Alternate Lifestyle?
By Timothy Glover
Realizing that homosexuality is not a new problem does not make it any easier to accept. Labeling it an alternative lifestyle gives it a seal of approval to those who support it. I hope to establish that the N.T. considers it a deviant lifestyle.
First, consider Romans 1:26-27, “For this cause God gave them up to vile passions; for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.”
Second, consider 1 Cor. 6:9. “Be not deceived: neither fornicators ...nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men...shall inherit the kingdom of God.” When the Corinthians were “washed and sanctified”, they gave up these vile practices (1 Cor. 6:11).
Paul writes also of those who support this “alternative lifestyle,” as being worthy of death (Rom. 1:32). Homosexuality is not a new practice but, at least in this culture and time, those who give their consent have increased rapidly. Many supporters have argued that some are naturally inclined to be attracted to the same sex and that God would not make them that way and then condemn them. Did God make them that way or have they made themselves that way? Granted that there are people who are so inclined does not prove that it is natural. I may be more inclined to fits of rage and kill someone? Did God cause that, too? Again, is it true that anything is natural and tolerable as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else? If so, then nothing is to be considered deviant behavior until it effects others. Forced rape would be tolerable if it did not hurt others, according to this view. Forced rape is wrong for the same reason homosexuality is wrong. It violates the moral code set by God. Further, if it is natural because it can be performed, then it is just as natural to have sex wherever I can physically do it such as with a dead corpse (necrophilia),or a knot hole. Neither of these are hurting anyone else. Therefore, we are led to believe that many consider anything habitually practiced as natural. Habits are hard to break. It is much easier to sanction it. As we have shown, the reason homo-sexuality is unnatural is because it is a violation of the body’s use.
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