Gay couple in bible

Fiction 4 Jesus preached against homosexuality. Fact: In the New Testament gospels, Jesus says absolutely nothing about homosexuality or same-sex relationships. Fiction 5 The story of Sodom is about homosexuality. Fact: In the story of Sodom in Genesis 19, all the men of Sodom attempt to gang rape the foreign visitors staying at the house of that other foreigner, Lot.

A Secret Same-Sex Marriage in Scripture?

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Same-sex marriage: What does the Bible really have to say? Yes, this verse clearly condemns adulterous homosexual sex in calling it an "abomination" to'ebah , but here are all the other things also called an "abomination" in the Bible: Egyptians eating with Hebrews; having an image of another god in your house; sacrificing your child to the god Molech; having sex with your wife when she is menstruating; taking your wife's sister as a second wife; and eating pork.

Same-sex marriage: What does the Bible really have to say?

Nowhere in the Bible, taken in its original language and context, is there a prohibition against loving, consensual same-sex relationships, nor against people living as their authentic genders. In Sodom, the townspeople's lack of hospitality and their desire to do violence to the visitors would have been considered grave transgressions.