In response to a previous post, “Not a Scientist” asked: “Would you mind quoting where Jesus says that homosexuality is a sin?”
Where does Jesus speak against homosexuality? Everywhere that God does!
First, one must believe that God is who He says He is. “In the beginning, God created . . . ” (Genesis 1). He created male and female to be equal, but not the same. He didn’t created them at the same time, in the same way, or for the same purpose (Genesis 2:7, 18, 21-22). He gave them to each other, male and female, to be one union or one flesh in marriage (Genesis 2:24). Woman was created to be a “helper fit for him.” Did you know that “fit for him” literally means “like his opposite”? Consider how man and woman are, in many ways, opposite yet, in marriage, fit together perfectly. God brings new life into the world through their procreative act of sex. Marriage, childbirth, and growth of the human community were part of God’s plan for humankind from before The Fall. Throughout the Old Testament, the Word of God speaks against homosexuality or sodomy. It is not His design.
Where does Jesus speak against homosexuality? Everywhere that God does. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any think made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it . . . And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:1-5; 14). Jesus is God. He is the Creator. He is the Word. He is Law and Gospel.
Jesus did not come to abolish the Law (Old Testament) of God. He came to fulfill it. He did not disregard it. He is it! Inspired by The Word Jesus, St. Paul wrote many times about the sin of homosexuality. To be sure, we humans think we have evolved in our thinking. We seek our own way. We set ourselves up as gods of our own lives. The consequences are always the same. “. . . They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator . . . For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done” (Romans 1:25-28).
Jesus is the Word. He is God. He is the Creator. The Creator knows intimately what He has created. He is the Creator of anatomy and biology. He knows what works and what does not. God is incapable of imperfection. He would not create a man “fit for” another man, and then laugh when they don’t fit.
My Biblical worldview — CREATION, THE FALL & REDEMPTION — explains to me the wonder of God’s perfect creation of male, female, marriage, and generational society, but it also explains what went wrong and why we struggle so with ourselves and others. Sin happened. Man and woman were deceived and failed to trust God’s Word. That first sin affected us all. We put ourselves in place of God. We doubt that Jesus said any more than what is printed in red letters in the New Testament. But, He did say it all! He is the Word. And, because He calls Himself the Word, he is either that… or a liar.
Every day, I am in awe. Things go bad because of sin. We struggle heterosexually and homosexually. But, because of that struggle with our sinful flesh, The Word Jesus came in perfect flesh. Because of The Word — Jesus — there is hope. Because of Christ, I am redeemed! Set free of the chains that bind me to sin. I may continue to do battle with my feelings and desires, but Satan and my own sinful flesh do not have dominion over me.
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