Awaiting His Return
Topic 4, New Testament: Condemning Gays?
Some will say that homosexuality falls under the category of sexual immorality, as mentioned in Acts 15:29. But commonly mistranslated for homosexuality is a section in Romans:
Romans 1:24-27, NIV
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.
Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Umm... You kinda skipped over the parts of the verses that says homosexuality is a sin. Let me put them in color for you.
Your argument is... strange. Even if Adam and Eve weren't the first or only people, the Bible never gives account of a man "lying with" or "knowing" another man in a good context. It never gives account of God leading a man to another man.
Also, your argument about God supporting all love is just completely misused. Yes, God supports love. Sex... it isn't love. I love my brother, but... I mean, ya know? That's a silly argument. Love doesn't mean romantic love. We are commanded to love God, that doesn't mean we're to have physical relationships with Him. Do you understand what I'm saying? Your argument doesn't hold up. Despair turns into pain; anger turns into hate
Did you not take an English class? What do the words "Therefore" and "Because" mean?
EDIT: @Anakha Are you talking about the Centurion and his lover?
FURTHER EDIT: Back to the argument... Last I checked, God supports love. He never said what kind of love, which means it's an all-encompassing definition. Boy love, girl love, straight love, gay love, he doesn't care. Love is love is love. The other problem I have with your "argument" is that last I checked some people had sex to show their love to their partner. If you're saying that sex =/= love, then what the hell are straight people who love each other doing when they have sex?
Wait, let me guess... succumbing to lust! That's a sin no matter how you put it, doesn't matter who's doing it.
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