Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us
1.) make man (male man - female man)
- in our image (lordship),
- after our likeness (traits): and
2.) let them have dominion (rule)
- over the fish of the sea, and
- over the fowl of the air, and
- over the cattle, and
- over all the earth, and
- over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
1.) fruitful, (have sex, children) and
2.) multiply, (children have children) and
3.) replenish the earth, (with people) and
4.) subdue it (tame and control it): and
5.) have dominion (rule)
- over the fish of the sea, and
- over the fowl of the air, and
- over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
"God blessed them," i.e., the mating of the male to the female so that they could "be fruitful and multiply" (produce children). The ability to reproduce is a blessing from God. HE DID NOT BLESS THE MATING OF THE MALE TO ANOTHER MALE, or the mating of a female to another female. Scripture shows that God must bless human sexual union so that children can be produced, and since He does not let homosexuals reproduce, homosexuality is not blessed by God. If homosexuals are not blessed, then they are cursed; there is no neutral ground; it is Heaven or Hell.

It seems that God intended for the homosexual lifestyle to symbolize death. As we have seen in the last decade, a male homosexual's typical life span is 40% - 80% of the national average for males. Homosexuals live outside God's blessing. Most are ostracized by the heterosexual society, leave no beneficiaries born of their loins with their male lovers, live greatly shortened lives, and are very sickly in their later years. God makes homosexuals pay dearly for living contrary to His intent.

Still, as homosexuals suffer and see their comrades suffer and fall, they shun to seek repentance. Instead, they resolve to find solutions to counteract the curses of God, so they might continue to live in their perverseness.

Thus, their persistent clinging to their unblessed lifestyle is absolute proof of their profound, acute rebellion to the designs of God. Homosexuals would rather suffer greatly than to live in honor to God. They live and die having a supreme, consummate disrespect for God.

The Almighty uses homosexuals to demonstrate that a man's life apart from Him is dead (Jn 5:40). Homosexuality is the sexual merger of the spiritually dead. Since homosexual unions cannot duplicate themselves, they are like dead plants, dead animals, dead insects, or dead people who cannot reproduce.

Homosexuality has no life within itself that can be reproduced, so it must survive by drafting the unsuspecting and unwise, like a parasite preying upon something that does have life. If homosexuals fail to recruit they cease to exist. By their inability to reproduce, homosexuals obviously live a deviant and abnormal form of life. All life that conducts its sexuality as commanded by God, reproduces itself.

By God's blessing, insects reproduce, plants reproduce, reptiles reproduce, beasts reproduce, fish reproduce, and animals reproduce, even a horse and donkey can produce a mule, but homosexuals must recruit. Heterosexual Blacks and Whites reproduce, Asians and Caucasians reproduce, Frenchmen and Russians reproduce, Eskimos and Lapplanders reproduce, but homosexuals must recruit.

The heterosexual young reproduce, the old reproduce, the young with old reproduce, the rich reproduce, the poor reproduce, the rich with poor reproduce, but homosexuals must recruit. Though they are in sin, heterosexual drug addicts reproduce, alcoholics reproduce, crack heads reproduce, pimps reproduce, prostitutes reproduce, but homosexuals must recruit. Heterosexual adulterers reproduce, traitors reproduce, murderers reproduce, thieves reproduce, but every homosexual must recruit. Though one of the gravest sins, even incest between a father and daughter or between a mother and son can reproduce, but every homosexual must recruit.

What does this imply about God's endorsement of homosexuals? Even the gross sin of adultery, or the sin of fornication may produce a blessed offspring, showing that God is merciful to many men who sin grievously. But God limits his mercy to homosexuals, by prohibiting their disobedient sexual lifestyle from reproducing; they must always recruit. Even when homosexuals adopt, it is a type of recruitment.

Balance homosexual and lesbian lifestyles on a scale with all other life forms that reproduce themselves, and it becomes obvious these practices are deviant and abnormal.

From this perspective, heterosexual homeless people and mothers who habitually remain on government Welfare programs are more blessed than homosexuals and lesbians; God does permit the homeless and the Welfare mothers to bear children.

