What is Homosexuality?
Homosexuality and what does the Bible say about it?
First, there is nothing wrong with a friendship between people of the same sex. In 2 Samuel 1:26, King David says: "How I mourn for you, my brother Jonathan! How precious I was to you! Your love for me was precious, more than the love of women."
BUT the Bible also speaks of sexual relations being forbidden, valid both between man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, as well as with an animal (Deuteronomy 27:20-21, Leviticus 18). For more information, see Sex within the marriage, what is permitted and what is not?
The only permitted sexual relationship is the natural relationship, that is, between a married man and a woman, in which the penis penetrates the vagina. We arrived at this conclusion based on Romans 1:25-28.
Pastors who say that it is permissible for a married man to penetrate his wife's anus IF both agree, are very wrong, and it is a serious sin and against Romans 1:27, this is an unnatural practice.
Let us look at Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 19 "The two angels came to Sodom in the evening; and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and bowed himself with his face to the earth, and said, “My lords, turn aside, I pray you, to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the street.” But he urged them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house; and they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” Lot went out of the door to the men, shut the door after him, and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Behold, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.” But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door. But the men put forth their hands and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. And they struck with blindness the men, who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves groping for the door".
There is nothing wrong with this translation, because there are many verses. So what do these verses mean?
Verse 1 indicates that there are two angels who arrived in Sodom, verse 10 in some translations explains that they are men.
Verse 4 The men of Sodom surrounded Lot's house and shouted, "Bring them out to us, so that we may have relations with them!" Here it means SEXUAL relations because Lot said in verse 7, "Please, my brothers, do not commit such wickedness." And Lot offers in verse 8 his two virgin daughters. He offers that they may deflower his daughters in a natural way.
Verse 9 The inhabitants of Sodom rushed at Lot to force their way into his house. But the two angels save Lot and blind all the men.
Because of this, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah occurs. They want to perform the unnatural sexual act. The lesson for us is that no unnatural relationship is permitted by God, and this applies to both same-sex and heterosexual (married) people!
This is especially true for a Christian, as their body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, in which the Spirit of God dwells. This is a second-degree sin, a sin committed against the body.
Anal sex is not without danger either, according to doctors: AIDS e damgae of the anus.
Is anal sex dangerous?
Romans 1:24-28 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, 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 their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.
What does this mean?
God created man and woman so that they could enjoy bodily sexual relations within marriage. It is not the intention for a man to penetrate his male genitals into another man's anus. This is a horror (abomination) in the eyes of God! Can the man/woman have a homosexual nature, then he/she can turn to God and come clean with God. In all cases, the man/woman must refrain from having physical contact with another man/woman, as Romans 1:24-28 is very clear.
In fact, we read in Romans that homosexuality is a punishment from God, because man has deliberately given himself everything that provokes God's wrath, committing turpitude, futile in his thinking, indulging even in sins and being rebellious to God and what he has forbidden.
God is Love, and through Him forgiveness is possible in the Lord Jesus Christ. In case a person is homosexual then he/she should refrain from physical contact with the same sexes and in prayer with God become clean and seek God's guidance in this matter. God's love will help the believer, who is seriously seeking God, to remove the homosexual nature and transform it into a nature of this regulation. Since God's purpose of sexual intercourse is to beget children, not pure pleasure.
He who is a Homo, should in all sincerity ask God to change his nature into a nature as God wishes, perhaps the Lord grant him/her request. Sometimes not directly, because God can test the believer's sincerity by looking directly into the believers heart for sincerity.