HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN

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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