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Is Homosexuality Wrong?

"Doesn’t it say in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 that homosexuality is wrong?"

Is homosexuality wrong? Are these verses talking about a committed, faithful, noncultic same sex partnership or are these verses talking about pagan worship of the fertility goddess?

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination [towebah].” Leviticus 18:22

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

Don't Get Confused

“In the twenty first century many Christians confuse modern homosexuality, a committed, faithful, noncultic same sex partnership, with the ancient world’s sexual abuse of slaves, pederasty, rape of foreigners and pagan fertility rites. None of those ancient practices are analogs to modern homosexuality.”

-Rick Brentlinger, Author of the new book Gay Christian 101.

Original Intent Is Important Because Scripture Cannot Mean Now What It Did Not Mean Then.

Constitutional attorneys sometimes discuss the idea of "original intent." In answering this question about homosexuality, understanding original intent in scripture is vitally important.

Was God talking about modern, twenty first century, committed, faithful, noncultic, same sex partnerships or was He talking about pagan sexual rituals in worship of the Canaanite fertility goddess?

There is no evidence in the Bible that God or OT Jews or Jesus Christ Himself understood Leviticus 18:22 & 20:13 as prohibiting committed, faithful, noncultic, same sex partnerships.

We know that because, although Sodom is mentioned 55 times in the Bible, not once in 55 verses of scripture in the Old Testament and the New Testament, does God ever reference homosexuality when He speaks of Sodom. Homosexuality wrong?

Although anti-gay Christians wish the Bible talked about homosexuality whenever Sodom is mentioned, God just doesn’t make that connection in the Bible in any of the 55 verses which mention Sodom. Think about that for a while.

Jesus spoke of Sodom but He never linked Sodom to homosexuality.

Jesus mentioned Sodom - in Matthew 10:15 and 11:23, Mark 6:11, Luke 10:12 and 17:29 - but Jesus never mentioned homosexuality in connection with Sodom.

I know many Christians think He should have mentioned how bad homosexuality is but Jesus never said anything like that. Homosexuality wrong?

If Jesus agreed with the anti-gay viewpoint, don't you think He would have said so when He talked about Sodom?

Did you know that in the Bible, the term eunuch sometimes describes a gay man? Do you remember reading what Jesus said about eunuchs in Matthew 19:3-12?

Listen to what Jesus said about eunuchs.

“But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs , which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.” Matthew 19:11-12.

Jesus said there are three kinds of eunuchs and the first class of eunuchs He mentions are those eunuchs who "were so born from their mother's womb." Matthew 19:12.

I hope you understand what Jesus just said.

When referring to eunuchs, Jesus said, in Matthew 19:11 that eunuchs cannot receive His teaching about the Adam and Eve marriage paradigm in Matthew 19:5. Homosexuality wrong?

Jesus specifically excluded "born eunuchs" from the heterosexual, Adam and Eve marriage paradigm, Matthew 19:4-6.

What on earth is a born eunuch?

There are only a few historically accurate ways to define what Jesus means by the term “born eunuch.”

  1. Assexuality. Jesus could mean that a born eunuch is born without any sexual desire - an assexual person. That is such a rare condition it is difficult to believe Jesus intended His disciples to understand assexuality as His definition of “born eunuch.” Homosexuality wrong?

  2. Genital Birth Defects. Jesus could mean that a born eunuch is born with defective reproductive organs so that he is incapable of procreation. This is also such a rare condition that it is doubtful Jesus intended His disciples to understand genital birth defects as His definition of “born eunuchs.” Homosexuality wrong?

  3. Homosexual. Jesus could mean that a born eunuch is a man who is physically intact and capable of procreation but who is same sex attracted instead of being sexually interested in women. Homosexuality wrong?

    It perfectly fits the ancient Jewish viewpoint about “saris” - the Hebrew word for eunuchs, that Jesus intended His disciples to understand that a born eunuch is a homosexual man.

Dr. Robert Gagnon, The World's Leading, Anti-Gay Evangelical Scholar Affirms The Existence Of Same Sex Cult Prostitution In Ancient Israel.

Keep in mind that the best anti-homosexual book available today is, The Bible And Homosexual Practice by Dr. Gagnon.

Dr. Gagnon, Associate Professor of Greek and New Testament (with tenure) at Pittsburg Theological Seminary, believes as so many anti-gay Christians believe, that any and all homosexual practice is sinful and against God's intention for humankind. Homosexuality wrong?

But Dr. Gagnon is honest enough to admit the Old Testament context of Lev 18:22 and 20:13 is Molech worship and shrine prostitution. He deals with this issue in a section of his book headed "Homosexual Cult Prostitution in Israel," pp. 100-110.

Carefully note what Dr. Robert Gagnon says.

“I do not doubt that the circles out of which Lev 18:22 was produced had in view homosexual cult prostitution, at least partly. Homosexual cult prostitution appears to have been the primary form in which homosexual intercourse was practiced in Israel." - Gagnon, p. 130

"There is good evidence of homosexual cult prostitution in Israel during the period of the divided monarchy.” p. 100.

The [Hebrew] term [qedesim/qades] denotes “men at cult sites who engaged in homosexual prostitution: male temple (or cult, shrine, sacred) prostitutes.” p. 101.

Qedesim “...one of whose cultic functions was to offer their bodies to other men for same-sex intercourse.” p. 102.

“two other occurances of qedesa in the Bible (Gen 38:21-22; Hos 4:14) also link it with the term zona, “prostitute, harlot.”p. 103. Homosexuality wrong?

“The remark in I Kgs 14:24 that the people of Judah “conformed their behavior to all the abominations (toebot) of the nations which Yahweh dispossessed” sounds remarkably like the summary in Lev 18:24-30, which followed a listing of sexual offenses that singled out in particular same-sex male intercourse as an “abomination.”” p. 103.

“the same-sex role of the assinu, kugarru, and kuluu (who, owing to castration, were certainly unsuitable partners for heterosexual intercourse and impregnation) does provide good evidence for homosexual cult prostitution.” p. 104.

“The harsh descriptions of the qedesim in I-2 Kings (I Kgs 14:24: “even qades were in the land”) and Job 36:14, along with the epithet of “dog” in Deu 23:18, suggests a degree of revulsion more suited to same-sex male cult prostitution.” p. 104.

“That means Josiah’s action against the qedesim in the temple precincts was likely taken as a direct result of laws in Deut 23:17-18 regarding the qedesim or “dogs.”” p. 106.

“It can hardly be denied that... (the author of Job 36:14) regarded the qedesim as homosexual cult prostitutes.” p. 108.

“Cult association is established by the name “holy/consecrated ones” and by the connection to Asherah. The element of prostitution is clear from Deut 23:17-18 (fees for services rendered) and the connection to qedesot, who elsewhere are identified as harlots.” p. 108. Homosexuality wrong?

“The same-sex dimension is suggested by the label “dogs,” by history of religion parallels, and by the unlikelihood of male heterosexual prostitution.” p. 108.

“The existence of homosexual shrine prostitutes in Judah was a recurring problem.” Dr. Robert Gagnon, p. 110.

Thank you Dr. Gagnon! When the most vociferous anti-gay author and evangelical scholar alive today, is so adamantly convinced that the recurrent theme in the Hebrew Old Testament is same sex cult prostitution which worships the fertility goddess, it becomes clear that the cult prostitution angle is not just a bunch of gay people trying to alibi their sin. Homosexuality wrong.

Same sex cult, temple, shrine prostitution and God’s wrath against it as revealed in the Old Testament, is an undeniable fact of history.

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