Homosexualy, homophobia, and gay marriage: What do the Bible say? What do Jehovah’s Wns believe?
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The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * is being gay wrong according to the bible *
Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah. Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex. And I thk Pl 1 Corthians 6:9-10 lists a very unual phrase about homosexualy where he says, "Those who do such thgs"—and he lists along wh greed and vetons and other ss, so 's not unique by self this—"those who do such thgs will not enter the kgdom of heaven.
2) As I reflect on Romans 1 and the way Pl unpacks the problem wh homosexualy, appears to me that Pl is sayg somethg like this: When you exchange the glory of God for idols, the ma one that you exchange the glory of God for is yourself. A person who wrtl wh homosexual temptatns and sir has the same choice: to s wh , or to be chaste and to seek to overe and to move to somethg more God-appoted. On the other hand, the Bible clearly and nsistently clar that homosexual activy is a s (Genis 19:1–13; Levic 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10).
God promis the strength for victory over s, cludg homosexualy, to all those who will believe J Christ for their salvatn (1 Corthians 6:11; 2 Corthians 5:17; Philippians 4:13).