Did
Jesus Speak of Homosexuality?
By Dr. Ken
Matto
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it
is abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
I have personally heard many times when the subject of
homosexuality comes up that someone always says to the Christian “Jesus didn’t
say anything about it!” They are
very adamant in their beliefs to the point that even Christians have adopted
that line of thinking. Once again
the Bible dispels such a myth and we are going to see that Jesus condemned that
lifestyle.
Before we can
approach what Jesus said about homosexuality we must find out who he was in
times past, especially as he revealed himself in the Scriptures.
This is another case of the Bible straightening out the twisted beliefs
of many Christians and giving them another tool to be brave in the presence of
false teaching.
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Before Abraham was, I am. (John 8:58)
In John 8:58 Jesus was answering the Pharisees and
Scribes. Jesus finally ended up the
confrontation by stating that before Abraham existed Christ was already in
existence. By using the term “I Am”
Jesus was claiming to be God and the Jews knew it, that is why in the next verse
they took up stones and wanted to stone him to death because they thought he was
blaspheming.
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid
himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so
passed by. (John 8:59)
In John 8:59 Jesus performed a miracle by passing
through their midst and they did not even see him especially since they wanted
to stone him. So they were blinded
to him and Jesus left the area,
through them not around them. Now
we look at how God revealed himself to Moses.
And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
(Exodus 3:14)
So the Jews would have known that Jesus was referring to
God when he made the statement of “I am.”
That phrase also connects Jesus with being the Great “I AM” of Sinai.
Now we plainly see a biblical connection between Jesus and the Great “I
AM” of Sinai. What does that tell
you? It tells you that Jesus is the
Great “I AM” of Sinai.
This means that everything written in both the Old and
New Testaments were penned by holy men of old through the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit being
eternal God, the third person of the Trinity.
Jesus, not only being the eternal Son of God, is also the Great “I AM” of
Sinai who gave the law to Moses and through the Holy Spirit, gave us the
Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation.
Therefore everything written in both the Old and New Testaments were
given under the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So now let us re-ask the question “did Jesus speak about homosexuality?”
Yes he did:
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it
is abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to
death; their blood shall be upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor
a sodomite of the sons of Israel. (Deuteronomy 23:17)
22 Now as they were making their
hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset
the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of
the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house,
that we may know him. 23 And the man, the master of the house, went
out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do
not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not
this folly. (Judges 19:22-23)
And there were also sodomites in the land: and
they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast
out before the children of Israel. (1 Kings 14:24)
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and
removed all the idols that his fathers had made. (1 Kings 15:12)
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the
days of his father Asa, he took out of the land. (1 Kings 22:46)
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that
were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
(2 Kings 23:7)
26 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: 27 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 recompence of their error
which was meet. (Romans 1:26-27)
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, (1
Corinthians 6:9)
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for
a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for
sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile
themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons,
and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; (1 Timothy
1:9-10)
Same word “arsenokoítēs”
used in both 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10 and it is the word for
“sodomites or homosexuals.”
No, I didn’t forget the biggest dealing God had with the sodomites.
The Great “I AM” of Sinai destroyed four
cities in Genesis 19 because of the wickedness of sodomy or homosexuality.
And that the whole land thereof is
brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor
beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and
Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his
wrath: (Deuteronomy 29:23)
It is quite interesting that the angels who were
dispatched to destroy Sodom struck the men of Sodom with blindness to the point
they could not find the door to Lot’s house.
Remember what happened in John 8:59 when the Jews were going to stone
Jesus? He went right through their
midst and they never saw him to stone him.
A parallel miracle took place between both events.
And they smote the men that were at the door of
the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves
to find the door. (Genesis 19:11)
Summary
Since the Bible has plainly established that Jesus is the Great “I AM” of Sinai and gave us the Scriptures through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in both the Old and New Testaments, then that means that all the Scriptures dealing with sodomy or homosexuality were given to us by Jesus. So let us ask the question again. Did Jesus speak of homosexuality? The answer is a resounding YES HE DID! We read them both in the Old and New Testaments. It does not matter where in Scripture they are written because all Scripture is authoritative. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (2 Timothy 3:16) We do not keep the ceremonies and the feasts commanded in the law because they were just foreshadows of Christ. However, the moral aspects of the law is what the unbeliever is going to be judged by on the last day. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. (John 5:45) So now you have a solid biblical answer to those who make the false claim that Jesus never spoke about homosexuality.