Christian Ethics-⑥ Sexual minority (homosexuality) problem

Christian Ethics-⑥ Sexual minority (homosexuality) problem

Romans 1:23–27 describes same-sex sexual activity, along with other perverted sexual corruption.  “and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.” (Romans 1:23–27, NRSV) These are passages that seem to suggest the cause of sexual disorders or malformed sexual acts. The apostle Paul alternates the idolatry and physical depravity twice and gradually. Let's look at the logic used here. First, because people worshiped idols, God allowed them to fall sexually --->People change God's truth to worship creatures more than God ---> God allows people to engage in unusual sexual activity, such as homosexuality. Here, "leave" means "paradidwmi" in Greek, meaning "surrender" and "turn over". This means that, without idolatry, God would not have left humans so desperately sexually degraded.

Even human sexual degradation is God's sovereign act. Repeated description in the Bible means emphasis. Because of idolatry, God allowed humans to fall into lust and shameful greed. In particular, he criticized the acts of men by expressing them as "adverse" and "shameful". The apostle Paul also explains that there is Satan, the spirit of darkness and the power of the fallen world, behind idolatry (1 Corinthians 10:19–22). In summary, in the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve sinned against God by rebelling against God through Satan's temptations, and they became alienated from God and became obsessed with idolatry. For this reason, it can be interpreted that God allows humans to fall over to physical decay and also leads to irrational physical decay. Homosexuality is at the peak of this physical depravity. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was eventually sexual decay due to homosexuality. Through this consideration, we can come to the conclusion that idolatry and sexual deterioration are correlated. The Bible also tells us that defeating idolatry, worshiping and relying only on God and asking for his mercy is the only way out of sexual corruption, including homosexuality. Recently, it's not so hard to see people in our surroundings (or even family members) who fall into a terrible corruption like homosexuality. In this time, the best thing Christians can do should be a way of euphemistically explaining what the Bible says.

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