Here is the summary of our study on what the Bible says concerning homosexuality. If you have not been with us over the last eight weeks of examining every major passage on homosexuality in the Bible, then these conclusions may look overly ambitious. If you have not been with us, I encourage you to download the entire series. This summary is merely to serve as a reminder of the major conclusions that can be drawn from the Scripture concerning homosexuality.
If you have not been taught what the Scripture teaches concerning homosexuality, I want to encourage you to listen to this series entitled, “Loving the Homosexual to Healing with Truth.” We still have several weeks to go in this study, but we have concluded the section which looks at each of the major passages in detail.
It is important that Christians speak the truth in love, which requires loving God, the people Christ died for, and the truth, and also knowing the truth.
Homosexuality is clearly a sin against God because:
1 It violates God’s plan for eliminating solitude and providing for intimate relationship. Gen. 2:18, 44
2 It violates God’s plan for procreation. Gen. 1:28
3 It violates God’s plan to prevent immorality. 1 Cor. 7:2
4 It violates God’s plan to fulfill one’s sex drive and desires. Heb 13:4
5 It violates every command against adultery and fornication because it is sex outside of marriage.
6 Two halves does not necessarily equal a whole, e.g. two left shoes do not make a pair of shoes. Man or woman is only half of the marital relationship.
7 Adultery and fornication violate God’s plan.
8 Adultery and fornication are one step removed from God’s design.
(1) It is outside the God ordained context of marriage.
9 Homosexuality is two steps removed from God’s design.
(1) It is outside the God ordained context of marriage.
(2) It is not heterosexual.
10 Homosexuality is never stated in a positive light in contrast to the reality that heterosexual monogamous marriage always is.
11 In other words, homosexuality is always cast in a negative light, while heterosexual monogamous marriage never is.
12 The Bible does not allow for the idea that the body and the person are mismatched.
13 Deut. 22:5 does not allow for blurring of the sex roles, much less exchanging them.
14 If homosexuality was not sin, it would not be forgivable, resistible, and judgeable. God does not judge people for being medically sick or physically disfigured, nor do they need forgiveness for these conditions.
15 The Bible never speaks of homosexual love, only lust. Moreover, love and the appropriate expression of it are defined by God not His creation.
16 We recognize the difference between ceremonial, civil, moral, and religious laws in our society, and we must do the same in the Bible.
(1) Ceremonial or religious laws can change. This can be instituted by the inauguration of a priest or president.
(2) Civil laws can change. The restrictions concerning “uncleanness” or things like speed limits.
(3) Moral or spiritual laws concerning things like murder do not change since they are based on the unchangeable nature of God.
Moral or spiritual laws are not abrogated or equated with the relativeness of ceremonial or civil laws just because they are found in the same context; for example, the Ten Commandments contain eternal laws, “you shall have no other gods before me” and religious laws, “you shall keep the Sabbath holy”. The passing of the Sabbath as the day of worship does not affect the command to worship God only.
17 The clarity of God’s created and commanded design for intimate relationships, the created physical compatibility of the male and female, the essential potential of sex to bring forth life, the uniformity of God’s word commending marriage while simultaneously condemning homosexuality along with the severity of judgment of homosexuals throughout the Scripture, the extensive nature of the fall of man, irrefutably and unequivocally testify that homosexuality is neither natural nor God given, but in fact as Scripture says , “wicked, sin, detestable, abomination, worthy of death, degrading, unnatural, and gross immorality”
(1) May every homosexual be given the truth of his sin as we were ours, and receive the washing and regeneration of the word of God and thereby be made righteous and forgiven forever. John 3:18, 19, 21; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Ephesians 5:26