So far as I understand the theology, Christians have a new covenant and are not bound by the strictures of the OT. As for the Gospels, it seems Jesus was silent on the matter. If homosexuality is an issue, let alone a sin, we might have expected some comment from Him. But there is nothing. Thus, I feel free to make up my own mind on the matter. So as for Paul, normally so wise and compassionate, I just think he is wrong on this one.
Best wishes, 2RM.
In Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus is very clear, "And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made
them at the beginning ‘made them male and female. and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
God Created man and woman as two distinct persons, MALE and FEMALE, and coommanded that they should marry each other, that it, to the opposite sex, and not the same sex. That is, only hetrosexual relations. If Jesus accepted homosexuality, then He would not have said what He clearly does. In Jesus' language, He also is clear that "trans" is wrong and sinful.
There is no a single instance, where Jesus contradicts what His own Law in the Old Testament, says on homosexuality. He came to fulfil the Law. Leviticus 18:22 is very clear, "You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable" God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, because of homosexuality.
in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Paul, who wrote under the guidance of God the Holy Spirit, says, "Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom"
As is Romans 1:26-27, "For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against natureLikewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due".
And 1 Timothy 1:10, "for the sexually immoral, homosexuals, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching"
You cannot dismiss what Paul says, because you don't like it. The entire 66 Books of the Holy Bible are directly Inspired by God the Holy Spirit, in the Original Autographs, and therefore Infallible and Inerrant, as the Word of God to us humans.
