What does the Bible say about homosexuality? Nowadays, it is going on conversations about homosexuality; some are against it and some on behalf of it. The right answer we can find from the word of God (the Bible).  

The Lord Jesus condemned homosexuality

Many people say that Jesus didn't condemn same-gender sex and homosexuality. This is false interpretation and understanding about this matter. The Lord Jesus condemns homosexuality as a sin and this comes out very clearly from the word of God (Bible).

Gal 1:
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation (apokalupsis) of Jesus Christ.

The word revelation is in Greek apokalupsis, which means revelation, be revealed. The Lord Jesus taught Paul by the revelation, and He said to Paul about it that what is the will of God, truth and meaning of Bible's teaching. Apostle Paul taught that same-gender sex (homosexuality) is a sin, because the Lord Jesus told and commanded Paul to write that homosexuality is a sin (example 1 Cor 6:9). Of course, Paul also knew it from the Scriptures (Lev 18:22; 20:13).  The Lord Jesus and apostle Paul loved with the love of God also homosexuals, but the love of God doesn't love the sins, but sinners. 

Luke 17:
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

The Lord Jesus said that when He is revealed (return), so on the earth people live like in Sodom, in which God condemned because of homosexuality sins. The Lord Jesus confirmed and accepted judge of God and by this way Jesus also condemned homosexuality and didn't accept homosexuality.

The Lord Jesus is the Messiah, the Redeemer from sins and the Saviour. Jesus' must fulfil the whole law of God and believed all what the Old Testament taught, that He could be the Saviour. He did fulfill and believe all the law. In the Old Testament were commandments, which teach that homosexuality is a sin.  Because the Lord Jesus  had to believe all commandments of the Old Testament, so He also believed that homosexuality is a sin. The Bible teaches that homosexuality was a sin in the order of the Old Covenant and is valid in the order of the New Covenant. Like this way Jesus also believed that homosexuality is a sin, and He also condemned homosexuality by this way.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Many people claim that Gen 19:1-25 doesn't teach that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of homosexuality. They claim that Sodom's sins were pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness, and they didn't help poor and needy.

The book of Ezekiel teaches that Sodom's sins were pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness, and they didn't help poor and needy. Ezekiel continues saying that they were haughty and committed abomination before God, and for the reason of abomination God destroyed Sodom:

Eze 16:
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination (towebah) before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination (towebah).

For the sake of sodomites' abomination acts, God destroyed Sodom as Ezekiel 16:49,50 shows for us. Ezekiel uses 16:50 Hebrew word towebah, which is the exact same Hebrew word used in Lev 18:22 (and Lev 20:13) which describes homosexuality as an abomination. It is very clear that in Ezekiel 16:50, abomination means homosexual acts as the reason for destroying of Sodom. Homosexuality was not only sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, but it was the primary reason for their destruction as Eze 16:50 say that their pride and abomination (towebah - means homosexuality) before God was the reason for their destruction. The Bible says that the character of the sin of the homosexuality is the pride.

Php 3:
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

It is not coincidence that the gay movement uses the concept gay pride. Gays say that the word pride is a positive term to promote the dignity of gay people. The Bible says that pride is the root of the sin of the homosexuality. The Bible says that the enemies of the cross of Jesus turn the shame of sin into the glory. Gay people have done it, because they have changed the sin of homosexuality into the pride as the positive thing, although it is a sin before God.

Some people say that homosexual gang rape was the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, but God doesn't judge caring and loving homosexuality. Because Ezekiel uses exactly the same word (towebah) for the reason of destruction, which means homosexual act, so it means that the judgement of God came for the sake of all kinds of homosexual actions. The judgement of God didn't come for the reason that in those cities only some practiced homosexuality, but because it was very common they faced the judgement of God. Sodomites pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness and hardened hearts towards poor and needy were sins, but destruction came for the sake of homosexuality, and the New Testament confirms this:

Jude1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

The word strange refers to unnatural sex behaviour, which is different than natural sex between men and women and the book of Ezekiel proves this using the word (towebah) that is connected to homosexuality. The book of Jude confirms that in Sodom and Gomorrah practiced fornication going after strange flesh, which means homosexuality. Going after strange flesh doesn't describe natural sex between men and women, but unnatural sex where men have practiced sex with other men. For this reason, they suffer the vengeance of eternal fire. 

The letters to Romans

The Bible in the New Testament teaches that avoiding fornication means that every man must have his own wife and every woman must have her own husband. From this place, we also see that the will of God is not homosexual relations.

Hebr 10:
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebr 7:
11 ¶ If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

The Bible teaches that the change of the law cancelled the order of the Old Covenant. The Lord Jesus did not destroy God's law (the Ten Commandments). The Lord Jesus and order of the New Covenant canceled animal offerings, death sentences, commands of temple service and all commands that don't agree with the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments are still in the power in the era of the New Covenant.

