Posters and hold them up!”.   It just doesn’t make much sense what people think is right to do, if you think about it.  Christians should change and become more like Christ and less like those in the world.  In Jesus’ lesson about fishing for men, you must conclude that you never try to clean a fish, until you first catch one.   Too many people are trying to get clean fish first and then take them to God to be saved and this is not how it works.

What are Christians suppose to do?  I believe that Christians should just tell the truth and that would be a great place to start.  The truth is a very difficult thing to tell people sometimes, because it is not easily accepted by many who do not wish to hear it.  The truth is often times rejected on purpose so as to deflect blame, shame or guilt away from their lives.  While there are many who want to portray an openly gay life style with open pride today, there are equally as many who are ashamed of their ways.  People do not like to tell about their childhood experiences, where a grown up abused them and did things to them that they should not have done.  These are the areas of life that hurt people and cause emotional and psychological damage and people think that many times they are better left unsaid and swept under a rug somewhere.   Because I do not know you, I cannot speak about you.  I can only tell you about my personal experiences and you of course can believe them or not.

A male family member that I know of was molested as a child by an older male relative.  I know this, because I was there.  It was the middle of the night and this male relative tried to molest me too, but I was too big for him and I said leave me alone.   Because I did not know what to do, I did nothing to stop him from molesting this other relative.  As a result of this attack, this young male family member later turned to a homosexual life style.  But, I know where it started and how it started and this was not how he was born.  This is rarely talked about in the world, in the news media and on TV.  That is unless it is committed by someone in the church.  Then it is run up the flag pole like, look at these people who say they are Christians, they are just perverts who molest our children.  Because people do not normally talk about these events in their young lives, most pretend that they never happen.   What people do not understand, is many Gay men want sex with young boys and that is widely swept under the rug and never discussed.  We can easily understand that being a pedophile is a sin, or at the least against the law.  But we ignore the bigger problem, that there is a heart issue, a mind issue and an emotional issue that is not being addressed in the victims of these molesters.

As a teenage male growing up in America in the sexual revolution 70’s, I was targeted by older males.  Satan also attempted to get me into this lifestyle.   I was picked up and did not know what was happening before it happened.  These guys were aware that I was under age and did not care.  That is why they picked me to begin with.  Being naive is both a blessing and a curse, you are kept from knowing what people really want, but when approached you are easily tricked into being somewhere you should not be.  Because, I was young and naive, I was a candidate and an easy target for these predators.   So how many Gays are talking about this kind of behavior openly, not any that I know of?     I am very thankful to God that these creeps did not scar me for life or get me to change who I really am.  I am also thankful to God for not allowing them to hurt me more than they did.  People rarely talk about these kinds of things, and it is very difficult for me to even admit that I was there.  I could have very easily been drawn into the deception of this wrong life style.  I could have been deceived into believing that I was just like them.   So I have given you my personal experiences with this issue.  Gays would make sex with young males legal if they could get away with it.  I would venture to say that most Gay men have been molested somewhere in their childhood and have been deceived into the lifestyle, but do not discuss it.

So the title of my blog is “What Does God Think about Homosexuality?”   Just based upon what I have written, so far about my experiences what do you think that God thinks about what men do to children?  Or even what women do to little girls?  Do you think that it is OK, in the eyes of God?  Is this how God created people to act?  That of course is a very loaded set of questions.  God loves everyone, but does not approve of everything that people do.  It is not OK to do something’s, just because you are able to and you want to.  There are many things in the world that are here, not because God created them for us, but because, man wanted them for their pleasure and self-indulgences.    What does God think about “homosexuality”?   Let’s look at what God says in the Bible and just see some of the examples of God’s thoughts toward the subject.

