No, I researched them, and looked what the word "homosexual" actually means in the Bible, and into the original text, and how the original text translates into english, and I have come to the conclusion that homosexuality is not a sin. For example when you see the term homosexual in the Bible it is talking about temple prostitution, or homosexual acts(mainly anal sex), preformed in the worship of an idol. Also the infamous Leviticus passage, doesn't say it is a sin. It say's it is an abomination, which just means that it is against the norms of society, and doesn't mean that it is bad.
Rom 1:26
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:
Rom 1:27 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.
Rom 1:28 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;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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Seems pretty clear to me. I research Hebrew and Greek also, and it still seems crystal clear that homosexuality is, Biblically, a sin.
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1Cr 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Cr 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1Cr 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
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Again, seems quite clear in both English and Greek.
The word some dispute is
arsenokoites. It is a term generally considered to be coined by Paul to refer to homosexual practices, by referring to the common homosexual practice of the time.
Strong's Concordence defines arsenokoites as: one who lies with a male as with a female, sodomite, homosexual
Thayers Lexicon says the same.
The word is also used in context in 1st Timothy 1:10
The first rule of Hermaneutics is to interpret scripture with more scripture.
While Christians under grace are no longer subject to OT law, nonetheless OT scripture may be used for clarification of the meaning of NT passages that are in dispute.
OT:
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
This seems to reinforce that arsenokoites refers to homosexuality.
I've heard all the counterarguments, and frankly they all seem very specious to me... like deliberately going ten miles out of your way to avoid seeing something plain.
My 0.02 and I'm done...