The commands of the Old Testament that have mentioned to be valid in the New Covenant are also power in the New Covenant. For example, prohibition to eat blood is still power in the New Covenant, because the New Testament mentions it to be valid in the New Covenant; the New Testament teaches and mentions that homosexuality is a sin, so it is also power in the New Covenant. Of course also those teachings that the New Testament teaches that isn't mentioned in the Old Testament are also in the power in the New Covenant.

In the New Covenant isn't in the power a command of death sentence. New Covenant congregation cannot judge or condemn anyone to death. Stoning is not in the power at the time of the New Covenant. Old Testament's "slave" wasn't the slaves, but servants and Israelites had to treat them well.

In the era of the New Covenant majority of the commands of the Old covenant is not in the power. Ideas of mockers, who say that you should keep all 613 commandments in the era of the New Covenant are pointless and foolish. It is as foolish as if someone would demand that people must punish in public places by stocks or pillory. Here in Finland where I live, stocks and pillory penalties had been annulled in 1894.

All the commands of the New Testament have been placed in a certain phase of history, but by Jesus' atonement is placed the New Covenant and the new order how to believe in God. You can't go back to the order of the Old Covenant, because it is not anymore in the power. In the same way stocks and pillory penalties are not anymore in the power, and it is very foolish and absurd demand to punish people with stocks and pillory. As foolish is to demand to obey those commands of the Old Covenant that are no longer in the power.

Science and the homosexuality

Many scientists believe that homosexuality is genetic, congenital, a matter and orientation that can't be changed as heterosexual.  The paradox is that many scientists don't believe in God of the Bible, and they proclaim that God of the Bible doesn't exist. Nevertheless, God of the Bible is capable to change homosexual individuals to be as heterosexuals.

If we put lesbians to the deserted island, so they would soon become extinct, because they cannot have children.

Because of bondage of corruption also in the animals' world and in the world of people are homosexuality, but it is not the natural order. It is natural that men and women sex organs are perfectly suitable practicing sex and having descendants. This proves that homosexuality is against the natural order. The science has stepped to the deep aberration, claiming that homosexuality would be congenital, what it is not according to preceding clear evidence.

The science tries to convince homosexuality as congenital claiming that there exist gay gene. This claim is not true. Many former gay men have forsaken homosexuality and turned heterosexuals when they have believed in the Lord Jesus. In these cases, what would happen to genes that would be encoded as gay genes?  Does gay gene change into a heterosexual gene? If there exist gay gene, so it would mean that you couldn't forsake your identity. The gay gene information is false information, because many ex-gay men have turned heterosexuals after they have believed in the Lord Jesus. This evidence disproves and overrules perfectly theory of a gay gene.

Liberal Bible research and the homosexuality

Many liberal Bible scholars don't believe that homosexuality is a sin. In the matter of fact, they don't believe the Bible at all in many important issues. In many issues, they distort the truth of the Bible. Raija Sollamo is a Finnish Bible scholar who has studied the cultural history of the Bible. Sollamo has said that the present-day homosexuality cannot estimate thousands years old culture. Sollamo thinks that teaching of the apostle Paul based on unrestrained liberalism of the Roman Empire. Sollamo says that Paul wrote heterosexuals, which were practiced lustfully homosexuality. Sollamo has emphasized that the manners of the time of Paul have nothing to do with the present-day. Sollamo has said that apostle Paul didn't know the present-day homosexuality, because the science of today knows that homosexuality is congenital, where homosexuals have responsible behavior.

Sollamo has said that being absolutely right is dangerous and is closely a relation to fanaticism.  According to Sollamo, the Bible is not the sufficient tool. She meant that the Bible can't determine homosexuality. Sollamo has said that the Old Testament knew homosexuality as sexually defamation, violence act and raping of conquered nations. She said that this kind of phenomenon homosexuality was condemned and passed a death sentence. Sollamo has said: As said in the language of the religion, God has created homosexuals and heterosexuals; Can you interfere in the results of God's creation?

Ro 1:
24 for this cause, god gave them up to the filthy lusts of their heart, to dishonor their bodies with them.
25 and they changed the truth of god into a lie; and worshipped and served the created things, much more than the Creator of them, to whom belong glory and blessing, for ever and ever: Amen.
26 for this cause, god gave them up to vile passions: for their females changed the use of their natures, and employed that which is unnatural.
27 and so also their males forsook the use of females, which is natural, and burned with lust toward one another; and, male with male, they did what is shameful, and received in themselves the just recompense of their error.
28 and as they did not determine with themselves to know god, god gave them over to a vain mind; that they might do what they ought not,

Some people say that against homosexuality generally has presented two places, whom are assumed condemning homosexuality as a sin. 1 Cor 6:9 and 1 Tim 1:10 is Greek word arsenokoites, and according to some it doesn't mean homosexuality. Some people say that the meaning of arsenokoites is also unclear in the midst of Bible scholars. There are also people who claim that apostle Paul made up this word, because we can't find this word from Greek texts before Paul.

