Christians are compelled in faithfulness and love to hold to the truth of God’s word. This includes what the Scriptures clearly reveal, command, and teach concerning homosexuality, both as to law and grace, sin and salvation. (See below.) At the same time, also in accordance with the word of God, Pilgrims Covenant Church abhors and detests the sort of vile, unscriptural teachings and behavior which is typified by the likes of the Westboro Baptist Church which is infamous for its “God hates fags” campaign and for celebrating the deaths of U.S soldiers.
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"For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death."
2 Corinthians 7:10
". . . Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." Mark 1:14-15
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
2 Corinthians 7:10
". . . Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." Mark 1:14-15
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
For those who want to know, this short article simply, briefly shares some of what the Bible says about homosexual acts. All quotes are taken from the faithful King James translation.
The Bible, Old Testament and New, has much to say about homosexual acts. The Bible is clear that God has declared such acts to be sinful. For instance, God calls the homosexual acts committed by the men of Sodom "very grievous" (Gen. 18:20). He also calls those sexual acts "filthy," "wicked," "ungodly," and "unlawful" (II Peter 2:6-8). In the book of Jude, verse 7, God explains that the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for "fornication" with "strange flesh." In this, God contrasts homosexual sex acts with sexual relations between one man and one woman in His created, holy institution of marriage where the two become "one flesh" (Gen. 2:24). God has forbidden and condemned all fornication (homosexual or "heterosexual"), the joining of human beings as "one flesh" in a sexual union outside of marriage (I Cor. 6:9-11). In I Corinthians 6:15-20, He condemns the sexual acts men commit with women prostitutes because the two become "one flesh" outside of marriage. Homosexual acts go, what might be called, a step further in that they are called "fornication" with "strange flesh."
The Bible condemns homosexual acts in the strongest of terms and even by describing the acts themselves, such as in Leviticus 18:22: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13 both graphically forbid sexual acts between two men. Romans 1:26 forbids sexual acts between two women, labeling "lesbianism" unnatural, saying that women who do those things "change" the natural for that which is "against nature." So much for the "born that way" argument. Romans 1:27 goes on to condemn sexual acts between men and men. I Corinthians 6:9-11 is a warning against the deception that one can live in open rebellion to God's law and still be a Christian headed for heaven. In that passage, homosexuals are called "abusers of themselves with mankind." I Timothy 1:8-11 refers to those who commit homosexual acts as "them that defile themselves with mankind." Both of those descriptive phrases are faithfully translated from the word arsenokoites, the Greek word which describes homosexual sex acts. (Greek was the language in which the New Testament was originally written.)
So it is true: from cover to cover, the Word of God condemns homosexual acts. This should not be surprising since those acts are a complete repudiation of God's created order and represent a graphic rebellion against the Creator and Lawgiver of the universe. Homosexual acts go even beyond the sin which "is common to man" (I Cor. 10:13) and launch off into sin which is "unnatural" (Rom. 1:26-27). Consequently, homosexual acts are incredibly destructive to the individual who commits them (Rom. 1:27-28, Gal. 6:7) and to the nation which condones them.
Homosexuals must not be given encouragement to continue in their self-destructive, sinful behavior. Homosexuals should be told that they, as is the case with all lost sinners, are headed for hell unless they repent, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and are saved (Rom. 10:13). Christians must hold to what the Bible teaches concerning homosexuality and in mercy share the gospel with homosexuals and pray that some will be born again and justified by faith in Jesus Christ (Jn. 3:3, I Cor. 6:11).
The Bible, Old Testament and New, has much to say about homosexual acts. The Bible is clear that God has declared such acts to be sinful. For instance, God calls the homosexual acts committed by the men of Sodom "very grievous" (Gen. 18:20). He also calls those sexual acts "filthy," "wicked," "ungodly," and "unlawful" (II Peter 2:6-8). In the book of Jude, verse 7, God explains that the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for "fornication" with "strange flesh." In this, God contrasts homosexual sex acts with sexual relations between one man and one woman in His created, holy institution of marriage where the two become "one flesh" (Gen. 2:24). God has forbidden and condemned all fornication (homosexual or "heterosexual"), the joining of human beings as "one flesh" in a sexual union outside of marriage (I Cor. 6:9-11). In I Corinthians 6:15-20, He condemns the sexual acts men commit with women prostitutes because the two become "one flesh" outside of marriage. Homosexual acts go, what might be called, a step further in that they are called "fornication" with "strange flesh."
The Bible condemns homosexual acts in the strongest of terms and even by describing the acts themselves, such as in Leviticus 18:22: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." Leviticus 18:22 and Leviticus 20:13 both graphically forbid sexual acts between two men. Romans 1:26 forbids sexual acts between two women, labeling "lesbianism" unnatural, saying that women who do those things "change" the natural for that which is "against nature." So much for the "born that way" argument. Romans 1:27 goes on to condemn sexual acts between men and men. I Corinthians 6:9-11 is a warning against the deception that one can live in open rebellion to God's law and still be a Christian headed for heaven. In that passage, homosexuals are called "abusers of themselves with mankind." I Timothy 1:8-11 refers to those who commit homosexual acts as "them that defile themselves with mankind." Both of those descriptive phrases are faithfully translated from the word arsenokoites, the Greek word which describes homosexual sex acts. (Greek was the language in which the New Testament was originally written.)
So it is true: from cover to cover, the Word of God condemns homosexual acts. This should not be surprising since those acts are a complete repudiation of God's created order and represent a graphic rebellion against the Creator and Lawgiver of the universe. Homosexual acts go even beyond the sin which "is common to man" (I Cor. 10:13) and launch off into sin which is "unnatural" (Rom. 1:26-27). Consequently, homosexual acts are incredibly destructive to the individual who commits them (Rom. 1:27-28, Gal. 6:7) and to the nation which condones them.
Homosexuals must not be given encouragement to continue in their self-destructive, sinful behavior. Homosexuals should be told that they, as is the case with all lost sinners, are headed for hell unless they repent, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and are saved (Rom. 10:13). Christians must hold to what the Bible teaches concerning homosexuality and in mercy share the gospel with homosexuals and pray that some will be born again and justified by faith in Jesus Christ (Jn. 3:3, I Cor. 6:11).
"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, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Christ Jesus Came into the World to Save Sinners.
Christ Jesus Came into the World to Save Sinners.