The Bible and the Sin of Homosexuality.

‘Is The Bible Anti-Gay’?

This was a question placed in the Guardian today, and I would like to venture an answer.

The Holy Bible, which is the inerrant and infallible Word of God, does state clearly that homosexuality is sin. However, this is not the only sin that the Word of God condemns, as the following passage from 1st Corinthians ch6, explains;

9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
11And 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.

By way of definition, sin, is any want of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God. So to answer the headline question, homosexuality is sin, and sin is an offence against God’s Word, which, if not repented of, will incur the wrath and judgment of Almighty God.

There was an answer published in the Guardian, to the headline question, which ran like this;

'So the answer to this question has two parts. Yes, the Bible condemns homosexual behaviour, as a threat to moral order. But the New Testament condemns something else as well: holy moralism. It announces an anti-legalistic revolution. It tells us we have to keep our moral thinking mobile, open-ended. The Bible sows the seed of the deconstruction of its own sexual moralism.'

My objection to this answer, as a Bible believer is as follows;

Of course the Bible does condemn homosexual behaviour as sin, which is an offence against, and transgression of God's Word. In the case of sin against God, the Bible declares that, 'the wages of sin is death', in other words sin is a culpable act and therefore will be judged by God.

The condemnation of sin is consistent through the entire cannon of Scripture, the Old as well as the New Testaments, as you point out. However, there is no abrogation of the moral law in the New Testament as you assert. None other than the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, made clear reference to the moral law, which is summarily comprehended in the ten commandments.

When you speak of 'an anti legalistic revolution' in the New Testament, the only thing that comes close to this parlance is the fulfilment of the law and the prophets in the person and work of Christ.

As for 'keeping our moral thinking mobile, open ended'; these are sentiments which are entirely foreign to the teaching of God's Word. Rather, the Bible states, 'Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:' (Phil2:5)

To imply that the 'Bible sows the seed of the deconstruction of its own sexual moralism', is to suggest that the Word of God is contradictory. While human language and terminology may alter with the passing of time, the Word of God and the interpretation thereof never alters. Sin is still sin, irrespective as to man's philosophy, whether past, present or future.