Homosexuality is one of the worse sins of man. Like the sin of witchcraft, homosexuality is rebellious to the very intent of God (1 Sam 15:23). It cannot accomplish what God wants, i.e., women giving birth to more people who will worship Him.

If homosexuality cannot perform God's most basic purpose for man, how is it possible God will bless that lifestyle? Did not Christ curse the fig tree that produced no fruit (Mt 21:19-20; Mk 11:13-14)? Yet, in their blindness, homosexuals believe that God's curse upon them is His blessing to them. They do not understand that God has rejected them, and "given them over to dishonor themselves" (Rom 1:24-32).

Lev 18:22 Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable (abominable).

Homosexuals claim they are born with their sexual preference, but God commands men not to lie with men, showing they are exercising a rebellious sexual choice. Homosexuals were not born with their sexual preferences for the same gender. According to God's command, they CHOOSE to be perverse and ungodly.

Lev 20:13 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.

God says that homosexuals will SURELY be put to death. It seems, since governments are sympathetic to the perverse practices of homosexuals, God has decided to reduce both the sexual activity and the numbers of homosexuals, using a disease we call AIDS (Dt 28:58-61). AIDS also acts as a punishment against the society that permits homosexuality by affecting heterosexuals in secondary, non-sexual ways. This disease was unknown 50 years ago.

Who can deny that AIDS has killed and infected homosexuals more than any other group in the United States? And many (not all) non-homosexuals who are infected with AIDS, live lifestyles that are disobedient to God's law, or that sympathize with homosexuals (e.g., drug addicts, bisexuals, fornicators, adulterers, patients of doctors / dentists who are known to be homosexual).

Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

Rom 1:25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator -- who is forever praised. Amen.

Rom 1:26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Rom 1:27 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.

God says that men and women "exchanged" the truth for a lie, natural relations for unnatural relations (vv. 25-26), again showing that homosexuals are exercising choice. The act of exchanging is an act of will. Homosexuals are not "born that way."

All Scripture is written by God (the Holy Spirit) using men as His writing instruments (2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 1:21). The Holy Spirit (God) says male/female sex is natural - v. 27, and that male/male and female/female sex is unnatural - v. 26.

Look at the key words God (the Holy Spirit) uses to define homosexuality: sinful, sexual impurity, degrading, shameful, unnatural, inflamed with lust, indecent, and perversion. Does this sound like a blessed or cursed lifestyle to you?

Though many people are sympathetic toward homosexuals, this Scripture shows God withdrawing sympathy from them, no longer restraining them from exercising their unnatural, degrading lusts. Homosexuals defend their perversion so aggressively in part, because God has released them from His "leash" so they may satiate their depraved lusts - v. 24. God no longer bridles their consciences, nor brings into control, the corruption of their minds.

Homosexuals are correct; they can't help themselves. But they are incorrect when speaking of WHY they cannot help themselves. They are not "born that way." They are people who prefer and practice homosexuality. Therefore, God has withdrawn His protection from them and handed them over to the demonic spirits who were always driving their homosexual lusts. Homosexuals were (and still are) influenced by Satan, who was restrained by God. But now, God no longer restrains Satan from "sifting" them.

Everything born was created by God. The God who created them, denounces homosexuals as being perverse (v. 27). By making this declaration, He is saying they are functioning contrary to His design. Clearly, God's express design and stated intention was for man to have sexual union with woman (after marriage).

The Holy Spirit writes that certain men continued to lust for depraved sexual release - v. 24. So God gave it to them. Male and female homosexuals continue to be so, because God withdrew His protection from them and "gave them over" to the demonic control of Satan (e.g., Job 1:12, 2:6). They are now the servants of Satan (Rom 6:16) and they will inherit his doom (Jn 8:40-44; 1 Cor 6:9-10; 1 Jn 3:8-10), unless they petition God to grant them godly repentance (2 Cor 7:9-10), and He grants their plea.

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.

