Is Homosexuality a Sin?

by Mike Ratliff

22 ‘You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22 NASB)

One of the early leaders of the Bolsheviks who lead the Russian Revolution at the beginning of the 20^th Century was Leon Trotsky. After the death of its main leader Lenin, Trotsky came into conflict with the Bolsheviks who supported Stalin. He had to leave the country. He wrote articles in hiding that attacked the policies of the Stalinists. One of the “strategies” of Trotsky that was rejected by the Stalinist was “Continual Revolution.” He was a true Communist. According to Marx’s Communist Manifesto, Communism is the goal, but in order to reach it Capitalism must be replaced with Socialism and eventually done away with completely in order to bring in a pure Communistic state. Trotsky was a true believer, while Stalin was more pragmatic. What has this to do with Homosexuality? The ”Gay Rights” movement is constructed according to the principles of Leon Trotsky’s “Continual Revolution.” Its true believers will never stop until they achieve their goal of complete societal acceptance of Homosexuality as a protected minority with all the same legal rights as non-homosexuals, but with the added protection from the Federal and State governments to ensure it.  

There is a huge push in the visible Church right now to ‘remove the stigma’ of homosexuality as a sin. When I hear directly from any pastor such as Rick Warren that he has ‘gay’ friends and believes that the Church should not be so ‘judgmental’ and so accept them as fellow members in our churches, I know that he has compromised and is using his own standards of holiness and righteousness instead of those given to us by God, which we have in His Word. Homosexuality is nothing more than a sexual perversion, which is forbidden by God.

22 ‘You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22 NASB)

13 ‘If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them. (Leviticus 20:13 NASB) 

For those who say the Bible doesn’t address Lesbianism, Paul does so directly in the following passage.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. (Romans 1:24-27 NASB) 

Homosexuality, whether between women or men, is an abomination to God. The Hebrew word translated in Leviticus 18:22 as abomination is תּעבה or תּועבה. This word refers to something that is morally disgusting or an abominable idol. God sees idolatry as the righteous see what is perverse. Sex is subject to idolatry just as is money or possessions. With all of the emphasis we have today on sex it most certainly has become an idol to many.

Homosexuality is a sin. Therefore, men and women can be delivered from it in repentance by God’s grace and power. However, we must never forget that there are no exceptions in who will inherit the kingdom of God and who will not. The unrighteous will not, while the righteous will. The unrighteous are marked by sins strictly forbidden by God. On the other hand, those truly in Christ will not be among those who practice these things. Christians are regenerate and are, therefore, new creations. They are not perfect, but they will never be at peace with anything in their lives that carries the stain of unrighteousness. They have a drive to be holy as God is holy.

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10 NASB)

8 But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers 10 and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, 11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted. (1 Timothy 1:8-11 NASB) 

Please notice that there are those who profess to be Christians, but who are deceived. These deceived ones attempt to open wide the narrow gate of salvation to include those who are practitioners of the ways of the world. We desperately need men in our pulpits in this day to stand firm on the fact that sin is what cost our Lord Jesus Christ his life. Not His sin, for he was sinless, but the sins of all those for whom He died. How can we continue to love the sins from which or Lord’s shed blood saves us? God’s grace is beyond our comprehension, but His Word tells us plainly that even so, Christians are called to be holy, and learn to walk in repentance.

I have been following Dr. Al Mohler’s daily news briefings since the U.S. Supreme court began the process of listening to arguments concerning California’s Ban on Homosexual Marriage and the United States’ “Defense of Marriage Act,” which was signed into law in the late 1990’s. Both are being challenged as “Unconstitutional” by the “gay rights” advocates. Dr. Mohler has been going over news stories in the liberal media, which already seem to be celebrating victory. Why? Why are thy so confident? State after state where the question has come up to vote has granted some form of “minority” protection status to “gay” people that enables them to marry, et cetera. However, as I stated earlier this is far less than their goal. In all public forums it is “out of bounds” to use the argumentation that I used above, that is, that homosexuality is immoral in any way.

Does any one reading this remember a former beauty queen from California named Carrie Prejean? During the “blow up” of that I was very offended by the reaction from several so-called Christian apologists against a few of my female writer friends also in the discernment ministry who were taking stands against some of Miss Prejean’s actions on moral grounds. Some of the trash language pushed back at them from these men included the word “prude.” I found that incredibly dense and shortsighted on their part for they intended to use that word as an attack to shut my friends up, but in fact that word means that they were “shocked and offended” about “sexual” matters. My friends, I think when Christians encounter all forms of sexual perversion in the world, especially when it comes from professing Christians we are to react to it as wise as serpents, but from a basis as being as innocent as doves. Those ugly innuendo types of responses were not couched from that I assure you. They were meant to do only one thing that was to clear the way for more tolerance from Christians in the area of sexual conduct outside of marriage.

The ones demanding tolerance and for Christians to shut their Bibles (and their minds?) are doing so from a fear that if we do not play ball with then the intellectual elites (liberals) in this country when they eventually gain the upper hand politically will come and take vengeance upon all who refuse to grant “uber” rights to those in the “gay community” and that includes within the walls of our churches. In other words they are demanding that we get onboard with being politically correct or we will get left behind. No one ever mentions possible persecution, but the Bible does.

My brethren, to be left behind by society, especially as it descends deeper into the abyss of tolerance for all forms of sexual perversion, is not a problem for me. I reject Political Correctness and so should all who take up their crosses and follow the Lord daily in self-denial. Political Correctness is what shapes the vanilla, empty, effeminate institutions in our time that call themselves churches. God is calling His people to stand firm and never compromise no matter how costly it may be. Our preachers must preach the Word no matter how Politically Incorrect it may be. Homosexuality is nothing more than a sexual perversion and we must not compromise on this at all. I would hate to be those Christian leaders who have compromised in their ministries in order to maintain their Political Correctness. They will have to give an account to our Lord when they stand before Him. It matters not what man thinks of us, only what God knows about us.

Soli Deo Gloria!