Christ and Homosexuality
There’s an ongoing joke about Jesus’s ideas on homosexuality: A pamphlet is titled “What Jesus Said About Homosexuality” and you open it and it’s blank, page after page, blank.
Of course, that’s true. Jesus never mentioned homosexuality. Though He did mention Sodom and Gomorrah, using them as examples of inhospitality to strangers—AND neglecting to mention “sodomy.”
So you have to wonder: if Jesus was God, Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, consubstantial with the Father, and so gifted at least in some way with Divine Omniscience, so He’d know there would one day be a terrible problem in Christianity and culture over homosexuality, gay rights, and same-sex marriage, why didn’t He say anything specific.
Why didn’t He say that He was abolishing all the rules in the Old Testament EXCEPT the rule against homosexual intercourse?
Why didn’t He distinguish between His forgiving the woman brought to him in adultery (“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”) and His wanting to continue to hold homosexuality against people?
Why didn’t He say anything about how homosexual marriage would defile the sanctity of the relationship of man and woman?
Why didn’t He say anything?
Did He just keep forgetting to mention it?
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stine-key said:
Personally, I think it just wasn’t an issue. It’s only in the last few decades that homosexuality has even been acceptable in society. It wouldn’t have made sense for people to write stuff down about it when the gospels were written.
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