Rom 1:26  For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Churches, who ordain gay ministers, must ignore vast parts of the Bible.  Here is God speaking about women who are making a critical mistake.  God calls it “vile affections”.  These are women who have sex with women for their own selfish pleasure.  God calls sex “natural”, but only between a man and his wife.  The natural use of a woman is not to have sex with another woman.  If you do not know how to read, you can obviously make up excuses and attempt to explain away what God says very plainly.  The term “vile” means indignity, shame,  reproach, dishonor   and disgrace.  Those are some pretty strong words for something that God does not look upon with favor.    The term “affections” can mean “lusts”.  I will talk about this word more as we look at the next verse in the chapter:

Rom 1:27  And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Now it starts to become much more more obvious to what God is talking about.  God is definitely saying that sex between a husband and his wife is natural.  However, God says that sex between two males is a clear “error”.    The term “unseemly” in this verse means “indecency” .   What is indecency?    We have heard the term used “indecency with a child”.  That means that in the eyes of the law, you are doing something that you should not do to a little child.  This can include touching them inappropriately to speaking suggestively to them, or whatever.   “Indecency” in the eyes of God is what happens when a man has sex with a man.  God calls it something that should not occur.  It is an abuse of the specifically designed sexual reproduction principles established by God.   You have heard of drug abusers and alcohol abusers, well God is calling men who have sex with other men sexual abusers.  God is saying sex has a purpose and was designed in a certain way to be between a husband and wife and anything else is abuse of the design.  People ignoring God’s moral standards have sought to establish their own definitions of morality.    The term “error” in this verse means to be “deceived”.  God is saying that men who have sex with men and women who have sex with women have been “deceived”.   Who is the deceiver?  Of course the deceiver is Satan.  Satan has caused men and women’s minds to be tricked into believing a false reality of who they really are.   If you know how to read and to look up the definitions of the words in the Strong’s Concordance you will see that I am telling you the truth.

So now let’s discuss what God says is the reason for this deception and how it works.  The Bible says that these men “burned in their lust” one toward another.   What does that mean?  What does it mean to burn?  What is lust?  If you look up the word translated as “lust” in Strong’s it is very interesting.  Lust means “excitement of the mind”.    I have often times heard it said that the mind is the devil’s playground.  This is how he is allowed to work to deceive people.  Do you know that it is illegal for the devil to appear to you and try to trick you naturally?  I guess I won’t go there today, but Satan uses people’s thoughts to entice them into doing things that they should never do.  You know that men who molest children or just have sex with other men do not start out that way, they have done it hundreds of times in their minds before they ever act it out in the natural.  Doing wrong things outwardly are all just manifestations of inward fantasies, projections and thoughts.   The reality of acting out a “lust” is always the result of a previous repeated fantasy of someone’s imagination.  What you continually think about, is what you will eventually do.  Think wrong things, you will eventually do wrong things, this is how God designed the human mind to work.  If you put the right things into your mind, you will get more positive things to come out of your mind into your actions.   But, if you put Garbage into your mind, you will always get garbage out of it in what you do.  Why do you think the Bible says for us to put forth an effort to “RENEW OUR MINDS”? (Rom 12:2)  The renewal process of the mind means a renovation or the replacement of the old previous thoughts in your mind to think new and improved ones from God’s Word.  You could call it a mind thought upgrade to think higher spiritual thoughts.  By replacing the old carnal thoughts, with new spiritual thoughts we can eventually change what we do.  People wonder why we have such problems in our schools and never place the blame on the fact that we have taken God and the Bible out of our schools and are now are reaping the results of producing spiritually ignorant children without morals and standards.  Ok, I got off the subject, I was talking about homosexuality and how people become homosexuals and told you about your mind being the cause and then went into schools.  Sorry about that.  I started this paragraph speaking about lust and I need to get back on track..

Lust is a longing for, something that is highly desired to someone.  Did you know if you do everything that your flesh longed for, you would be in really bad shape?  Lust is something that is a normal human emotional state, but what you lust after is always the root cause of every problem.  The verse in Romans was talking about the unnatural sex between people of the same sex as being a result of unnatural thoughts that were acted out.  So why do some men lust for men and others do not?  Why do some men lust after alcohol and some do not?  The Bible says we are all carried away with different things, there are many different temptations in the world (James 1:14).  For the most part, it came about from something that happened in their childhood, their parents could have been alcoholics and it was passed down.  This is a factor that you should realize.  The sins of the parents are often times passed to the children.  Let’s change the focus and go back and see if Jesus ever said anything about homosexuality:

