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This blog is not meant to just be somewhere that Christians go to to read a devotional, it is meant to help you understand Scripture, grow in your walks, apply God’s word to our lives. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them. You can reach me via email at rwelshy@hotmail.com and please title the message core christianity so that I can know what it pertains to. Please, feel free to do this.

I received this question about a week ago and its been on my mind a lot. DISCLAIMER: This is a very very touchy subject and some content may not be appropriate, I apologize, but in this post you have to talk about some uncomfortable things. Also, different people would argue this, I am more than open to listen to other perspectives and reasoning, but please, pray about what you believe God would think of this topic and how He would respond to this and research through scripture for yourself to see what God has to say.

“hey in your blog do you think you could discuss the verse leviticus 18:22 and go in depth with it? im a little confused on how its saying that homosexuality is an abomination, but just a few chapters before in chapter 11 verse 12 it is telling us to hate any sea creature born without scales or fins... how can we hate things that have no control over how they are made? and if that verse doesn't apply any more does, then does that mean that Leviticus 18:22 still does?”

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.- Leviticus 18:22

These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. But anything in the seas or the rivers that has not fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you. You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses. Everything in the waters that has not fins and scales is detestable to you. -Leviticus 11:9-12

Ok, after looking at the passages used for this, Leviticus 11 does not have any correlation with Leviticus 18 as used for this question. Context is key. You must examine scripture as a whole in order to understand it. Leviticus 11 is discussing what the Israeli people can and cannot eat. God told them that anything in the water that has no scales is detestable to them, as food. A lot of those creatures would be crustaceans, crabs lobsters and such, that were bottom feeders. God was very specific as to what He would let His people eat, it set His people apart from others.. Also, many of the creatures God called unclean for the Jewish people have been found to cause diseases and other things.. 

But on to the main part of this question, what does God say about homosexuality and how should we respond to homosexuals? That is the core of this question. In the verses surrounding verse 22, God is telling the Israelite people, His people, what He has called them from in regards to sexual relations. I will admit, it is easy to jump to the conclusion that “God hates them and so should I.” But, let me ask you, what makes you any better than them? What makes your sin less than theirs? They are living in sin. Homosexuality is a sin as defined in the Bible, it is sexual immorality, just as sex before marriage, adultery, lust, self gratification, and other things. God has instituted sex as a sacred thing. Between one man and one woman. That we would be knit together solely with that one person. God’s design is perfect. Man has taken that design and has twisted it to look like all of these, men with men, women with women, sexual promiscuity, sexual foreplay, pornography, self gratification, mankind having sexual relations with an animal, lust, etc. None of these were God’s design. Anything that falls short of God’s standard is considered sin. Homosexuality is not sufficient in order to have children asides from adoption, God has made man and woman able to create a child between them, that is the only way. That is God’s design. Now, though homosexuality is a sin, this does not give us any right to condemn them. They are people, just like us. They are people that God created and loves. He wants a relationship with them, just as He does with us. They need Him just like we do. We too have been caught in sin, we have been in addictions (whether or not we even realized it), we fell short of God’s standard of being perfect, yet we have been loved and have been forgiven, they just have a different sin that is in their life. Is not any sin complete rebellion against God in its most basic form? I propose that we Christians are like God, in that we seek to treat people the way He did, with love! Pure, unadulterated love. Unconditional love. This is what we are called to. Not hatred. We are not to surpass our role and try to be the judge. We have been forgiven of much, why should we not forgive? We were indebted to the same judge that they are, and we were forgiven, and so can they, if they choose so. Whether or not they have control over their sexual lifestyles is open for debate (I would argue that they do), but regardless, we are to treat them in a way that glorifies God and of which they would see Him in us. We are to treat them how Christ would treat them. 

On a side note, Christians, before we can ever judge anyone else’s life, we must examine our own. I have to ask, is there any sexual sin that is holding you back from growing in God? Sexual sin is said to be one of the most addicting sins out there. Lust is almost built into all we see and hear. Love no longer is known by its true meaning anymore, it is confused with lust all the time. Examine your own life, see what is holding you back from God, pray about it, and let Him change you. He wants ALL of you, not just some parts. You only can serve one master. Realize though, that you are not alone, you have others that have been in the same position that you are in. Also, know that your chains of addiction have been broken when Christ died on the cross. YOU are the one clinging to the chains, not the chains to you. Please family, let’s not be of this world, instead let’s be pure for our God and King and for our future spouse. If you have messed up in this area, it is not too late to change and give it another try. God is just as happy with you if you turn from that sin or that lifestyle and cling to Him as if you had never done it before. But, today is the day to resolve that change, not tomorrow because tomorrow becomes next week and next week becomes never. Then, before you know it, you will never want to leave, even though you are miserable, because you have calloused yourself to God’s call and your desire to repent. Today is the day for change. Commit to God, and keep it.

I hope this answers your question.

Blessings family