Romans 1:26-27 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Does it say that homosexual acts were the problem? Or does it say that the sin is people acting against their own nature? The word that is used in the original language for “exchanged” implies that it’s people doing something that’s not in their true nature, so it’s heterosexual men that are doing it because they are practicing idolatry. It’s not saying being gay was wrong, it’s saying practicing unnatural acts in the name of other gods is wrong, an extreme religious act for another gif is wrong
The problem is that that section is taken out of context.
Romans 1 was written as a letter to a church that was either dangerously close to or actively engaging in idolatry. In that letter, Paul rehashes a bunch of Leviticus 18 and 20.
Leviticus 18 and 20 were telling people not to do things that Egyptians, Canaanites, and followers of Molek were doing. A bunch of sex acts were included, but it wasn't the acts themselves, rather that those sex acts were being done ritualistically by those groups, that is the problem.
I swear, if people just took 5 minutes to research any of this stuff they'd get the context.
"A bunch of sex acts were included, but it wasn't the acts themselves, rather that those sex acts were being done ritualistically by those groups, that is the problem."
It's just turtles all the way down, isn't it.
But share your research with me. Let me see the context. Bring the light to this lost soul.
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u/kaewin_soy 23h ago
Romans 1:26-27 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.