Mat 19:4  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

Jesus asks a very basic question about creation and I wonder why Gay people do not see that He is talking to them.  While some people say that Jesus never talked about homosexuality, I am about to prove them wrong.   Jesus in effect is saying “Are you STUPID”, can’t you READ?”  In the beginning did God create them MALE and MALE or FEMALE and FEMALE?  Or did God create them Male and Female?    Somehow, God must have changed His mind somewhere in the course of human history.  I can only guess that this is that these homosexual proponents must think today!  They obviously declare that God created me this way.  I’m Gay because I was born Gay!    The lies and the deception from Satan are very deep when it comes to this issue.  People seem to think that God has changed somewhere during the last 6000 years, and the Bible clearly says that God never changes (Mal 3:6).  So what do we do with Bible stories like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19)?   In this story two men show up at Lot’s house and the house is surrounded by the men of the city.  These men demand for Lot to send the men out so that they can have sex with them.  However, these men were angels and they strike the homosexuals blind and later destory the city.   I guess we just ignore these stories and pretend that they are not in the Bible and let these people continue with their lie.  We are just all suppose to get along and become more open and tolerant and just look the other way and pretend that it is not happening.  After all God must have intended to created Adam and Steve, instead of Adam and Eve, He just made a mistake.

1Co 6:9  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor  idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

People can be exceedingly foolish, sometimes.  They think you have to have overwhelming evidence to the fact of anything in the Bible in order for it to be true.   Just because some people cannot find 15 to 20 Bible verses about the subject of homosexuality, they feel it is not worthy of mention and deem it to be insignificant to their view of God.  However, God does not view it this way.  In fact God says we only need at the minimum, two verses in the Bible to establish any truth.  If you can find just two verses it is an established truth from God’s perspective.  That is the Bible law of interpretation and you can ignore it, if you want to.   Here is another very clear verse in 1 Corinthians and it says something that is profound if you look up the definitions of all of the words.  God starts by declaring that He is talking about the “unrighteous”.   Unrighteousness is the opposite of being righteous.   To be “righteous” means you are in good standing with God.  The Bible declares that true Christians have obtain the righteousness of God, so we know that this verse is not talking about true Christians.  The word translated as “unrighteous” means “heathen” and “wicked”.  So the unrighteous are clearly warned that they will not inherit the kingdom of God.   The verse then goes and defines who these unrighteous people are.  Most of the descriptions of these next terms are sexually based.  So right there we have a major problem being presented to the church.  I’ll start with the word “fornicators” and that word means “male prostitute”.   Isn’t that interesting?   This is someone who sells their body for the sexual pleasure of others.  This word can apply to homosexual prostitutes as well as heterosexual prostitutes.  But I do not see the need for most women to buy a prostitute so this is not what God is talking about, is it?   Now let’s skip to the word translated as “adulterer”.    The word in the Strong’s carries the “male” gender for a word that is a derogatory definition of a “male lover”.   Again this is not a good word for men.  Now let’s continue to the next word translated as “effeminate”, we can already see the negative implications on this word.   The Strong’s defines this word as a “catamite”.   A catamite is defined as a boy that is kept for the sexual pleasure of an older man.  This is the definition of a homosexual and you can ignore it if you want to stay in your sinful ways, but it does not change the truth.  Finally, the last Greek word in the verse tops off the list with the most plain conformation and definition, this word is translated in the KJV as “abuser of themselves with mankind”.  Already we see a pattern of definitions that is clearly not an endorsement of the homosexual lifestyle.  This Greek word is defined in Strong’s as a “Sodomite”.   This is just so clear that those who do not want to know the truth have been blinded by Satan to not accept what God is saying to them in a clear warning.  Sodomy is male sex with a male.  I mean give me a break, the only way a male has sex with a male is either orally or anally.   Males are not designed this way and God tells you very clearly that it is an abuse of the original sexual design of humanity.    So those who want to continue to be how they say they were created will probably not change no matter how many scripture verses I give them.  Gay men and women will always ignore the truth for whatever they want to do.  Either they will see the truth and change or they will encounter the error of their ways for an eternity.   This is what the Bible says, so accept it or choose to reject it and die in your sins, it will always be your choice.  I’m sorry if I’m being very blunt, but it is time to be plain, sound a clear warning and tell the truth.

