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Basically homosexuality being an abomination just means it is not something God disapproves of, there are quite a few things He considered to be an abomination. Anyone who is a human being can be a Christian, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, metrosexual or omnisexual it doesnt matter. If one 'accepts' J.esus and follows him then that is all the Bible actually requires. Over all there is no way to tell if someone who professes to be a Christian is going to heaven or hell, it is something only that person and God truely know because human beings cannot see the inner most portions of another's heart--only God can.

The act of homosexual relations is not any different than the act of heterosexual relations outside of marriage, murder, gossip, anger or anything else that is considered a sin. There is no differing degrees of sin, its all the same and it is all dealt with in the same manner--accepting J.esus' forgiveness.

While DavidLucas was very astute in pointing out several of the dietary regulations of the Old Testement, it is best to take those laws within the context that they are set to be in--the Jewish religious system of the legal contract that they entered into with God at Mount Sinai. The Christian faith does not adhere to all of the laws presented in the Torah because the Christian faith is not a religious system exclusive to Hebrews like that of the Sinai Covenant. As for references to Books in the bible that refer to homosexuality as being 'wrong' there are a good number of books that mark any form of sexual immorality (Sex outside of marriage) as being a sin Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, Ephesians and Colosians all address the topic


I got the following from a user on the Adult Swim boards. I think thats a good explanation.

What if someone who is homosexual comes to Christ, yet still hasn't given up that sin. We all have things we hold onto that we know we shouldn't be doing, and are hard for us to give up.

IE...A teenager comes to Christ, but has a heard time respecting there parents. Their parents don't share the same beliefs, and they keep getting into agruments and yelling at each other. The bible says that we are suppose to respect our parents, but that isn't respect. Does that make them not a Christian if they are disrespecting there parents?

most likely NASB (New American Standard Bible)
NASB takes word-for-word translations unlike NIV which summarizes and paraphrases (as said by my Youth Pastor)
It doesn't make NIV or KJV any less credible though

Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
18. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10. For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind(Homosexuals), for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;


1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
4. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

1 John 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
5. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
7. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

He can choose but his refusing to correct himself is in sin. For all it is a choice to stay in it like it is a choice to stay in any sin. For some they are born that way but not because of they way God created them, but the curse of sin that we are born under.

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Here we have Jesus address the Kenits that snuk into priesthood by the Roman goverment. He flat told them they were children of the devil and took after him.