"Bible and homosexuality" by Howard
Watson
Whenever we enter into a sexual relatonship we either follow God's
plan or the world's, man's and Satan's plan. Consequently, there
is a godly ordered sexual relationship or ungodly sexual activity.
God's plan is fully good, blessed and honorable. It is above reproach
and follows God's first directive to Adam and Eve to bring children
into the world. Every new born child is a gift from God which is
given to the parents for their care and nurturing in the fear and
comforts of God.
First, sexual union is a unity of the husband and wife under God
of joyous fellowship, blissfully enjoyed; secondly, sexual union
gives conception its' occasion. Same sex relationships violate the
distinction of the husband and wife as ordered of God in Genesis
1:27-28, 2:22f, 4:1.
Further, God in His Word clearly bans same sex (male with male and
consequently female with female) sex acts, Gen.19:5-8; Ex. 22:19;
Lev.18:22-23; 20:13-15, 16; Deut.23:17; 27:21 plus other references
and situations in the Old Testament (some of these passages include
and equate same sex relations with that of sex with beasts).
All of this is accounted as abominable to God and worthy of destruction;
remember that the Jews of the Old Testament were the chosen family/people
to represent Jehovah/God and to be holy as God is holy, outwardly
as well as inwardly; to violate this trust was like an extreme virus
among the family of God which would bring the family of God into
reproach and extinction among the peoples of the earth.
In the New Testament, again, same sex relationships are clearly
spoken against as in Romans 1:24,26-27;I Cor. 6:9 and I Tim. 1:9-10.
Therefore, there is no Biblical way to encourage homosexuality but
rather, as with all other sin, to call for repentance and rehabilitation
into the new life of holiness and wholeness of the spirit, mind
and body.
Same sex addicts should be encouraged to seek spiritually sound
guidance towards deliverance and the joy of God in Christ. This
is the life which Christ Jesus came to provide for all of us.
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