how many of you have heard the phrase "Jesus never said anything about homosexuality"
You hear that phrase? "Jesus never said anything about homosexuality"
and here's the response. To think that whatever Jesus didn't talk about means
that it's okay, means that beating children is okay, means that putting car
bombs on your neighbors for having barking dogs is okay, it means that all
manner of strange and weird and sinful behavior is okay because Jesus did not
specifically address it. Jesus didn't say anything about using cocaine or pot
(the potheads love that one) slavery, incest, or spousal abuse we can't just
assume everything that Jesus didn't talk about he approved of. That's silly.
The Judaism of Jesus's day universally condemned all homosexual practices and
His apostles also condemned them, so he had no need to speak about the issue
because it wasn't like he was clearing up a controversy he just remain silent
probably cuz it was like, "I don't need to clear this up, it's already in the right place."
He often dealt with areas that he wanted to change and so he was silent on
he probably just was fine with. Number two, we don't know what Jesus didn't say
it's not as though every word of Jesus is recorded in the Bible I don't know if
he said something about this it's just not recorded in Scripture much of what
Jesus said wasn't recorded number three why you shouldn't you shouldn't use
Jesus not talking about homosexuality as a excuse to behave it Jesus believed the
Old Testament to be true and if he was asked about the issue would have simply
repeated the words of Leviticus or Genesis the way he did when he was asked
about marriage you've heard that it was said in the beginning God created the
male and female therefore and he draws his conclusions about the rightness and
wrongness of what men and women should do based on Genesis 1 or of Genesis 2
and 3 and we also see that he believes the Scriptures he came to fulfill
they're not to destroy them and so he's not gonna gonna go against the moral
proclamations of the Old Testament number 4 Jesus is God
think about this if you're a Christian right if you're not a Christian why do
you care but if you're a believer Jesus is God and he gets credit for the
writings of the Old Testament as well as the new as well as what the Apostles
wrote under the leading of the Holy Spirit in fact we even have scriptures
saying that it was the spirit of Christ that was in them
as they were writing that's first Peter 1:11 it's not just the red letters that
come from Jesus that's the point and so the Bible universally condemns it
so God does Jesus does and number 5 Jesus actually did say something about
marriage and I'd like to read it to you it's in Matthew 19 he said and he
answered and said to them he was asked is it okay for a man just to get
divorced casually from his wife he says have you not read that he who made them
at the beginning made them male and female and said for this reason a man
shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall
become one flesh so then they are no longer two but one
flesh therefore what God has joined together let not man separate he's
saying the nature of marriage is found in Genesis and tough questions about
marriage can be answered by referring to God's design in Genesis God's design is
one male and one female joined for life this is the thing that Jesus says what
God has joined together man and woman in fact the terms are specifically gender
gendered right man and wife there's no such thing as a male wife there's no
such thing as a female man these are these are all gender specific this rules
out polygamy because to become one this rules out homosexual relationships by
definition because of the complementary opposites that they are man and wife and
therefore homosexuality can't be sanctified by marriage because the
design of marriage is is by gendered is male/female that's the design just based
on the words of Jesus God invented and defined marriage and Jesus endorsed this
as the basis for solving marriage issues that they were dealing with back then
and that we can deal with today so keep in mind that marriages
good the only good and accepted place for human passions to be expressed and
therefore homosexual desires just based on what Jesus said our are again
condemned
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