The Bible Says Plainly that Homosexuality is a Sin

"In the case of killing, for instance, there are some exceptions." 1. My opponent has conceded there are exceptions to what sin is as stated by the Bible. 2. My opponent contends that homosexuality cannot have an exception because God did not order it. This stands to question a very simple flaw in my opponents reasoning, that God has only ordered things that are written in the Bible. Does my opponent then assume that since it was not written in the Bible, God did not order it? There are exceptions to every sin. Such exceptions exempt humans from even doing so much as guessing at the true will of God. This may be competely out of the question for my opponent, but I stand to let the voters judge: Is it not entirely possible that God created some humans to be homosexual? Let me continue. The issue of ones sins is a rather personal journey, which I for one believe is to be solely between oneself and God. No other man has business correcting others or determining sin other than God. God may choose to correct others through people, events, etc. however that is God's will and not the will of others. My opponent then incorrectly states a Bible passage which should have stated: 15"If your brother sins against you,[a] go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your...." http://www.biblegateway.com... Notice how the passage says "sins against you". Matthew is not advocating that we correct everyone we perceive to be in error. Our perceptions are not God's perceptions. Again my opponent fails to make a basic understanding of what the Bible is. It is not a rulebook. It is not a weapon to be quoted to correct and condemn others. "I am sorry to hear that you take such a light view of scripture. In fact, we can look to scripture itself and see a contradiction to your view." It really does depend what you view as "light". Anyone who has a deep view of the bible is not someone who is preaching fire and brimstone sermons and singling out others and attempting to use God's word as a weapon to cut them down. The Bible is not your little personal tool to build some up and cast others down as sinners. It is not for you to decide what is a sin. It is God's will to decide. If you indeed did have a deep relationship with God and an advanced knowledge of the scriptures you would have found the understanding that it is for God to decide. And for you to be peaceful, loving, charitable, merciful, forgiving, nonjudgemental, and his humility. Anyone who has taken the slightest amount of effort to truely understand what Jesus was telling us knows this. It is ingrained in all of his parables. His parables of being a good samaritan and helping those that are looked down upon. His rage when farmers did not practice charity. His idea of what a truely rich man is. His humility at washing the woman's feet. His nonjudgemental attitude he has during the local whore. These are the actions Jesus truely wanted us to learn. Not your self empowerment of choosing who is a sinner and who isn't. So truely it is you who has a decidedly light view of the Bible and not myself. Questioning one's faith and one's understanding of it is a powerful thing that one should do very cautiously and after much understanding of a situation. Be careful. Timothy 3:16 is implicative of self teaching, recorrection etc. Not that of others. The King James Version of the Bible translates verse 9 and 10 as: bullet"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." (Emphasis ours) Though "homosexual" is a very common translation, it is almost certain to be inaccurate: If Paul wanted to refer to homosexual behavior, he would have used the word "paiderasste." That was the standard Greek term at the time for sexual behavior between males. Most of the biblical translations appear to refer to behavior rather than orientation. Male prostitutes, also described as "men kept for unnatural purposes." It is not clear whether the term "male prostitutes" (NIV, NRSV, CSB) is restricted to homosexuals or may also include men who are heterosexual prostitutes. catamites, also described as "boy prostitute." This is a young male who is kept as a sexual partner of an adult male. (Jerusalem Bible, NAB, James Moffatt) pederasts: male adults who sexually abuse boys; an abusive pedophile (an adult who molests young children) or abusive hebephile (an adult who molests post-pubertal teenagers). perverts: a person engaged in some undefined activity that is one of the dozens of sexual perversions. (Phillips, The Great Book: The New Testament in Plain English) sodomites: a name derived from the city of Sodom which is described in Genesis 19. (NRSV, NKJ). The men of the city are described as wanting to rape male visitors; many Christians interpret this as a blanket condemnation of all homosexual behavior. "Are you saying that the Ten Commandments were simply set up as guidelines and not laws? If the Bible was not written as a rule book, as you claim, then how do we know that any murder is a sin?" That is precisely what I am saying. You even agreed there are exceptions to things stated as "sin". Here's the quote: "In the case of killing, for instance, there are some exceptions." That's precisely my argument, how doe we know that any murder is a sin. The answer is that we do not know that murder is a sin. The person who committed murder knows whether they have sinned or not, and God certainly knows whether it is a sin or not. It is not our job to judge other's sins. We are not God. Your reference to Leviticus is almost laughable. When Jesus came many of the old laws such as described in Leviticus were rendered null. Example: Lev: 19:23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. Lev: 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. God also condemns children who curse at their parents to death! To conclude, not only does sin have exceptions as my opponent pointed out, but it clearly states in the bible to not judge others. Jesus's teachings clearly indicate that he is the judge and not us. Therefore we as humans cannot (and have absolutely no right) to judge others and determine what a sin is and what a sin isn't. A sin is a wrong done against God. Only the person committing the sin and God know what a sin is and what a sin isn't. The Bible is to be used for a tool for becoming closer with God and determining his plan for our lives. Not to use as a weapon to judge others and determine sin.