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Did Jesus talk about homosexuality?

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The Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah, a painting by John Martin (painter), died 1854, thus 100 years. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There is nothing recorded in the four Gospels were Jesus specifically mentions homosexuality the way Paul did in 1 Cor. 6:9. But, He does condemn it indirectly by affirming the Old Testament standard of heterosexual marriage as well as citing Old Testament references of condemnation where homosexuality was involved. Let's take a look at some of the things he said.  Matthew 10:15, "Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for  the  land of  Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city." Matthew 19:4 -6, "And He answered and said, 'Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 “So they are no longer two, but one fles...

Speak Scripture on the sin of homosexuality: loose you job!

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Cover of Bill O'Reilly Lest I be accused of being 'judgmental' or 'intolerant' by the words I used in the last part of my title of this article, I will begin with proper attribution. "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of  Christ " was a phrase written by a fifth century monk and bible scholar, a man acknowledged as a Saint in the  Catholic Church ,  St. Jerome .  In fact, the phrase has become one of the favorite quotes used by the Catholic Church in her continual efforts to encourage the Catholic faithful to not only listen to the Bible at  Sunday Mass  - but to read, pray with it and come to know the  written Word of God , in order to be changed in the encounter with the Living Word to whom it points,  Jesus Christ  . For example, in Article III of the Catholic Catechism, entitled "Sacred Scripture" the famous saying of St Jerome is quoted: The Church forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful to learn the surpass...