Why is homosexuality a sin?

This important question was posed to Pastor John Piper back in 2010, and this is what

he had to say.

With every sin, there are multiple levels of why it's offensive to God and to be avoided.

The simplest is clearly to say the Bible says it is, and we should start there, and

if we can go deeper, that's good.

I think it's implied clearly.

It's spoken clearly in Romans 1, 24 to 29, that it is wrong and to be avoided.

I think Paul 1 Corinthians 6 verses 9 to 10 lists a very unusual phrase about homosexuality

where he says, those who do such things, and he lists it along with greed and covetousness

and other sins is not unique by itself in this, those who do such things will not enter

the kingdom of heaven.

In other words, if you know that it's wrong and you say, I care that it's wrong, care

what God says, I'm going to do that thing, that's an indication that you're not going

into the kingdom of heaven.

That's just the, it's wrong, don't do it, authority answer.

The question, why would the Bible say that is also multi-layered?

Number one, the Bible sets up at the beginning, a man and a woman become one flesh, and that's

God's way of doing sexuality.

Sexuality is God's idea, and we should learn from God what it is, and it's a man and a woman

created beautifully complementary ways so that they form one flesh, and to try to do it

another way is a distortion, it's a corruption, it's a dysfunction of the way God made it.

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