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Compassion without Compromise:

A Christian Response to HomosexualitySlide2
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Leviticus 18:22 (NAS)You

shall not lie with a male as one lies with

a

female

; it is an

abomination

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What is an “abomination”?Proverbs 6:16-19 (NIV)

There

are six things the Lord hates

,

seven

that

are

detestable (an abomination)

to

Him

:

haughty

eyes,
        

a

lying tongue,
        

hands

that shed innocent blood

,

a

heart that devises wicked schemes,
        

feet

that are quick to rush into evil,

a

false witness who pours out lies
        

and

a person who stirs up conflict in the communitySlide7

Today:God’s purpose for sexuality

What does the Bible say?

Is change possible?Slide8

Genesis 1:27; 2:24So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God

He

created them; male and female

H

e

created them. … That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh

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1 Corinthians 6:16-17Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The

two will become one flesh

.”

But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit

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Genesis 1:26“Let us make mankind in

our

image, in

our

likeness … .”

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Bishop N.T. Wright:“When you look at the grand narrative about male and female, from Genesis right through to Revelation, this isn’t just one or two arbitrary rules about how to behave with bits of your body.  This is about something woven into the deep structure of what it means to be created in the image of God.” Slide12

Simon

LeVay

Hypothalamus Study (

1991)Slide13

Simon LeVay in 2001:“It’s important to stress what I didn’t find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn’t show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.”

Byrd

, A. Dean, Shirley E. Cox, and Jeffrey W. Robinson (2001), “Homosexuality: The Innate-Immutability Argument Finds No Basis in Science,” 

The Salt Lake

Tribune

.

Simon

LeVay

Hypothalamus Study (

1991)Slide14

Dean

Hamer

Gay Gene Study (1993)Slide15

Dean

Hamer

Gay Gene Study (1993)

“There is not a single master gene that makes people gay

… I

donʹt

think we will ever be able to predict who will be

gay.”

—Dean

Hamer

,

The

Washington Blade

,

p. 114

January 30, 1998 Slide16

What Does The Bible Say?7 direct references to homosexuality

Four in OT:

Genesis 19:1-25

Judges

19:22-30

Leviticus 18:22

Leviticus

20:13

Three in

NT:

Romans 1:24-28

1

Cor.

6:9-11

1 Timothy 1:8-11Slide17

Leviticus 18:22

Do

not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is

detestable.

Leviticus 20:13

If

a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

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Mark 7:18-19“Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this,

Jesus declared all foods clean

.)

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1 Timothy 4:3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4 

For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 

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because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

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Romans 1:24-28

Therefore

God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 

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They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

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Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 

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In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.Slide21

1 Cor. 6:9-11Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with

men

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nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 

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And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.Slide22

Translation of “homosexual”Greek: arsenokoitesMan

(

arseno

)

+ sex

(

koites

)

Only

place

arseno

/

koites

appear in same verse in Greek OT = Leviticus 18:22 & Leviticus 20:13Slide23

1 Timothy 1:8-11 We

know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 

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We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 

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for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 

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that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.Slide24

Here’s what Jesus said

about homosexuality:

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Mark Regnerus

study (University

of Texas)

Children of gay parents are most apt to…

be on

welfare

g

et a

sexually transmitted infection

have

recently thought of suicide

report

being raped

test

impulsive

smoke

g

et arrested

h

ave plead

guilty to a crime

score

high on depression

be promiscuousbe unemployed

l

ive socially isolated from others, including family

http://www.familyresearchinst.org/2012/08/how-do-the-kids-of-homosexual-parents-turn-out-the-best-evidence/Slide28

1 John 5:2-3“This is how we know that we love the children of

God: by

loving God and carrying out his commands. In fact, this is love for God: to keep

His

commands. And

His

commands are not burdensome…”