HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN

[CENTRO ANTI-BLASFEMIA]

HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN

By Martino Gerber and Giuliano Lattes


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The Bible Old Testament tells us that homosexuality is a sin:

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

Genesis 18: 17-33 19:1-30;

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Leviticus 18:22;

"You will not have intercourse with a man as you would with a woman.
This is a hateful thing.

Leviticus 18:29;

Yes, anyone who does any of these hateful things, whatever it may be,
any persondoing so, wilbe outlawed from his people.

Leviticus 20:13;

"The manwho has intercourse with a man in the same way as with a
woman: they have done a hateful thing together; they will be put to
death; their blood will be on their own heads.

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The Bible New Testament tells us that homosexuality is a sin:

Romans 1:24-32;

24 That is why God abandoned them in their inmost cravings to filthy
practices of dishonouring their own bodies-
25 because they exchanged God's truth for a lie and have worshipped
and served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed for
ever. Amen.
26 That is why God abandoned them to degrading passions:
27 why their women have exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural
practices; and the men, in a similar fashion, too, giving up normal
relations with women, are consumed with passion for each other, men
doing shameful things with men and receiving in themselves due reward
for their perversion.
28 In other words, since they would not consent to acknowledge God,
God abandoned them to their unacceptable thoughts and indecent
behaviour.
29 And so now they are steeped in all sorts of injustice, rottenness,
greed and malice; full of envy, murder, wrangling, treachery and
spite,
30 libellers, slanderers, enemies of God, rude, arrogant and boastful,
enterprising in evil, rebellious to parents,
31 without brains, honour, love or pity.
32 They are well aware of God's ordinance: that those who behave like
this deserve to die -- yet they not only do it, but even applaud
others who do the same.



1 Corinthians 6:9;

9 Do you not realise that people who do evil willnever inherit the
kingdom of God? Make no mistake -- the sexually immoral, idolaters,
adulterers, the self-indulgent, sodomites.


1 Timothy 1: 9-10;


9 on the understanding that laws are not framed for people who are
upright. On the contrary, they are for criminals and the
insubordinate, for the irreligious and the wicked, for the
sacrilegious and the godless; they are for people who kill their
fathers or mothers and for murderers,
10 for the promiscuous, homosexuals, kidnappers, for liars and for
perjurers -- and for everything else that is contrary to the sound
teaching.

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Jesus teaches that the homosexuality is a sin, in fact Jesus
condemns sodomites;

Matthew 10: 14-15;

14 And if anyone does not welcome you or listen to what you have to
say, as you walk out of the house or town shake the dust from your
feet.
15 In truth I tell you, on the Day of Judgement it will be more
bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

Matthew 11: 23-24;

23 And as for you, Capernaum, did you want to be raised as high as
heaven?
You shall be flung down to hell. For if the miracles done in you had
been done in Sodom, it would have been standing yet.
24 Still, I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on
Judgement Day than for you.

Luke 10: 11-12;


11 "We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet,
and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this: the kingdom of God is very
near."
12 I tell you, on the great Day it will be more bearable for Sodom
than for that town.

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Sodomites sin is homosexuality:

2 Peter 2: 4-8;


4 When angels sinned, God did not spare them: he sent them down into
the underworld and consigned them to the dark abyss to be held there
until the Judgement.
5 He did not spare the world in ancient times: he saved only Noah, the
preacher of uprightness, along with seven others, when he sent the
Flood over a world of sinners.
6 He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by reducing them to
ashesas a warning to future sinners;
7 but rescued Lot, an upright manwho had been sickened by the
debauched way in which these vile people behaved-
8 for that upright man, living among them, was outraged in his upright
soul by the crimes that he saw and heard every day.




Jude: 1,7;

7 Sodom and Gomorrah, too, and the neighbouring towns, who with the
same sexual immorality pursued unnatural lusts,
are put before us as an example since they are paying the penalty of
eternal fire.

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