Today we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Kevin DeYoung entitled

Five Questions About Homosexuality.

Kevin DeYoung's book is What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality?

Five Questions About Homosexuality, written and read by Kevin DeYoung.

Question.

If the Bible says so little about homosexuality, why do Christians insist on talking about it so much?

Answer.

The reason the Bible says comparatively little about homosexuality is because it was a comparatively uncontroversial sin among ancient Jews and Christians. There is no evidence that

ancient Judaism or early Christianity tolerated any expression of homosexual activity. The Bible says

a lot about idolatry, religious hypocrisy, economic injustice, and pagan worship, because these were common sins for God's people in both Testaments.

The prophets didn't rail against homosexual practice because, as a particularly obvious and egregious sin, it was less frequently committed in the covenant community.

The Bible talks about bestiality even less than it talks about homosexuality,

but that doesn't make beastiality an insignificant issue,

or incest, or child abuse, or 50 other sins the Bible barely addresses.

Counting up the number of verses on any particular topic

is not the best way to determine the seriousness of the sin involved.

Having said that, it's not like the Bible is silent on the issue of homosexual behavior.

It's explicitly condemned in the Mosaic law, Leviticus, and used as a vivid example of human rebellion in Paul's most important letter, Romans.

It's listed among a host of other serious vices in's most important letter, Romans. It's listed among

a host of other serious vices in two different epistles, 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy. It's one of

the reasons God destroyed the most infamous cities in the Bible, Sodom and Gomorrah. And that's not even

mentioning all the texts about marriage and Genesis, in Proverbs, in Song of Solomon, in Malachi, and Matthew, and in Ephesians.

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