OT & Jesus’ Teaching on Homosexual Practice. HPLSR Part 2/5

A. Can Homosexuals be changed? Difficult to change, but possible. Therapy gives relative success: 30 percent experience freedom from symptoms and 30 percent experience significant improvement.

B. OT teaching– Homosexuality viewed as a grievous sin. All forms of homosexual practice were rejected. 1) Gen. 19 Sodom and Gomorrah. Exegetical refutation of revisionists who alleged that the sin in Sodom and Gomorrah was inhospitality, violent gang rape vs consensual sex. 2) Lev. 18:22, 20:13; Deut. 23: 17-18. Homosexual practice is the only specific sin singled out as an abomination and given death penalty. 3) Lev. 18:24-30. Prohibition against homosexuality is universal & not just restricted to Israel.

C. NT teaching Jesus was silent on the issue, but silent does not mean approval.

Positively, Jesus explicitly affirms the male-female, divinely established order of marriage. The only form of acceptable sexual activity is within heterosexual marriage and all sexual acts outside of marriage defile the marriage. By implication, Jesus rejects homosexual practice.

Negatively, Jesus confirms the universal, moral principles of the Torah, which includes a strict prohibition against sexual immorality outside marriage (includes homosexual practice).

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