GOD, GRACE, & GAYS SUMMARIZED (In response to a Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZA4IC6IJ8)

 

First of all, when you talk about Jesus' teachings (it's Jesus' not Jesus's, which sounds like Jesuses. You do not put an 's on words ending in s to make them possessive, just the apostrophe; otherwise it sounds plural), Jesus is the Word (John 1:1) so the whole Bible is His teachings.

Then, when approaching this subject, everyone seems to want to contextualize it into irrelevancy: cultural norms of the time, etc. Yet the Bible also says that God doesn't change: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever." (Heb. 13:8) "For I am the LORD, I change not...." (Malachi 3:6) KJV.

The key to understanding Sodom in Genesis 19, is Gibeah in Judges 19. Here we see similar events unfolding centuries apart with some key differences that help explain it much better. In Judges 19, one of the visitors is female, and she is taken by the mob, brutalized all night, and dies of her injuries. This means the men of Gibeah were clearly bisexual.

In both cases though, the daughter(s) of those sojourning with them were offered and rejected in favor of the new faces in town. In Sodom, both visitors were male, and the mob consisted of "...the men of Sodom..."..both old and young, all the people from every quarter." (Gen. 19:4). No population of any city, anywhere, ever had a population that was 100% homosexual. It wouldn't last as they wouldn't be reproducing: they'd die out. So, the men of Sodom were also bisexual. They most likely had the attitude of the men of Afghanistan, as reported in the press at the time when the U.S. was occupying it: Women for children, men for fun. (This was later modified to "Women for children, boys for fun," but you get the idea.)

in Romans 1:27, the men in question here were also bisexual as they left "...the natural use of the woman...." by choice. It has often been pointed out that homosexuality is not a choice, but what has been missing is the fact that bisexuality offers a choice. And, if homosexuality is not a choice, it is not a sin, because sin is a choice: a choice to disobey, that is acted upon, in the case of doing what you were told not to do, or not doing what you were told to do.

Rather, it is a fault; and what does the Bible say about faults? "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." (James 5:16). In the case of this fault, you're basically commanded to "come out." The stress of keeping all this bottled up inside is not healthy.

An how should such a person be treated? Galatians 6:1-2 give us the answer: "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye on another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." For, as I Corinthians 10:13 says: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it." It's your cross to bear.

As for using the two verses in Leviticus (18:22 & 20:13) to say that homosexuality is a sin, is like using the verse that condemns adultery (20:10,) with the same punishment, death, must make heterosexuality a sin too. Sexuality isn't the sin, it's what you do with it.