what the Bible have to say about Homosexuality?

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What does the Bible have to say about Homosexuality? I shall cover the answer to this question in this study! This study is not to condemn the homosexual, but rather to help the homosexual to understand the reason WHY they have the sexual desire for those of their own sex, and the cure for their freedom from this sin.

If you are trapped in this lifestyle, you cannot get deliverance until you can first acknowledge that it is sin, and that the scriptures clearly declare that you cannot enter the Kingdom of God if you continue to live in this sin!

9?Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10?nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11?And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Cor. 6:9-11 NKJV

“Homosexual” is defined as G3120 malakos
Thayer Definition:
1) soft, soft to the touch
2) metaphorically in a bad sense
2a) effeminate
2a1) of a catamite
2a2) of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man
2a3) of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness
2a4) of a male prostitute

“Sodomite” is defined as G733 arsenokoites
Thayer Definition:
1) one who lies with a male as with a female, sodomite, homosexual

No one is "born" homosexual!

No one is "born" a Homosexual! If you will note the list of sins above in 1 Cor. 6:9-10, I don't believe that any of you would declare that anyone is born “a thief”, or “reviler”, or “an adulterer”! These sins had a point of origin; a first time the sin is committed! Some claim that drunkards are born with the “seed” to be drunkards, (to be awakened when they drink their first drink). But until the person drinks their first alcoholic beverage, they will never become drunks. There is not a single cocaine addict that will confess that they desired to be a drug addict before they got their first “high!” That is why drug dealers give the first “hit” free! They know that if you try it, you will be hooked and come back for more! Those who refuse to ever take their first "hit", never become addicts! Likewise, the homosexual has had an “introductory” initiation into their addiction of lust, somewhere in their past!

John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Don't think for a moment, that many who are heterosexuals today, have not, at some point in their life, questioned their sex, being tempted by the tempter, whom Jesus calls Satan, to experiment with others of the same sex. The ONLY difference between the heterosexual and the homosexual, is that one gave in to the temptation, and became a slave to this sin!

The attempt to bring this idea to the children in today's schools, will no doubt be profitable to the homosexual group as children, who would have normally grown up to be heterosexual, will be tempted to "experiment" and once they commit this sin, they too will be trapped as slaves to this sin, believing that, since they are trapped by it, that they were created, or born, "Homosexual!" Let's read about the deception of sin, knowing that God's law has forbidden the acts of homosexuality (Lev. 18:22)

Rom 7:8-11 (BBE) But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead. And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death; And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death: For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

Very simply put, the tempter, knowing that the law forbids this act, has taken the occasion of tricking you with thoughts that you were born to be homosexual, or that you should have been a woman, instead if being a man. As though God made a mistake when he gave you man's body parts instead of a woman's. Working on our "sin nature" which we inherited from our sinful parents Adam and Eve, Satan tricks us to believe a lie. Those who buy into this lie, test it, and find it pleasurable, and now become captive to the sin! Now that they are captive to the sin, they confirm in their mind, that they were born to be this way! Now they curse God for "making" them this way and calling it "sin!" Those who bypass this temptation, although they go on through life as heterosexual, ultimately fall captive to some other sin when they are finally snared by Satan through drugs, adultery, pornography, alcohol etc.

It feels good!

Sex feels good! God made it that way! If it didn't, we would not have babies and mankind would perish! If your first experience was with your spouse through marriage, chances are very good that your desire would always be for your spouse alone, as long as you continued to resist temptation suggesting that you should "try" someone else! Temptation is always easier to resist, if you have never tasted the drink from the other cup! While the other cup might be curious and tempting, since I don't know what it tastes like, I can either take it or leave it. But when you know what the other cup tastes like, and now you crave after it since you know what you are missing and its taste is heavy on your taste buds, you will do just about anything to get some more of it!

