Homosexuality: The Seed and The Soil

I received an email question from a reader in Alaska asking if I would explain what my feelings are on homosexuality. Thank you for your question.
Homosexuality is a difficult subject to address. Not because I don't have an answer but because much of the world is undecided regarding it IE: are we born that way, is it really wrong, etc. And regardless of the Bible clearly describing it as an abomination, people refuse to believe that homosexuality is even spoken of in the Old or New Testament so they won't hear anything on the subject. But the subject is mentioned in God's Word! So I am happy to be sharing what I know about it here in this forum. My experience has been that even if shown the exact scripture location people refuse to hear what the Word of God says about it. To be clear, I am not writing this blog to condemn or hate homosexuals. I am writing to answer the question posed to me. My answer will come from what I have learned by reading, studying and understanding the Bible. First, God calls homosexuality an abomination. Have you ever bothered to look up the word abomination? It means "a thing that causes disgust or hatred." Some synonyms for abomination are an atrocity, disgrace, outrage, evil. Here is one scripture regarding the law of ancient times and is found in the old testament, "You shall not lie with a man as with a woman, it is an abomination" (Leviticus 18:22). This scripture is clearly telling us, Men, do not lie with another man (sexually) as you do with a woman. It is an atrocity, evil, and a disgraceful outrage and it is disgusting to God and He hates it. One thing happens when men and women "lie together." This verse is specifically speaking of sexual contact. I have had people say, "That's the Old Law. Things are different today!" Is murder still wrong today? Is adultery still wrong? The law has never changed. There are others that swear homosexuality was never talked about in the New Testament. Yes, yes it was. Still, people refuse to believe it.

Again, here is a clear and understandable scripture from the New Testament which literally addresses both homosexuality AND lesbianism. Romans 1: 26-27 KJV, "Even women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise, also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly (improper), and receiving in themselves that recompense (penalty) of their error which was meet (which was due)." I want you to notice how this scripture mentions the words "nature" and "natural use." When men and women have an attraction to each other, that's natural, No? When a man has intercourse with a woman that is nature, no? So it can be determined that lying with the opposite sex and the natural instinct of sexual attraction not only exist between a male and female, but it's how God intended it because it follows nature! Therefore, male with male or female with female (homosexual/lesbian) attractions are not "natural". They are in fact, AGAINST NATURE. Why am I saying that? According to the verses above a homosexual union is referred to as "an error." Read the verse again, Romans 1:26 & 27. I want you to remember that word error. I'm going to prove BY THE WORD and BY NATURE that the 'formula' in a homosexual, gay, or lesbian relationship is an error. There is nothing natural about it. It is a lie of Satan. It is a deception that catches literally millions of people on this planet.

Let me explain homosexuality in a way that might be clearer to some. This will be in my words now, my own analogy.
A scientist takes a tomato seed from California and a tomato seed from Rhode Island. He wants to combine the two so that he will produce a tomato plant that will be able to endure the heat of the California desert or the harsh winter cold of the northeast. He wants a plant that will continue to grow year round regardless of weather. He begins his experiment. He lays both seeds side-by-side in a Petree dish. He waters them and sets the Petree dish on a sunny windowsill. After 2 weeks he checks his seeds. Watering them again and providing plenty of light he leaves them again, checking on them periodically week after week, feeding, watering, attending... after 6 months the scientist realizes his experiment is a failure. The seeds did not produce. They were unfruitful.

Likewise, a female scientist in Rhode Island wants to be the first inventor to develop the richest organic soil available to farmers. One that can be used in any barren part of the world even if there is drought. This soil will produce a crop even without rain. So she sends for soil from the fertile fields of Kansas, and the small Qatar Peninsula off western Asia. When the soils arrive she cannot contain her excitement. She opens the containers, mixes the soils together, lightly and lovingly packs them down in a big clay pot. She waters the soil and places the pot on a sunny windowsill. After 2 weeks she checks the pot. Nothing has happened. Watering again and providing plenty of light she leaves again, checking on the pot periodically week after week, watering, attending, etc... after 6 months she realizes her experiment is a failure. The soil did not produce. It was unfruitful. Both experiments did not produce because seed and seed cannot produce a plant without soil. And soil mixed with soil will never be fruitful unless a seed is put inside the soil! Likewise, a man with another man cannot "produce" offspring. Neither can soil of itself produce a plant, a bush, a tree, etc unless a seed is placed inside of it. The two scientists are in error! Their "formula" was wrong. Had only the scientist combined the seeds from California and Rhode Island and planted them into the soil from Kansas or Qatar, there would have been a crop. In fact, the seeds from California and Rhode Island could have been planted in any soil and it would have produced a plant. This is how you can know beyond a shadow of a doubt that homosexuality is the wrong formula. God said in Genesis 1:28, "BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY." How can homosexuals or lesbians multiply NATURALLY? Homosexuality and lesbianism is an error. The formula is wrong. Can you see it? Can you understand it?

Here is the bottom line. If men were meant to be with men and women were made to naturally be with women, the human race would have died off. That was not and is not God's plan. He wanted us to fill the earth, to bring forth, to be fruitful. The scientist's formula, if adopted as correct, would have killed off every plant, tree, shrub, flower, or herb on the earth. Homosexuality, had it been God's formula, would have killed off humanity. It is Satan who comes "to kill, steal, and destroy" (John 10:10) Satan is sifting people like wheat, killing, stealing and destroying them just as he wanted to of Peter. Do you know what the process of sifting wheat was? How could it apply to you? In short, harvesters gathered wheat from the field. they would beat that wheat against a hard surface to break it up. This process of beating, beating, beating dislodged the grain from the stalks and the husks. Satan not only wants to beat you over the head with lies, errors, temptations, etc. that you become so whipped, so confused, so unsure what is right and what is wrong that your spirit separates from God and you fall to the ground in his arms. He's got you. Please read the Bible for yourself. Look up the scriptures I've placed here. Satan is cunning, deceitful, sly, deceptive. Homosexuality is an error. In the beginning, it was not so (Matthew 19:4) "Have you not read that in the beginning from the creation, He made them MALE AND FEMALE, and said 'for this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?" That is marriage...1 male, 1 female. That is one flesh...the male and his female. This, therefore, are my thoughts and God's words regarding homosexuality. Until next time ...
-Pat-