God’s Plan, Desire and Pain
Genesis 2:20-24 They will become ________ flesh.
So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.  The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, ' for she was taken out of man." For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Genesis 6:6 It ___________ God that he had created man and ___________________________________.
The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

Ephesians 5:21-33 They will become ________ flesh.  _______ is head of the home as _________ is the head of the church.
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- for we are members of his body. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."  This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

God Detests the Action of Man
Genesis 19:5-7 To whose home were the men (angels) visiting? ________ Why is our assembly important? __________________________________________________
They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."  Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

Leviticus 18:22 Homosexuality is ___________________
Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.

Leviticus 20:13 A man committing homosexual acts are to be _______ to ___________.
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Deuteronomy 23:17 Neither __________ not ____________ is to become a shrine prostitute.
No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.

1 Kings 14:24 The actions were the same as the detestable __________ of __________ that the Lord had driven out.
There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

Matthew 15:19 Where does the evil in man begin? _______________________________
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Mark 7:21-23 Why did God give them over to their sinful ways? _______________________
For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.

Romans 1:24-27 They did not glorify him as God but turned to __________.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.  They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.  Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.  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.

Romans 6:12-14 Do not let sin reign in your_____________  __________.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 13:13 We are to act decently both _____ and ___________.
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

I Corinthians 5:9-12 We are not to even eat with brethren who is _________ _________ or ___________  an ____________ or a ____________, a _______________, or a __________________.
I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-- not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

1 Corinthians 6:9 No one that is __________ will enter the ____________ of ___________.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

2 Corinthians 12:21 Paul was ____________ over the conduct of the Corinthians.
I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.

Galatians 5:19 The acts of ____________ ____________ are ____________.
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;

Colossians 3:5-6 Why does Paul say the wrath of God coming?_________________________
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.

1 Timothy 1:9-10 Law is not made for the _____________________
We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers--and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

2 Peter 2:6-8 How does this point to the need we have to assemble with the saints on a regular basis. _______________________________________________________________________
If He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men  (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)

Jude 1:7 What can we, as Christians, learn from the example of Sodom and Gomorrha? ________________________________________________________________________
In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who will suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
 

Resources for Considerations
Survey Results:  Is it possible for a homosexual to stop being homosexual?
Yes, since homosexuality is just a choice   33.05% (1325)
Yes, with counseling and/or God's help    25.82% (1035)
Yes, ex-homosexuals are living proof    15.19% (609)
Yes    11.45% (459)
Yes, just as some heterosexuals turn to homosexuality    7.63% (306)
No    1.67% (67)
Other    1.62% (65)
No, once 'gay,' always 'gay'    1.50% (60)
No, 'ex-homosexuals' are just scamming public    1.37% (55)
No, it goes against nature to even try     0.70% (28)
TOTAL VOTES: 4009
Source:  http://www.blessedcause.org/Antichrist%20ID/ Homosexual%20recovery.htm (09-03-04)

Web Sites for your consideration
Evil Companionship Corrupts Good Morals. 1Cor. 15:33
American Family  Association, http://www.afa.net/default.asp
Are Homosexuals Born That Way? December 1992, http://www.bible-infonet.org/ff/editorials/homosexual/107_12_02.htm
Christ is the Answer for the Problem of Homosexuality,  http://www.forrestpark.org/local/outreach/issue_1.htm#homosexuality   
Christians No Longer Gay, Living For God, http://www.TheBible.net/cnlglfg/  Powerful articles for our times!!
Coming Out of the Closet, http://www.swsbs.edu/pages/writings/Garner/homosexuality.html
Family Values, November 1992, http://www.bible-infonet.org/ff/editorials/homosexual/107_11_02.htm
Frequently Asked Questions, http://www.anotherway.com/menus/faq.html
From Dr. Dobson on Family.org, http://www.family.org/docstudy/solid/a0004936.html
Homosexual Gay Same Sex Marriage, http://www.blessedcause.org/gay/Same%20Sex%20Marriage%20Index.htm
Homosexuality: A Christian Prespective, http://www.bible.ca/eo/hom.htm
Homosexuals, October 1992, http://www.bible-infonet.org/ff/editorials/homosexual/107_10_02.htm
Gay Gene Myth, http://www.trueorigin.org/gaygene01.asp  
Homosexuality, http://www.tftw2.org/Articles/homosexuality.htm  Contact: wsh(at)mindspring.com     
It's Not HOMOPHOBIA! http://www.grinnellcoc.com/id159.htm
No Gay Marriage, http://www.nogaymarriage.com
On the Road to Sodom and Gomorrah! http://bot.lemmonsaid.net/bot00-11.pdf   
OneMillionDads.com, http://www.onemilliondads.com/
OneMillionMoms.com, http://www.onemillionmoms.com/
Overcome Pornography Addication & Sex Addiction,  http://www.pureonline.com/?bid=10&aid=CD2&opt=    
Overcomers Outreach, http://www.overcomersoutreach.org/
People can Change, http://www.peoplecanchange.com/
Preaching to homosexuals, http://biblesays.faithsite.com/content.asp?CID=8937
Questions About Homosexuality, http://www.bible-infonet.org/bin/feature_articles/living/homosexuality.htm    
Radio Debate on Homosexuality, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5767/debates/homosexual.html
StopLiberalJudges.com, http://www.stopliberaljudges.com/

