The Holy Scriptures of both Jews and Christians forbids homosexuality.
There are two pillars of truth that stand to defend the Bible here, one for
Christians, and another for both Jews and Christians. Truth regarding
homosexuality for Jews appears in the Torah of the Tanakh (the Christian Old
Testament). Truth regarding homosexuality for Christians appears both in the Old
and in the New Testament.
The sin of Sodom was homosexuality.
Homosexuality is condemned by the Law of Moses in the Jewish Tanakh, in
the Torah
Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a
female; it is an abomination."
Leviticus 20:13: " If there is a man who lies with a male as those
who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they
shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.'
The male to female sexual relationship is the only one allowed by Jesus
(Matthew 19:4-6): "Haven't you read," he replied, "that 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.
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
Sodomy and lesbianism is condemned by God through Paul in Romans 1:24-32:
"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity,
so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the
truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than
the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them
over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function
for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the
natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another,
men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the
due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge
God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things
which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness,
greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil,
disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving,
unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who
practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but
also give hearty approval to those who practice them."
The following is biblical commentary of Romans 1:24-32, provided by the Life
Application Bible, New King James Version, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,
Wheaton, Illinois, pg.2056. "Paul clearly portrays the inevitable
downward spiral into sin. First, people reject God; next, they make up their
own ideas of what a god should be and do; then they fall into sin - sexual
sin, greed, hatred, envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice, gossip. Finally,
they grow to hate God and encourage others to do so. God does not cause this
steady progression toward evil. Rather, when people reject him, He allows
them to live as they choose. God gives them over or permits them to
experience the natural consequences of their sin. Once caught in the
downward spiral, no one can pull himself or herself out. Sinners must trust
Christ alone to put them on the path of escape."
