Does The Bible Really Condemn Homosexuality

Homosexuality is the instigation for many riots, debates, parades, and some violence in today’s society. The homosexual community is fighting for ‘gay pride’ or the right of marriage for a homosexual couple. Most Christians fight against this uproar claiming the Bible condemns all homosexuals and their actions on their sexual orientation. Christians reject any member of the homosexual community in order to protect themselves from the sinner that is confronting them. The questions here are: is it a sin to experience same-sex attraction, can one be gay and a Christian, and does the Bible actually condemn homosexuality? The First Christian Reformed Church should take the position of answering these questions with no to the first and second, but yes to the

“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate (NIV Mark 10:6-9).” The Bible clearly states that a man and a woman are the intended union God planned out in the Bible. “But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. (1 Corinthians 7:2).” Homosexuality as defined by the Webster Dictionary is, “erotic activity with another of the same sex.” The practice of homosexuality is indeed a sin and is condemned in the Bible, but experiencing same-sex attraction in itself is not. This is because acting on the longing