All preceding claims are wrong and erroneous. The concept of arsenokoites is in Greek Septuagint text, which has been made about two hundred years before the birth of Jesus Christ. The Jews translated the Septuagint in Alexandria of Egypt, because the Jews were scattered and part of them merged to heathen languages and couldn't speak and understand Hebrew. For this reason, the Jewish scribes translated the Scriptures from Hebrew to Greek (Septuagint).

Septuagint and the Greek word arsenokoites:

Lev 18:22 (Septuaginta)

kai meta arsenos ou koimeeteesee koiten gynaikos bdelugma gar estin

Lev 20:13 (Septuaginta)

kai os an koimeetee meta arsenos koiten gynaikos bdelugma epoieesan amphoteroi thanatousthoosan enokhoi eisin

Arsenos means male and koiten means bed. Lev 18:22 and 20:13 teach that a man cannot lie (sexual act) with another man as he lies with a woman. The origin of the word arsenokoites means homosexual activity and homosexual. Lev 18:22 and 20:13 prove very clearly that arsenos koiten means homosexual sex, because the Jews scribes translated words' arsenos koiten describe men who have sex with other men (homosexuality), which is a sin and against the will of God. Apostle Paul didn't make up the word arsenokoites, but it was already as the concept in the Old Testament, where it meant homosexuality.

It is very clear that the words' arsenos koiten meant homosexuality (a man who had sex with another man) to Jews of the Old Covenant era. In the same way arsenokoites meant homosexuality (a man who had sex with another man) to Jesus' disciples in the New Covenant era.

Jewish philosopher Philo lived in the same time as Jesus Christ and Philo has said that arsenokoites meant shrine prostitute (male temple prostitute), and not homosexual. Some people have made from this a conclusion that the word arsenokoites meant a male temple prostitute. Philo's interpretation was totally wrong, because the Bible proves this undisputedly and shows that Philo erred.

De 23:17 There shall be no whore (gedeshah) of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite (gadesh) of the sons of Israel.

Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie (shakab) with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Lev 20:13 If a man also lie (shakab)  with mankind, as he lieth  (mishkab) with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

The female temple prostitute is in Hebrew gedeshah and a male temple prostitute is gadesh. Lev 18:22 and Lev 20:13 are Hebrew words shakab (lie, lie down and lie sexually) and mishkab (bed, lying down, lying down sexually).

Lev 18:22 and Lev 20:13 doesn't use the temple prostitute word, but the words in which is denied that a man can't lie sexually with another man. Always when the Bible speaks for temple prostitutes, so the Bible uses words gedeshah and gadesh. If Lev 18:22 and Lev 20:13 told for temple prostitutes, so verses would mention them, but there isn't, because in those verses, the Bible forbids homosexuality. It is very clear and indisputable in the light of the testimony of the Bible, that arsenokoites means homosexuality. 

The text of Septuagint translators disproves totally Philo's false interpretation:

De 23:17 ouk stai porne apo thugateron israel kai ouk estai porneuon apo uion israel ouk estai telesphoros apo thugateron israel kai ouk estai teliskomenos apo uion israel (Septuagint De 23:17)

In the text of Septuagint  appear words porne and porneuon, which describe temple prostitutes. Jewish Bible translators' scholars didn't use the word arsenokoites to describe a temple prostitute. The testimony of the Bible is unambiguous that arsenokoites doesn't mean temple prostitute, but homosexual.

Philo was pleased to Greek, Stoic and Jewish philosophy, and for this reason he believed that literal interpretation of the Jewish Bible is stifled and too complex to be understood in literal human terms. Philo was a liberal theologian of his era, who distorted the teachings of the Bible by his own human wisdom. Philo's testimony from the word arsenokoites is invalid and clearly against the teaching of the Bible.

Arsenokoites meant exactly what Jewish Septuagint translators meant, in other words, it means homosexuality and practicing of homosexuality, which is a sin according to the word of God (Bible).

1 Cor 6:
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (malakos), nor abusers of themselves with mankind (arsenokoites),
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

The word effeminate is in Greek malakos, which means soft, effeminate, of a boy kept for homosexual relations with a man, of a male who submits his body to unnatural lewdness, of a male prostitute. According to the word of God (Bible) homosexual act between a boy and a man is a sin, and male prostitution is also a sin.