The Holy Spirit continues to describe homosexuals in unflattering terms. To stress an important point to those who would sympathize with homosexuals, God describes them as filled with unrighteousness, as filled with wickedness, as haters of God, as inventors of evil, as having no natural affection (albeit, they have unnatural affection), as beings who are uncompromising and unyielding (implacable), and as beings without mercy. This is GOD'S description of homosexuals, not man's.

Do the sympathizers of the homosexual lifestyle know better than God? Is their rationale perverse in view of what God has said?

In the Bible, to serve His needs, God has used a repentant idol worshiper (Abram), a repentant prostitute (Rahab), a repentant runaway (Jonah), a repentant female sinner (unnamed), a repentant adulteress (unnamed), a repentant demoniac (Mary Magdalene), a repentant thief (Zacchaeus), a repentant liar (Peter), and a repentant murderer (Paul). It is noteworthy that the Bible shows no example of God using a repentant homosexual. It may be because the Bible has no examples of repentant homosexuals. Rather, God's angels execute homosexuals (Gen 19).

1 Kg 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kg 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

1 Kg 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kg 22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he [King Jehoshaphat] took out of the land.

2 Kg 23:7 And he [King Josiah] brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

God's kings consistently banished homosexuals from God's nation after reading Scripture.

Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Lev 18:23 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.

Lev 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in ANY of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Lev 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself VOMITETH out her inhabitants.

Even God, Himself, banished homosexuals from the land of His people, by causing the land to vomit out the homosexuals.

Notice how God speaks about homosexuality and bestiality in the same tones (v. 22-23), tying them together in the same context using the word, "neither," as though they are too similar to be ignored. He says that the participants of both homosexuality and bestiality, the nation that accommodates and indulges homosexuals and bestializers, and the land inhabited by these people, is a nation who are ALL defiled.

Even the New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981), p. 126, uses the word "sodomy" as one definition of 'bestiality.' So similar are the sexual acts of a man with a man to the sexual acts of a man with a beast, they can be described by the same term, even today in these contemporary times.

God says further that HE cast them out of their nation for these acts (v. 25). He describes homosexuals and bestializers as VOMIT! What a strong word God used to describe homosexuals! Do you still think that God sanctions homosexuals?

Dt 23:17 There shall be no LovePeddler of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

This seems to be pretty plain language. This statement is difficult to misunderstand. God does not permit His people to be homosexual. Restated, if you are a practicing homosexual, God has rejected you from being a part of His people.

Dt 23:18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a LovePeddler, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

The Holy Spirit has called male prostitutes that worked in pagan temples, by an uncomplimentary name: "dog." Empirical evidence shows that male prostitutes in those temples were homosexuals.

The Hebrew word "dog" is 'keleb' in Strong's Concordance, #3611 in the Hebrew Dictionary, and is defined as a euphemism for a male prostitute. BDB/Thayer defines it as the figurative name for a male, cult prostitute.

Here is an excerpt from Harper's Bible Dictionary, defining "dog."(1)

. . . the dog is uniformly pictured in the Bible as a pariah, without admirable characteristics . . . Bible dogs were scavengers (Ex 22:31), received only the unclean (Mt 7:6; 15:26), were indolent and stupid (Is 56:10 f.), and at night noisily took over the streets of the town (Ps 59:6, 14). Their disgusting eating habits (Pr 26:11; 2Pt 2:22) were noted; "dog" was a term of contempt (Dt 23:18) . . . Nowhere in Scripture is the dog portrayed with admirable characteristics.

After calling them "dogs," is it likely that the Living God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit will pity or respect homosexuals who call upon Them or worship Them, while they still embrace their perversion? Yet, people will argue that all this was said in the Old Testament (OT), as though God's character somehow changes in the New Testament (NT).

1 Cor 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,

1Cor 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Here it is again in the NT, AFTER the death and resurrection of Jesus. If God's thinking has changed in the NT, this would be a good place to modify Scripture. But, God does not change His attitude about homosexuals. They are STILL AN ABOMINATION TO HIM! They still COMPARE WITH MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH ANIMALS!

Source:http://www.faithtofaith.org/hssex.html

What happened to " love thy neighbour" ?

Is christianity not a religion of love and tolerance?

no.