Sex is like a "high" that one gets when they are on drugs! If the first pleasurable experience that a young man has, is with another man, no doubt, they now become “addicted” to this new experience and pursue it for more! Once LUST is conceived in the person, it burns for more! Obviously, the same holds true for the fornicator and adulterer! A young man who experiences his first sexual “high” with a high school date, will continue to desire this new found high! Since this young woman is not his bride, he too is out of God's will, and is caught in the tailspin of lust and sin, and trying to seduce other young women to satisfy his lust is now his daily mission! The addiction takes on a new depth of perversion with some, who get their “high” with children, (who may be fulfilling the same crime that was committed upon them as a child) or while performing some kind of torture or death to their victim of sex. Every day, the evening news is revealing the horror of this type of lustful fulfillment by those whom have become trapped by it! Sin, escalates into a snowball of ever increasing lust to satisfy the pleasurable senses of the sinner!

2 Tim. 3:1-4 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

The Greek word for “pleasures” is philedonos which is defined as
Voluptuous adv. Luxuriously; with free indulgence of sensual pleasures;

Biblically, the purpose for sex, was to procreate and have children under the covenant of marriage! As prophetically foretold by Paul, the perilous times we are now living in, people are ever seeking the fulfillment of their sensual pleasures that can never be satisfied!

The homosexual who wants to be free from this sin, and to do what is pleasing in the sight of God, must acknowledge, as does the adulterer, the drunkard, the thief, and the fornicator, that they are sinners, trapped in their sin, and that they need deliverance! Their deliverer must be called on by name, and that name is Jesus!

John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Joh 3:16-21 (GW) God loved the world this way: He gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but to save the world. Those who believe in him won't be condemned. But those who don't believe are already condemned because they don't believe in God's only Son. This is why people are condemned: The light came into the world. Yet, people loved the dark rather than the light because their actions were evil. People who do what is wrong hate the light and don't come to the light. They don't want their actions to be exposed. But people who do what is true come to the light so that the things they do for God may be clearly seen.

The militant anger of the homosexual, I trust, comes from their anger at God “If God made me this way, then why does He condemn me?” is their reasoning! Their pent up anger, is not based on the truth, but the lie that they bought into, that Homosexuals are born this way, and that there is no hope for deliverance! Most, cannot even imagine a life that is free from this sin!

Romans 7:24-25 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? [25] I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. ..


How did I get into this mess!

Every Homosexual, if they wish to be fair and honest, will have to confess that they had a point of entry into that lifestyle, although some may have completely forgotten what it was (if it was from an introduction at a very early age which is now forgotten). Many don't forget, though, and know exactly how it originated. Their mother or father, uncle or neighbor, friend or maybe even their brother!

Some points of introduction into this lifestyle are:

1. Being raped or fondled by someone of the same sex when they were young. (Although the child may hate their attacker for the rest of their life, they themselves become slaves to this sin and may even do the same to others, like passing on a contagious disease)

2. Some kind of abuse that caused them to hate persons of the other sex! (More common with women)

3. Experimenting, at a young age, with their friends, and experiencing this sexual “high” which becomes addictive!

4. Looking upon the nakedness of others of the same sex and fantasizing.

In Leviticus 18, God tried to protect the Israelites from this sin by forbidding them from looking upon the nakedness of others. In our current, sinful society, with sexually explicit photography and TV, it is almost impossible to keep children free from seeing these things which introduces them to this addictive drug called “LUST” and taking them captive!

Although we are all “born” with the “sin nature” that is, the desire to sin, which we inherited from our fathers, the fact remains that, we are all FREE from sin at birth. No baby, right from the womb, is lusting after the other child lying next to him! Yet we have the sin nature within us, when tempted, we often give in and become slaves to the sin! Once we sin, the sin now lives within us!

Rom 7:14-17 (GW) I know that God's standards are spiritual, but I have a corrupt nature, sold as a slave to sin. I don't realize what I'm doing. I don't do what I want to do. Instead, I do what I hate. I don't do what I want to do, but I agree that God's standards are good. So I am no longer the one who is doing the things I hate, but sin that lives in me is doing them.

James 1:14-15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. [15] Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

[RickD]

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