HOMOSEXUALITY

A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing.  The Lord your God detests people who do this. Deuteronomy

But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, evil men who push away the truth from them.  For the truth about God is known to them instinctively, God has put this knowledge in their hearts.  Since earliest times men have seen the earth and sky and all God made, and have known of His existence and great eternal power.  So they will have no excuse (when they stand before God at Judgment Day).

Yes, they knew about Him all right, but they wouldn’t admit it or worship Him or even thank Him for all His daily care.  And after awhile they began to think up silly ideas of what God was like and what He wanted them to do.  The result was that their foolish minds became dark and confused.  Claiming themselves to be wise without God, they became utter fools instead.  And then instead of worshiping the glorious, every-living God, they took wood and stone and made idols for themselves, carving them to look like mere birds and animals and snakes and puny men.

So God let them go ahead into every sort of sex sin, and do whatever they wanted to - yes, vile and sinful things with each other’s bodies.  Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies.  So they prayed to the things God made, but wouldn’t obey the blessed God who made these things.

That is why God let them go and let them do all these evil things, so that even their women turned against God’s natural plan for them and indulged in sex with each other.  And the men, instead of having a normal sex relationship with women, burned with lust for each other, men doing shameful things with other men, and as a result getting paid within their own souls with the penalty they so richly deserved.

So it was that they gave God up and would not even acknowledge Him.  God gave them up to doing everything their evil minds could think of.  Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness and sin, of greed and hate, envy, murder, fighting, lying, bitterness, and gossip.

They were backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud braggarts, always thinking of new ways of sinning and continually being disobedient to their parents.  They tried to misunderstand, broke their promises, and were heartless - without pity.  They were fully aware of God’s death penalty for these crimes, yet they went right ahead and did them anyway, and encouraged others to do them, too. Romans

Those who live immoral lives, who are idol worshipers, abductors, or homosexuals, will have no share in His kingdom.  Neither will thieves or greedy people, drunkards, slanderers, or robbers.  There was a time when some of you were like that.  But now your sins are washed away, and you are set apart for God, and He has accepted you because of what the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God have done for you. 1 Corinthians