Q. What does God say about the act of sodomy?
(Submitted by: DJ)
A. First, let's look at the world's definition of Sodomy from Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary:
- Copulation with a member of the same sex or with an animal.
- Non-coital and especially anal or oral copulation with a member of the same sex.
Now let's look at what the Bible says about sodomy. We will look at the Old Testament, then the New Testament, and let the word of God speak for itself:
"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. " (Leviticus
18:22-23)
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. " (Leviticus 20:13)
The New Testament states what happens to those who refuse to acknowledge God..
"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. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;"
(Romans 1:26-28)
Therefore, the Bible does not speak to this type of sexual activity as being approved of God.
Answer Given By: Clay Willis |