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

We have already clearly seen the relationship of lust to homosexuality, if you do not understand the relationship of the two, then you do not want to know the truth.  What is homosexuality?  What is the definition of homosexuality?  It is the sexual relationship of two people of the same sex.  So why do people do this?  The Bible calls it the lust of the flesh.  To lust after flesh is said not to be of God, but is said to be of the world.  God is giving you some very clear information about homosexuality in a non-direct way.  If you think that you can lust after a man and be a Christian man at the same time, God says this is not of Me.

2Ti 4:3  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

This is what churches are doing who let in Gay ministers.  They ignore God’s truth and preach their own version of godliness.    They do not want to have to change, so they change the Bible to fit what they desire.  The subject of lust is widely discussed in the Bible, and you should be able to see how it applies to homosexuality.  If you do not, it really doesn’t matter what God says to you anywhere, you have already made up your mind to stay where you are at.  Did you know God will let you do that?  God never forces anyone to change.

I could give you many, many other Bible verses on the subject that are far more direct and speak clearly on this subject, but I have gone long enough for now.  I suppose I will hear some criticism about what I have written.  I know there are churches in America that stand up and allow homosexual leaders to teach and preach and to be ordained as God’s chosen ones.  These people have gathered together teachers who justify what they want to hear and have chosen to ignore the truth.  Do not be deceived with them.  If you are going to a church that promotes sin as something good, you are going to the wrong church.  I always get amused at people who do not like what God says in the Bible.  People like to attack the messenger and want to kill them for bringing them the bad news.  God says certain things about homosexuality that will not be popular with those who wish to continue in their ways.  I did give you enough information in this one blog to show you how you change what you are doing, if God is talking to you today.  If you do not agree with what God says in the Bible, then I prefer not hear the words of fools and idiots, so do not leave me any negative comments.  Take up your negative comments with God and not me, I did not write the Bible.

It is difficult not to have an opinion on this subject of homosexuality.  We cannot go anywhere, where it is not thrown in front of us.   If you have been on vacation to any of the popular destinations in our country, you have been confronted with homosexuality on every street corner.   San Francisco has widely been held as the capital city of the Gay community, put we were confronted with it  in Key West, Florida and even north in Martha’s Vineyard, then certain districts of New York City.   We were in Orlando Florida at Disney World, one year and it just so happened to be the same time that Disney held Gay Pride Day or something like that.  There are Gay Pride parades and events in every major city now and they dress up and cross dress and do as many perverted unnatural things as they want to call it all normal behavior.  Very few places in the world are now not open to the blatant show of in your face sin.  Almost everyone in the media, and on TV and in the Movies have come up with a direct homosexual agenda that is being rammed down the throats of God fearing Christians.  The News media likes to put homosexuality in the same category as racial bigotry and hatred.   I do not know how they can confuse the two issues and think we can lump these into the same level of intolerance.   One is a Sin and the other is the color of someone’s Skin.  Is there a difference, you bet there is.  The homosexual lifestyle is portrayed as a valid alternative lifestyle on TV.  Homosexuals have come out of the closets in droves in the last 50 years.  Gay marriage is being pushed in every state as a violation of their rights.  Acceptance and equal rights is the agenda of the Gay community.  All calling for acceptance in who they say they are.  This is the way we were born, this is how we are, it’s in our DNA, and so they would like to try to convince us.  They are claiming to have been born with a Gay gene.  Now having said all of that, I do not think Christians should go around and hold up signs, telling Gays that God Hates Them.   That is idiotic and not helping anyone.  Where in the Bible does it say that God hates Gays?    Christians should not be in the Gay bashing or hatred realm of existence.    We are to preach the good news, like Jesus did in a way that might help some.  I believe that Christians are to stand up for what is right and base what we believe solely on the Bible.   So have you ever read the Bible?  What does it say about Homosexuality?  I have not found anything favorable or tolerant about this sin, have you?    However, it is still just a sin like every other sin and God views all sin in the same light, on the same level plane.  One sin is not greater than another if you study your Bible, you will see that God does not rate sin in varying degrees like people do.

So if you are struggling with this issue and thinking there is no hope, you are wrong.  You do not know the power of God to change the hearts and minds of people who want to change.  If you want to stay where you are and do what you do, God will let you.  I have given you enough information in this blog on what it takes to change.  With God’s help you can do it.

If you want to go and read the next lesson in this series you may go to “Part 2“.