Dr. Couch, I saw on this website comments about homosexuality and
wondered if you consider all things 'same sex' a sin, even same sex
romantic love?
The Christian authority on all moral and spiritual matters is God’s
Word, not the word of man. The Bible is the authoritative Word from the
God of creation. It is He who says that homosexual relations are immoral
and constitute aberrant behavior. The homosexual community likes to
talk about different life styles. Homosexuality is not a different life
style. All humans exist pretty much the same. Homosexuality is about a
foreign and different sex style that violates even basic biology, much
less the commands of God.
Sex, man to man or woman to woman, is not romance, and it is God who
determines what true romance is, not human beings. It is God who has
said, "a man (not a woman) shall leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave to his wife (not a him); and they (male and female) shall
become one flesh" (Gen. 2:24-25). "Become one flesh" is more than
romance and emotion, it is the union between two who are sexually
interactive, not sexually the same.
All the men of Sodom, young and old, wanted to have "relations" with the
two angels who came to Lot. The city, "this place," was polluted by the
immorality of the people. The angels said, "the Lord has sent us to
destroy" the city. The entire region was destroyed because it had become
so spiritually tainted (Gen. 19). The Mosaic Law too, given by God, is
against homosexuality.
The authoritative word from the Lord is that He is against the man who
plays the feminine role in the homosexual relationship, the one who is
"effeminate" (the soft one) and against the homosexual who plays the
male part, the one who takes another man to bed (1 Cor. 6:9). The Greek
word for homosexual is "arsenokoital" which means "man/bed." No more
vivid description could be given!
It does not matter what the world, the culture, tells us is okay. It is
God who sets the standard. And it is God why says we are all sinners,
straights and homosexuals, who need a Savior. Christ died for all of our
sins, and we can be liberated by just trusting in His sacrifice at the
cross for our evilness. God loves all people, but all must be honest
about their sins, and accept the painful death of Christ in place of us,
the sinners!
Thanks for asking.
Dr. Mal Couch
