Jesus christ said about homosexuality
What the New Testament Says about Homosexuality
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Mainline Christian denominations in this country are bitterly divided over the question of homosexuality. For this reason it is key to ask what light, if any, the New Testament sheds on this controversial issue. Most people apparently believe that the Brand-new Testament expresses mighty opposition to homosexuality, but this simply is not the case. The six propositions that pursue, considered cumulatively, head to the finding that the Fresh Testament does not provide any straightforward guidance for awareness and making opinions about homosexuality in the modern society.
Proposition 1: Strictly speaking, the Recent Testament says nothing at all about homosexuality.
There is not a single Greek word or group of words in the entire New Testament that should be translated into English as “homosexual” or “homosexuality.” In fact, the very notion of “homosexuality”—like that of “heterosexuality,” “bisexuality,” and even “sexual orientation”—is essentially a new concept that would simply have been unintelligible to
This article is part of the What Did Jesus Teach? series.
Silence Equals Support?
In a article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?1
The article was occasioned by a story about a same-sex attracted teenager in Ohio who was suing his elevated school after school officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.”
Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the utterance on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes,
While it’s reasonable to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would own disapproved of gay sex, there is no document of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself give an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.
Oremus seems to offer that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not have been very concerned about it.
There are at least two reas
Does Jesus Ever Talk About Homosexuality?
I was in my mids living in San Diego. I unified some people from a nearby church and went to a Pride parade to pass out water, give hugs, and grip signs saying “We are sorry the church hasn’t loved you the way Jesus would” (or something along those lines). All of a sudden, I was descended upon by a motion picture crew with a microphone asking me what Jesus had to say about homosexuality. I was not expecting this, but I was giddy to share the love of Christ and discuss about how we are all sinners saved by grace and how Jesus never singled out homosexuality as worse than any other type of sexual immorality. In the middle of my sentence (which I had been certain would be received with amazement, tears, and more questions about how to know this Jesus guy), the film crew interrupted me and said, “NOTHING. He said nothing about homosexuality.” And then they walked away without a word, off to find their next “interview.”
I sat there dumbfounded. What had just happened? And was it factual that Jesus never said anything about homosexuality? And if not, why
If homosexuality is a sin, why didn’t Jesus ever mention it?
Answer
Many who endorse same-sex marriage and lgbtq+ rights argue that, since Jesus never mentioned homosexuality, He did not contemplate it to be sinful. After all, the argument goes, if homosexuality is bad, why did Jesus treat it as a non-issue?
It is technically right that Jesus did not specifically address homosexuality in the Gospel accounts; however, He did speak clearly about sexuality in general. Concerning marriage, Jesus stated, “At the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh[.]’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, grant no one separate” (Matthew –6). Here Jesus clearly referred to Adam and Eve and affirmed God’s intended design for marriage and sexuality.
For those who follow Jesus, sexual practices are limited. Rather than take a permissive view of sexual immorality and divorce, Jesus affirmed that people are either to be s