Was jesus against gays
This article is part of the What Did Jesus Teach? series.
Silence Equals Support?
In a article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?1
The article was occasioned by a story about a lgbtq+ teenager in Ohio who was suing his high educational facility after school officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.”
Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the statement on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes,
While it’s fair to assume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would have disapproved of gay sex, there is no log of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself present an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.
Oremus seems to suggest that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not have been very concerned about it.
There are at least two reas
Leviticus
“You shall not myth with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”[1] It is not a surprise that this verse seems to say that male lover male sex is forbidden in the eyes of God. The dominant view of western Christianity forbids same-sex relations. This verse is one of the clobber passages that people cite from the Bible to condemn homosexuality. This essay first looks at the various ways the verse is translated into the English Bible and then explores some of the strategies used to create an affirming perception of what this alley means for the LGBTQ community. More specifically, it presents the interpretation of K. Renato Lings in which Lev. refers to male-on-male incest.
While Lev. is used to condemn homosexuality, we must realize that the term “homosexuality” was only recently coined in the English language. So did this term live in ancient Israel? Charles D. Myers, Jr. confirms that none of the prophets in the Hebrew Bible mention homosexuality.[2] He also contends that in ancient Israel same-sex relations were viewed as an ancient Near East difficulty. The anc
What the New Testament Says about Homosexuality
The Fourth R Volume May-June
Mainline Christian denominations in this land are bitterly divided over the question of homosexuality. For this reason it is important to request what light, if any, the New Testament sheds on this controversial issue. Most people apparently consider that the New Testament expresses strong opposition to homosexuality, but this simply is not the case. The six propositions that follow, considered cumulatively, head to the conclusion that the New Testament does not provide any blunt guidance for understanding and making judgments about homosexuality in the modern earth.
Proposition 1: Strictly speaking, the New Testament says nothing at all about homosexuality.
There is not a single Greek word or phrase in the entire New Testament that should be translated into English as “homosexual” or “homosexuality.” In fact, the very notion of “homosexuality”—like that of “heterosexuality,” “bisexuality,” and even “sexual orientation”—is essentially a modern concept that would simply have been unintelligible to
Why Jesus Doesn&#;t Need to Talk About Homosexuality
Question:
Is there anywhere in the Bible where Jesus condemns homosexuality?
Answer:
Remember first that Jesus and the Church distinguish between homosexuality—a psychological disorder for which a person does not bear guilt—and acting on that inclination, with the related acts always involving grave matter and, if done with full knowledge and entire consent, constitute “acts of solemn depravity” (the Catechism ; view , ).
Some argue that Jesus never condemned homosexual misbehavior, at least in what’s recorded in the Gospels. Yet Jesus refers to his angelic Father’s moral judgment against Sodom and Gomorrah on two occasions (Matt. , ), a judgment that stemmed from the inhabitants’ seeking to have sex with two angels whom they thought were men (Gen. ). The term describing gay misbehavior—“sodomy”—is derived from this historical event recorded in the Bible.
Proponents of “same-sex marriage” also suffer from some very fundamental points about Jesus and his ministry. Recollect that Jesus is Jewish and therefore tells us th