Abusers with mankind is in Greek arsenokoiteen - arsenokoites, which means homosexual. This comes out also very clear from Septuagint as we have seen it before. Arsenokoites derives from words arrhen and koite. Arrhen means a male, and koite means a bed. The Bible brings up also in the New Covenant that homosexuality is wrong and a sin. The Bible brings up indisputably that homosexuality is a sin and it is obstruction of salvation. Apostle Paul taught that homosexuality is a sin as we can see clearly from 1 Cor 6:9-11.

The word of God (Bible) teaches very clearly that those people who live in sinful homosexuality (and unrighteous, adulterers, idolatries and so on) cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, unless if they don't repent their sins and forsake their sins.

1 Cor 6:9-11 show for us also that in Corinth, some disciples had been homosexuals, but weren't anymore, because they were sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible also proves in 1 Cor 6:9-12 that homosexually oriented males can change and forsake homosexual identity for heterosexual with the help of the Lord Jesus. There are also testimonies of many ex-gays who have received salvation in the Lord Jesus, and forsaken homosexuality and turned to heterosexual persons.

Very often supporters of homosexuality bring forth that David and Jonathan had a gay relationship. 

The Bible teaches that Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and that Jonathan loved David as his own soul. In the question is not gay relationship, because it is against the teaching of the Bible. Love of Jonathan for David is the same than loving neighbor as yourself, not sexual love.

Secret gospel of Mark

Very wicked, evil and false claims say that the Lord Jesus was a homosexual. This evil claim is based on the text of the secret gospel of Mark, which is Gnostic text:

Secret gospel of Mark: "And they come into Bethany. And a certain woman whose brother had died was there. And, coming, she prostrated herself before Jesus and says to him, 'Son of David, have mercy on me.' But the disciples rebuked her. And Jesus, being angered, went off with her into the garden where the tomb was, and straightway a great cry was heard from the tomb. And going near Jesus rolled away the stone from the door of the tomb. And straightway, going in where the youth was, he stretched forth his hand and raised him, seizing his hand. But the youth, looking upon him, loved him and began to beseech him that he might be with him. And going out of the tomb they came into the house of the youth, for he was rich. And after six days Jesus told him what to do and in the evening the youth comes to him, wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the kingdom of God. And thence, arising, he returned to the other side of the Jordan."

Gnostic gospels are counterfeited texts as purpose to destroy the original message and teaching of the New Testament. Gnosticism held Christians as their rivals. Gnostics believed that their belief is much better as Christians. Gnostics believed that they had the truth, but Christians haven't got the truth. For this reason Gnostics wrote their own "gospels" as the purpose to distort the real teachings of the original gospels written by Jesus' apostles and disciples.

The characteristic features of the Gnostic texts are that Gnosticism placed itself in a higher position than Christianity, and Gnosticism did not believe that Jesus was God. The foregoing features prove themselves that the Bible’s teaching cannot be proven by the Gnostic texts, because Gnosticism placed it higher position than Christianity and believing in Jesus that He was an ordinary man made them people who did not want to have biblical faith, but rather they wanted to prove it wrong elevating their own faith. Thus, the Gnostic texts can no way be considered the original texts of Christianity or works belonging to Christianity because the Gnostics regarded Christianity as their enemy. Gnostics' gospels are false and counterfeited texts, which are not original texts of the New Testament.

The Lord Jesus wasn't a homosexual and text of the secret gospel of Mark is Gnosticism counterfeited text, which has nothing to do with the truth of the Bible.

Practicing of homosexuality in every way is always a sin. Very often conversation around homosexuality ignores physical negative sides, damages and harmful contagious diseases caused by homosexuality. This issue must also handle, because it proves that homosexuality is against the natural order and the will of God.

Anal sex practicing spreads much more sexually transmitted diseases as sex through the vagina. Homosexual men about two from three practices different kind of anal sex acts. Although if during anal sex is used protection equipments, so still anal sex causes damages.

Anus' sphincter muscles have been made for a purpose that it stretches when through the rectum comes out excrement. When to the anus is penetrated from the outside, so membrane of the rectum damages always, and can easily break up.  Pressure by penetration causes the damages in anus' sphincter muscles.

God has created natural order, in which anus has been planned to push excrement from inside to outside. By this way doesn't come any damages. When someone tries to push something to the anus  from outside to inside, so it causes damages.  This proves very clearly that sexuality has not meant to carry out by anal sex. All things that God has created works well, when they are used in the right way. If you misuse things that God has created, so the things break up and a lot of damages will be happen.

Anal sex causes the next kind of damages and problems: you can't restrain excrement, tearing of the membranes of the rectum by which bacteria can easily penetrate to circulation of blood, cancer in the anus. Homosexuality contains very often both anal and oral sex, and for this consequence is that tiny excrement particles end up to the mouth and body causing problems and damages. After washing your anus it  contains always tiny excrement particles, so washing don't save you if you practice anal and oral sex.

It is also very clear that anal sex between man and woman is a sin and against the will of God.