For these dead sites, Check in the Internet Archive at Berkeley at http://www.archive.org/index.php  
AgapePress.org, http://www.agapepress.org/
Exodus International – Freedom from Homosexuality through the Power of Jesus, http://www.exodus-international.org/
Homosexuality, the Bane of America, http://southavencoc.org/Articles/HOMOSEXUALITY3.htm.Contact: editor(at)southhavencoc.org   
Homosexuals Anonymous Fellowship Services, http://members.aol.com/hawebpage/
I Do Exist! -- New Video Focuses on Ex-Homosexuals' Stories, http://headlines.agapepress.org/users/apwebexpress/express6.asp   Information for those Struggling with Homosexuality 
Institute for Sexual Integrity, http://www.sexualintegrity.org/
What Happened to the Gay City Sodom? http://www.oldpaths.com/RD/gaycity.html
What is the Real Cause of the Aids Epidemic, http://www.oldpaths.com/RD/aids.html

Social Rationality for Homosexuality
Homosexuality is an immutable, genetically-based,  sexual orientation God made me this way Monogamous, homosexual marriages are identical to monogamous, traditional marriages God gave me a freedom of choice 10% of the population is homosexual (less than 3%) I was born this way.
“We live in a society in which we are asked not only to accept homosexuality as "normal", but in which liberals want it to be illegal to speak out against it.   [This has been the case in many societies since the beginning of humanity.   Why did it cause God to grieve that he had created man? (Gen 6:6)]    Those who quote the Bible and take a scriptural stand against homosexuality are said to be "hateful" and "bigotted".   They call us "homophobes", which is a terrible misnomer. A phobia is a fear. We are not afraid of homosexuals--other than the damage they do to our society--but abhor their ungodly behavior. Under the Law of Moses, death was the penalty for homosexuality.”  By Bernie Parsons - Nov 29, 2000

