What does the Bible teach on
sex before and after marriage?

Is homosexuality wrong
for men but permitted for women?

Q. How can I prove in the Bible that homosexuality is wrong for women as well as men? Some people have told me homosexuality only applies to men and that it's okay for women.

(Submitted by: Celeste)

A. Your question about female homosexuality and where does the Bible state it is a sin is mentioned in several scriptures.

In Romans 1, the Apostle Paul stated that women who change their natural use just like men (verse 27) are in error or sin. God likens male homosexuality on the same level as female homosexuality.

" . . . And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change 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 that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. " (Romans 1:23-26)

Jude 7 states Sodom and Gomorrah gave themselves over to strange flesh which included both men and women. He said when God rained down fire and brimstone which was an example of them being thrown in the Lake of Fire, it revealed how evil God looks upon homosexuality.

"Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." (Jude 7)

However, what is more important than homosexuality being a sin is why God detests homosexuality and what is bad about it.

In 1 Corinthians 15 God states He is reproducing Himself by having sons. We are all to be God's sons in His family in His Kingdom. What is bad about homosexuality is it is against God's purpose of building sons in His family. You cannot produce children through homosexuality or even worse bestiality.

In Leviticus 18 God shows committing bestiality like homosexuality causes sexual confusion.

"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination. Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:" (Leviticus 18:22-24)

It is confusion because God ordained reproduction through kind after its kind (Genesis 1). Homosexuality and bestiality are against God's way of sex. You can only produce children of kind after kind or between male and female. This is God's Law. Anything contrary to fulfilling God producing sons in His family is a sin!