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Over the past 10 years the issue of same-sex marriage (for this blog we will call it LGBT Marriage, which means Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Transgender) has been on the minds of many nations across the world. Since 2003, countries like Canada, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Spain, and South Africa have all legalized LGBT marriage. Within the United States only a hand full of states have legalized the act. Those states include New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, and Vermont, and even more recognize same-sex couples as being married. Even though same-sex marriage is a large issue today, the idea of being homosexual isn’t anything new. In fact, the oldest reference of the action that I have found comes straight out of the Bible and goes back to the destruction of Sodom and Gamorrah, 3,713 years ago. Genesis 19:4-7 says:

Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.”

So here we have a bunch of men in the city of Sodom coming to Lot’s house to have relations with other men. Do you notice how Lot replies to them? He says “Don’t do this WICKED thing.” Even 3,713 years ago just the act of homosexual relations was considered to be wrong. The Bible makes it very clear that these actions are not acceptable to God. Even under the new covenant they are called perverted. Paul addresses the topic in Romans giving it a clear definition. Romans 1:26-28 says:

“Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. “

Four key words stick out in these verses, indecent, shameful, perverted, and unnatural. The act that the Romans were participating in was clearly wrong. Paul not only makes it clear that its a perverted act, but he says that it’s unnatural. God never intended for marriage or “romantic” relationships to be between two men and two women. No where in the Bible does it talk about same-sex couples. It always addresses the relationship between a husband and his wife, and a wife to her husband. Genesis 2 gives the account of the creation of man and woman as well as marriage. Verses 23 and 24 says:

“The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.”

I’ve heard a pastor say one time that marriage in God’s eyes is like a covenant. That when a man and a woman have relations for the first time, they become one flesh because of the way the man’s body is made and because of the way the woman’s body is made. 1 Corinthians 6 even says that if a man has relations with a woman they become one flesh, and thats even outside of marriage. Two men could never become one flesh, and two woman could never become one flesh in God’s eyes. I wish I could go into more detail about why that is, but for sake of my readers I will keep more mature content like that off of my blog.

There’s another issue with LGBT marriage that makes it unnatural. In Genesis 1:28 God tells Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. In other words, have kids… lost of kids. Who will in turn have kids that have kids, and so on so forth. It’s common knowledge to know that in order for a child to be born it takes both a man and a woman. Even for someone who is a die hard believer in evolution, its obvious that the relationship between a man and a woman is more natural simply because of childbirth. Two men alone could never have a baby (thankfully), and two women by themselves could never have a baby. Our bodies just simply don’t work that way.

LGBT relations and marriage is clearly a sin. If Romans and Genesis wasn’t enough to prove that, consider 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, which says “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

So does this mean that people who are gay aren’t Christians? For the most part, yes. Because the definition of Christian is someone who follows Christ. Being a Christian takes more than just belief in Christ. There is obedience that is involved. If someone remains gay even though they know its wrong, they are being disobedient.

My purpose for this blog is to show what the Bible says about LGBT couples and marriage. Do I think that we as Christians should reject them? Absolutely not. We should treat them as human beings even if we don’t agree with their actions. If someone who participates in those actions attends a church, I don’t think they should EVER be kicked out. As Christians, we are called to share Christ with others. The best we can do is build friendships, build trust, and show them what scripture says. Then let God do the rest.

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