What Christians said in the 1st to 4th Centuries
Source:  http://www.bible.ca/H-homosexuality.htm  (Posted11-13-03)
181 AD Theophilus of Antioch "Give studious attention to the prophetic writings [the Bible] and they will lead you on a clearer path to escape the eternal punishments and to obtain the eternal good things of God.. [God] will examine everything and will judge justly, granting recompense to each according to merit. To those who seek immortality by the patient exercise of good works, he will give everlasting life, joy, peace, rest, and all good things.. For the unbelievers and for the contemptuous, and for those who do not submit to the truth but assent to iniquity, when they have been involved in adulteries, and fornications, and homosexualities, and avarice, and in lawless idolatries, there will be wrath and indignation, tribulation and anguish; and in the end, such men as these will be detained in everlasting fire" (To Autolycus 1:14).
220AD Tertullian "[A]ll other frenzies of the lusts which exceed the laws of nature, and are impious toward both [human] bodies and the sexes, we banish, not only from the threshold but also from all shelter of the Church, for they are not sins so much as monstrosities" (Modesty 4).
250 AD Novatian "[God forbid the Jews to eat certain foods for symbolic reasons:] For that in fishes the roughness of scales is regarded as constituting their cleanness; rough, and rugged, and unpolished, and substantial, and grave manners are approved in men; while those that are without scales are unclean, because trifling, and fickle, and faithless, and effeminate manners are disapproved. Moreover, what does the Law mean when it . . . forbids the swine to be taken for food? It assuredly reproves a life filthy and dirty, and delighting in the garbage of vice . . . Or when it forbids the hare? It rebukes men deformed into women" (The Jewish Foods 3).
253 AD Cyprian of Carthage "[T]urn your looks to the abominations, not less to be deplored, of another kind of spectacle . . . Men are emasculated, and all the pride and vigor of their sex is effeminated in the disgrace of their enervated body; and he is more pleasing there who has most completely broken down the man into the woman. He grows into praise by virtue of his crime; and the more he is degraded, the more skillful he is considered to be. Such a one is looked upon--oh shame!--and looked upon with pleasure. . . . nor is there wanting authority for the enticing abomination . . . that Jupiter of theirs [is] not more supreme in dominion than in vice, inflamed with earthly love in the midst of his own thunders . . . now breaking forth by the help of birds to violate the purity of boys. And now put the question: Can he who looks upon such things be healthy-minded or modest? Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion" (Letters 1:8).
253 AD Cyprian of Carthage "Oh, if placed on that lofty watch-tower, you could gaze into the secret places--if you could open the closed doors of sleeping chambers and recall their dark recesses to the perception of sight--you would behold things done by immodest persons which no chaste eye could look upon; you would see what even to see is a crime; you would see what people embruted with the madness of vice deny that they have done, and yet hasten to do--men with frenzied lusts rushing upon men, doing things which afford no gratification even to those who do them" (Letters 1:9).
319 AD Eusebius of Caesarea "[H]aving forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men, he [God] adds: `Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations were defiled, which I will drive out before you. And the land was polluted, and I have recompensed [their] iniquity upon it, and the land is grieved with them that dwell upon it' [Lev. 18:24-25]" (Proof of the Gospel 4:10).
367 AD Basil the Great "He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers" (Letters 217:62).
373 AD Basil the Great "If you [O, monk] are young in either body or mind, shun the companionship of other young men and avoid them as you would a flame. For through them the enemy has kindled the desires of many and then handed them over to eternal fire, hurling them into the vile pit of the five cities under the pretense of spiritual love.. At meals take a seat far from other young men. In lying down to sleep let not their clothes be near yours, but rather have an old man between you. When a young man converses with you, or sings psalms facing you, answer him with eyes cast down, lest perhaps by gazing at his face you receive a seed of desire sown by the enemy and reap sheaves of corruption and ruin. Whether in the house or in a place where there is no one to see your actions, be not found in his company under the pretense either of studying the divine oracles or of any other business whatsoever, however necessary" (The Renunciation of the World).
390 AD John Chrysostom "[The pagans] were addicted to the love of boys, and one of their wise men made a law that pederasty . . . should not be allowed to slaves, as if it was an honorable thing; and they had houses for this purpose, in which it was openly practiced. And if all that was done among them was related, it would be seen that they openly outraged nature, and there was none to restrain them. . . . As for their passion for boys, whom they called their 'paedica,' it is not fit to be named" (Homilies on Titus 5).
391 AD John Chrysostom "[Certain men in church] come in gazing about at the beauty of women; others curious about the blooming youth of boys. After this, do you not marvel that [lightning] bolts are not launched [from heaven], and all these things are not plucked up from their foundations? For worthy both of thunderbolts and hell are the things that are done; but God, who is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forbears awhile his wrath, calling you to repentance and amendment" (Homilies on Matthew 3:3).
391 AD John Chrysostom "All of these affections [in Rom. 1:26-27] . . . were vile, but chiefly the mad lust after males; for the soul is more the sufferer in sins, and more dishonored than the body in diseases" … "[The men] have done an insult to nature itself. And a yet more disgraceful thing than these is it, when even the women seek after these intercourses, who ought to have more shame than men" … "And sundry other books of the philosophers one may see full of this disease. But we do not therefore say that the thing was made lawful, but that they who received this law were pitiable, and objects for many tears. For these are treated in the same way as women that play the whore. Or rather their plight is more miserable. For in the case of the one the intercourse, even if lawless, is yet according to nature; but this is contrary both to law and nature. For even if there were no hell, and no punishment had been threatened, this would be worse than any punishment" (Homilies on Romans 4).
400AD Augustine "[T]hose shameful acts against nature, such as were committed in Sodom, ought everywhere and always to be detested and punished. If all nations were to do such things, they would be held guilty of the same crime by the law of God, which has not made men so that they should use one another in this way" (Confessions 3:8:15).
400 AD The Apostolic Constitutions "[Christians] abhor all unlawful mixtures, and that which is practiced by some contrary to nature, as wicked and impious" (Apostolic Constitutions 6:11).

Conclusion
While God loves eveyone and does not want to see anyone perish in hell, homosexuality is a lifestyle that is opposed to being a child of God, and therefore a sin.

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