If you live in the United States by now I’m sure you even feel bad at times standing up for the truth. Living in Los Angeles and traveling to San Diego and other liberal areas in our state has become a challenge. In the old days people proudly said that they were Christians and that Homosexuals will not be saved because of their sinful acts against God.
Now days I find many professing Christians having a hard time explaining the truths from the Bible. The Bible is clear about homosexuality and about people who practice homosexuality. In Mathew 19: 4-6 we read the following.
4“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
So by reading Matthew we are made aware that the only union God has joined and blessed is of the Family. One Man and One Woman.
In Leviticus we read the following. Leviticus 18:22 ‘Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
Now we go to the New Testament and hear what Paul had to say to the Corinthian church in 1st Corinthians 6:9-11. (NIV)
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And 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.
As you can see, the bible is clear about Homosexuality and if they have a part in Heaven. From reading the scriptures the answer is very clear and its, NO. Now we know that God is a forgiving God and if He has forgiven my sins, my friends and other peoples sins I know – well, he will Forgive a Homosexuals sin as well and save him. One really needs to seek the Lord genuinely to obtain salvation. If someone who is a homosexual continues in that path, they have no salvation. There needs to be repentance (turning away from sin) and Turning to God. While a Homosexual is not saved – a homosexual person can get saved only if he/she seeks God in His Truth and Spirit and repents from that life.
God Bless
Jesus defines ALL sin as lack of love (Mt.22:36-40) What is unloving about a homosexual relationship? Who is unloved, hated and ready to sue? Your new testament references that use “homosexual” are erroneous. That English word was not coined until about 1865.The Corinthians heard something like: “Know 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,nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Co 6:9-10) Straight men and women could be the “effeminate” sinners.
there is no word “only” in gen and matt19. and eunuche is not about a physicality of being born without the equipment to perform intercourse, because there have been those that were born that way who still married a woman.
@ Fred Conwell – you are wrong my friend. Effeminate means – GAY.
In Romans 1:26-27 Paul is very specific, “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.” In 1 Corinthians 6:9, Paul wrote, “Know 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.”
Amen Mark hell is the place where all sinners will live. Yes love is what gets us in but think about this sleeping with the same kind is not love thats lust from the pits of hell. Even the animals know this is not right, U dnt see a boy dog trying to have sex with a boy dog. The WORD is clean on this matter and anyone wanting the truth can see it. However we shouldnt dog ppl we hate sin not the sinner so I say to all sinners repent for the kingdom of God is at hand Amen it is high time for U all to awake out of ya sleep for now is ya salvation nearer than U ever could think. Thanks, the Message of Love
I understand why some could be confused. Many Christians, including myself, used to strictly focus on homosexuality at the big sin, after murder, rape and child molestation. We didn’t talk much about heterosexuals having sex outside of marriage or committing adultery. In God’s eyes, these things are equal and until the offender repents, they have no chance of salvation. This goes for ALL sin. Please understand that sin is anything that goes against God’s nature, and that’s a huge list. Do you lie all the time, do you speak ill of others, do you not take care of your family or yourself? Check yourself before you start pointing fingers! Do you waste money, food, time? Do you help others that are in need? Do you turn away from those who are less fortunate? I was convicted to lose weight because I was not healthy. I was damaging my body, which is the temple of God and I made the tough decision to stop destroying His temple. It was hard but I thank God for my recharged energetic body, which enables me to now do more for Him than I could when I was obese. You know what God wants you to fix in your current situation. I had/have other issues and the bottom line is I will continue to ask God for direction, to be honest with myself and Him, to seek his chasetisement and correction, to continually deny myself of the distractions of this world so I can do His will better every day. It’s not an overnight transformation, but the moment you honestly and earnestly give your life to Jesus, the desire to change should be there. What will you do now? Who will you serve? Me and my family will serve the one and only wise God, who alone is worthy of honor, glory, majesty, dominion and power, now and forevermore. So be it.
“Can a homosexual be saved?”
Firstly, a homosexual is a person. Can this person be forgiven the lifestyle he is living and be let into heaven and the new world? Yes, absolutely. Will he inherit heaven and eternal life living that lifestyle, despite all information from God in the inspired word? No. While we are on the path of using provocative titles to bring about our perspective, allow me a question, can a liar, wife-beater, child-molester, Sabbath-breaker and Bin Laden be saved?
Let us be ever thankful that we have a Just and Loving God. One, Who in his Love sent His Son to die for our sins. What undeserved Mercy! Let us rebuke sin, but let us also Love. The truth is, we all fall short of the Glory of God. Unrepentance is what will ultimately lead to Hell. I have put my trust and faith Jesus Christ my loving Lord and Saviour, and though I will inevitably continue to fall short and sin, I am ever Blessed with a Saviour who SAVES.
Let us preach the truth in love, and pray for brothers and sisters who are living in any kind of unrepentant sin. The Bible is clear, none of us are righteous, and thus worthy of God, not even one!!
I am so tired of people trying to justifying thier sin, sin is sin if you are not bring honor to The Lord it’s sin. Look at the scripture about the woman caught in adultery people wanted to stone her but Jesus step in and then he asked if any one without sin cast the first stone. Then he asked the woman where are your accusers. Then which is really important Jesus said where are your accusers ,she said I have non then he said repent, arise and go sin no more. That’s the thing if you are in sin no matter what it is you need to repent and sin no more. You can’t
Continue in your sins