Where in the bible does it way that homosexuality is a sin?

Question

I keep hearing that the bible says that homosexuality is a in. Exactly where -- in what book is this stated?

Answer 1

Its more than a sin, its an abomination.  

Answer 2

Leviticus:

"Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman, that is detestable."

Answer 3

Where in the Bible does it say GOD says homosexuality is a sin? So far all these verses are just proving what I already assumed. Some delusional old man decided to dictate what is right or wrong and used God as a source.

Answer 4

There are many verses that people use to say that homosexuality is a sin.  It doesn't say those words exactly though.  It is all in how you interpret it and if you are willing to do some history reading about the time certain statements were made...as well as of course trusting others opinions above your own.  I gave up looking at all that stuff a long time ago and I just accept people as they are and let God do the talking.

Answer 5

In Leviticus, right alongside where it says that it's okay to own (and beat) slaves, that women are property, it's a sin against god to eat shellfish, and that you should stone your neighbor if he wears mixed fiber clothing.

Answer 6

I guess be happy they aren't trying to put you to death.

13 " 'If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.  - Leviticus 20:13

Answer 7

Leviticus - Not only is it a sin, but it states homosexuals should be killed.  The bible is quite clear about this.

The only church that is honest about it is Westboro Baptist.

Answer 8

All over the place.

It also says genocide is a virtue (Joshua), forcing your daughters to prosititution is a good thing (Lot), eating shrimps is an abomination (Leviticus), and that unruly children should be stoned to death.

The Bible is to morality what the n**i regime was to the milk of human kindness. It is a sadistic and evil book.

Answer 9

Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Romans 1:

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11    

9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Is that clear enough for you?

Answer 10

It doesn't.  The verses from Leviticus, etc. don't even refer to homosexuality, which wasn't even a term until the 1800s.

Answer 11

Romans 1:26-27.

Answer 12

Leviticus 18:22

"You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination."

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

" Do you not know the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be decieved: neither the impure and immoral, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality,

nor  cheats, nor greedy graspers, nor drunkards, nor foulmouthed revilers and slanderers, nor extortioners and robbers, will inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God."

Answer 13

Romans 1:26-27:

   26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

   27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Leviticus 18:22:

   22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination

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

Corinthians 6:9-10:

   9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

   10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Answer 14

in the old testament its in the book of Leviticus. in the new testament its in the book of Romans, Hebrews, Timothy and Corinthians.

Jesus speaks of marriage being between a man and woman in the book of Matthew.

"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." 1Cor 6:9,10

Heb 13:4 Let marriage be honorable among all, and the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

1 Tim 1:10 fornicators, men who lie with males, kidnappers, liars, false swearers, and whatever other thing is in opposition to the healthful teaching.

Matthew 19:4-6 (New International Version)

4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'[a]

5 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'[b]?

6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

Answer 15

There is no place in the bible says that it is a sin. yes ever one can have a butt bubby and you don't have to get up set about what people mite say Don't be wereed be happy.

Answer 16

Throughout the Bible, starting in Genisis, And God created male and female. Created the woman to help the man. Clearly states to not lie with another of same s*x in Leviticus and Romans.

Answer 17

Leviticus 20:13

Answer 18

The bible is a bunch of nothing when it comes to homosexuality, they placed that in there when people realized that men might get with men.

Answer 19

God tells us that homosexuality is an abomination and a perversion. God wouldn't say this if they were born that way. They have a choice and what they are doing is wrong. What would happen to God's creation if everyone were g*y, it would cease to exist.

They let their minds wander into perversion. Here are some things that the Bible tells us about homosexuality:

"God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator— who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done." Rom 1:24-28

Jude 1:7 "In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire."

Heb 13:4 "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral."

Furthermore Jesus said concerning marriage "at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’" of which he took as a precedent for marriage

Answer 20

he Bible consistently tells us that homosexual activity is a sin (Genesis 19:1-13; Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9). Romans 1:26-27 teaches specifically that homosexuality is a result of denying and disobeying God. When a person continues in sin and disbelief, the Bible tells us that God “gives them over” to even more wicked and depraved sin in order to show them the futility and hopelessness of life apart from God. 1 Corinthians 6:9 proclaims that homosexual “offenders” will not inherit the kingdom of God.

God does not create a person with homosexual desires. The Bible tells us that a person becomes a homosexual because of sin (Romans 1:24-27), and ultimately because of their own choice. A person may be born with a greater susceptibility to homosexuality, just as people are born with a tendency to violence and other sins. That does not excuse the person choosing to sin by giving into their sinful desires. If a person is born with a greater susceptibility to anger / rage, does that make it right for then to give into those desires? Of course not! The same is true for homosexuality.

However, the Bible does not describe homosexuality as a “greater” sin than any other. All sin is offensive to God. Homosexuality is just one of the many things listed in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 that will keep a person from the kingdom of God. According to the Bible, God’s forgiveness is just as available to a homosexual as it is to an adulterer, idol worshipper, murderer, thief, etc. God also promises the strength for victory over sin, including homosexuality, to all those who will believe in Jesus Christ for their salvation (1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17).

Answer 21

In reality it is not a sin but it IS a mental sickness.  Mentally healthy people will have normal relation with the opposite s*x.

Answer 22

What does it matter if and where it is? Like many Biblical admonitions, it's out of date and out of touch with modern times.

I don't really think that the ritualistic social mores of 4th century BC nomadic desert tribe, with all their superstitions and paranoia,  should be applied to a democratic 21st century Superpower, any more than I would apply Mayan rituals to baseball games or install druids as technicians in nuclear power plants.

Answer 23

What?  This question yet again?  Read the first chapter of the book of Romans in the New Testament.  (This is Paul's letter to the church in Rome.)

Answer 24

Westboro Baptist?? They just preach hate- God hates everything... blah, blah, blah. They're not worth the skin they're made with.

Yes, homosexual behavior is a sin. Leviticus (a book of Israelite law) says a number fo things about what is and isn't acceptable sexually, and a man lying with another man as a man lies with a woman is one of the definitely unacceptable acts.

Another possible reference is the story of Lot, and his guests in the city of Sodom.

The men of the city wanted to "know" Lot's guests (angels). This wasn't a shake-hands, how-do-you-do kind of knowing. We're talking s*x. The locals wanted to have s*x with the angels.

God found this abominable (a sin), and wanted to destroy the city, rather than allow the men of the city to continue to comit this sin. Lot haggled with God about how many righteous (straight?) men he could find to save the city. Ultimately, Lot couldn't find enough righteous men, and was commaded to save his family and they left town.

Answer 25

God destroyed Sodom & Gomorrah because of homosexual fornicators. Jude, verse 7.

Answer 26

I counted 20 references and there are more.

Rom 1:27

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.  

Answer 27

Leviticus 18:22

And in the book of Romans 1:26.

Answer 28

In the book of Levicticus and Romans chapter 1 toward the end of the chapter.

Answer 29

*face-palm*

Answer 30

If you want spiritual answers you need a spiritual source.  .The bible in not an authority on God... Read His truth in the Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch,   Available at your library..  By the way,  the true God says any relationship that does not harm others is acceptable..Acceptance is by  no means  an endorsement by God..There is no sin in God's eyes but much that can be considered a  poor choice   Read this truth in the Conversations with God books  God bless

Answer 31

this so called "bible" is just recycled materiel,It has been changed non-stop,so people can do whatever they want so they don't get punished.It's really sad.people still follow religion.